Models used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change may be underestimating future warming.
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The climate models that project greater amounts of warming this century are the ones that best align with observations of the current...
Purple finches, indicators of healthy coniferous habitat, are declining in the Northwest, according to data from the Klamath Bird Observatory.
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Populations of many North American songbirds are declining, and in many cases we don't understand why -- for...
Tomato plants produce repellent chemicals called volatile organic compounds in response to herbivore attacks. (Stock image)
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In sports, sometimes a player has to take one for the team. The same appears to be true in...
The atmospheric superrotation at the upper clouds of Venus. While the superrotation is present in both day and night sides of Venus, it seems more uniform in the day (AKATSUKI-UVI image at 360 nm, right side), while in the...
Concentrations of repetitive loss properties in Florida are shown in this map. Researchers identified sites where government buyouts and remediation projects can achieve social, environmental, and economic benefits.
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A study of flood damage in Florida...
The genomes of the owl limpet (pictured), a freshwater leech and an ocean-dwelling worm are among the first sequenced genomes from a vast, understudied swath of the animal kingdom known as lophotrochozoans, which includes as many as one-quarter of...
Earth has a new lightning capital, according to a recent study using observations from the Lightning Imaging Sensor onboard NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission.
Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela earned the top spot receiving an average rate of about 233 flashes...
Flooded street.
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A new study by researchers from MIT and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich shows that the most extreme rain events in most regions of the world will increase in intensity by...
The researchers used the supercomputer Blue Waters to determine the complete HIV capsid structure, a simulation that accounted for the interactions of 64 million atoms.
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A team led by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of...
Of the more than 1,000 verified planets found by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, eight are less than twice Earth-size and in their stars' habitable zone.
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Planet Earth is situated in what astronomers call the Goldilocks Zone -- a sweet...
The research team camped in these tents near the drill site in Antarctica.
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Lurking in a lake half a mile beneath Antarctica's icy surface, methane-eating microbes may mitigate the release of this greenhouse gas into the atmosphere as...
