This view of Zion Canyon in Utah's Zion National Park shows the flat valley floor created when part of the peak named the Sentinel collapsed in a gigantic landslide, creating a dam and forming a lake, which eventually filled...
Climate change effects are expected to become more apparent by the middle of the century.
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Nature lovers beware, environmental models used by researchers at the University of New Hampshire are showing that the effects of climate...
Religious expression has a central role in societies around the world, but exactly what role it plays isn't always clear. Santa Fe Institute Omidyar Postdoctoral Fellow Eleanor Power has an answer: whether it's walking across hot coals or simply...
A group of researchers representing four countries summed up the results of a large-scale study of the academic performance of engineering students in Russia, China, India, and the United States. Supertest is the first study to track the progress...
The study of Tatsuya Sasaki suggests that the practice of avoiding moral assessments can be the best policy when assessing those who refuse to help wrongdoers. Copyright: University of Vienna/Barbara Mair
A research team led by mathematician Tatsuya Sasaki...
Social inequalities, specifically racism and classism, are impacting the biodiversity, evolutionary shifts and ecological health of plants and animals in our cities.
That's the main finding of a review paper led by the University of Washington, with co-authors at the...
The new study shows the structure of an important HIV protein, called the envelope glycoprotein, on a common strain of the virus.
Credit: Javier Guenaga
Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have made another important advance in HIV vaccine design....
Strong ozone depletion in the cold polar vortex above the Arctic on 2 April 2011. Many of the processes that cause ozone depletion in the polar stratosphere strongly depend on temperature. This explains why climate change also affects the...
There are a lot of things African-Americans can do to help minimize damage and keep their hair beautiful.
Credit: Image courtesy of American Academy of Dermatology
Unique in appearance and structure, African-American hair is especially fragile and prone to injury and...
Along with partisan news outlets and political blogs, there's another surprising source of misinformation on controversial topics—it's you.
A new study found that people given accurate statistics on a controversial issue tended to misremember those numbers to fit commonly held...
Growing 'dead zone' confirmed by underwater robots in the Gulf of Oman
New research from the University of East Anglia (UEA) has confirmed a dramatic decrease in oxygen in the Gulf of Oman part of the Arabian Sea. But the...
