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Global efforts to limit climate change require deep cuts to carbon emissions. However, global emissions are still growing. Currently, we emit roughly...
Researchers at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have built a molecular "leash" to pull directly on a force-sensing protein called Piezo1, an...
Why are frogs diverse in some parts of Africa's rainforests and less so in others? The patterns of cooling and glaciation during the last ice age woul...
A new study shows that the ups and downs in house prices are far more dramatic than most people think—and that government policies play a big role in...
The cell's endoplasmic reticulum (ER) plays a central role in protein synthesis, folding, and calcium (Ca²⁺) storage. When damaged, ER-phagy (self-eat...
For more than a century, the fruit fly has been a workhorse of the biological sciences that has helped scientists to make fundamental breakthroughs in...
When making ethical decisions, university students appear to prioritize fairness and the fate of the worst-off over either reducing total harm or obey...
Billions of tons of carbon dioxide are being classified as "dealt with" in global climate plans before anyone can know whether that is true. UT Resear...
Mental load, invisible work, "the extra shift"; no matter the newly coined term, unpaid work in the domestic sphere, predominantly done by women, is a...
Can our forests adapt to a hotter and drier future climate? Temperatures are predicted to rise up to 5°C compared to pre-industrial times. Forest mana...
Nearly every object we interact with in our lives has a mass, but where does this mass come from? Modern physics says matter acquires its mass from in...
Access to nutritious food is a fundamental pillar of human success, but such access has been unequal throughout history. In pre-industrial European so...
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