Science
Scientific discoveries and research
As it gets harder to figure out what to eat, some Americans are turning to religion for answers
It's getting harder and harder to figure out what to eat. A scroll through social media raises many questions. Why is food so expensive? Am I getting enough pro...
Reading single vesicles reveals clues to the origin of chronic inflammation
A new technique to diagnose chronic inflammation developed at Nagoya University can read information from the surface and within individual extracellular vesicl...
Researchers target PFAS with lower-temperature destruction method
Removing harmful chemicals from contaminated water is only one step toward their elimination. Once collected in filtration materials, these chemicals must still...
Global accounting reveals economic toll of ecosystem losses from rising seas
A global accounting puts the value of ecosystem services that could be lost to sea level rise at well over 100 billion in 2020 international dollars (Int$2020)...
Silent lakes ahead? Long-term study finds common loon productivity is dropping across North America
The eerie call of the common loon has long been the sound of North America's northern lakes, but new research shows it may not be that way in the future. A new...
Microbiome research reveals how bacterial lipids influence liver and muscle health in mice
An interdisciplinary team of researchers from UConn and the University of Pittsburgh is filling knowledge gaps about the surprising roles that our microbiomes p...
Oil-producing yeast reveals two stages of fat accumulation under nitrogen limitation
A research team led by professors Xu Guowang and Liu Xinyu from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in col...
Mapping Kīlauea's magma reservoirs at high resolution
The Hawaiian volcano Kīlauea is among the most active on Earth. Not only did it erupt almost continuously from 1983 to 2018, but it also began a new series of e...
Pregnant mandrill monkeys are more likely to miscarry when also nursing an infant
Female mandrills are more likely to experience pregnancy loss when they are simultaneously nursing an infant, which may reflect a physiological trade-off betwee...
Five ways that sea‑level rise affects your daily life, even if you live inland
Rising sea levels might seem like someone else's problem if you live inland. But even miles from the coast, changing sea levels can affect the food we eat, the...
Cold without consequences? Short-term climate fluctuations appear to have had less impact on early farmers
Cold conditions may not have been responsible for the centuries-long pause in the spread of farming across south-eastern Europe during prehistory, according to...
US wildfire damage is on pace to triple by mid‑century, but there are affordable ways to lower the risk
As temperatures rise and development expands, the number of homes and other structures damaged or destroyed by wildfires across the U.S. is on pace to triple by...