Science
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In civil war, trauma from intragroup can cause more pain than intergroup violence
Violence perpetrated by members of one's own ethnic group produces up to five times more trauma than violence from opposing groups. Joan Barceló and Keshana Rat...
Terraforming Mars: Modeling engineered aerosols to warm the planet
Whenever humans arrive on Mars, they're going to find it a difficult place to exist. Mars is cold, with an average surface temperature of -55°C; temperatures ca...
A new way to eavesdrop on ocean temperature in the Arctic
New research led by scientists at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography finds that the travel time of underwater sounds moving across the Arctic Oc...
New index reveals global water resources' growing dependence on extreme rainfall
As global temperatures climb, rainfall patterns are shifting in ways that could put water resources and agriculture under increasing strain, a new study publish...
Unlocking designer roots for future cereal crops
A plant signaling gene has been identified as a promising target for breeding cereal crops to produce a steeper, narrower root system architecture, but with ass...
AI creates quasi-atoms: A new approach to materials study
Understanding how a crack grows in metal requires simultaneously calculating the behavior of hundreds of billions of atoms: At the crack tip, where atomic bonds...
Antibacterial soaps and wipes can fuel antimicrobial resistance, scientists warn
An international team of scientists is warning that everyday antibacterial soaps, wipes, sprays, and other "germ-killing" products are quietly contributing to t...
Ending birthright citizenship would impact Asians and Latinos most, study finds
Established in 1868 with the ratification of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, birthright citizenship grants citizenship to all persons born on U.S....
Astronomers determine the fate of a double white dwarf binary
Utilizing the stellar evolution code named Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA), Chinese astronomers have investigated the evolution of a rece...
New catalyst enables targeted antibiotic redesign to beat resistant bacteria
Antibiotics, our infantry against bacteria, are losing their ability to fight against bacterial infections due to the rise of superbugs—microbes that have devel...
Into the fungal unknown: New tool maps fungal gene functions without reference genomes
While RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) has become a standard tool for profiling which genes are active in an organism, determining the actual biological functions of th...
Food safety, soils and manure: How a systemic approach can prevent health risks
In many parts of the world, including China, soil acidification is reducing agricultural yields. Recycling animal manure can help counteract this acidification...