From Steroids to Climate: Baseball’s Newest Performance Enhancer Is Global Warming
More than 500 home runs since 2010 due to warmer, thinner air caused by global warming. A Dartmouth study found that climate change is impacting…
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New Side Effect of COVID-19 Discovered: “Face Blindness”
A Dartmouth College study discovered impairments in both face recognition and navigational abilities. A recent Dartmouth study published in the journal Cortex has revealed that…
Expanding Our Knowledge of the Early Universe: Three Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxies Discovered
Ultra-faint dwarf galaxies have been discovered for the first time surrounding a Milky Way-sized galaxy, similar to those found within the Milky Way’s neighborhood. According…
10,000 Years Ago – Ancient Stone Tools Provide the Earliest Evidence of Rice Harvesting
The presence of striations and residue reveal the techniques used in harvesting. A study led by Dartmouth has uncovered the earliest evidence of rice harvesting,…
New Research Could Link Evolution of Complex Life to Genetic “Dark Matter”
New research suggests that microRNAs play a crucial role in the advanced development of the brain, including in humans. Octopuses have fascinated scientists and the…
Understanding the Mystifying Function That Fungi Play in Ecosystems
New scientific review analyzes what we know about how fungi disperse. When you say “fungi,” most people think of mushrooms, the fleshy fruiting bodies above…
Climate Change-Driven Heat Waves Have Cost the World Trillions
Dartmouth research concludes that measures to protect individuals on hot days are needed now, particularly in low-income countries. Massive economic losses brought on by hot weather…
What Really Killed Dinosaurs and Other Life on Earth? Maybe NOT an Asteroid Strike
Dartmouth-led research fortifies link between mega volcanoes and mass extinctions. What killed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous Period?…
Optimize Exercise: Specific Links Between Exercise, Memory, and Mental Health Revealed by Fitness Trackers
Exercise can boost your mental and cognitive health — but not all forms and intensities of exercise affect the brain equally. In fact, according to…
Under Threat: The World’s Rivers Are Rapidly Changing, Here’s How
Research quantifies how construction of dams and land use change alters sediment flux to oceans. How much sediment rivers carry and where it is deposited…
Rapid Magnetic Explosions in Space: Explaining Mystery Behind Fast Magnetic Reconnection
Researchers identify the physics that enables rapid magnetic explosions in space. When magnetic field lines of opposite directions merge, they create explosions that can release…
New Atlas of Globe’s Glaciers Finds They Have Less Ice Than Previously Thought
Findings on glacier speed and depth revise outlook for freshwater availability and sea level rise. The first atlas to measure the movement and thickness of…
New Research Strengthens Link Between Glaciers and Earth’s Puzzling “Great Unconformity”
Ice action seems responsible for ancient erosion of rock across the planet. New research provides further evidence that rocks representing up to a billion years…
New, High-Resolution Evidence Questions “Whiff of Oxygen” in Earth’s Early History
Analysis of the rock record rules out atmospheric oxygen before the Great Oxygenation Event. Evidence arguing for a “whiff of oxygen” before the Earth’s Great…
“Split” Photon Provides New Way To See Light – Predicts Existence of Previously-Unimaginable Particle
Research predicts the existence of a previously-unimaginable particle. When Italian physicist Ettore Majorana suggested that electrons could be split into halves nearly a century ago,…
“Split” Photons – New Research Predicts the Existence of a Previously-Unimaginable Particle
Nearly a century after Italian physicist Ettore Majorana laid the groundwork for the discovery that electrons could be divided into halves, researchers predict that split…
Archaeology Mystery Solved: Strange Footprints From Laetoli, Tanzania, Are From Early Humans
Findings provide conclusive evidence that multiple species of hominins co-existed on the landscape. The oldest unequivocal evidence of upright walking in the human lineage are…
Climate’s “Hidden” Effects: Warming and “Browning” Lowers Nutrition, Increases Toxicity at Base of Food Web
Research looks at warming, browning effects on freshwater systems. Organisms at the base of the aquatic food web may be hidden from sight, but they…
