Catastrophic Wildfires on the Fish Lake Plateau Reduced by Indigenous “Cultural Burning”
If you were to visit the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau a thousand years ago, you’d find conditions remarkably familiar to the present. The climate…
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Using Humor and Emotion to Combat Science Misinformation
Misinformation in public debates about scientific issues such as vaccinations and climate change can be found all over the internet, especially on social media. In…
Ancient Ammonoids’ Complex Shell Designs May Have Aided Buoyancy Control
Researchers use 3-D-printed models to explore fractal-like interior shell patterns. Ammonoids, ancestors of today’s octopus, squid, and cuttlefish, bobbed and jetted their way through the…
Blame Climate Change: Allergy Seasons Are Getting Worse
If you live with seasonal allergies and feel like the pollen seasons feel longer and longer every year, you may be right. New research shows…
Giant Magnetofossils: Mysterious Magnetic Fossils Offer Past Climate Clues
There are fossils, found in ancient marine sediments and made up of no more than a few magnetic nanoparticles, that can tell us a whole…
Particle Testing Has Scientists Expecting a New Surge of COVID-19 Infections – Here’s Why
Study of individual SARS-CoV-2-like particle degradation suggests a potential surge of COVID-19 infections in the winter. Winter is coming in the northern hemisphere on Monday,…
Science Reveals Long-Lost Secrets of a Mummy’s Portrait
Scientific analysis of an ancient portrait pigment reveals long-lost artistic details. How much information can you get from a speck of purple pigment, no bigger…
Civilization May Need to “Forget the Flame” to Reduce CO2 Emissions
Our Energy Hunger Is Tethered to Our Economic Past Just as a living organism continually needs food to maintain itself, an economy consumes energy to…
First Daily Surveillance of Emerging COVID-19 Hotspots in the United States
Hotspots have trended towards smaller but more numerous clusters since the pandemic started. Over the course of the coronavirus epidemic, COVID-19 outbreaks have hit communities…
“Carnian Pluvial Episode” Revealed: Climate Change During Origin of Dinosaurs
An international team reveals discoveries about an unusual time called the “Carnian Pluvial Episode.” The Triassic Period, about 252 to 201 million years ago, was…
Discovery Points to Origin of Mysterious Ultraviolet Radiation With Energy Output Billions Times the Sun
Infalling gas found, star-forming galaxies likely primary energy source of Lyman-alpha radiation emitted from gigantic hydrogen gas blobs. Billions of lightyears away, gigantic clouds of…
New Flat Lens Enables Focus-Free Cameras With Drastically Reduced Weight, Complexity & Cost
New technology poised to drastically reduce weight, complexity and cost of cameras while increasing functionality. Using a single lens that is about one-thousandth of an…
Microscopic Refinement Yields Ultra-Strong Metal
You can’t see them, but most of the metals around you—coins, silverware, even the steel beams holding up buildings and overpasses—are made up of tiny…
New Polymers Protect Cryogenically Preserved Cells From Damaging Ice Crystals
Cell therapies hold great promise for revolutionizing the treatment of cancers and autoimmune diseases. But this multibillion-dollar industry requires long-term storage of cells at super-cold…
Earliest Interbreeding Between Ancient Human Populations Discovered – Evolutionary Puzzle Solved
Neanderthal-Denisovan ancestors interbred with a distantly related hominin 700,000 years ago. For three years, anthropologist Alan Rogers has attempted to solve an evolutionary puzzle. His…
Remarkable New Species of Meat-Eating Jurassic Dinosaur Discovered in Utah
A remarkable new species of meat-eating dinosaur has been unveiled at the Natural History Museum of Utah. Paleontologists unearthed the first specimen in the early…
Real-Time Movement of Millions of Molecules Captured in 3D
New interferometry technique has applications for tracking molecules at a cell or tissue scale. The human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, wages war in our bodies…
People Buy, Trade & Donate Medications on the Black Market – Here’s Why
‘Seeing others suffer is too stressful’ Altruism and a lack of access and affordability are three reasons why people with chronic illnesses are turning to…