Light pollution a reason for insect decline
Credit: Gabriel Singer/IGB Climate change, pesticides and land use changes alone cannot fully explain the decline in insect populations in Germany. Scientists from the Leibniz-Institute...
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Study: Climate action can limit Asia’s growing water shortages
Even "modest" action to limit climate change could help prevent the most extreme water-shortage scenarios facing Asia by the year 2050, according to a new...
UH scientist working toward a glaucoma cure
Credit: University of Houston UH College of Optometry biomedical engineer Vijaykrishna Raghunathan has received $765,000 from the National Institutes of Health to examine an understudied...
New model for gauging ice sheet movement may improve sea-level-rise predictions
Credit: University of Kansas LAWRENCE -- A just-published paper in Science changes the formula scientists should use when estimating the speed of huge ice sheets...
An unlikely marriage among oxides
Credit: EMPA The term alloy usually refers to a mixture of several metals. However, other materials can also be alloyed. In the semiconductor industry, for...
Science writers: On your mark, get set, go to Indianapolis for 500 stories
Credit: The Geological Society of America Boulder, CO, USA: Media registration is now open for The Geological Society of America's 130th Annual Meeting & Exposition,...
Success of blood test for autism affirmed
Credit: Rensselaer Troy, N.Y. - One year after researchers published their work on a physiological test for autism, a follow-up study confirms its exceptional success...
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