Plant dominance in the Amazon is shaped by past civilizations
Credit: Hans ter Steege Plants that were domesticated by pre-Columbian peoples are, to this day, much more likely to be dominant in Amazonian forests than...
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Ancient peoples shaped the Amazon rainforest
Credit: Hans ter Steege An international team of ecologists and social scientists has shown in a new study published 3 March in the journal Science...
Colorado Governor is keynote speaker at SSA Annual Meeting
Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper will be the keynote speaker at the 2017 SSA Annual Meeting's Public Policy Luncheon, scheduled for 12 noon CT on 19...
Melting temperature of Earth’s mantle depends on water
Credit: Image is courtesy of Emily Sarafian. Washington, DC--A joint study between Carnegie and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution has determined that the average temperature...
A vulnerability in triple-negative breast cancer could improve treatment outcomes
Credit: Ludwig Cancer Research MARCH 2, 2017, New York -- A team of researchers led by Alex Toker of the Ludwig Center at Harvard has...
Probing seven worlds with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope
Credit: Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech With the discovery of seven earth-sized planets around the TRAPPIST-1 star 40 light years away, astronomers are looking to the upcoming James...
Newborn harbor porpoises have the fastest hearing development among mammals
Credit: Solvin Zankl © Fjord og Bælt- Kerteminde All mammals can hear -- but it is not an ability that is fully developed at birth....
Physical therapy proves as effective as surgery for carpal tunnel syndrome
Physical therapy is as effective as surgery in treating carpal tunnel syndrome, according to a new study published in the March 2017 issue of the...
Geosciences in the heart of Texas
Boulder, Colo., USA: Geoscientists from the south-central U.S. and beyond will convene on 13-14 March in San Antonio, Texas, to discuss new science, expand on...
Nanoengineers 3-D print biomimetic blood vessel networks
Credit: Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications Nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego have 3D printed a lifelike, functional blood vessel network that could...
Want more crop variety? Researchers propose using CRISPR to accelerate plant domestication
Credit: Palmgren et al./Trends in Plant Science 2017 Out of the more than 300,000 plant species in existence, only three species--rice, wheat, and maize--account for...
Mid-Mesozoic beetle in amber stirs questions on rise of flowering plants and pollinators
Credit: Courtesy of José Antonio Peñas (digital scientific illustrator from Madrid, Spain). Named for Charles Darwin, the only known specimen of a newly discovered beetle,...
Hand-picked specialty crops ‘ripe’ for precision agriculture techniques
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Timing the harvest and transport of highly perishable, hand-picked crops such as strawberries so these delicate...
Biochemical ‘fossil’ shows how life may have emerged without phosphate
Credit: Joshua Goldford and Daniel Segrè One major mystery about life's origin is how phosphate became an essential building block of genetic and metabolic machinery...
Research shows exercise is a boon for cancer patients
Exercise and/or psychological therapy work better than medications to reduce cancer-related fatigue and should be recommended first to patients, according to a Wilmot Cancer Institute-led...
