Frontera sets sights on transformative research
National Science Foundation awards compute time on world's most powerful academic supercomputer to 49 projectsCredit: Tiziana DiMatteo, Carnegie Mellon University ...
Tag: Climate Change
Vexing Nemo: Motorboat noise makes clownfish stressed and aggressive
Hormonal changes caused by motorboat noise cause clownfish to hide, skip meals and attack their neighbors -- putting damselfish in ...
Earliest humans in the Amazon created thousands of ‘forest islands’ as they tamed wild plants
Credit: Umberto Lombardo The earliest human inhabitants of the Amazon created thousands of artificial forest islands as they tamed wild ...
New NUI Galway study helps improve accuracy of future climate change predictions
Study published in Nature's journal -- Climate and Atmospheric ScienceCredit: NUI Galway New research published by NUI Galway's Centre for ...
The link between virus spillover, wildlife extinction and the environment
The same processes that threaten wildlife increase our risk of spilloverCredit: Christine K. Johnson, UC Davis As COVID-19 spreads across ...
NASA finds Tropical Cyclone Harold between Vanuatu and Fiji
Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) Tropical Cyclone Harold brought heavy rains and hurricane-force ...
Scientists develop new way to identify the sex of sea turtle hatchlings
Study provides crucial step to assess climate change impacts on imperiled turtle speciesCredit: Dana Ralph Unlike humans, sea turtles and ...
NASA finds heavy rainfall in powerful tropical cyclone Harold
Credit: Credit: JAXA/Jason West, NASA EOSDIS One of NASA's satellites that can measure the rate in which rainfall is occurring ...
Scientists’ warning to humanity on insect extinctions
As the human race continues to battle the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists have found that the planet's insects are also facing ...
NASA finds Tropical Storm Irondro’s heavy rainfall displaced
Credit: NASA/JAXA/NRL NASA analyzed Tropical Storm Irondro's rainfall and found heaviest rainfall was being pushed far southeast of the center ...
What is the Asian hornet invasion going to cost Europe?
Credit: Prof. Franck Courchamp Since its accidental introduction in 2003 in France, the yellow-legged Asian hornet (Vespa velutina nigrithorax) is ...
The ocean responds to a warming planet
New research indicates that upper ocean water masses are shrinking in a changing climateCredit: Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences We're ...
Climate change to affect fish sizes and complex food webs
Credit: Antonia Cooper Global climate change will affect fish sizes in unpredictable ways and, consequently, impact complex food webs in ...
Viruses don’t have a metabolism; but some have the building blocks for one
Virginia Tech researchers discovered genes for cellular metabolic cycles in the genomes of giant virusesCredit: Dr. Chuan Xiao and Yuejiao ...
Using sponges to wipe out cancer
The natural product manzamine A, derived from Indo-Pacific marine sponges, exhibits anti-cancer properties in a preclinical study, report researchers at ...
Study identifies new temperature sensing mechanism in plants
Phytochrome foci have different behaviors at different temperatures and types of lightCredit: Stan Lim/UC Riverside A protein called phytochrome B, ...
Extreme rainfall days in metropolitan São Paulo have risen four-fold in seven decades
Study by researchers at Brazil's National Disaster Surveillance and Early Warning Center (CEMADEN) also shows a rise in the number ...
NASA-NOAA satellite catches Tropical Cyclone Harold develop near Solomon Islands
Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite passed over the Southern Pacific ...
NASA sees tropical cyclone Irondro developing an eye
Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview As Tropical Cyclone Irondro continues to move through the Southern Indian Ocean, NASA's Terra satellite saw ...
Tooth be told: Earless seals existed in ancient Australia
Credit: James Rule A fossilised seal tooth found on a Victorian beach could hold the key to uncovering the history ...
