Healthy vegetation requires a certain amount of water from the soil every day to stay alive, and when soil moisture falls below adequate levels, plants become…
Technologist Mahmooda Sultana, who joined NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., two years ago and has since emerged as Goddard’s go-to expert…
“Long-term ecological research is important to understanding the effects of a changing climate on our natural resources and so much more,” said Michael T….
Modern information processing allows for breathtaking switching rates of about a 100 billion cycles per second. New results from the Laboratory for Attosecond…
Berkeley Lab researchers devise a new method to estimate state’s greenhouse gas emissionsUsing a new method for estimating greenhouse gases that combines…
But where along these extended subduction areas are great earthquakes most likely to happen? Scientists have now found that regions where ‘scars’ on the…
Doug Morton of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., presented the new analysis of future U.S. fire activity. The analysis was based on current…
Buildings and statues constructed of limestone can be protected from pollution by applying a thin, single layer of a water-resistant coating.That’s the word…
No man is an island, entire of itself, said poet John Donne. And no atom neither. Even in the middle of intergalactic space, atoms feel the electromagnetic…
Funding that came through ACES allowed Schook and others to put together the Swine Genome Sequencing Consortium, an alliance of university, industry, and…
To grasp and move microscopic objects, such as bacteria and the components of living cells, scientists can harness the power of concentrated light to…
Patients with obstructive sleep apnea have the same early cardiovascular damage as diabetics, according to research presented at EUROECHO and other Imaging…
“If history is a good guide, it is likely that wives’ share of total family earnings will not return to pre-recession levels, but rather, the Great Recession…
The collaborative research — led by Phillip Klebba, professor and head of the department of biochemistry — clarifies how microorganisms colonize animal hosts…
NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has encountered a new region on the outskirts of our solar system that appears to be a magnetic highway for charged particles….
It will be the first of its kind “in a country whose wealth is founded on fossil fuels,” PIK’s director Hans Joachim Schellnhuber said. “Qatar declares to…