The failure of the New Orleans' levees after Hurricane Katrina struck the coastal city in 2005 is now labeled “the worst engineering disaster of the United…
The two superplumes, one beneath Hawaii and the other beneath Africa, have likely existed for at least 200 million years, explained Wendy Panero, assistant…
“Currently, smart textiles are made primarily of metallic or optical fibers. They’re fragile. They’re not comfortable. Metal fibers also corrode. There are…
Their research highlights the promise of using salty water to turn the salty soil in the world's arid regions into sustainable agricultural land.Just published…
Cold “Super-Earths” — giant, “snowball” planets that astronomers have spied on the outskirts of faraway solar systems — could potentially support some kind…
The finding will give much needed perspective to satellite instruments that measure ice loss on the continent, and help improve estimates of future sea level…
Researchers watching the loss of ice flowing out from the giant island of Greenland say that the amount of ice lost this summer is nearly three times what was…
Among the report's recommendations: a gradual relocation of structures and people from areas at most risk of flash flooding and wildfires and a call for…
“This is quite intuitive, given the high levels of traffic congestion in Houston, Dallas and San Antonio,” said Professor Chandra Bhat, who spearheaded the…
A rat thought extinct for 11 million years and a hot-pink, cyanide-producing dragon millipede are among a thousand new species discovered in the Greater Mekong…
Most atmospheric models predict that the rate of transport of air from the troposphere to the above lying stratosphere should be increasing due to climate…
As polar bears adapt to a warming Arctic—a frozen seascape that cleaves earlier each spring—they may find relief in an unlikely source: snow goose eggs. New…
If this “survival pathway” can be successfully blocked under clinical conditions, the result would be a much-needed new therapy for colorectal cancer, the…
Dr. Jason Allaire, an assistant professor of psychology at NC State who co-authored the study, explains that study subjects whose average systolic blood…
They add that because this gene, known as PTPRD, has recently been found to be inactivated in several other cancers as well, their discovery suggests that…
Nitric oxide gets neurons together. And it seems to do it backward. Work by Nikonenko et al. suggests that a protein called PSD-95 prompts nitric oxide release…
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