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Study shows loss of 15-42 percent of mammals in North America
If the planet is headed for another mass extinction like the previous five, each of which wiped out more than 75 percent of all species on the planet, then…
Within a cell, actin keeps things moving
Using new technology developed in his University of Oregon lab, chemist Andrew H. Marcus and his doctoral student Eric N. Senning have captured what they…
Colliding auroras produce an explosion of light
“Our jaws dropped when we saw the movies for the first time,” said space scientist Larry Lyons of the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA), a member of…
Caltech researchers revise long-held theory of fruit-fly development
For decades, science texts have told a simple and straightforward story about a particular protein—a transcription factor—that helps the embryo of the fruit…
WHOI-operated ROV Jason images the discovery of the deepest explosive eruption on the sea floor
Jason, designed and operated by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution for the National Deep Submergence Facility, utilized a prototype, high-definition…
Avatar's Moon Pandora Could Be Real
With NASA's Kepler mission showing the potential to detect Earth-sized objects, habitable moons may soon become science fact. If we find them nearby, a new…
