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Trapped atmospheric waves triggered more weather extremes
Weather extremes in the summer - such as the record heat wave in the United States that hit corn farmers…
8,000-Year-Old Mutation Key to Human Life at High Altitudes
In an environment where others struggle to survive, Tibetans thrive in the thin air on the Tibetan Plateau, with an…
No Excess Baggage: Antarctic Insect’s Genome, Newly Sequenced, is Smallest to Date
Scientists who sequenced the genome of the Antarctic midge suspect the genome’s small size – the smallest in insects described…
Children with Disabilities Benefit from Classroom Inclusion
The secret to boosting the language skills of preschoolers with disabilities may be to put them in classrooms with typically…
Removing school vending machines is not enough to cut soda consumption
Banning vending machines from schools can actually increase soda and fast food consumption among students if it’s the only school…
Pistachios may lower vascular response to stress in Type 2 diabetes
In adults with diabetes, two servings of pistachios per day lowered vascular constriction during stress and improved neural control of…
Watching Schrodinger’s cat die
Continuous monitoring of a qantum system can direct the quantum state along a random path. This three-dimensional map shows how…
Dangers of desert dust: new diagnostic tool for valley fever
On July 5, 2011, a massive wall of dust, (“haboob,” in Arabic), blanketed Phoenix, Arizona, creating an awesome spectacle, (or…