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Science can now link climate change with some extreme weather events
Extreme weather events like floods, heat waves and droughts can devastate communities and populations worldwide. Recent scientific advances have enabled…
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Many species now going extinct may vanish without a fossil trace
Scientists struggle to compare the magnitude of Earth’s ongoing sixth mass-extinction event with the five great die-offs of prehistory. A…
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This is your brain on sugar: UCLA study shows high-fructose diet sabotages learning, memory
A new UCLA rat study is the first to show how a diet steadily…
Alzheimer’s Gene Causes Brain’s Blood Vessels to Leak, Die
The left photo shows destructive proteins (green) lining blood vessels in living brain…
UCLA scientists unlock mystery of how ‘handedness’ arises
Colored patches represent parallelogram outlines around pairs of triangles that have…
Plastic Trash Altering Ocean Habitats, Scripps Study Shows
A 100-fold upsurge in human-produced plastic garbage in the ocean is altering habitats in…
Advanced genetic screening method may speed vaccine development
Infectious diseases—both old and new—continue to exact a devastating toll, causing some 13 million…