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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

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Alzheimer’s Gene Causes Brain’s Blood Vessels to Leak, Die

    The left photo shows destructive proteins (green) lining blood vessels in living brain

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UCLA scientists unlock mystery of how ‘handedness’ arises

        Colored patches represent parallelogram outlines around pairs of triangles that have

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Plastic Trash Altering Ocean Habitats, Scripps Study Shows

  A 100-fold upsurge in human-produced plastic garbage in the ocean is altering habitats in

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