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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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Psychologists who analyzed video of a female chimpanzee, a female bonobo and a female human…
USF researchers find far-reaching, mirovascular damage in uninjured side of brain after stroke
While the effects of acute stroke have been widely studied, brain damage during the subacute…
Cancer’s many faces examined in new study
This year, according to the American Cancer Society, some 232,340 new cases of invasive breast…
Diamonds, nanotubes find common ground in graphene
Rice University and the Honda Research Institute use single-layer graphene to grow forests of nanotubes…
Organic polymers show sunny potential
Researchers at Rice and Pennsylvania State universities have created solar cells based on block copolymers,…