The billions of marine microorganisms present in every liter of seawater represent a structured ecological…
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Trees either hunker down or press on in a drying and warming western US climate
Details of the radically divergent strategies that two common tree species employ to cope with…
Quick clean-up: New process turns decades into hours for mining-water purification
Cleaning up the water left over from mining operations can literally take generations — 25…
Do you really need that MRI?
Too many tests at the doctor’s office could cost you more than just dollars. In…
Why does tamoxifen work better in some women?
The anti-hormone therapy tamoxifen can reduce breast cancer recurrence by about half in women with…
Heat radiates 10,000 times faster at the nanoscale
When heat travels between two objects that aren’t touching, it flows differently at the smallest…
First explanations for boundary within Earth’s mantle
Two geologists have provide different, though not necessarily incompatible, explanations for a boundary in Earth’s…
Chemists characterize a chemical state thought to be unobservable
Researchers determine the energy and map the structure of a chemical reaction’s transition state.
Some prairie vole brains are better wired for sexual fidelity
Researchers have found that natural selection drives some male prairie voles to be fully monogamous…
Public and private investments in Ph.D. research programs pay economic development dividends
Research-funded Ph.D. recipients earn high wages after graduation, participate in national and international labor markets,…