Tag Archives: Humidity

Research Preview: Science Magazine – Sept. 6, 2024

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Science Magazine – September 5, 2024: The new issue features Memory Servews – Chickadees with better spatial memories have longer lives….

Indian knowledge

To distance its science education systems from centurieslong British colonialism, India is leaning into its history and traditions—but at what cost?

Learning from a climate disaster: The catastrophic floods in southern Brazil

The catastrophic floods that affected southern Brazil last May should serve as a warning to human societies that, despite the still widespread climate change skepticism or denial, mitigation and adaptation to cope with the ongoing climate crisis are urgently needed. The toll was 213 people killed or missing; 2.4 million people affected, including 600,000 displaced; and unprecedented losses in urban and rural infrastructure, including livestock.

Emotional contagion builds resilience

Mice that witness cage mates in distress withstand future negative emotions better

Research Preview: Science Magazine – August 30, 2024

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Science Magazine – August 29, 2024: The new issue features ‘Micronuclear Collapse’ – Mitochondria-derived reactive oxygen species disrupt micronuclear envelopes…

Sinking seaweed

An ambitious strategy aims to cool the planet by dumping farmed seaweed on the sea floor. Will it work?

Hot days or heat waves: A split over how to count heat deaths

Focusing on temperature extremes can galvanize policy changes but risks undercounting

Ancient monument’s builders knew their science

Building a Spanish megalith required sophisticated physics, geometry, and geology

Research Preview: Science Magazine – August 16, 2024

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Science Magazine – August 15, 2024: The new issue features ‘Transmission Event’ – Digital contact tracing for Covid-19; What kind of asteroid killed the dinosaurs; Access to safe drinking water is far from universal; Lessons from nonhuman primates on speech evolution…

Research Preview: Science Magazine – August 9, 2024

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Science Magazine – August 8, 2024: The new issue features ‘Righting Old Wrongs’ – How science is shedding a colonial legacy…

Explosive claim about ancient burials challenged

Controversy over intentional burial by Homo naledi extends to new publishing models

Eliminating a gut microbe could slash gastric cancers

Mammoth study in Chinese villages shows antibiotics that kill Helicobacter pylori reduced cancer risk

Fire-against-fire HIV therapy passes key test in monkeys

A stripped-down HIV genome can interfere with normal virus replication

In sweeping geological theory, mantle waves lift up plateaus

Underground churn from ancient continental breakups can explain highlands in Brazil, India, and South Africa

Research Preview: Science Magazine – August 2, 2024

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Science Magazine – August 1, 2024: The new issue features ‘Prickly Plants’ – Pruning thorns through gene editing…

Is it the humidity, or just the heat?

Scientists debate the role of humidity in rising heat deaths

Mid-Pleistocene climate transition triggered by Antarctic Ice Sheet growth

Recent tropical Andean glacier retreat is unprecedented in the Holocene

Lessons from ancient pathogens

A chemogenetic screen reveals that Trpv1-expressing neurons control regulatory T cells in the gut