Research: Snow over Antarctica buffered sea level rise during last century —

new NASA-led study has determined that an increase in snowfall accumulation over Antarctica during the 20th century mitigated sea level rise by 0.4...

Research: A damming trend —

Hundreds of dams are being proposed for Mekong River basin in Southeast Asia. The negative social and environmental consequences -- affecting everything from...

Research: Atmospheric aerosol formation from biogenic vapors is strongly affected by air pollutants —

The formation of new aerosol particles is a complicated process. Researchers have only recently started to understand this process on a molecular level...

Research: Scientists overhaul corn domestication story with multidisciplinary analysis —

Smithsonian scientists and collaborators are revising the history of one of the world's most important crops. Drawing on genetic and archaeological evidence, researchers...

Research: It’s not quite the Ant-Man suit, but the system produces 3D structures one...

MIT researchers have invented a way to fabricate nanoscale 3-D objects of nearly any shape. They can also pattern the objects with a...

Research: Colorado River Delta report provides restoration road map —

Four growing seasons after the engineered spring flood of the Colorado River Delta in March 2014, the delta's birds, plants and groundwater continue...

Research: How complexity science can quickly detect climate record anomalies —

The history of our climate is written in ice. Reading it is a matter of deciphering the complex signals pulled from tens of...

Research: Mammalian keratin genes and adaptation to living on land or sea —

Whether by land or by sea, mammals live in a diverse variety of protective skins adapted against the elements, from swimming in the...

Research: HIV vaccine protects non-human primates from infection —

For more than 20 years, scientists at Scripps Research have chipped away at the challenges of designing an HIV vaccine. Now new research,...

Research: Peeling off slimy biofilms like old stickers —

Slimy, hard-to-clean bacterial mats called biofilms cause problems ranging from medical infections to clogged drains and fouled industrial equipment. Now, researchers at Princeton...

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