Tag: Scientific research
When Greenland was green: Ancient soil from beneath a mile of...
Paul Bierman, University of Vermont and Tammy Rittenour, Utah State University
About 400,000 years ago, large parts of Greenland...
Hurricanes push heat deeper into the ocean than scientists realized, boosting...
Noel Gutiérrez Brizuela, University of California, San Diego and Sally Warner, Brandeis University
When a hurricane hits land, the...
Colonialism has shaped scientific plant collections around the world – here’s...
Daniel Park, Purdue University
Some of the world’s most popular museums are natural history collections: Think of dinosaur fossils,...
You shed DNA everywhere you go – trace samples in the...
Jenny Whilde, University of Florida and Jessica Alice Farrell, University of Florida
Human DNA can be sequenced from small...
What the world would lose with the demise of Twitter: Valuable...
Anjana Susarla, Michigan State University
What do a cybersecurity researcher building a system to generate alerts for detecting security...
By fact-checking Thoreau’s observations at Walden Pond, we showed how old...
Tara K. Miller, Boston University; Abe Miller-Rushing, National Park Service, and Richard B. Primack, Boston University
Henry David Thoreau,...
Expanding Alzheimer’s research with primates could overcome the problem with treatments...
Agnès Lacreuse, UMass Amherst; Allyson J. Bennett, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Amanda M. Dettmer, Yale University
As of 2022,...
EPA’s proposed ‘secret science’ rule directly threatens children’s health
Gabriel Filippelli, IUPUI
The Trump administration is working to weaken U.S. environmental regulations in many areas, from water and air pollution to energy development and...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
