Study: Effort to limit dust pollution in Owens Valley is advancing
The century-long battle over water between California’s Owens Valley and Los Angeles is nothing short of epic.
In 1974, the conflict was immortalized in the...
Study: Can We Escape the Vortex of Polarization?
For more than 25 years, Columbia University social psychologist Peter T. Coleman has studied what creates conflict—and what brings peace—around the world. In his...
Study: Conserving biodiverse ‘slow lanes’ in a rapidly changing world
The notion of conserving climate change refugia - areas relatively buffered from current climate change that shelter valued wildlife, ecosystems, and other natural resources...
Scientists introduce new theory to calculate emissions liability
A comparison of the results for conventional point source pollution and bottleneck carbon emissions sources shows that oil and natural gas pipelines are far...
Plastic Pollution reaching Antarctica, According to Study
New findings include analyses of some of the longest continuous datasets in the world on plastics ingested by seabirds and washed up on beaches,...
Scientists uncover tools used by predatory bacteria to escape unharmed from prey cell
Predatory bacteria, capable of invading and consuming harmful bugs such as E .coli and Salmonella, use a unique tool to help them escape the...
Study: Reprogramming immune cells to reduce inflammation
Macrophages are white blood cells that, depending on the signals they get from the immune system, become specialized in either increasing or decreasing inflammation....
Study: Why writing by hand makes kids smarter
Professor Audrey van der Meer at NTNU believes that national guidelines should be put into place to ensure that children receive at least a...
Scientists uncover new anti-phage defense mechanisms
Scientists from Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT’s research enterprise in Singapore, have discovered a new anti-phage defense mechanism found in some...
Study: Ocean acidification causing coral ‘osteoporosis’ on iconic reefs
Scientists have long suspected that ocean acidification is affecting corals' ability to build their skeletons, but it has been challenging to isolate its effect...