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The Black Death, a plague that killed up to 60% of people in western Eurasia from roughly 1346 to 1353, likely originated in the Tian Shan mountains of central Asia, new research shows.
By Elise Cutts in Voice of America
June 22, 2022
Weather disasters that happen more often because of climate change create conditions in which gender-based violence often spikes, according to new research.
By Elise Cutts in Voice of America
June 18, 2022
Pregnancy puts women at higher risk of severe medical complications or death from COVID-19, according to a new study of more than 1,300 women in sub-Saharan Africa.
By Elise Cutts in Voice of America
June 13, 2022
Ancient plant and animal DNA buried in Arctic sediments preserve a 50,000-year history of Arctic ecosystems, suggesting that climate change contributed to mammoth extinction.
By Elise Cutts in Eos
November 19, 2021
InSight data hint that shifting carbon dioxide ice loads, illumination changes, or solar tides could drive an uptick in marsquakes during northern summer—a “marsquake season.”
By Elise Cutts in Eos
November 1, 2021
Short-term fertilizing effect leaves signatures in wood cells
By Elise Cutts in Science
October 21, 2021
Most of the pollutant arrives at the coasts by river
By Elise Cutts in Scientific American
October 19, 2021
A new study challenges the assumption that cyanobacteria were the only major nitrogen fixers in the Proterozoic eon.
By Elise Cutts in Eos
September 28, 2021
Microbes in ditches remove harmful nitrogen pollutants just as well as those in natural wetlands
By Elise Cutts in NASW Student Newsroom
September 15, 2021
Without water, photosynthesis shuts down. To survive dry spells, desert microbes scavenge traces of hydrogen from the air and burn it for energy. Some even use hydrogen to fuel carbon fixation.
By Elise Cutts in Eos
August 10, 2021
Gut bacteria make butyrate when they break down resistant starches. But the science of how you can boost it is proving to be personal.
By Elise Cutts in Massive Science
July 30, 2021
Seemingly lifeless soils highlight the difficulty of discovering nothing
By Elise Cutts in Science News
July 20, 2021