Bark Beetles Have Major Effects on Western US
A beetle that burrows into the bark of pine trees has begun causing problems not just for the trees themselves, but even for the watersheds and ecosystems around them. According to research funded in part by the National [...]... Read More
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Bark Beetles Have Major Effects on Western US
A beetle that burrows into the bark of pine trees has begun causing problems not just for the trees themselves, but even for the watersheds and ecosystems around them.
According to research funded in part by the National Science Foundation, an outbreak of the mountain pine beetle, or bark beetle, has been ongoing for years and has now ...
USDA in Preventing World Famine from Spreading
The United States Department of Agriculture announced in a press release this week that U.S. laboratories have found a gene that may be able to stop the spread of wheat stem rust, a reddish fungus that could cause widespread famine if left unchecked.
Wheat stem rust, a disease caused by infectious microfungi, has been observed in Africa ...
Effects of Air Pollution on Super Storms
Air pollution is rarely thought of as being good for human beings, but new research shows that even smog clouds may have a silver lining. According to a study published in the journal Nature Geoscience, hurricanes and other major tropical storm systems may be suppressed to some degree by human-generated air pollution.
With climatologists ...
Undiscovered Secrets of Evolution from a Horse
It sounds like Jurassic Park—scientists recover DNA from a long-dead animal in the hopes of understanding more about how it lived. This week, scientists announced that they had sequenced and reconstructed the genome of a horse that died 700,000 years ago. Their research has revealed significant new findings about the evolution ...
Senators Propose Solution for “Orphaned” Nuclear Waste
Four United States Senators—two Democrats and two Republicans—proposed a bill this week aimed at solving the country's nuclear storage woes. If the bill becomes law, it would create a nuclear waste policy incorporating both temporary and permanent storage solutions.
After President Obama de-funded the Yucca Mountain ...
Early Retirements for Chimpanzees
In a move that drew criticism from some research groups and applause from animal rights activists, the National Institutes of Health announced this week that it would follow guidelines from an independent review to retire most of the chimpanzees currently being used in NIH-funded research projects.
While the vast majority of scientific ...
Brave New World: Controversial DNA Embrionic Therapy
England's chief medical officer has given the go-ahead to a new procedure that would help around ten couples in the UK every year prevent significant genetic problems in their sons and daughters. The technique has generated controversy because it requires creating an embryo using three different donors—in effect, three biological ...
Animals Poisoned by World War II Toxins
The fisher, a threatened mammal species related to weasels, has lived in the Sierra National Forest for far longer than there has been human habitation in North America. Recent research, however, shows that a very human vice may be threatening the fisher population in Northern California.
In 2009, researchers report, a male fisher ...
Your Own T-Rex Dinosaur in Your Home
The Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History has amassed an incredible collection of fossils, but one of the most iconic dinosaurs in the world wasn't there. Now, under a loan agreement from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Smithsonian will have a Tyrannosaurus Rex of its very own.
The National Museum of National ...
Voyager Spacecraft At Edge of Solar System
While astronomers still do not know exactly when the Voyager 1 spacecraft will enter interstellar space completely, they say that current data suggests it is now in the outermost layer of our solar system and could leave it at any time.
Scientists working on the Voyager project, launched in 1977 to explore the worlds in our solar system ...
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