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Subscribe via RSSLong-running records from forests in Costa Rica and Puerto Rico show warming and more hot days, while rainfall extremes differ between sites—evidence of local shifts, not one uniform regional pattern.
A Welsh record-linkage study finds that income deprivation tracked GCSE attainment more strongly than major congenital anomalies; accounting for special education provision narrowed some gaps, but causes remain uncertain.
A Popular Science account of lunar research says the Moon’s radius has decreased nearly 148 feet over hundreds of millions of years, while fault patterns may help identify less stable regions.
A ScienceDaily report describes white dwarfs whose dense atmospheres may alter their apparent colors, including a model-inferred green star, based on spectra rather than direct human viewing.
A laser phase plate added to cryo-EM improved reported images of small proteins, including hemoglobin, but whether it will enable routine views of proteins in cells remains an open question.
A simulation study suggests natural Shigella exposure could make vaccine efficacy look lower in high-burden trials, but the size of that bias depends on uncertain assumptions about immunity.
ScienceDaily reports a theory for a highly excited yet ordered state in a one-dimensional quantum gas; the claimed experimental realization is a separate study still under peer review.
A Bonn team reportedly reset age-linked markers while reprogramming an 80-year-old donor’s blood-cell precursors into neural stem cells, creating a lab model—not a treatment.