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Peru Amazon highway tied to 400% dengue surge within 5 kilometers of road
New roads bring changes to the regions they traverse. They can enable job opportunities, access to medicine and health care, and electricity. But they also disr...
Black hole collisions may follow entropy law, offering simpler remnant predictions
When two black holes orbit each other, they eventually spiral inward and collide in one of the most violent phenomena in the universe. The event is so energetic...
Tiny Jurassic bird reveals a key step in bird evolution
The transition from a lumbering, heavy dinosaur body to the flight-adapted bird body plan is one of many fascinating episodes in evolutionary history. Working o...
Quiet, please: Hatchery salmon raised amid noise are less likely to return to spawn
Fish hatcheries are a critical part of the effort to restore salmon runs in the Pacific Northwest. But hatchery fish are less likely than wild ones to return fr...
It's been 30 years since Dolly the sheep was born—where is cloning technology now?
When Dolly the sheep—the first cloned mammal—was born 30 years ago, she became one of the most famous animals in science history. Her arrival sparked prediction...
Another success for Hayabusa 2 as it completes a flyby of asteroid Torifune
Hayabusa 2's primary mission is now well in the past. JAXA's asteroid-sampling spacecraft rendezvoused with asteroid Ryugu in June 2018. It studied the asteroid...
JWST's 'overmassive' early black holes may not be so massive after all
Astronomers studying a population of unusually X-ray-silent and overmassive black holes discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope have found that they may no...
Robin study suggests fleeing isn't necessarily wildlife's first response to wildfire smoke
Research by Oregon State University biologists suggests that toxic air stemming from wildfires won't necessarily prompt animals to flee in search of better brea...
Study examines Miami-Dade County resilience plans
A University of Miami study has developed a new approach to evaluate how multiple climate resilience plans work together—or fail to do so—in addressing the grow...
Social media influencers who match racial, ethnic identity of their audiences have a bigger—and unhealthy—impact
Food marketers increasingly use people for paid promotions who share the racial and ethnic identities of their target audiences because such "identity congruenc...
Is the decline of newspapers taking the pressure off of corporate social responsibility programs? Research says 'yes'
Local newspapers have long played a quiet but powerful role in corporate accountability: They scrutinize company behavior and give public visibility to good cor...
Hotter, drier weather could double water bills in some US cities, study finds
Hotter, drier weather threatens to double water bills by midcentury in some cities, according to a Stanford-led study. The research, published in Nature Sustain...