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Intense storms crossing the edge of the world's sea ice push the ice's yearly growth and melt further in both directions, and on balance they raise the global annual mean sea-ice area by 13%, Claire…
A modeling study projects that the area burning in Europe each year would rise by about 39% under low emissions and by nearly 192% under high emissions late this century, driven by intensified fire…
A method published Aug. 20 in Nature Genetics returns a probability for each of four categories at once: schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, major depression, or none of the three. Genetic risk scores…
The Food and Drug Administration has approved Pasatru, an antibody that blocks a protein called Activin A, for adults with fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva, a disorder in which bone forms inside…
Grasses carry two separate chemical routes for making starch, and their closest non-grass relatives carry only one, according to a University of Wisconsin–Madison release describing a paper published…
A single glancing impact by a 320-meter asteroid can account for both the 10-kilometer-wide depression at Deimos's south pole and the fine debris covering the whole 12-kilometer moon, according to…
Radar waves at a wavelength of 3.5 centimeters penetrate no more than about 32 meters into Europa's surface, according to a bound reported by Tunhui Xie, Jean-Luc Margot and six co-authors from 13…
The Global Mangrove Watch project has released a reprocessed 40-year map of the world's mangrove forests. It puts worldwide mangrove cover at a net gain of 47,720 hectares between 1985 and 2025, and…
The first JWST transit spectra of TRAPPIST-1 f rule out hydrogen- and helium-dominated atmospheres with surface pressures higher than about 20 millibars, at 95% confidence, a team led by Olivia Lim…
Microbes carried to the Moon on astronauts and their equipment could stay alive in shaded ground around the lunar south pole, NASA scientists report in a modeling study published Aug. 19 in Science…
NASA and Katalyst Space will not attempt to raise the orbit of NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, the agency announced Aug. 19, citing an ongoing attitude-control problem on Katalyst's LINK…
Astronomers using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope Interferometer in Chile have detected a star that circles the black hole at the center of the Milky Way once every 8.7…