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A study of more than 6,000 marine fossils from the Antarctic shows that the mass extinction event that killed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago was sudden and just as deadly to life in the Polar Regions.
Previously, scientists had thought that creatures living in the southernmost regions of the planet would have been in a less perilous position during the mass extinction event than those elsewhere on Earth.
Más del cincuenta por ciento de la energía de Estados Unidos proviene de los combustibles derivados del carbón y del petróleo. Energizar a un país en el que la persona promedio utiliza la cantidad de energía equivalente a 15,370 libras de carbón o 165,033 cartuchos de dinamita en un año, no es sostenible. Al pensar en una solución, la fuente de energía renovable que muy probablemente venga a la mente es la energía solar.
Las células inmunes juegan un papel esencial en el mantenimiento y reparación de nuestros cuerpos. Cuando nos herimos a nosotros mismos, las células inmunes montan una respuesta inflamatoria rápida para protegernos contra las infecciones y ayudar a curar el tejido dañado.
La investigadora principal, la doctora Helen Weavers, de la Facultad de Ciencias Biomédicas, dijo: "Si bien esta respuesta inmune es beneficiosa para la salud humana...
According to research published today in the International Journal of Epidemiology, health is at risk for those who live within five kilometres of a landfill site.
A new analysis of global data related to wildfire, published by the Royal Society, reveals major misconceptions about wildfire and its social and economic impacts.
With spring now fully sprung, a new study by University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers shows that buds burst earlier in dense urban areas than in their suburban and rural surroundings. This may be music to urban gardeners’ ears, but that tune could be alarming to some native and migratory birds and bugs.
