Ticks prove resilient to extreme temperatures
PULLMAN, Wash. — Tick season is here, along with the increased danger of Lyme disease, and it turns out the tiny ...
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Extreme precipitation in northeast to increase 52% by the end of the century
With a warmer climate creating more humid conditions in the Northeast, extreme precipitation events — defined as about 1.5 or ...
New method predicts extreme events more accurately
New York, NY—May 23, 2023—With the rise of extreme weather events, which are becoming more frequent in our warming climate, ...
UH researchers develop sensors that operate at high temperatures and in extreme environments
Extreme environments in several critical industries – aerospace, energy, transportation and defense – require sensors to measure and monitor numerous ...
Broad climate change concern in Florida linked with recent extreme weather
An increasing number of Floridians agree that human actions are causing climate change, including a record number of Florida Republicans, ...
Study finds extreme mortality rate in Central African Republic
A new study by public health researchers presents stark evidence that the Central African Republic (CAR) is experiencing a severe ...
Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology researchers correlate Arctic warming to extreme winter weather in midlatitude and its future
Pictures of melting glaciers and stranded polar bears on shrinking sea ice in the Arctic are perhaps the most striking ...
Exploiting dark autoionizing states for enhancing the extreme ultraviolet laser power
Exploiting dark autoionizing states for enhancing the extreme ultraviolet laser power Credit: INRS Exploiting dark autoionizing states for enhancing the ...
A nonnative tree species reclaims its prominence after extreme weather
The long-term effects on forests of more extreme climate events, plus other drivers of forest change, are highly uncertain. A ...
Researchers look to AI for decision-making in extreme situations
Imagine you are a doctor managing the emergency room of a large hospital. You suddenly get a call reporting a ...
Extreme nighttime pollution in New Delhi air explained
In a major joint project with top Indian scientists, PSI researchers have determined why smog forms at night in the ...
Entire populations of Antarctic seabirds fail to breed due to extreme, climate-change-related snowstorms
The arrival of the new year is a prime time for Antarctic birds like the south polar skua, Antarctic petrel, ...
Speeding up extreme fast charging capability in lithium-ion batteries
Ishikawa, Japan -- Current society is transitioning en masse from fossil fuels to renewable resources and electric batteries. Despite the ...
Tracking data reveals how seabird species adopt different strategies to cope with extreme storms
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior in Germany and Swansea University have revealed how different seabird species ...
Oncotarget | Extreme phenotype approach identifies rare ATR variants as potential male breast cancer susceptibility alleles
“Basic functions of ATR classify it in the category of tumor suppressor genes but further studies show that its role ...
New compound that withstands extreme heat and electricity could lead to next-generation energy storage devices
– By Rachel Berkowitz Credit: Yi Liu and He (Henry) Li/Berkeley Lab – By Rachel Berkowitz Society’s growing demand for ...
Successive, extreme cold events in the Northern Hemisphere this winter may be linked
Climate change is altering weather patterns, making it increasingly difficult to accurately predict extreme cold weather events in the short ...
Extreme earners are not extremely smart
People with higher incomes also score higher on IQ-tests – up to a point. At high incomes the relationship plateaus ...
How did ancient extreme climate affect sand in the deep sea?
Geologists are interested in the sedimentary cycle – erosion from mountains that forms sand that is carried out to the ocean ...
Wildfire smoke-weather interaction amplifies extreme fire activity and air pollution
Wildfire smoke affects local weather, creating conditions that accelerate wildfire expansion and air pollution exposure at a regional scale, according ...