Natural sciences

Natural sciences

May 23 - Dinosaurs are often thought of as large, fierce animals, but new research highlights a previously overlooked diversity of small dinosaurs. - In the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology , a team of palaeontologists from the University of Toronto, Royal Ontario Museum, Cleveland Museum of Natural History and University of Calgary have described a new dinosaur, the smallest plant-eating dinosaur species known from Canada: Albertadromeus syntarsus.
Environmental Sciences - Life Sciences May 22

The fate of the blue catfish and more than 60 other species of large-river specialist fishes depends on conservation of suitable habitat and connectivity between the Mississippi River and its tributaries.

Earth Sciences May 16
Earth Sciences

The researchers used a diamond anvil cell to squeeze iron at pressures as high as 3 million times that felt at sea level to recreate conditions at the center of Earth.

Environmental Sciences May 15
Environmental Sciences

UAlberta researchers look into future of climate change to develop forestry maps aimed at keeping trees in their ideal habitat.

Earth Sciences May 10
Earth Sciences

For the second time in less than a month, an expert from the Yale Peabody Museum has been called in to confirm that object found near a Connecticut home is a meteorite.

Environmental Sciences - Mathematics May 8

A population-level study discovers small-scale details about individuals' choices. - Studies of human mobility usually focus on either the small scale - determining the origins, destinations and travel modes of individuals' daily commutes - or the very large scale, such as using air-travel patterns to track the spread of epidemics over time.

Medicine - Chemistry May 22

In an age when microbial pathogens are growing increasingly resistant to the conventional antibiotics used to tamp down infection, a team of Wisconsin scientists has synthesized a potent new class of compounds capable of curbing the bacteria that cause staph infections.

Chemistry - Medicine May 15
Chemistry - Medicine

Academic researchers have found that breathing motor vehicle emissions triggers a change in high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, altering its cardiovascular protective qualities so that it actually contributes to clogged arteries.

Environmental Sciences - Medicine May 14
Environmental Sciences - Medicine

Some racial groups are more likely to bear the brunt of extreme heat waves because of where they live, according to a new study by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley.

Earth Sciences - Environmental Sciences May 9

Cirrus clouds form around mineral dust and metallic particles, study finds. - At any given time, cirrus clouds - the thin wisps of vapor that trail across the sky - cover nearly one-third of the globe.

Chemistry - Physics May 7

SDSC's Trestles Used to Develop New Tools for Cleaner Air and Energy Production - Using the Trestles supercomputer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, chemists at the University of South

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