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As gas prices fall, consumers going back to less fuel efficient vehicles
Posted: January 9, 2016There were high-fives this week from Detroit to Washington, D.C., as carmakers celebrated record auto sales.Americans bought 17.5 million cars and trucks in 2015. That's a huge turnaround from 2009,…
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Testing chemical toxicity challenge announced by USEPA + National Institutes of Health
Posted: January 8, 2016Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), and NIH’s National Toxicology Program (NTP) within the National…
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How competition for sunlight shapes forest structure
Posted: January 8, 2016Despite their diversity, the structure of most tropical rainforests is highly predictable. Scientists have described the various sizes of the trees by a simple mathematical relationship called a power law.In…
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New Federal dietary guidelines recommend eating less meat
Posted: January 7, 2016Many Americans, especially men and teenage boys, eat too much red meat, poultry and eggs, and should reduce their consumption, according to new federal dietary guidelines jointly released today by…
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Tiny chameleons deliver powerful tongue-lashings
Posted: January 7, 2016A new study reports one of the most explosive movements in the animal kingdom: the mighty tongue acceleration of a chameleon just a couple of inches long. The research illustrates…
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Anthropogenic nitrogen being added to oceans far less than previously assumed
Posted: January 7, 2016A new study finds that human activities are likely contributing far less nitrogen to the open ocean than many atmospheric models suggest. That's generally good news, but it also nullifies…
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Lawrence Livermore Laboratory developing underground battery system to store energy and CO2
Posted: January 6, 2016Meeting the Paris Climate Agreement goal of limiting the increase in the global average temperature to well below two degrees Celsius compared to pre-industrial levels will require increased use of…
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Understanding oxygen concentrations 1.4 billion years ago
Posted: January 6, 2016Oxygen is crucial for the existence of animals on Earth. But, an increase in oxygen did not apparently lead to the rise of the first animals. New research shows that…
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How you manage your email can affect your stress level
Posted: January 6, 2016New research suggests that it's not just the volume of emails that causes stress; it's our well-intentioned habits and our need to feel in control that backfires on us.These are…
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Volunteering is good for your health!
Posted: January 5, 2016Eric Kim, a research fellow in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, recently led the first study to look at a possible link between volunteering…
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