Building Better Soybeans for a Hot, Dry, Hungry World
A new study shows that soybean plants can be redesigned to increase crop yields while requiring less water and helping to offset greenhouse gas warming. … Read more
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New Study Outlines ‘Water World’ Theory of Life’s Origins
Life took root more than four billion years ago on our nascent Earth, a wetter and harsher place than now, bathed in sizzling ultraviolet rays. … Read more
Images From NASA Mars Rover Include Mysterious Bright Spots
Images taken by NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover on April 2 and April 3 include bright spots, which might be due to the sun glinting off … Read more
NASA’s OCO-2 Brings Sharp New Focus on Global Carbon
Simply by breathing, humans have played a small part in the planet-wide balancing act called the carbon cycle throughout our existence. However, in the last … Read more
The Search for Seeds of Black Holes
How do you grow a supermassive black hole that is a million to a billion times the mass of our sun? Astronomers do not know … Read more
NuSTAR Reveals Radioactive Matter in Supernova Remnant
Using its X-ray vision to observe what is left of a massive star that exploded long ago, NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) spacecraft has shed new … Read more
Method for Delivering HIV-Fighting Antibodies Proven Even More Promising
In 2011, biologists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) demonstrated a highly effective method for delivering HIV-fighting antibodies to mice—a treatment that protected the mice from … Read more
Data-intensive ecology needed to understand what makes biosphere tick
Have you looked closely at a local pond, meadow or forest–or at nature in your suburb or city–and observed changes in it over time? That’s … Read more
Worry on the Brain: Researchers pinpoint neural circuitry that promotes anxiety
According to the National Institute of Mental Health, over 18 percent of American adults suffer from anxiety disorders, characterized as excessive worry or tension that … Read more
Ladies And Gentlemen, Boot Your Robots!
Miami Speedway in Homestead, Fla., was the place to be late last month for an unusual two-day competition: the DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials. But if … Read more
Stormy Stars? NASA’s Spitzer Probes Weather on Brown Dwarfs
Swirling, stormy clouds may be ever-present on cool celestial orbs called brown dwarfs. New observations from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope suggest that most brown dwarfs … Read more
