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A new study of climate changes and their effects on past societies offers a sobering glimpse of social upheavals that might happen in the future.

In an aspen-dominated hardwood forest at the northern tip of the state’s Lower Peninsula, University of Michigan scientists are testing ways to make the region’s forests more resilient to climate change.

Climate change had a significant impact on people living in the Amazon rainforest before the arrival of Europeans and the loss of many indigenous groups, a new study shows.

It’s a feat three decades in the making: Harvard University chemists have achieved what a new paper calls a “landmark in drug discovery” with the total synthesis of halichondrin. 

A child’s risk of developing asthma is the smaller the more the microbiota of the child’s home resembles that of a farm house.