The UBC Vancouver campus is host to a staggering array of birds, and spring is their season.
For the Love of Birds
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GRACE Mission Data Contributes to Our Understanding of Climate Change
The University of Texas at Austin team that led a twin satellite system launched in 2002 to take detailed measurements of the Earth, called the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE), reports in the most recent issue of the journal Nature Climate Change on the contributions that their nearly two decades of data have made to our understanding of global climate patterns.
New Approach by Stanford Researchers Could Lead to a Lifetime Flu Vaccine
If the virus that causes flu were an ice cream cone, then the yearly vaccine teaches the immune system to recognize just the scoop – chocolate one year, strawberry the next.
The Last Chance for Madagascar’s Biodiversity
Scientists from around the world have joined together to identify the most important actions needed by Madagascar’s new government to prevent species and habitats being lost for ever.
WSU Study Links Gene to Sleep Problems in Autism
Up to 80 percent of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) experience sleep problems.
Wax Helps Plants to Survive in the Desert
In 1956, the Würzburg botanist Otto Ludwig Lange observed an unusual phenomenon in the Mauritanian desert in West Africa: he found plants whose leaves could heat up to 56 degrees Celsius.
