Simple, inexpensive urban design interventions can increase well-being and social connections among city residents, finds a new case study from the Urban Realities Lab at the University of Waterloo.
Green Spaces Can Help You Trust Strangers
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Parents Don’t Pick Favorites, At Least If You’re A Magellanic Penguin
Parenthood can be a struggle, particularly for families with multiple children in need of care, nurturing, protection and attention.
Migrating Snowline Plays Outsized Role in Setting Pace of Greenland Ice Melt
In a finding that may help scientists better predict sea-level rise in a warming world, Brown University researchers have found an underappreciated factor that controls the rate at which Greenland’s ice sheet melts.
Deep Diving Robots Find Warming Accelerating In Ocean Off Antarctica
New research from NOAA and partners analyzing data from deep-diving ocean robots and research cruises shows that the coldest, near-bottom South Pacific waters originating from Antarctica are warming three times faster than they were in the 1990s.
With Nanotubes, Genetic Engineering in Plants Is Easy-Peasy
Inserting or tweaking genes in plants is more art than science, but a new technique developed by University of California, Berkeley, scientists could make genetically engineering any type of plant—in particular, gene editing with CRISPR-Cas9—simple and quick.
Fish Diversity Linked to Caribbean Coral Reef Health
The health of coral reefs can be impacted as much by the diversity of fish that graze on them as by the amount of fish that do so, according to a new study by scientists at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences.
