A protein associated with cancer growth appears to drive the deadly lung disease known as idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, according to new research from Cedars-Sinai.
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Study Shows IPCC Is Underselling Climate Change
A new study has revealed that the language used by the global climate change watchdog, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), is overly conservative – and therefore the threats are much greater than the Panel’s reports suggest.
Beware of Sleeping Queens Underfoot This Spring
It was long thought that queen bumblebees, after hibernating in the ground over winter, emerged, began feeding and dispersed quite quickly to found their new colony.
Measuring Impact of Drought on Groundwater Resources from Space
A team of Arizona State University scientists has been using the latest space technology, combined with ground measurements, to assess the health of one of the nation’s most important sources of underground water, a large aquifer system located in California’s San Joaquin Valley.
Better Water Testing, Safer Produce
Salads were recently in the news—and off America’s dinner tables—when romaine lettuce was recalled nationwide.
Changes in Ocean ‘Conveyor Belt’ Foretold Abrupt Climate Changes by Four Centuries
In the Atlantic Ocean, a giant ‘conveyor belt’ carries warm waters from the tropics into the North Atlantic, where they cool and sink and then return southwards in the deep ocean.