Researchers found striking disparities in mortality rates from lung, prostate and colon cancer between urban and rural areas.
Urban-Rural Disparities In Cancer Deaths
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Idled Farmland Presents Habitat Restoration Opportunities in San Joaquin Desert
Land no longer suitable for agriculture could be reclaimed as habitat for dozens of endangered species, according to a new analysis.
Understanding Physics Could Lead to Big Gains in Shale Oil Recovery
Penn State researchers say increasing the time gas molecules come in contact with shale oil would greatly increase oil yields in unconventional oil extraction in shale regions.
Clean and Green: UCI Physicist Helps Invent Novel Way of Converting Nitrogen to Ammonia
Researchers have come up with a way to more sustainably produce ammonia using atoms of molybdenum as a catalyst for electrochemical conversion.
Central Texas Salamanders, Including Newly Identified Species, At Risk of Extinction
Biologists at The University of Texas at Austin have discovered three new species of groundwater salamander in Central Texas, including one living west of Austin that they say is critically endangered.
A Microbial Hot Spring in Your Basement
Scientists found heat-loving microbes living in water heaters in homes across the United States.
