News in Brief
- Ecosystems
Aging European forests full to the brim with carbon
Trees' capacity to sequester carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is dwindling.
- Climate
Flood damage to cost up to $1 trillion per year by 2050
Coastal cities with growing populations will be inundated by sea level rise.
- Life
To make biofuel, cut the lignin
Researchers disable key protein making plant sugars easier to access.
- Climate
Climate change carved canyons in Andes
Erosion came thanks to cooling and more rain, not tectonic activity.
- Planetary Science
NASA gives up on fixing Kepler
Space telescope’s days as a premier planet hunter are over.
- Psychology
Highlights from the American Sociological Association annual meeting
Research on social media's reluctant users, marital ideals and single parenthood and intimate victims of cybernastiness presented August 10-13 in New York City.
-
- Astronomy
Magnetic field of black hole measured
Pulsar near Milky Way’s center makes first assessment of this type possible.
- Health & Medicine
Mediterranean diet may offset genetic risk for stroke
Compared to a low-fat diet, eating fish and olive oil kept blood sugar levels lower in people with a common diabetes risk factor.
-
- Tech
Online ‘likes’ multiply themselves
Social media users swayed by previous ratings, researchers find when they randomly assign positive and negative votes.
- Health & Medicine
Camels implicated as possible hosts of MERS virus
Antibodies to a mysterious pathogen that has sickened 94 people were found in camels in Oman and the Canary Islands.
