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npj Climate and Atmospheric Science - A recent doubling of global warming rate signals a 1.5 °C breach by 2028

Human societies depend on stable ecosystem services, which are often stabilized by the ecological portfolio effect arising from biodiversity. Yet, whether this ecological stability propagates to the s...

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Pedal power is booming, spinning up a new culture war

The sounds of a healthy coral reef during a new moon, recorded underwater by scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at a site off O‘ahu, Hawai‘i.

C.H. Waddington’s powerful image of embryonic stem cells specializing on a rolling landscape has captivated biologists since the 1950s. Experimental data is finally confirming, and complicating, his v...

Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.

Research from New York City notes that newly installed protected bike lanes do more than keep bikers safe--they raise the income of the stores they are in front of.

A new way to tackle the real politics of climate change through asset revaluation

An analysis of a global database of 423 studies and >200,000 data points outlines the strength and generality of biodiversity relationships with ecosystem functioning and services.

All the worry about artificial intelligence should not obscure this key point: If we don’t develop it, we’ll be a lot worse off.

The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.

Postdoctoral Researcher in Biodiversity Science

Congo's Ebola outbreak has killed more than 4,000 people, authorities said, as they struggle to contain what has become the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history.

The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals

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arXiv’s computer science (CS) category has updated its moderation practice with respect to review (or survey) articles and position papers. Before being…

A delayed clinical trial underscores the stakes of federal research funding cuts for children with DIPG, a deadly brain tumor with few treatment options.

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An international database of jobs for philosophers

The injection of thermal energy comes amid an increasing rise in sea levels and continuing acidification

The AI-based assessment, which wasn’t explicitly described in the funding call, has raised privacy and fairness concerns

Steven Strogatz, Alex Townsend

Alpine regions in Europe experiencing extreme glacier collapse due to heat-trapping effects of fossil fuel pollution