The Clock Is Ticking for New Mexico to Cut Rio Grande Water Use

After nearly 40 years of research, scientists have uncovered evidence that challenges a long held assumption about forest soils. The world’s longest running soil warming experiment suggests that even carbon once considered stable can begin to break down as temperatures rise, releasing additional CO2 into the atmosphere. Jerry Melillo, a Distinguished Scientist at the Marine…

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Hello! I have synthesized a Cp compound with one ester group (which then I hydrolyzed it to carboxylic acid). This Cp has also 2 methyl group on it. a similar compound is thiele's acid, however it doesn't have any methyl. It's literally dimer of Cp-COOH. in ambient temperature, a Cp-COOH dimerizes to thiele's acid. but…

If you’re sick of your dead-straight hair or untameable curls, the blame doesn’t start with your wash and dry routine, or even the temperature or humidity of your surroundings. It begins below the skin’s surface with hundreds of thousands of tiny follicles littering your scalp. In 2005, scientists dissected human scalp follicles and found that…

Welcome to the International Space Station! | Photo Credit: Flickr In low Earth orbit can be found the International Space Station — a large laboratory where astronauts from different countries live and work together while circling Earth every 90 minutes. What began as a project involving the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada is…