Scientists working in the Gulf of Mexico have found that contaminants from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill lingered in the subsurface water for months after oil on the surface …read more Source:: Science
Day: May 30, 2016
Remains of rice and mung beans help solve a Madagascan mystery
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•Researchers have helped discover why the inhabitants of Madagascar speak Malagasy, a language otherwise unique to Southeast Asia and the Pacific — a region located at least 6,000 km away. …read more Source:: Science
Narcotic painkillers prolong pain in rats, says study
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•Painkillers paradoxically prolong pain in rats, a study that could have far-reaching effects for humans, new research demonstrates. Roughly 20,000 Americans died in 2015 from overdoses of prescription opioid pain …read more Source:: Science
Deep, old water explains why Antarctic Ocean hasn’t warmed
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•The water around Antarctica has not seen the atmosphere for centuries, since long before the machine age. New observations and model simulations suggest this may be the last place on …read more Source:: Science
Hydropower dams worldwide cause continued species extinction
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•New research has found a global pattern of sustained species extinctions on islands within hydroelectric reservoirs. Scientists have discovered that reservoir islands created by large dams across the world do …read more Source:: Science