The following is a news release by the University of Michigan, posted May 4, 2015, with the title above: The main job of pollen is to help seed the next generation of trees and plants, but a new study from the University of Michigan and Texas A&M shows that the grains might also seed clouds. The unexpected findings demonstrate that these wind-carried capsules of genetic material might have an effect on the planet’s climate....
Read MoreThe following article is courtesy of UCSB graduate student Kate Voss (dated April 29, 2015): On Saturday, 25 April a 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit Nepal, the Himalayan nation between India and China. The country is known for its hospitable and generous people, beautiful cultural heritage sites, and, of course, high mountain scenery. The quake resulted in massive infrastructure damage in Kathmandu and the surrounding rural areas. Entire...
Read MoreThe following is a AAAS EurekAlert public release: Among soft-bodied cephalopods, vampire squid live life at a slower pace. At ocean depths from 500 to 3,000 meters, they don’t swim so much as float, and they get by with little oxygen while consuming a low-calorie diet of zooplankton and detritus. Now, researchers reporting in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on April 20 have found that vampire squid differ from all other...
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