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Colorectal Cancer Rates Rise Sharply in Younger US Adults

Colorectal cancer rates are on the rise among millennials and Gen Xers in the U.S., a new study finds. The findings come as rates of these cancers have continued to decline in adults ages 55 and up, according to the study. People in the U.S. born in 1990 now have double the risk of colon…

Researchers Have Found a Way to Delay Aging

FOCUSING ON THE CELL’S POWER HOUSE More and more, scientists are becoming convinced that aging is a disease that can be stopped or, at least, slowed. Recently, researchers from Russia and Sweden investigated this idea further in a joint study by Lomonosov Moscow State University and Stockholm University. Their study, published in the journal Aging, focuses on the…

Congress May Shift Climate Research Away from NASA

Lawmakers are remaking NASA in order to leave parts of the agency’s earth science program untouched but remove its climate change research. It’s still unclear exactly how lawmakers plan to transform NASA’s mission, but Republicans and Trump administration officials have said they want the agency to focus on deep-space missions and away from climate change…

Woolly mammoth on verge of resurrection, scientists reveal

The woolly mammoth vanished from the Earth 4,000 years ago, but now scientists say they are on the brink of resurrecting the ancient beast in a revised form, through an ambitious feat of genetic engineering. Speaking ahead of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting in Boston this week, the scientist…

NASA launched an unprecedented study of Greenland’s melting. Now, the data are coming in

In 2015, in a moment of science communication genius, NASA created a mission called “OMG.” The acronym basically ensured that a new scientific mission — measuring how quickly the Oceans are Melting Greenland — would get maximum press attention. The subject is actually extremely serious. OMG amounts to a comprehensive attempt, using ships, planes, and other…

Coastal Everglades, deprived of fresh water, near unhealthy ‘tipping point’

At the bottom of the Everglades along the mouth of the Shark River, a towering mangrove forest stands in a place few people outside anglers and researchers ever see: at the edge of a vast shallow bay where the salty sea and freshwater marshes conspired to erect a cathedral of trees. In the current fight…

World’s most endangered marine mammal down to 30 individuals

The vaquita, a small porpoise found only in Mexico’s Gulf of California, now faces extinction, scientists say in a report published today. Only about 30 individuals remain, according to an acoustic survey that counted the animals’ clicking noises last summer. The report dashes hopes that naval patrols and Mexico’s emergency gillnet ban, authorized in May…

Ancient, scary and alien-looking specimen forms a rarity in the insect world — a new order

Researchers at Oregon State University have discovered a 100-million-year-old insect preserved in amber with a triangular head, almost-alien and "E.T.-like" appearance and features so unusual that it has been placed in its own scientific "order" -- an incredibly rare event. There are about 1 million described species of insects, and millions more still to be…

Genetic study identifies fourteen new developmental disorders in children

The largest ever genetic study of children with previously undiagnosed rare developmental disorders has discovered 14 new developmental disorders. Published today in Nature, the research led by scientists at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute also provided diagnoses of rare conditions for over a thousand children and their families. These diagnoses allow families with the same…

Understanding the Link Between Climate Change and Extreme Weather

Changes in Extreme Weather and Climate Events Scientists study many aspects of change in extreme weather and climate events. These include: Frequency: Are events occurring more often than they did in the past? Intensity: Are events getting more severe, with the potential for more damaging effects? Duration: Are events lasting longer than "the norm"? Timing: Are events occurring earlier…

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Colorectal Cancer Rates Rise Sharply in Younger US Adults

Researchers Have Found a Way to Delay Aging

Congress May Shift Climate Research Away from NASA

Woolly mammoth on verge of resurrection, scientists reveal

NASA launched an unprecedented study of Greenland’s melting. Now, the data are coming in

Coastal Everglades, deprived of fresh water, near unhealthy ‘tipping point’

World’s most endangered marine mammal down to 30 individuals

Ancient, scary and alien-looking specimen forms a rarity in the insect world — a new order

Genetic study identifies fourteen new developmental disorders in children

Understanding the Link Between Climate Change and Extreme Weather

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