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Great Basin caves tell a story linking climate change to a “worst-case scenario” with potential impact on 56 million Western water users.
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Climate change and overuse are causing one of the Colorado River’s biggest reservoirs, Lake Powell, to drop. While water managers worry about scarcity issues, two Utah river rafters are documenting the changes that come as the massive reservoir hits historic low points.
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The deadly coronavirus adds new uncertainties, while a growing body of research shows significant and enduring health risks from wildfire smoke.
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Female mosquitoes searching for a meal of blood detect people partly by using a special olfactory receptor to home in on our sweat. The finding could lead to new approaches for better repellents.
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Fresh water quenches thirst almost instantly, but salt water doesn't. New research shows how cells in the gut and on the tongue help the brain keep just the right concentration of salt in our bodies.
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The expectation of receiving pain can lead to feeling pain, according to a new brain imaging study from the University of Colorado Boulder.Researchers…
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If you own mineral rights to a piece of private property and an important dinosaur fossil is discovered there, do you own the fossil? A federal district...
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There's a common stereotype that scientists aren't funny -- they're smart, anti-social, maybe a little odd, but definitely not funny."I'm a professor,…
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A toxic algae bloom is killing fish, turtles and dolphins and discouraging tourists from visiting Florida's Gulf Coast. It's not the first such event, but it is especially intense.
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A diverse team of scientists led by Colorado State University will be on an aircraft conducting smoke observation flights in Boise, Idaho.The project,…