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Sleep is one of the richest topics in science today: why we need it, why it can be hard to get, and how that affects everything from our athletic performance to our income. Daniel Kripke, co-director of research at the Scripps Clinic Sleep Center in La Jolla, Calif., has...
The worrying question is whether it will ever stop. A major, prolonged drought, combined with rapid population growth in nearby urban areas like Las Vegas, has stressed Lake Mead and the rest of the Colorado River Basin, which provides water to farmers and cities from Colorado to Southern California. Now...
The practical effects of climate change are notoriously difficult to predict on the regional level, and many experts criticize the Scripps study for failing to take into account improved water-management policies that could keep the lake wet well into the future. But it is as clear as those chalky...
So, how come there were massive glaciers in Antarctica at the time? Paleo-climate experts have seen hints of this oddity before, but the new Science paper nails it down much more firmly. Andre Bornemann, of the Scripps Institute of Oceanography, along with several colleagues, got their information by analyzing...
Last week, Harvard announced the newest crop of seniors to be inducted into Phi Beta Kappa...and the rest of the student body felt wildly inadequate. But, perhaps this painful reminder that as smart as we may be, there is always someone who is smarter should not be taken too...