The Third Pole‚ which spans the Tibetan Plateau and the surrounding Himalayas‚ Hindu Kush‚ and Tianshan Mountain ranges‚ is extremely vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Warming temperatures and altered rainfall patterns have caused more than 10‚000 glaciers in the region to retreat over the past three decades‚ facilitating the formation of thousands of glacial lakes.

Human sex chromosomes originated from a pair of autosomes‚ the ordinary or non-sex chromosomes that contain the majority of our genome and come in identical pairs. That ancestral pair of autosomes diverged to become two different chromosomes‚ X and Y. Even though X and Y have grown apart from each other and taken on unique functions—namely‚ determining sex and driving sex differences in males and females—they also retain shared functions inherited from their common ancestor.

Research appearing in ACS Nano reveals the ballistic movement of electrons in graphene in real-time.

The word "virus" is often associated with negative connotations. However‚ it is important to note that not all viruses are harmful. In fact‚ there are many viruses that live inside our bodies and play important roles in our health. One example is bacteriophages‚ viruses that infect bacteria and can be used to keep bacterial infections under control.

In their rapid characterization of the magnitude 6.8 Al Haouz earthquake in Morocco‚ researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey's National Earthquake Information Center (NEIC) suggest that the earthquake ruptured roughly 25 kilometers deep beneath the surface.

It has long been known that exposure to pesticide sprays is harmful to honey bees. In a new study‚ researchers have uncovered the effect of such sprays on the sense of smell in bees‚ which could disrupt their social signals.

Soybeans can pollinate themselves‚ but a new study by UMD researchers shows that pollen from multiple plants can greatly increase their yields. What's more‚ the addition of a strip of wildflowers near rows of soybeans amplifies the effect. The information could help farmers of one of Maryland's top commodities increase the production and marketability of their crops.

When two lead ions collide at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)‚ they produce an extremely hot and dense state of matter in which quarks and gluons are not confined inside composite particles called hadrons. This fireball of particles—known as quark–gluon plasma and believed to have filled the universe in the first few millionths of a second after the Big Bang—expands and cools down rapidly. The quarks and gluons then transform back into hadrons‚ which fly out of the collision zone towards particle detectors.

The word "drought" typically conjures images of parched soil‚ dust-swept prairies‚ depleted reservoirs‚ and dry creek beds‚ all the result of weeks or seasons of persistently dry atmospheric conditions.

When Santa's exhausted reindeer finally set down their sleigh in the deep snow of the North Pole early Christmas morning‚ it's not Rudolph's radiant red nose that will help them find sustenance in the barren landscape.