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| Scientists: Extinctions Just as Damaging as Climate Change | A new paper in the prestigious science journal Nature assesses one of the big questions in ecology today: How do species extinctions rack up compared to other global change issues like global warming, ozone holes, acid rain, and nutrient pollution (overfertilization)? |
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| Could biodiversity loss rival impacts of climate change? | |||
| Vassdal-Ellis to present on art research May 3 | |||
| How language ties Siberians and Alaska Natives 3,000 miles apart | Spoken by only a few dozen people, a language uttered in river villages 3,000 miles from Alaska is related to Tlingit, Eyak and Athabaskan. This curious link has researchers wondering how people in the middle of Siberia are related to Alaskans and other North Americans -- and what it means to鈥 |
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| Who's to blame when robot warriors run amok? | As militaries develop autonomous robotic warriors to replace humans on the battlefield, new ethical questions emerge. If a robot in combat has a hardware malfunction or programming glitch that causes it to kill civilians, do we blame the robot, or the humans who created and deployed it?
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| Geologists find fault in optimism on alpine quake risk | Canterbury University earthquake researchers believe the latest study on the frequency of major Alpine Fault earthquakes is too optimistic. Scientists from GNS Science, Otago University's geology department, Western Washington University's geology department and Nevada鈥 |
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| Stimulus: Shot in the arm for UW science | Researchers in Washington state have received nearly $900 million since 2009 in federal stimulus funds. The money has bought innovation, as well as job creation. |
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| Our ancestors may have harnessed and used fire much earlier than we thought | The ability to harness and control fire was a crucial turning point in our human evolution; perhaps the crucial turning point in determining the type of humans we are today. We are unique among animals in that humans eat a diet rich in both cooked and 鈥渘onthermally processed鈥 food. Our鈥 |
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| Threat of quake in Southern Alps wanes | Earthquake-weary South Islanders finally have some good news 鈥 the Alpine Fault could still be 200 years away from generating its next quake of about magnitude 8.0. Scientists have found that the most active central and southern sections of the 650-kilometre-long fault appear to break on鈥 |
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| Grimm given research funding, has article published in 'Addiction Biology' |