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HumanitiesNobody wore a ridged rubber forehead, or painted their skin Pandora blue. If there were craggy beards and long locks, these seemed more homage to 1960s counterculture than to “Game of Thrones.”
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Discovery of Wound-Healing Genes in Flies Could Mitigate Human Skin Ailments
Science & EnvironmentBiologists at UC San Diego have identified eight genes never before suspected to play a role in wound healing that are called into action near the areas where wounds occur.
Unique Chemistry Reveals Eruption of Ancient Materials Once at Earth’s Surface
Science & EnvironmentAn international team of researchers, including Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, geochemist James Day, has found new evidence that material contained in oceanic lava flows originated in Earth’s ancient Archean crust.
As CO2 Reaches Symbolic Milestone, Scripps Launches Daily Keeling Curve Update
Science & EnvironmentFor the first time in human history, concentrations of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2 ) could rise above 400 parts per million (ppm) for sustained lengths of time throughout much of the Northern Hemisphere as soon as May 2013.
The Asian Monsoon is Getting Predictable
Science & EnvironmentFor much of Asia, the pace of life is tuned to rhythms of monsoons. The summer rainy season is especially important for securing the water and food supplies for more than a billion people. Its variations can mean the difference between drought and flood.
Gone, But Not Forgotten
Health & BehaviorAn international team of neuroscientists has described for the first time in exhaustive detail the underlying neurobiology of an amnesiac who suffered from profound memory loss after damage to key portions of his brain.
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