A new study by Matthew Winnick and Jeremy Caves suggests that today’s ice sheets may be more resilient to increased carbon dioxide levels than previously thought.
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Google-bet: Facts About Microbes
Have you ever wondered what are microbes? Are they.… animals? Bacteria? Consumers? Thanks to Google, we know you have! We found the most commonly searched microbial questions, from A to Z, and put them to Rob DeSalle and Susan Perkins, curators of the Museum’s new exhibition about the human microbiome. With a tip of our hat to geologist Miles Traer at Stanford for the inspiration, here are their lightning-round answers to the internet’s burning questions about the wild world of microbes.
Research in action: On the ground during the Nepal earthquake
After 30 years in high-tech marketing and general management, Anne Sanquini began a second career as a PhD student at Stanford studying how to motivate people to take precautionary action to protect their homes and schools against earthquakes. Her work over the past four years led her to Kathmandu Valley in Nepal. She was there during the April 25 earthquake, the very quake she had been preparing for.