For The Better

A study explores effects of Saharan dust clouds on atmospheric methane. Its findings have potentially far-reaching implications for understanding the global methane budget and reasons behind the accelerating increase in atmospheric methane.

Researchers have discovered that the sentinels guarding the healthy human cornea from pathogens and inflammation are T cells, and not another type of immune cells called dendritic cells, as previously thought.

The study takes a new approach to answer a long-standing mystery about insulator-to-metal transitions.

Much of central Utah’s seismic activity comes in groups of small earthquakes. A study by seismologists examines 2,300 quakes occurring 40 ‘swarms’ dating back to 1981, opening a window into Earth’s crust in a geothermally active area.

An analysis of more than 202,000 heart attack deaths between 2015-2020 in a single Chinese province found that days that had extreme heat, extreme cold or high levels of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) air pollution were significantly associated with t…