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Opinion: To advance sustainable stewardship, we must document not only biodiversity but geodiversity
Key abiotic features and processes should be incorporated into policy documents.
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The advent of the approach has proven to be a boon for researchers, offering evidence of geophysical processes previously only theorized.
Image credit: Suzan van der Lee (Northwestern University, Evanston, IL).
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Researchers report a marine ammonite from the Cretaceous Period preserved in Burmese amber from Myanmar, and the rare specimen in amber warrants exploration of the possibly exceptional circumstances of its fossilization.
Image courtesy of Bo Wang.
Exposure to low humidity makes mice infected with influenza more susceptible to severe disease by impairing airway tissue repair and innate antiviral defense, suggesting that controlling humidity may help curb influenza during winter.
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A study suggests a potential biomarker, the metabotropic glutamatergic receptor 5, for intervention and suicide risk management in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Image courtesy of Margaret T. Davis and Irina Esterlis.
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Image courtesy of Simona Stella (Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA).
