ENVIRONMENT & CLIMATE

The Imminent Collapse of the “Doomsday Glacier”

A glacier the size of Florida is on track to change the course of human civilization. Thwaites glacier in West Antarctica are enormous in size and often referred to as the most dangerous glacier on Earth.

A bald gene find­ing

Hairlessness in dogs can be the result of deliberate breeding or, in certain breeds, a defect. A recent study completed at the University of Helsinki describes a gene variant in the SGK3 gene, which causes hairlessness in Scottish Deerhounds.

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