Combined stressors could impair soils’ ability to cycle nutrients and trap carbon — ScienceDaily

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Soils are home to diverse microbial communities that cycle nutrients, support agriculture, and trap carbon — an important service for climate mitigation. Globally, around 80% of Earth’s terrestrial carbon stores are found in soils. Due to climate warming and other human activities that affect soil microorganisms, this important carbon sink […]

Seasonal bottlenecks in available food determined overall limit on population size — ScienceDaily

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Short expanding seasons confined the feasible size of hunter-gatherer societies by forcing folks to depend on meat, according to a current study by a workforce of intercontinental reseachers which includes McGill University professor Eric Galbraith. After looking at populace size for the around 300 hunter-gatherer societies which existed until very […]

Blood plasma protein fibrinogen interacts directly with nerve cells to cause brain inflammation — ScienceDaily

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Neuroinflammatory ailments, together with Alzheimer’s sickness and traumatic mind injuries, have been linked to deposits of a rough protein acknowledged as fibrin, derived from the blood clotting aspect fibrinogen. These mesh-like fibrin deposits take place outdoors blood vessels in the brain, contributing to the death of specific central nervous program […]