Stephanie Dutkiewicz, a scientist in MIT's Center for Global Change Science, built a climate model that projects changes to the oceans throughout the century.
Spending hours going through the images taken since 2002, he and his colleagues found light variations that suggested v1309 was originally a contact binary star.
By calculating the relative change ratio of the cultivated land, the author analyzes the difference of the cultivated land changes in the different sections of Zhangye Oasis.
The orientation will involve a one-week lecture series aimed at giving undergraduate students a detailed overview of all research areas within the BER global change activities.
The notion is that people have failed to detect the massive changes which have happened in the ocean because they have been looking back only a relatively short time into the past.
Sturm and her colleagues assessed how embarrassing this was for the participants based on facial expressions and physiological markers, such as sweating and heart rate.
Studies of animals, for example, have shown that when a rat experiences stress during pregnancy, it can cause epigenetic changes in a fetus that lead to behavioral problems as the rodent grows up.