Neha is a freelance science writer based in Hong Kong who has a passion for sharing science with everyone. She writes about biology, conservation, and sustainable living. She has worked in a cancer research lab and facilitated science learning among elementary school children through fun, hands-on experiments. Visit her blog Life Science Exploration to read more of her intriguing posts on unusual creatures and our shared habitat. Follow Neha on Twitter @lifesciexplore.
Humidity and Respiratory Virus Transmission
Virus studies suggest that humidity levels may influence how easily respiratory viral infections spread. By Neha Jain As the novel ...
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Impact of Air Conditioning on Climate and Disease
By Neha Jain @lifesciexplore Climate change is making summers in many countries much hotter than they were several decades ago ...
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Washing clothes in short, cool cycles is better
By Neha Jain @lifesciexplore If you’ve been concerned about the impact of laundering on the environment, researchers have advice for ...
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Intense Lawn Mowing Lowers Biodiversity, Favors Pests
By Neha Jain @lifesciexplore Looks can be deceiving: a uniformly well-mowed lawn might look good, but ecologically, it is not ...
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Disco Clam, Colorful Mystery
By Neha Jain (@lifesciexplore) Dazzling bright-red tentacles first lured Lindsey Dougherty to the study of disco clams, which are found ...
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Marine Mammals Need a Voice in the Fishing Industry
By Neha Jain (@lifesciexplore) You might feel satisfied with your consumer choice after buying fish with a “dolphin-friendly” label. But ...
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Plastic Waste Necessitates Policies for Producers
By Neha Jain (@lifesciexplore) This article is part of a series about key science policy issues. Please use these articles ...
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Curing “Plant Blindness” with Botanical Gardens and Farms
By Neha Jain (@lifesciexplore) What was the last plant you saw? Have you ever seen a grain of wheat? How ...
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The US Needs a Federal Ban on Marine Plastic Pollution
By Neha Jain (@lifesciexplore) Plastics may be convenient and cheap, but they are littering every part of the Earth, even ...
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Forest Restoration, Not Plantations, Will Curb Warming
By Neha Jain (@lifesciexplore) Forests are our best natural weapon against climate change. By sucking up large amounts of carbon ...
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Fire Management in California’s Chaparral Harms Birds
By Neha Jain @lifesciexplore California suffered its largest and most destructive wildfires in 2017. Victims included hundreds of wild animals ...
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Honeybees Are Attracted to Fungicides and Herbicides
By Neha Jain @lifesciexplore Whenever you eat fruits, vegetables, and nuts, take a moment to thank honeybees for their pollination ...
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California’s Urban Forests Have Lowest Tree Cover per Resident
By Neha Jain @lifesciexplore California’s urban forests are not just a pretty sight; they are an asset valued at a ...
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Citizen Science Promotes Environmental Engagement
By Neha Jain @lifesciexplore Citizen science projects are rapidly gaining popularity among the public, in which volunteers help gather data ...
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Artificial Night-Lights Are Growing, Getting Brighter
By Neha Jain @lifesciexplore As soon as it gets dark, street lights, which have become widespread in the developed world—and ...
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New Ways to Reduce Antibiotics in Food Animals by 2030
By Neha Jain @lifesciexplore In a new study, researchers in the United States and Europe propose three measures—capping antibiotic use ...
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Ocean Floor Warming Affects Antarctic Seabed Life
By Neha Jain @lifesciexplore A rise in ocean temperatures by 1°C may not seem like a lot. But researchers were ...
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Coral Gardening Effectively Restores Staghorn Corals
By Neha Jain @lifesciexplore Staghorn corals (Acropora cervicornis)—a threatened species that resembles deer antlers—are effectively restored by coral gardening, a ...
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Wood Ants Make Defensive Cocktails Against Microbes
By Neha Jain @lifesciexplore Wood ants are natural mixologists, concocting their own defensive cocktails, a new study finds. They protect ...
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Nuisance Flooding May Cost More Than Extreme Storms
By Neha Jain @lifesciexplore Climate change affects us in many ways, particularly those of us living near the coasts, who ...
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Reusable Lab on a Chip Costs One Cent
By Neha Jain @lifesciexplore Scientists have developed a reusable lab on a chip (LOC) that can be printed using an ...
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Frequent Rainstorms Predicted with Climate Change
By Neha Jain @lifesciexplore If you live in California, you might recall the powerful winter rainstorm of 2014, dubbed the ...
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Plant Bacteria Thrive in Wet Weather
By Neha Jain @lifesciexplore Plants need water to grow. But too much water isn’t good for them either. Scientists have ...
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Seized Ivory Traced to Recently Slaughtered Elephants
By Neha Jain @lifesciexplore Finished ivory ornaments and jewelry may look beautiful, but the ivory trade is a gory business ...
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Amazonian Frog Uses Mimicry to Ward Off Ants
By Neha Jain @lifesciexplore More than a thousand species of frogs live in the warm and humid Amazonian forest. Some ...
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Mosquito Saliva Protein Fights Dengue Transmission
By Neha Jain @lifesciexplore Dengue, along with other viral diseases such as Chikungunya and Zika, is transmitted through the virus-infected ...
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Water Weeds May Clean Up Oil Spills
By Neha Jain @lifesciexplore Oil—we use it every day, whether to power our cars or to heat our homes. Our ...
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Robust Rice Varieties Cut Costs and Pollution
By Neha Jain @lifesciexplore Climate change coupled with our growing population is putting tremendous pressure on world food production, especially ...
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Tracking Climate Change Through Hibernating Toads
By Neha Jain @lifesciexplore Have you ever wondered how animals are coping with warming temperatures? Our warming planet affects the ...
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Solar-Powered Oxygen Saves Lives in Africa
By Neha Jain @lifesciexplore If you’ve ever stayed in a hospital, you might remember the oxygen delivery system mounted on ...
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Chickens Use Color Vision to Find Food, Pick Mates
By Neha Jain @lifesciexplore Have you ever wondered how animals see the world? Do they see the same colors we do? ...
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Ancient Crops Reveal Asian Colonization of Madagascar
By Neha Jain @lifesciexplore For decades, the colonization of Madagascar has been one of the most puzzling mysteries of human history ...
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Recycled Smartphones Hunt Down Illegal Loggers
By Neha Jain @lifesciexplore In the summer of 2011 Topher White, founder of Rainforest Connection, a nongovernmental organization (NGO), visited ...
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Soil Carbon Unstable After Clear-Cutting
By Neha Jain @lifesciexplore We’ve all heard that clear-cutting forests has many adverse effects on the environment. But humans have ...
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Hungry Baby Bees More Resilient to Starvation as Adults
By Neha Jain @lifesciexplore When was the last time you ate an apple? We rarely think about how fruits develop; ...
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Land Carbon Released During Last Deglaciation Period
By Neha Jain @lifesciexplore During the ice ages, ice sheets covered large parts of the Earth, unlike today, when ice ...
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Fecal Fungi May Lead to Cheaper Biofuel
By Neha Jain @lifesciexplore Fecal Fungi May Lead to Cheaper Biofuel Manure may be a good fertilizer, but there’s more ...
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Algal Toxins Found in Alaskan Marine Mammals
By Neha Jain @lifesciexplore Harmful algal blooms produce toxins that can be deadly to marine mammals. In the US, such ...
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More Exercise Doesn’t Always Burn More Calories
By Neha Jain @lifesciexplore Are you hoping to shed some weight this year? You may need to plan your exercise ...
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Strengthening the Endangered Species Act
By Neha Jain @lifesciexplore Have you ever heard of the Ōlulu plant? What about the vernal pool tadpole shrimp or ...
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Hotspots of Bat-Human Virus Transmission
By Neha Jain @lifesciexplore Since the turn of the century, we’ve already been gripped by three major outbreaks of new diseases—SARS ...
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Environmental Contaminants Add to Antibiotic Resistance
By Neha Jain @lifesciexplore Environmental Contaminants and Antibiotic Resistance Are you concerned about the overuse and misuse of antibiotics causing ...
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Greenland Ice Sheets Losing Ability to Absorb Meltwater
By Neha Jain Greenland Ice Sheets Losing Ability to Absorb Meltwater Sea-rise levels caused by a warmer Earth may be ...
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