What’s hot in science? Research news for the day of August 25, 2021

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Study reveals threshold of reserves necessary for trees to survive insect defoliation.

Wed, 25 Aug 2021
For trees, carbs are key to surviving insect defoliation

Study reveals threshold of reserves necessary for trees to survive

A recent multi-year outbreak of an invasive moth killed thousands of acres of oak trees across southern New England but interspersed among the wreckage were thousands of trees that survived. A

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Space weather modeling framework simulation of the September 10, 2014, coronal mass ejection

Wed, 25 Aug 2021
Protecting Earth from space storms

Researchers use supercomputer to improve space weather forecasting system

“There are only two natural disasters that could impact the entire U.S.,” according to scientist Gabor Toth of the University of Michigan. “One is a pandemic, and the other is an extreme space weather event.”

The U.S. is currently seeing the effects of the first in

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