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Social Sciences 4 hours ago

The big lesson from past pandemics? Avoid panic buying, says new research

COVID-19 upended almost every aspect of daily life, including consumer and retailer behavior. However, it was not the first pandemic that changed how we shop.

Astronomy 7 hours ago

A triumph of galaxies in three new images from the VLT Survey Telescope

Distant galaxies, interacting galaxies, whose shape has been forged by the mutual gravitational influence, but also galaxies forming groups and clusters, kept together by gravity—they are the protagonists of three new images ...

Plants & Animals 7 hours ago

Grizzlies are returning to Washington's North Cascades. How will that work?

Among the jagged peaks of the North Cascades, lush alpine meadows rich with berries and wildflowers blanket valleys carved by glaciers, some threaded with trickling creeks.

Ecology 7 hours ago

How a filmmaker, a pile of old shells and a bunch of amateurs are bringing Australia's oyster reefs back

Around Australia, hundreds of people are coming together to help a once-prized, but decimated and largely forgotten marine ecosystem. They're busy restoring Australia's native oyster and mussel reefs.

Molecular & Computational biology May 6, 2024

Research team develops fast-track process for genetic improvement of plant traits

Researchers interested in improving a given trait in plants can now identify the genes that regulate the trait's expression without doing any experiments.

Biochemistry May 6, 2024

Geologists, biologists unearth the atomic fingerprints of cancer

Scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder and Princeton University have, for the first time, employed a tool often used in geology to detect the atomic fingerprints of cancer.

Ecology May 6, 2024

How technology is revolutionizing insect research

Recent fears of major declines among insects have sent researchers scrambling for data on how they are actually doing.

Environment May 6, 2024

'Everywhere we looked, we found evidence': Microplastics expert on 20 years of pollution research

Thirty years ago, while counting barnacles, limpets and seaweeds along rocky shores, I started noticing a daily tide of litter, mostly plastic. As a marine biology Ph.D. student at Liverpool University, I kept removing it, ...

Plants & Animals May 6, 2024

Collecting live snakes in remote Amazon regions for study is no easy task—here's how we do it

Brazil records an average of 29,000 snakebites a year, leading to around 130 deaths. And it is in the Amazon that the greatest number of cases occur. This region is home to 38 of the 75 species of venomous snakes recorded ...

Molecular & Computational biology May 6, 2024

Two facilities team up for structural biology advances with X-ray free-electron lasers and exascale computing

Plans to unite the capabilities of two cutting-edge technological facilities promise to usher in a new era of dynamic structural biology. Through DOE's Integrated Research Infrastructure, or IRI, initiative, the facilities ...

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