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Evolution May 10, 2024

Genetic study of cauliflower reveals its evolutionary history

A team of plant-breeding specialists at Tianjin Academy of Agricultural Science's State Key Laboratory of Vegetable Biobreeding and other institutions has, via genetic analysis, revealed some of the changes that cauliflower ...

Plants & Animals May 10, 2024

Elephants use gestures and vocal cues when greeting each other, study reports

A team of animal behaviorists from the University of Vienna, the University of Portsmouth, Elephant CREW, Jafuta Reserve and the University of St Andrews has found that elephants use gestures and vocal cues when they greet ...

Superconductivity May 9, 2024

Quantum breakthrough sheds light on perplexing high-temperature superconductors

Superfast levitating trains, long-range lossless power transmission, faster MRI machines—all these fantastical technological advances could be in our grasp if we could just make a material that transmits electricity without ...

Evolution May 9, 2024

Likely ancestor of all modern hoofed animals identified

A team of anthropologists, paleontologists and Earth scientists from Kent State University, the City University of New York and the University of Michigan's Museum of Paleontology has for the first time identified the likely ...

Astronomy May 9, 2024

Research investigates the environment of globular cluster NGC 6355

Using the Dark Energy Camera (DECam), Argentinian astronomers have investigated the environment of a galactic globular cluster known as NGC 6355. The study, presented in a paper published May 2 on the pre-print server arXiv, ...

Biotechnology May 9, 2024

AlphaFold 3 upgrade enables the prediction of other types of biomolecular systems

A combined team of medical researchers and AI systems specialists from Google's Deep Mind project and Isomorphic Labs, both in London, has made what the group describes as substantial improvements to AlphaFold 2 that make ...

Astronomy May 8, 2024

Webb presents best evidence to date for rocky exoplanet atmosphere

Researchers using NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope may have detected an atmosphere surrounding 55 Cancri e, a rocky exoplanet 41 light-years from Earth. This is the best evidence to date for a rocky planet atmosphere ...

Earth Sciences May 8, 2024

Computer models suggest modern plate tectonics are due to blobs left behind by cosmic collision

A small team of geologists and seismologists at the California Institute of Technology has found evidence via computer modeling that suggest giant blobs of material near the Earth's core, believed to have been created by ...

Astronomy May 8, 2024

Astronomers explore globular cluster NGC 2419

Using the Indian Astronomical Observatory (IAO) and ESA's Gaia satellite, astronomers have explored a galactic globular cluster known as NGC 2419. Results of the study, published April 29 on the preprint server arXiv, shed ...

Earth Sciences May 7, 2024

Computer models show heat waves in north Pacific may be due to China reducing aerosols

A team of oceanographers and planetary scientists at the Ocean University of China, working with a pair of colleagues from the U.S. and one in Germany, has found via computer modeling, that recent heat waves in the north ...

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