Quantitatively reconstructing temperature changes is vital to understand the history and law of the Earth's climate system.
Earth Sciences
Sep 10, 2021
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An international research team with participation of the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI has deciphered why the protective cover of the brachiopod Discinisca tenuis becomes extremely soft in water and gets hard again in the air. ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 10, 2021
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A team of researchers from Australia, Canada and the U.S. has found that female octopuses sometimes throw silt at males who are attempting to mate with them. The group has written a paper describing their observations and ...
POSTECH and a group of researchers developed a technology that dramatically improves the performance of plasmonic photocatalysts using 'core@shell' nanocrystals with atomically conformal metal laminations.
Nanomaterials
Aug 19, 2021
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A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in China and Canada has identified a turtle egg fossil from the Cretaceous period that contains an embryo. In their paper published in Proceedings of the Royal Society ...
University of Utah paleontologists David Peterman and Kathleen Ritterbush know that it's one thing to use math and physics to understand how ancient marine creatures moved through the water. It's another thing to actually ...
Evolution
Jul 16, 2021
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University of Maryland researchers created the first high-resolution image of an expanding bubble of hot plasma and ionized gas where stars are born. Previous low-resolution images did not clearly show the bubble or reveal ...
Astronomy
Jun 23, 2021
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Land snails are usually preserved as fossilized snail shells or imprints, while preservation of their soft bodies is a rarity. "Our new amber find is truly remarkable for this reason as well," explains Dr. Adrienne Jochum ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Jun 8, 2021
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In the Kumano Sea, off the southeast coast of Japan, an evolutionary mystery lays in wait. Researchers have collected samples from the muddy sea floor, including hermit crabs, mollusks and discarded shells. Here, in and on ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 7, 2021
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The first of the gas-giant orbiter's back-to-back flybys will provide a close encounter with the massive moon after over 20 years.
Space Exploration
Jun 4, 2021
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