Abrupt shifts in the evolution of animals—short periods of time when an organism rapidly changes size or form—have long been a challenge for theorists including Darwin. Now a newly published research paper supports the ...
Evolution
Mar 2, 2022
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A new study highlights neighborhood-level gun violence dynamics in Philadelphia during the COVID-19 pandemic, identifying statistical links between changes in shooting rates and levels of drug market and police activity. ...
Social Sciences
Feb 23, 2022
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An international team of scientists including Rutgers researchers has found that modern rates of sea level rise began emerging in 1863 as the Industrial Age intensified, coinciding with evidence for early ocean warming and ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 18, 2022
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New research released today finds that while the Knights of the Round Table have won global fame, most medieval English heroic or chivalric stories have been lost. Meanwhile, more than three quarters of medieval stories in ...
Archaeology
Feb 17, 2022
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This may sound counterintuitive, but reducing the number of animals in a population can help the remaining individuals to survive through the winter.
Plants & Animals
Feb 17, 2022
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A UPV/EHU study has for the first time determined the post-mortem interval of human skeletal remains using real samples, which has been made possible by the combination of two non-destructive analytical tools: Raman spectroscopy ...
Biotechnology
Jan 27, 2022
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Air pollutants that have previously escaped monitoring can now be detected through a new method developed at the University of East Anglia (UEA), promising a more complete picture for people and policy development.
Earth Sciences
Dec 7, 2021
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A pair of researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently published the results of a study that is the first to take a process-based modeling approach to understand how much CO2 rivers and streams contribute ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 6, 2021
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In 2021 so far, some 2467 new objects large enough to be tracked have been added to world catalogs of orbital objects, out of which 1493 are new satellites and the rest are debris. While new objects are added, others are ...
Space Exploration
Nov 19, 2021
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While Australian cricket fans celebrate their team's triumph at the 2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup, the tournament's results have sparked a debate over whether the team that bats second has a potentially match-winning advantage ...
Mathematics
Nov 17, 2021
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