The world's very first invention of writing took place over 5000 years ago in the Middle East, before it was reinvented in China and Central America. Today, almost all human activities—from education to political systems ...
Archaeology
Jan 10, 2022
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Interactive online platform uses satellite images to display status of European forests. The output is based on the greenness of trees. With the latest functionality, users can also view and download data for individual countries ...
Ecology
Dec 15, 2021
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Digital news subscriptions have doubled in the past four years, but half of those gains went to the New York Times and the Washington Post alone. To find out why, researchers at the Missouri School of Journalism explored ...
Social Sciences
Nov 11, 2021
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A first-of-its-kind, high-resolution mapping analysis estimates the amounts of nitrogen and pathogens released into coastal ecosystems from human wastewater sources around the world. Cascade Tuholske (now affiliated with ...
Environment
Nov 10, 2021
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New frontiers have opened in the world of preventing data breaches by using light of two different wavelengths—visible and infrared light. This is achieved by using a new material called a metasurface that makes extreme ...
Optics & Photonics
Nov 10, 2021
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Roughly one in every 1,000 individuals worldwide suffers from a ciliopathy. Symptoms include visual impairment, loss of hearing, obesity, kidney diseases, intellectual disabilities, and many other—in some cases serious—disorders, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 4, 2021
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Small islands in the Indian Ocean, the Caribbean or in the Pacific islands promise dream holidays and the fulfillment of bucket lists. And, for the islands themselves, tourism is a vital source of jobs, income and prosperity.
Economics & Business
Nov 3, 2021
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Nestled deep in the middle of the vertebrate brain is a multi-sensory integration and movement control center called the superior colliculus. In rodents, this brain region integrates multi-sensory inputs—visual cues, sounds, ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Oct 18, 2021
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Individual zebrafish (Danio rerio) exhibit predictable behavioral responses to certain visual stimuli that are sufficient to explain the collective behavior of the animals—even in their larval stage. Genetic mutations associated ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Oct 13, 2021
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Spending long periods in space not only leads to muscle atrophy and reductions in bone density, it also seems to have lasting effects on the brain. Neuroimaging studies (amongst others from this LMU team of researchers) has ...
Space Exploration
Oct 12, 2021
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