Why do some ancient animals become fossils while others disappear without a trace? A new study from the University of Lausanne, published in Nature Communications, reveals that part of the answer lies in the body itself. ...
Molecular & Computational biology
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In a new study, Dartmouth researchers trained an AI language-identification model inspired by Google Translate to recognize Navajo with near-perfect accuracy.
Social Sciences
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As urban development continues to creep further into Earth's oldest and most diverse rainforests, a Swansea University-led study reveals native and invasive small mammals aren't just adapting to their changing habitats—they ...
Ecology
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Marine habitats are facing unprecedented threats, with 66% of coastal areas already altered and degraded. Bottom-contact fisheries, which use indiscriminate trawling, physically damage almost 5 million square kilometers of ...
Ecology
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Increasing urban vegetation by 30% could have saved more than one-third of all heat-related deaths, saving up to 1.16 million lives globally from 2000 to 2019 according to a 20-year modeling study of the impact of increasing ...
Environment
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Imagine a natural fortress standing strong against raging storms. That's what mangroves and other forested wetlands do for our coastlines. But how well do they protect us, and against which storms?
Earth Sciences
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Between 252 and 66 million years ago, the ocean underwent a revolution. That's when plankton with calcium carbonate skeletons colonized the open ocean. When they died, their remains fell like snow over large parts of the ...
Earth Sciences
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What if there were a fabric that, like Superman, could take a bullet and self-heal? Such a super-dynamic, action-powered polymer might actually help protect real-life flyers in space.
Polymers
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By adding a sound-mediated way to control light to the toolkit of light-based chips, University of Twente researchers have pushed the boundaries of the technology. This opens up the possibility of making atomic clocks small ...
Optics & Photonics
May 1, 2025
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By analyzing the arrangement of vertebrae in the spines of nearly 400 species of tetrapods—a group of animals with four limbs, such as mammals, reptiles, and birds—RIKEN researchers have found some follow a predicted pattern, ...
Plants & Animals
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