When severe heat waves, droughts, and other weather-related disasters strike, age and education shape who migrates and who stays put, according to a study in Nature Communications.
Environment
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When a baby babbles and their parents respond, these back-and-forth exchanges are more than adorable-if-incoherent chatter—they help to build a baby's emerging language skills.
Plants & Animals
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The textile and meat-processing industries produce billions of tons of waste annually in the form of feathers, wool and hair, all of which are rich in keratin—the strong, fibrous protein found in hair, skin and nails.
Biochemistry
Sep 4, 2025
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Burning, blisters, pain: More than 40 million people worldwide are infected with the herpes virus every year. The virus can pose a serious threat to newborns and people with weakened immune systems. Researchers in Hamburg ...
Bio & Medicine
Sep 4, 2025
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When we think of pollinating insects, bees, butterflies, or flies usually come to mind—but rarely true bugs. Yet it seems that in the past, they also played an important role in plant pollination. A Hungarian research group ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Sep 4, 2025
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The ability to detect vocal sounds, and the more specialized skill of recognizing calls from one's own species, is supported by evolutionarily ancient brain mechanisms, according to a new study from the ELTE Department of ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 4, 2025
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Carlotta Rigotti, postdoctoral researcher at eLaw—Center for Law and Digital Technologies, has published a new article, "Desire in Code: Legal Perspectives on Sex Robots and Consent," in Law, Culture and the Humanities.
Social Sciences
Sep 4, 2025
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Hungarian ethologists have developed the first diagnostic system capable of screening family dogs with suspected ADHD, following the diagnostic principles of human ADHD (Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder).
Plants & Animals
Sep 4, 2025
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Most well-studied proteins are folded, meaning they have a defined three-dimensional shape that helps determine each protein's specific function. But as the tools of science have improved, so has the understanding that many ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Sep 4, 2025
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It doesn't take an expert photographer to know that the steadier the camera, the sharper the shot. But that conventional wisdom isn't always true, according to new research led by Brown University engineers.
Optics & Photonics
Sep 4, 2025
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