Fish make hanging motionless in the water column look effortless, and scientists had long assumed that this meant that it was a type of rest. Now, a new study reveals that fish use nearly twice as much energy when hovering ...
Plants & Animals
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What new methods can be developed in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI)? This is what a recent white paper submitted to the 2025 NASA Decadal Astrobiology Research and Exploration Strategy (DARES) Request ...
Astronomy
Jul 7, 2025
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New findings by researchers at the University of Montpellier, the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, and the German Primate Center in Göttingen resolve why male-female power asymmetries vary across ...
Evolution
Jul 7, 2025
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A Smithsonian-led team of researchers have discovered North America's oldest known pterosaur, the winged reptiles that lived alongside dinosaurs and were the first vertebrates to evolve powered flight.
Paleontology & Fossils
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Researchers have found clouds of cold gas embedded deep within larger, superheated gas clouds—or Fermi bubbles—at the Milky Way's center. The finding challenges current models of Fermi bubble formation and reveals that ...
Astronomy
Jul 7, 2025
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Despite its name, the young adult genre is increasingly dominated by stories about older teens and even adults. But as protagonists get older, younger readers are getting left behind, a University of Mississippi study indicates.
Education
Jul 7, 2025
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Youth volunteering encourages young men from politically disengaged homes to vote for the first time by raising their interest in civic life, new analysis shows.
Social Sciences
Jul 7, 2025
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Researchers from the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw and the University of British Columbia have described how a so-called lone spinon—an exotic quantum excitation that is a single unpaired spin—can arise ...
Condensed Matter
Jul 7, 2025
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Using a combination of telescopes, astronomers have characterized the closest supernova linked to a fast X-ray transient. The observations reveal that these bright blasts of X-rays may be the result of a "failed" explosive ...
Astronomy
Jul 7, 2025
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Many women scientists are staying silent online—and it could be costing them professionally. A new University of Michigan study finds that women are about 28% less likely than men to promote their scientific papers on X ...
Social Sciences
Jul 7, 2025
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