Roughly 140 million to 100 million years ago, the piece of land that is modern day Australia was located much further south on Earth. In fact, what is now Victoria was once within the polar circle, up to 80 degrees south ...
Ecology
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More than 130 cardinals entered the Sistine Chapel on May 7, 2025. With the announcement "Extra omnes"—"all out"—the doors were closed and the cardinals sequestered to elect the next leader of the Catholic Church. They will ...
Social Sciences
May 8, 2025
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My new research suggests there is a stubborn pattern in academic publishing. My co-author and I examined some 8,000 articles published in the world's most reputable economics journals to study citations, which are where academics ...
Other
May 8, 2025
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Nearly one out of five women and one out of seven men aged 20 and older globally faced sexual violence as a child, according to a study published in The Lancet.
Social Sciences
May 8, 2025
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A battle is underway against an invasive mosquito behind a recent surge in the local spread of dengue fever in Southern California—and officials may have unlocked a powerful tool to help win the day.
Ecology
May 8, 2025
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Researchers are zeroing in on the Achilles' heel of pathogens that cause Chagas disease, sleeping sickness and leishmaniasis.
Cell & Microbiology
May 8, 2025
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Analyzing the gene activity of every single bacterial cell in a colony? A new technique from Würzburg can do this much more efficiently than other methods.
Cell & Microbiology
May 8, 2025
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The rules about magnetic order may need to be rewritten. Researchers have discovered that chromium selenide (Cr2Se3)—traditionally non-magnetic in bulk form—transforms into a magnetic material when reduced to atomically thin ...
Condensed Matter
May 8, 2025
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The University of Bayreuth's Biomaterials research group has, for the first time, successfully applied the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing tool to spiders. Following the genetic modification, the spiders produced red fluorescent ...
Biotechnology
May 8, 2025
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Arianna Gleason is an award-winning scientist at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory who studies matter in its most extreme forms—from roiling magma in the center of our planet to the conditions ...
Plasma Physics
May 8, 2025
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