Imagine a whirlpool spinning in a river, or a tornado swirling through the sky. They don't just spin on the spot: they travel forward while maintaining that spiraling motion inside them. These twisting motions, called vortices, ...
Optics & Photonics
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Oak gall wasps and their predators don't have the panache of butterflies, but they're attracting growing interest among both scientists and naturalists.
Plants & Animals
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Does the decision to leave the country unite or divide migrant families? A study by Polish researchers shows how parents and their adult children jointly build narratives about their lives in Germany—sometimes harmoniously, ...
Social Sciences
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The tongue contains numerous taste buds—tiny sensory organs responsible for detecting taste. Taste buds consist of specialized cells that translate chemical stimuli into neural signals. Among them, type II cells, which respond ...
Cell & Microbiology
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A new study published in JMIR Serious Games reveals that playing the open-world video game The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and watching Studio Ghibli films can significantly improve young people's overall happiness ...
Social Sciences
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Reading a Grimm fairy tale like "Hansel and Gretel" or "Little Red Riding Hood" may mitigate the negative effects of browsing the internet by creating resilience and brightening one's outlook on life, according to a new study ...
Social Sciences
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Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, a team led by the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has identified a previously unknown moon orbiting Uranus, expanding the planet's known satellite family to 29. The detection was ...
Planetary Sciences
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In 1770, after Captain Cook's Endeavor struck the Great Barrier Reef and was held up for repairs, botanists Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander collected hundreds of plants.
Ecology
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Every summer, forest fires sweep across Spain, dominating headlines and leaving a trail of destruction in their wake. This year's have been especially harsh, with devastating fires thus far in Tarifa, Zamora, the Madrid area, ...
Environment
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In 1917, Sigmund Freud described three "narcissistic insults" that had been caused by science. These were moments of scientific breakthrough that showed humans that we are not as special as we once believed.
Social Sciences
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