Wise old elephants keep the young calm
Male elephants are more aggressive when fewer older males are present, new research suggests.
Plants & Animals
Dec 21, 2021
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Views of comet Leonard from two sun-watching spacecraft
When Comet Leonard, a mass of space dust, rock and ice about a half-mile (1 kilometer) wide, makes its closest pass of the Sun on Jan. 3, 2022, it will be a journey 40,000 years in the making. Ahead of its close pass, two ...
Space Exploration
Dec 21, 2021
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Team's virtual reality system for moths may spur development of robots for finding chemical leaks and more
A team led by the Graduate School of Engineering Science at Osaka University, including Professor Daisuke Kurabayashi of the Department of Systems and Control Engineering at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech), has ...
Biotechnology
Dec 21, 2021
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Scientists confirm evidence of a new class of galactic nebulae
For the first time, scientists—starting from a discovery by scientific amateurs—have succeeded in confirm evidence for a fully developed shell of a common-envelope system (CE), the phase of the common envelope of ...
Astronomy
Dec 21, 2021
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Forced labor in 19th-century Java cost many lives
In the nineteenth century, Javanese peasants were forced to work on plantations for low wages. This was an economic success, but at the cost of a large number of lives, reveals a study conducted by Pim de Zwart, Daniel Gallardo-Albarrán ...
Economics & Business
Dec 21, 2021
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Observing the secret life of molecules inside the cell
To understand how cells function, scientists study how their different components—from single molecules to multiple organelles—work together. Using traditional structural biology techniques, they can look at individual ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Dec 21, 2021
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Study finds handgun ownership and intimate partner violence history increase risk of violent crime
Researchers at the UC Davis Violence Prevention Research Program (VPRP) have shown that handgun owners who have been charged with intimate partner violence (IPV)—abuse or aggression in romantic relationships—are much ...
Social Sciences
Dec 21, 2021
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Scientist finds Alaska's Arctic coastal towns face extensive inundation
Coastal erosion and land subsidence driven by permafrost thawing may lead to extensive seawater inundation in several northern Alaska communities by 2100, according to research by a University of Alaska Fairbanks geomorphologist.
Environment
Dec 21, 2021
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Birds' dazzling iridescence tied to nanoscale tweak of feather structure
The iridescent shimmer that makes birds such as peacocks and hummingbirds so striking is rooted in a natural nanostructure so complex that people are only just beginning to replicate it technologically. The secret to how ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 21, 2021
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Chicago's winter officially arrives in record-setting fashion; Still no measurable snow
Tuesday at 9:58 a.m. marked the arrival of winter, and with it came a weather record.
Environment
Dec 21, 2021
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