Carpenter ants are not squeamish when it comes to caring for the wounded. To minimize the risk of infection, the insects immediately amputate injured legs—thereby more than doubling their survival rate.
Plants & Animals
Oct 22, 2025
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Dangerous weather events with wind and rain have disproportionate effects on the socially vulnerable, according to new research.
Environment
Oct 22, 2025
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For most people, Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) is simply a niche fantasy table-top game. But around tables cluttered with dice, maps and character sheets, players are doing far more than playing. They're engaging in leisure. Serious ...
Social Sciences
Oct 22, 2025
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Around the world, research is advancing to efficiently confine fusion plasma and harness its immense energy for power generation. However, it is known that turbulence occurring at various scales within the plasma causes the ...
Plasma Physics
Oct 22, 2025
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University of Queensland research has shown the head and neck should be searched first if a dog or cat is suspected of suffering from paralysis tick toxin. The research is published in the Australian Veterinary Journal.
Plants & Animals
Oct 22, 2025
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A new study led by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) finds that artificial intelligence (AI) models are providing more accurate and more hopeful predictions for the future of coral reefs amid climate change. Findings ...
Ecology
Oct 22, 2025
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In postwar America, as suburbs spread and federal social welfare programs expanded, one underexamined building type quietly became a fixture of the American health care landscape: the nursing home.
Social Sciences
Oct 22, 2025
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The goal of gene therapy is to permanently cure hereditary diseases. One of the most promising technologies for this is the CRISPR/Cas system, colloquially known as gene scissors. These can cut and modify DNA in a targeted ...
Biotechnology
Oct 22, 2025
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The degree to which someone trusts the information depicted in a chart can depend on their assumptions about who made the data visualization, according to a pair of studies by MIT researchers.
Social Sciences
Oct 22, 2025
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Too much sun can ruin photosynthesis, scorching plants and other organisms that depend on capturing sunlight for energy. Beneath the waves, though, algae have found a clever shield.
Ecology
Oct 22, 2025
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