Do ants think? Do bees feel?
Animals were once considered mindless—incapable of thoughts or feelings.
Plants & Animals
Jun 23, 2025
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Cold winters limit northward spread of butterfly species despite rapid evolution
As the climate warms, many species are shifting northward into areas that were previously too cold for them. A study, "Winters restrict a climate change-driven butterfly range expansion despite rapid evolution of seasonal ...
Evolution
Jun 23, 2025
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Modeling study finds early signs of widespread coastal marsh decline
Researchers have revealed the declining health of coastal marshes several years before visible signs of decline, providing an early warning and an opportunity to protect an ecosystem that serves as the first line of defense ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 23, 2025
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In Norway, climate goals clash with Indigenous herders' rights
A recent climate initiative by the Norwegian government is facing opposition from the Saami Indigenous people, whose territories are directly affected. The proposed 54-kilometer power line would be built by the state-owned ...
Environment
Jun 23, 2025
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Massive burps of carbon dioxide triggered widespread ocean anoxia 300 million years ago, sediment cores suggest
New research from the University of California, Davis, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Texas A&M University reveals that massive emissions, or burps, of carbon dioxide from natural Earth systems led to significant decreases ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 23, 2025
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Near-perfect defects in 2D material could serve as quantum bits
Scientists across the world are working to make quantum technologies viable at scale—an achievement that requires a reliable way to generate qubits, or quantum bits, which are the fundamental units of information in quantum ...
Condensed Matter
Jun 23, 2025
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Physicists confirm elusive quantum spin liquid in new study
An international team of scientists led by Rice University's Pengcheng Dai has confirmed the existence of emergent photons and fractionalized spin excitations in a rare quantum spin liquid. Published in Nature Physics on ...
Condensed Matter
Jun 23, 2025
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A pink diamond just sold for over US$14 million—no wonder, when you look at the mysteries behind their chemistry
Diamonds might be forever but that doesn't stop them being bought and sold. One stone thought to have once belonged to Marie Antoinette, the last queen of France, has just sold for US$14 million (£10 million) at an auction ...
Materials Science
Jun 23, 2025
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Precision nanomachines deliver gene therapy to lymph nodes, suppressing breast cancer spread
The Innovation Center of NanoMedicine has summarized the results of its collaborative research with Professor Kanjiro Miyata's group from the Department of Materials Engineering/Bioengineering at the Graduate School of Engineering, ...
Bio & Medicine
Jun 23, 2025
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Defect engineering enhances carbon nitride's ability to degrade pollutants while producing clean fuel
Photocatalysts are powerful materials that use light as a source of energy for operation, becoming indispensable materials in many fields, from the food and biomedical industry to energy production. They are mainly composed ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jun 23, 2025
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