On New Year's Day 2024, a massive 7.5-magnitude earthquake struck the Noto Peninsula in north central Japan, resulting in extensive damage in the region caused by uplift, when the land rises due to shifting tectonic plates. ...
Earth Sciences
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Many of the fish we eat play a key role in maintaining the seabed—and therefore our climate, new research shows. Convex Seascape Survey scientists assessed the role of fish in bioturbation (churning and reworking sediments) ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 28, 2025
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Researchers at Rice University have developed a new machine learning (ML) algorithm that excels at interpreting the "light signatures" (optical spectra) of molecules, materials and disease biomarkers, potentially enabling ...
Optics & Photonics
Apr 28, 2025
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The Antarctic Peninsula, one of the fastest-warming regions on Earth, has seen temperatures rise five times faster than the global average in recent decades. Extreme heat events, such as the record-breaking 20.8° C recorded ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 28, 2025
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Climate change is increasing the risk of wildfires in many regions of the world. This is due partly to specific weather conditions—known as fire weather—that facilitate the spread of wildfires.
Earth Sciences
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Air pollution with particulate matter smaller than 1 micrometer has fallen by an average of 5% annually in rural Saxony. However, the decreases were particularly marked in air masses coming from Eastern Europe: PM1 concentrations ...
Environment
Apr 28, 2025
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Lately, there's been plenty of progress in 3D printing objects from the lunar regolith. We've reported on several projects that have attempted to do so, with varying degrees of success. However, most of them require some ...
Planetary Sciences
Apr 28, 2025
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Why do some people do more for the community than others? A new study from the University of Zurich, available on the PsyArXiv preprint server, now shows that personality traits such as extraversion and agreeableness correlate ...
Social Sciences
Apr 28, 2025
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Carlotta Rigotti, post-doc researcher at eLaw—Center for Law and Digital Technologies, and Professor Clare McGlynn, Durham University, have co-authored a new article in the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, introducing the ...
Social Sciences
Apr 28, 2025
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The influenza virus manipulates the body's gene regulation system to accelerate its own spread, according to researchers at the University of Gothenburg. Their study also shows that an already approved drug could help strengthen ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 28, 2025
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