Sea urchins have no brains or hearts. But put them in the proximity of the unmistakable sunflower sea star, and somewhere in their pin cushion-like body, they sense trouble. That's the main finding of a new study by ecologists ...
Plants & Animals
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New research into the energy use of humpback whales during their annual migrations has found they lose 11,000kg of blubber—which is equivalent to the energy obtained after feeding on 57,000 kg of Antarctic krill—highlighting ...
Plants & Animals
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Just recently, the world watched as many people were injured and dozens died after a torrential flood swept through a Texas town early in July.
Environment
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As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to transform work, Brock University experts are weighing in on AI's impact on human employees and the companies employing them.
Economics & Business
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Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have successfully revived fungal specimens collected over 80 years ago, offering a fresh glimpse into how industrial agriculture has altered the invisible ecosystems that ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Jul 28, 2025
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As tons of plastic waste continue to build up in landfills every day, Yale researchers have developed a way to convert this waste into fuels and other valuable products efficiently and cheaply. The results are published in ...
Materials Science
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A new study finds that white students visit academic advisors the least, but have the highest academic benefits, in terms of GPA and graduation rates, compared to non-white students and international students.
Education
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Prof. Michael Murrell's group (lead author Zachary Gao Sun, graduate student in physics) in collaboration with Prof. Garegin Papoian's group from the University of Maryland at College Park has found critical phenomena (self-organized ...
General Physics
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A frog croaks from a walking trail. A hiker snaps a photo and uploads it to iNaturalist. That single act—one person, one amphibian and one click—feeds into a growing global dataset that scientists now use to map shifting ...
Plants & Animals
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At the Roman settlement of A Cibdá de Armea in northwestern Spain, archaeologists uncovered evidence suggesting that ancient Romans adorned their amulets with fossils of extinct marine arthropods, like trilobites, possibly ...
