The locusts we see are usually green. This coloration provides protection by allowing locusts to blend into their green surroundings to avoid predators. However, when locusts gather in high population densities and undergo ...
Plants & Animals
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Hurricane Idalia intensified late Tuesday as it hurtled towards northwest Florida, threatening "catastrophic" impacts including dangerous storm surge, with officials forecasting it will slam the coast within hours as an extreme ...
Environment
Aug 29, 2023
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In a study published in Nature Biotechnology on Aug. 28, Gao Caixia's group at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and her collaborators at Qi Biodesign have reported a modular, ...
Biotechnology
Aug 29, 2023
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The field of quantum physics is rife with paths leading to tantalizing new areas of study, but one rabbit hole offers a unique vantage point into a world where particles behave differently—through the proverbial looking ...
Condensed Matter
Aug 29, 2023
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A trio of climatologists at the Southern Ocean Carbon–Climate Observatory, working with a colleague with the Coastal Systems and Earth Observation Research Group, all in South Africa, reports evidence that phytoplankton ...
Scientists from the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry Prague, the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, and Palacký University Olomouc, have once again successfully uncovered the mysteries ...
Nanomaterials
Aug 29, 2023
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National University of Singapore (NUS) physicists have developed a technique to precisely control the alignment of supermoiré lattices by using a set of golden rules, paving the way for the advancement of next generation ...
General Physics
Aug 29, 2023
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A small team of team of biologists affiliated with several institutions in Argentina has found an instance of melanism in a wild gentoo penguin living in Antarctica. In their paper published in the journal Polar Biology, ...
Quantum technologies—and quantum computers in particular—have the potential to shape the development of technology in the future. Scientists believe that quantum computers will help them solve problems that even the fastest ...
Quantum Physics
Aug 29, 2023
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An international research team led by Dr. Guo Donglin from the Institute of Atmospheric Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has revealed the extent of near-surface (about 3–4 m depth) permafrost during the mid-Pliocene ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 29, 2023
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