What a tangled web we weave. When it comes to the impact of the climate crisis on marine food webs, we apparently have not known the half of it. That's according to a new University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) study, which ...
Ecology
Nov 28, 2022
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Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-long cosmic explosions that each produce the energy equivalent to the sun's annual output. More than 15 years after the deep-space pulses of electromagnetic radio waves were first ...
Astronomy
Sep 22, 2022
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What's in a name? For microorganisms, apparently a lot.
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 21, 2022
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Did the 12th century B.C.E.—a time when humans were forging great empires and developing new forms of written text—coincide with an evolutionary reduction in brain size? Think again, says a UNLV-led team of researchers ...
Evolution
Aug 5, 2022
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A human rights activist and a group of anthropologists and human biologists are casting a critical lens on the way that microbiome research is conducted with Indigenous peoples.
Cell & Microbiology
May 16, 2022
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UNLV researchers have discovered a new form of ice, redefining the properties of water at high pressures.
Condensed Matter
Mar 18, 2022
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Fast radio bursts, or FRBs—powerful, millisecond-duration radio waves coming from deep space outside the Milky Way Galaxy—have been among the most mysterious astronomical phenomena ever observed. Since FRBs were first ...
Astronomy
Nov 6, 2020
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A group of social scientists who conduct cross-cultural research are casting a critical lens on their own practices.
Social Sciences
Sep 23, 2020
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Tourists today spend thousands of dollars to explore and enjoy the lush and thriving rainforests of Guatemala.
Earth Sciences
Feb 5, 2020
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Researchers have used fossilized teeth found near Lake Turkana in northwest Kenya to identify a new monkey species—a discovery that helps fill a 6-million-year gap in primate evolution.
Paleontology & Fossils
May 15, 2019
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