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Political science 3 minutes ago

Why people turn a blind eye to prisoner abuse

Common beliefs that people who commit crime are inherently bad and unlikely to change may make the public more accepting of illegitimate harms within the criminal justice system, according to criminology and psychology experts ...

Ecology 4 minutes ago

Heat-evolved algae offer clues to helping corals withstand warming seas

A research team led by the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) has found that heat-evolved algae maintain more stable biomolecular profiles under elevated temperatures than their non-evolved (wild-type) counterparts, ...

Astronomy 14 minutes ago

Cosmic microwave background offers evidence of gas flowing in galaxy clusters

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) is a faint glow in the universe dating back to roughly 380,000 years after the Big Bang, long before stars or galaxies emerged. Detecting this light and mapping its fluctuations provide ...

Evolution 23 minutes ago

Capturing our closest archaeal relatives offers clues to the origin of eukaryotes

A collaborative research team led by Hiroyuki Imachi and Masaru K. Nobu of the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) and Satoshi Nakagawa of Kyoto University has for the first time isolated and cultivated ...

Earth Sciences 23 minutes ago

Rainfall can travel from mountain slopes to rivers far faster than expected in mountain catchments

Researchers at University of Tsukuba have found that river responses to rainfall can reach rivers and appear as runoff much more rapidly than previously assumed in mountainous regions. Through continuous monitoring of precipitation ...

Archaeology 34 minutes ago

Ancient charcoal remains provide clues about Neanderthal camp organization

Usually, people associate archaeological studies with bones, pottery and primitive tools, but archaeologists often find other clues about how ancient people lived hidden throughout a site. A new study, published in the Journal ...

Environment 43 minutes ago

How universities can help deliver global biodiversity goals

"Taking Action for Nature" was the theme of CoP 17, the UN Biodiversity Conference 2026, which is drawing to a close in Yerevan, Armenia. A new analysis of African national biodiversity strategies and action plans shows how ...

Astronomy 44 minutes ago

Enormous 'Cat's Tail' tells of cosmic collision 63 light-years away

Sixty-three light-years from Earth, in the small, faint constellation known as Pictor (which is Latin for "painter"), there lies a strange structure that has puzzled astronomers for the last two years. Nicknamed the "Cat's ...

Plants & Animals 54 minutes ago

New tropical protea flowers expand floriculture opportunities across Hawaiʻi

Researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resilience (CTAHR) have bred new "tropical" pincushion protea (Leucospermum) hybrids that bloom near sea level, reducing local reliance ...

Astronomy 1 hour ago

Grand Theft Astro: Stars' criminal histories could reshape estimates of their internal magnetic fields

Magnetic fields exist in many stars, including the sun. Yet they remain too poorly understood to be reliably included in stellar evolution models, limiting their accuracy. Now, a new study by researchers at the Institute ...

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