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Plants & Animals Dec 27, 2024

How do you 'grow' an endangered starfish? Scientists are finding out

For the last decade, California's offshore seafloors have been missing a massive, colorful predator that keeps kelp-munching sea urchins in check.

Economics & Business Dec 19, 2024

AI model forecasts product trends, enhances online shopping experience

Online retail platforms are increasingly becoming a dumping ground for low-quality products—which, over time, only serves to tarnish the retailer's reputation and dent sales. But new research from a team of business scholars ...

Astronomy Dec 13, 2024

How to find a comet before it hits Earth

How do you find a comet that could pose a threat to Earth but hasn't passed our planet in the last 200 years or more? You look for its footprint.

Social Sciences Dec 12, 2024

Christmas adverts: decoding the trusted formula used to pull on consumers' heart strings

This Christmas, major UK brands are spending over £10 billion on advertising. And to justify the big spend, they are using sophisticated emotional marketing strategies to capture attention and boost sales.

Astrobiology Dec 9, 2024

Extraterrestrial life may look nothing like life on Earth—astrobiologists seek framework for how complex systems evolve

We have only one example of biology forming in the universe—life on Earth. But what if life can form in other ways? How do you look for alien life when you don't know what alien life might look like?

Planetary Sciences Dec 3, 2024

NEOWISE, the NASA mission that cataloged objects around Earth for over a decade, has come to an end

The NASA project NEOWISE, which has given astronomers a detailed view of near-Earth objects—some of which could strike the Earth—ended its mission and burned on reentering the atmosphere after over a decade.

Archaeology Nov 26, 2024

Egyptologists discover a possible Ptolemaic temple in Athribis

Are the cliffs of Athribis hiding a former sanctuary? In the small Egyptian village near Sohag, about 200 kilometers north of Luxor, researchers from the University of Tübingen, supported by the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism ...

Astrobiology Nov 14, 2024

New study examines how extraterrestrial civilizations could become 'stellivores'

One of the most challenging aspects of astrobiology and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) is anticipating what life and extraterrestrial civilizations will look like. Invariably, we have only one example ...

Cell & Microbiology Nov 11, 2024

Could microbes help create sustainable electronics?

Imagine a world where electronic devices are powered by living organisms and biodegrade after use, eliminating the problem of electronic waste. This isn't the plot of a futuristic sci-fi movie—it's a real, growing area of ...

Astronomy Nov 11, 2024

Monitoring Webb's mirrors for optimal optics

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is the largest and most powerful telescope ever launched to space. Its mirror is composed of 18 individual segments that have been aligned so accurately, that they effectively work as a single ...

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