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Social Sciences Feb 8, 2024

Why the UK needs connected strategies for net zero and leveling up

The Government's Net Zero Strategy (2022) calls for more attention to community-based action to meet ambitious targets. Similarly, the recently published report of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for "left behind" neighborhoods, ...

Planetary Sciences Jan 10, 2024

Earth isn't the only planet with seasons, but they can look wildly different on other worlds

Spring, summer, fall and winter—the seasons on Earth change every few months, around the same time every year. It's easy to take this cycle for granted here on Earth, but not every planet has a regular change in seasons. ...

Archaeology Dec 8, 2023

Study suggests climate played a crucial role in human migration from Africa

About 6 million years ago, in the deep forests of eastern Africa, something spectacular happened. Chimpanzees, our closest relative in the animal kingdom, evolved in one direction, while our earliest ancestors continued in ...

Molecular & Computational biology Aug 18, 2023

Mathematics against weeds: Model of population dynamics and evolution of herbicide resistance in perennial weeds

Weeds have always been a significant problem for agriculture. They compete with crops for resources such as light, water and nutrients, which can result in severe yield losses.

Archaeology Jul 19, 2023

Early humans in the Hula Valley invested in systematic procurement of raw materials hundreds of thousands of years ago

A new study from Tel Aviv University and Tel-Hai College solves an old mystery: Where did early humans in the Hula Valley get flint to make the prehistoric tools known as handaxes?

Cell & Microbiology Jun 29, 2023

Disorder lends robustness to the embryonic development of a tiny shrimp

Consider the crustacean Parhyale hawaiensis, a tiny crustacean with some interesting attributes.

Archaeology Jun 15, 2023

Museum exhibit in Norway reveals new details on Neanderthals

No one knows what happened when we, Homo sapiens, first encountered the Neanderthals. But we know we met.

Archaeology May 20, 2023

Humans were using fire in Europe 50,000 years earlier than previously thought

Human history is intimately entwined with the use and control of fire. However, working out when our relationship with fire began and how it subsequently evolved has been notoriously difficult.

Cell & Microbiology May 19, 2023

Examining puppeteer fungus' targeted takeover of zombie flies

In a new study published in eLife, lead author Carolyn Elya, postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard, reveals the molecular and cellular underpinnings behind the parasitic ...

Ecology May 1, 2023

Comparison of specimens and field observations reveals biases in biodiversity data

In the race to document the species on Earth before they go extinct, researchers and citizen scientists have assembled billions of records. Most records either come from physical specimens in a museum or digital field observations, ...

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