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Analytical Chemistry Feb 1, 2023

Scientists develop a new approach to help optimize marble conservation

Scientists have used a novel approach that could improve how artifacts made from marble are preserved.

Ecology Jan 31, 2023

Diversifying fish species and sources provide a flexible pathway to food and nutrition security

Scientists from the University of Stirling's Institute of Aquaculture and WorldFish have recently published an open-access paper titled "The role of aquaculture and capture fisheries in meeting food and nutrition security: ...

Space Exploration Jan 26, 2023

How cells could help Artemis astronauts exercise

In 2033, NASA and China plan to send the first crewed missions to Mars. These missions will launch every two years when Earth and Mars are at the closest points in their orbits (Mars Opposition). It will take these missions ...

Evolution Jan 25, 2023

Large mammals shaped the evolution of humans in Africa, says ecologist

That humans originated in Africa is widely accepted. But it's not generally recognized how unique features of Africa's ecology were responsible for the crucial evolutionary transitions from forest-inhabiting fruit-eater to ...

Archaeology Jan 17, 2023

Neanderthals: The oldest art in the world wasn't made by humans

One of the most hotly debated questions in the history of Neanderthal research has been whether they created art. In the past few years, the consensus has become that they did, sometimes. But, like their relations at either ...

Archaeology Jan 16, 2023

Early humans: Tooth enamel reveals life histories

If you take a magnifying glass and a flashlight and look at your teeth very carefully in the mirror, in places you can spot a pattern of fine, parallel lines running across your teeth. These correspond to the striae of Retzius ...

Ecology Jan 10, 2023

Rodent extinctions in Hispaniola may have been caused by humans

The island of Hispaniola once had among the highest diversity of rodents in the Caribbean, supporting 11 species that coexisted for thousands of years. Today, only one rodent species remains within the island's two countries ...

Biochemistry Dec 30, 2022

Researchers uncover evidence of 'hidden state' involving common ion

While conducting an otherwise straightforward investigation into the assembly mechanism of calcium-phosphate clusters, researchers at UC Santa Barbara and New York University (NYU) made a surprising discovery: Phosphate ions ...

Analytical Chemistry Dec 21, 2022

Neutron experiments reveal what maintains good function in bones

Around 500 million years ago, early vertebrates in the seas became fish, adopting an inner skeleton and a flexible spine based on a nanocomposite of fibers and mineral, known as bone material. This "invention" of evolution ...

Paleontology & Fossils Dec 15, 2022

Mega-predator likely wasn't underwater hunter, researchers argue

,The hunting habits of Spinosaurus aegyptiacus, the largest known predatory dinosaur to roam the Earth, have been subject to intense scientific debate since detailed descriptions of its most complete fossils to date were ...

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