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Social Sciences Feb 28, 2025

Japanese motion capture lab builds body movement database to explore cultural nuances in emotional expression

Facial expressions are not the only way we express our emotions—body language also plays a crucial role. The way our body moves when laughing at a comedy show is different from how we move when reuniting with an old friend. ...

Astrobiology Feb 28, 2025

Mars time machine: Researchers create virtual model to decode red planet's climate evolution

Researchers are creating advanced simulations that will provide a deeper understanding of Mars's climatic history and help to determine whether it was once able to sustain life.

General Physics Feb 28, 2025

From automation to analysis, AI-driven innovations are making synchrotron science faster, smarter, more efficient

The National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II)—a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science user facility at DOE's Brookhaven National Laboratory—is among the world's most advanced synchrotron light sources, ...

Ecology Feb 27, 2025

Scientists rewrite the rules of swarming locusts

A study recently published in Science has found that classical models of collective behavior fail to explain the mechanisms driving desert locust swarms—an ecological phenomenon that affects millions of lives worldwide. ...

Biotechnology Feb 27, 2025

Computer vision system tracks plant growth to guide specialty crop monitoring

Soilless growing systems inside greenhouses, known as controlled environment agriculture, promise to advance the year-round production of high-quality specialty crops, according to an interdisciplinary research team at Penn ...

Cell & Microbiology Feb 27, 2025

Boosted soil bacterium shows promise for sustainable bioplastic production

The soil bacterium Cupriavidus necator has attracted the attention of researchers and industry for decades. This is partly because, through biochemical reactions, the bacterium converts the renewable raw materials formic ...

Mathematics Feb 27, 2025

Mathematical model improves prediction of human mobility between cities

How many people will travel during a given week between two specific cities? Answering this question is important for many reasons, for example, to design efficient public transport infrastructures, or, as was the case during ...

Biochemistry Feb 27, 2025

Protein cage system can control conformational changes in aromatic side chains

Novel protein cage systems can control and visualize orientational changes in aromatic side chains upon ligand binding, as reported by researchers at the Institute of Science, Tokyo. By inducing coordinated molecular changes, ...

Space Exploration Feb 27, 2025

Private US company blasts off for second moon landing attempt

A US company is aiming for its second lunar touchdown after a lander carrying a suite of unique experiments successfully launched aboard a SpaceX rocket on Wednesday.

Environment Feb 26, 2025

Impact of unexploded ordnance in the Baltic Sea: Study detects toxic munitions chemicals in water samples

It is estimated that about 300,000 metric tons of unexploded ordnance (UXO) remain in the German Baltic Sea. Most of this originates from deliberate dumping after the end of the Second World War. These dumping sites are well ...

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