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Plants & Animals Jul 25, 2024

Your world is different from a pigeon's—but a new theory explains how we can still live in the same reality

The human eye registers three colors of light: red, green and blue. But pigeons (and many other animal species) can also see a fourth color, ultraviolet.

Social Sciences Jul 25, 2024

How AI bots spread misinformation online and undermine democratic politics

Consider a typical morning routine: coffee in hand, you peruse Twitter (now rebranded as X) to catch up on the news. Headlines appear among a flurry of tweets on everything from memes about political leaders to cultural Marxism, ...

Economics & Business Jul 25, 2024

How remote work poses unique challenges to public sector employees

The dispute last year between the federal Treasury Board and the Public Service Alliance of Canada over remote work arrangements raised a lot of questions about a one-size-fits-all approach. Those questions need answering.

Space Exploration Jul 25, 2024

Space-trekking muscle tests drugs for microgravity-induced muscle impairment

A gentle rumble ran under Ngan Huang's feet as a rocket carrying her research—live, human muscle cells grown on scaffolds fixed on tiny chips—lifted off, climbed, and disappeared into the sky to the International Space ...

Optics & Photonics Jul 25, 2024

Nonreciprocal interactions go nonlinear: Non-Hermitian dynamics observed in coupled nanoparticles

Using two optically-trapped glass nanoparticles, researchers observed a novel collective Non-Hermitian and non-linear dynamic driven by non-reciprocal interactions. This contribution expands traditional optical levitation ...

Planetary Sciences Jul 25, 2024

Geoscientists narrow timing of enormous 'magmatic event' on the moon more precisely

A team of geoscientists affiliated with several institutions in the U.S. and Switzerland has more precisely dated an enormous "magmatic event" that occurred on the moon several billion years ago.

Planetary Sciences Jul 25, 2024

Carbon oxides on Uranus' moon Ariel hint at hidden ocean, Webb telescope reveals

The surface of Uranus' moon Ariel is coated with a significant amount of carbon dioxide ice, especially on its "trailing hemisphere" that always faces away from the moon's direction of orbital motion. This fact presents a ...

Nanomaterials Jul 24, 2024

A laser-based method for measuring particle size distribution during the grinding process

How pharmaceuticals act, how efficient catalysts are and how effective and accurate printing inks function all depend on the size of the nanoparticles they contain. However, there are as of yet no methods for monitoring the ...

Plants & Animals Jul 24, 2024

There's a new top fish of the Columbia River, and it doesn't mind the warm water

There is a new king of the Columbia. Each spring, a chrome tide of fish native to the East Coast floods the Northwest's mightiest river by the millions. Shad, not salmon, are thriving in the warm, still water created by hydroelectric ...

Earth Sciences Jul 24, 2024

How spaceborne satellites can help with forest monitoring

Information like forest canopy height can be useful in assessing the health of a forest, but current measuring methods are not always feasible for large geographic regions or adaptable to diverse forest types. Monitoring ...

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