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Planetary Sciences May 30, 2024

Video: Fly across Nili Fossae with ESA's Mars Express

Mars's surface is covered in all manner of scratches and scars. Its many marks include the fingernail scratches of Tantalus Fossae, the colossal canyon system of Valles Marineris, the oddly orderly ridges of Angustus Labyrinthus, ...

Social Sciences May 29, 2024

Emotional context in decision-making: Challenging Lewin's motivational conflicts theory

A recent series of experiments conducted by Ph.D. student Maya Enisman and Dr. Tali Kleiman from the Psychology department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, challenges the longstanding theory of motivational conflict ...

Social Sciences May 29, 2024

Once-welcomed Rohingya refugees now face hostility from their hosts in Bangladesh, researchers find

The number of refugees has sharply increased in recent decades, reaching 37.8 million in 2022. Amidst this surge, host communities—locals residing in areas where refugee camps are situated—are also positively and negatively ...

Space Exploration May 29, 2024

NASA to measure moonquakes with help from InSight Mars mission

The technology behind the two seismometers that make up NASA's Farside Seismic Suite was used to detect more than a thousand Red Planet quakes.

Economics & Business May 28, 2024

Economists report on a modest intervention that helps low-income families beat the poverty trap

Many low-income families might desire to move into different neighborhoods—places that are safer, quieter, or have more resources in their schools. In fact, not many do relocate. But it turns out they are far more likely ...

Earth Sciences May 28, 2024

Replanting trees can help prevent devastating landslides like the one in Papua New Guinea, but it's not a silver bullet

More than 2,000 people are now feared dead after a huge landslide buried a village in the highlands of Papua New Guinea, Australia's nearest neighbor. Rescue efforts are being stymied by the fact the land is still sliding ...

Ecology May 28, 2024

Global activity of seafloor biodiversity mapped for the first time

A team of scientists from the U.S. and the U.K. has used artificial intelligence (AI) to map the activities of seafloor invertebrate animals, such as worms, clams and shrimps, across all the oceans of the world.

Earth Sciences May 24, 2024

Earth's mysterious D" layer: A relic of ancient oceans and planetary collisions

Deep within Earth, there lies a mysterious layer called the D" layer. Located roughly 3,000 kilometers down, this zone sits just above the boundary between the planet's molten outer core and its solid mantle.

Environment May 24, 2024

Ambitious targets are needed to end ocean plastic pollution by 2100, analysis finds

A collaboration between researchers at Imperial College London and GNS Science, suggests that reducing plastic pollution by 5% per year would stabilize the level of microplastics—plastics less than 5 mm in length—in the ...

Plants & Animals May 23, 2024

Three sisters garden study finds balanced pollinator-plant network faces an uncertain future

The loss of even one wild bee species can disrupt the reproductive success of certain plants resulting in fewer vegetables, fruits and flowers, say York University researchers who studied how pollinators and plants rely on ...

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