World sports has been convulsed over the past few months—indeed years—by questions about trans athletes, especially trans women, competing in their acquired gender.
Social Sciences
Mar 22, 2023
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Cooperation is a key innovation in evolution, from evolution of genomes and multicellular organisms to insect societies, such as ants and honeybees to human societies. Crucially, any cooperation is stable only when conflicts ...
Evolution
Mar 9, 2023
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In 2021, KAUST ran the first international competition "Spatial Statistics for Large Datasets" using ExaGeoStat's reference datasets. Following that successful event, the Exascale Geostatistics Project (ExaGeoStat) led by ...
Mathematics
Mar 6, 2023
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Male whales along Australia's eastern seaboard are giving up singing to attract a mate, switching instead to fighting their male competition.
Plants & Animals
Feb 16, 2023
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Before any physical conflict, people assess their opponent's features to determine if the ideal tactical response is to fight, flee or attempt to negotiate.
Evolution
Jan 3, 2023
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Physiological or clonal integration is a key ecological benefit where stolon or rhizome connections between ramets allow for translocation of resources from source-sites to sink-sites (in patchy or heterogeneous environments) ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 27, 2022
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The European Union should improve its state aid rules and consider more green transition funding to offset possible distortions from the new U.S. climate and tax law, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said.
Environment
Dec 5, 2022
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In a recent study published in Nature Communications, a research team led by Prof. Guo Guangcan from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences developed nanomechanical resonators ...
Nanomaterials
Nov 29, 2022
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Skateboarding continues to be unkempt, subversive and tacitly political despite inclusion in mainstream competitions like the Olympics, experts have said.
Social Sciences
Nov 29, 2022
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A tiny mountain-dwelling wren was the surprise winner Monday of New Zealand's controversial bird of the year competition, which even had Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in a flap.
Plants & Animals
Oct 31, 2022
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