From Down Under to underground: Surprising daddy long-legs spiders discovered in Australia and Réunion
Australia's rich and diverse fauna never fails to surprise us, as a new spider species has been documented from the continent.
Australia's rich and diverse fauna never fails to surprise us, as a new spider species has been documented from the continent.
Plants & Animals
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Poaching wild animals poses global environmental risks, from threatening the survival of keystones species to potentially spreading animal-borne diseases to humans. Technology like unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, can ...
Plants & Animals
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Language is a uniquely human skill. That's why studying how people learn and use language is crucial to understanding what it means to be human. Given that most people in the world—an estimated 60%—are multilingual, meaning ...
Social Sciences
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Ecology
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Social Sciences
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The African continent faces a multitude of challenges, and food security is among the most pressing. New research by an international team of researchers sheds light on the challenges and opportunities facing the African ...
Agriculture
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The Antarctic continent conjures visions of white ice and blue sky. But not far from Australia's Casey Station, 3,880km due south of Perth, moss beds emerge verdant and green.
Ecology
May 31, 2023
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The course of human history has been marked by complex patterns of migration, isolation, and admixture, the latter a term that refers to gene flow between individuals from different populations. Admixture results in a blending ...
Evolution
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By using a unique set of data researchers at the University of Bergen show that vegetation change in Asia during the last 12,000 years for the most part has been heterogeneous across space and time. But during the recent ...
Ecology
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Africa is the world's most diverse continent for large mammals such as antelopes, zebras and elephants. The heaviest of these large mammals top the scales at over one ton, and are referred to as megafauna. In fact, it's the ...
Plants & Animals
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