World Heritage Sites across the world are facing unprecedented challenges from climate change. Australia has 20 sites on the UNESCO World Heritage List, from convict sites like the Port Arthur Historic site in Tasmania to ...
Environment
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An international team of linguists and geneticists led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig has achieved a significant breakthrough in our understanding of the origins of Indo-European, ...
Archaeology
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Earthen and shell mounds built hundreds of years ago by Indigenous people in the Mississippi River Delta contribute to biodiversity and the area's resiliency to erosion today, research by a Florida State University archaeologist ...
Archaeology
Jul 24, 2023
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Recent archaeogenetic studies have shown that human migrations and individual mobility played a bigger role in prehistory than previously anticipated. With the movement of people, also culture, technical know-how, language ...
Archaeology
Jul 19, 2023
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BESSY II's high-brilliance X-rays can be used to produce microscopic images with spatial resolution down to a few tens of nanometers. Whole cell volumes can be examined without the need for complex sample preparation as in ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 18, 2023
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Tucked into the hillsides of Italy, Portugal, and Spain, some of the world's most famous—and most difficult to maintain—vineyards are heralded for their unique flavor profiles and centuries of tradition. But as extreme ...
Ecology
Jul 14, 2023
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When asked to draw their local wildlife, 401 UK schoolchildren aged seven to 11 most commonly drew mammals and birds, while amphibians and reptiles appeared in the fewest drawings, suggesting imbalances in children's ecological ...
Social Sciences
Jul 5, 2023
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The genetic plans within our DNA come to functional fruition through proteins, which underlie our bodies' structure and activity. Yet, the proteome—all the proteins within a cell or given area—remains relatively mysterious ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 29, 2023
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A new survey shows that the largely Indigenous population of Greenland is highly aware that the climate is changing, and far more likely than people in other Arctic nations to say they are personally affected. Yet, many do ...
Environment
Jun 28, 2023
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As we age, our bodies change and degenerate over time in a process called senescence. Stem cells, which have the unique ability to change into other cell types, also experience senescence, which presents an issue when trying ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 27, 2023
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