Peter Turchin from the Complexity Science Hub Vienna (CSH) and an interdisciplinary team of colleagues set out to test competing theories about what drove the evolution of war machines throughout world history. Their study, ...
Archaeology
Oct 20, 2021
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Technology is rapidly evolving across many disciplines. Ground-breaking results are often obtained when new technology enables novel approaches or when technologies are transferred from other fields of research. In a recent ...
Ecology
Aug 25, 2021
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The University of Newcastle and UNSW Sydney are using advanced neutron scattering techniques at ANSTO to carry out research on the structure of polymers in complex salt environments that will ultimately provide a way to predict ...
Materials Science
Jul 5, 2021
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The muskrat, a stocky brown rodent the size of a Chihuahua—with a tail like a mouse, teeth like a beaver and an exceptional ability to bounce back from rapid die-offs—has lived for thousands of years in one of Earth's ...
Ecology
Jul 2, 2021
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The University of Kent's School of Physical Sciences, in collaboration with the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) and the Universities of Cardiff, Durham and Leeds, have developed an algorithm to train computers ...
Condensed Matter
May 17, 2021
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Scientists from Hokkaido University have used species survey and climate data to identify two marine biodiversity refugia in the Eastern Bering Sea—regions where species richness, community stability and climate stability ...
Plants & Animals
May 17, 2021
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A recent study from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), published in the Journal of Proteome Research, has identified multiple mutations and unique proteins in isolates of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. It ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 4, 2021
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A comprehensive database of Estonian soils and a map application has been completed in cooperation with researchers of the University of Tartu and the Estonian University of Life Sciences. The database makes Estonian soil ...
Environment
Feb 16, 2021
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Sitting for the SAT college admissions test a second time leads to higher scores, a boon to high school students applying to four-year college programs according to research this year out of Georgia State University, Brandeis ...
Education
Sep 2, 2020
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For nearly 50 years, a statistical omission tantamount to data falsification sat undiscovered in a critical study at the heart of regulating one of the most controversial and widely used pesticides in America.
Environment
Aug 18, 2020
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