Mob mentality rules jackdaw flocks
Jackdaws are more likely to join a mob to drive off predators if lots of their fellow birds are up for the fight, new research shows.
Plants & Animals
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Development of new stem cell type may lead to advances in regenerative medicine
A team led by UT Southwestern has derived a new "intermediate" embryonic stem cell type from multiple species that can contribute to chimeras and create precursors to sperm and eggs in a culture dish.
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 3, 2020
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Spotted hyenas all sound different when they call—they can tell friend from foe
On quiet nights across large swaths of the African bush, you may hear a series of whooping calls in the distance. This unique sound is the long-distance vocalization used by spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta) to communicate ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 16, 2023
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Researchers explore energy-saving catalysts that operate at room temperature
NIST researchers have explored in unprecedented detail a new breed of catalysts that allow some chemical reactions, which normally require high heat, to proceed at room temperature. The energy-saving catalysts use sunlight ...
Materials Science
Apr 16, 2019
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How the growth of a giant single cell is intertwined with daily self-rhythms
Caulerpa is a type of marine algae made up of one extended cell, though each plant can grow to be a meter across. While there are many individual nuclei within a Caulerpa plant, it contains no cell membranes that would normally ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 24, 2023
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New look inside cell nucleus could improve cancer diagnostics
Researchers have successfully isolated and sequenced the entire messenger RNA – the "genetic photocopies" – contained in the nucleus of a single brain cell. This research, published in the journal Proceedings of the National ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 23, 2013
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A dusty lab in the sky
Joe Nuth loves dust. Among astronomers, that puts him in a minority.
Space Exploration
Oct 4, 2019
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New sensor provides first real-time, eagle-eye view of neural activity in mammalian brains
Researchers at Duke and Stanford Universities have devised a way to watch the details of neurons at work, pretty much in real time.
Engineering
Nov 23, 2015
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Quantum simulators solve physics puzzles with colored dots
By analyzing images made of colored dots created by quantum simulators, ETH researchers have studied a special kind of magnetism. In the future this method could also be used to solve other physics puzzles, for instance in ...
Quantum Physics
May 8, 2024
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Researchers call for a new measurement of time for tunneling particles
In an amazing phenomenon of quantum physics known as tunneling, particles appear to move faster than the speed of light. However, physicists from Darmstadt believe that the time it takes for particles to tunnel has been measured ...
Quantum Physics
May 16, 2024
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