Although there has been evidence of our species living in rainforest regions in Southeast Asia from at least 70,000 years ago, the poor preservation of organic material in these regions limits how much we know about their ...
Evolution
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Jellyfish have voracious appetites, and they aren't considered the most selective eaters. Almost anything that gets stuck to their tentacles winds up in the gelatinous sack that they use to digest their food.
Plants & Animals
Oct 14, 2021
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In a first-of-its-kind warming experiment, researchers at Northern Arizona University found that microbes growth rate decreased over 15 years of warming. The research, published this week in Global Change Biology, showed ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 14, 2021
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The source of marble for a statue of Apollo on the Greek island of Delos has been a mystery to art historians and archaeologists for decades. The stone's chemistry pointed geochemists to the southern end of the nearby island ...
Archaeology
Oct 12, 2021
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Some pristine meteorites contain a record of the original building blocks of the solar system, including grains that formed in ancient stars that died before the sun formed. One of the biggest challenges in studying these ...
Astronomy
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Microbiology researchers at Oregon State University have shed new light on the mechanisms of carbon cycling in the ocean, using a novel approach to track which microbes are consuming different types of organic carbon produced ...
Environment
Oct 7, 2021
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Zeolites could be considered as nature's workhorse.
Earth Sciences
Oct 7, 2021
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Domestic cats that regularly catch wild animals still get most of their nutrition from food provided at home, new research shows.
Plants & Animals
Sep 30, 2021
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How do the chemical elements, the building blocks of our universe, get built? This question has been at the core of nuclear physics for the better part of a century.
General Physics
Sep 28, 2021
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When warmwater fish species like bass, walleye and crappie that are not native to the Pacific Northwest, but prized by some anglers, overlap with baby spring chinook salmon in reservoirs in Oregon's Willamette River they ...
Plants & Animals
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