The Neolithic lifestyle, based on farming instead of hunting and gathering, emerged in the Near East around 12,000 years ago and contributed profoundly to the modern way of life. The ability to produce and store extra food ...
Archaeology
Jul 26, 2023
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How do you study a predator with both camouflage and stealth that make it virtually invisible in the forest?
Plants & Animals
Jul 18, 2023
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New findings by Prof Witold Szczuciński, of Adam Mickiewicz University, on the carbon cycle in nature have been published in Nature Geoscience.
Earth Sciences
Jul 17, 2023
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In a new study, researchers and members of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe of the San Francisco Bay Area are the first to publish evidence of wealth-driven patterns in maternal investment among ancient populations.
Archaeology
Jul 13, 2023
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What scientists call the "nuclear weak distribution" describes the distribution of "active" protons in a nucleus. These are protons that are eligible to transition into neutrons through what scientists call the "weak interaction."
General Physics
Jul 10, 2023
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Elephants eat plants. That's common knowledge to biologists and animal-loving schoolchildren alike. Yet figuring out exactly what kind of plants the iconic herbivores eat is more complicated.
Plants & Animals
Jul 4, 2023
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers have developed a method to simplify one step of radioisotope production—and it's faster and safer.
Analytical Chemistry
Jun 29, 2023
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If you imagine yourself peering through a microscope, you probably picture looking at a glass slide with an amoeba, or maybe a human cell, or perhaps even a small insect of some kind.
Optics & Photonics
Jun 29, 2023
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The specialization in sheep farming in the early Neolithic populations of Dalmatia, Croatia, may have been related to the rapid expansion of these communities and the spread of agriculture throughout the central and western ...
Archaeology
Jun 27, 2023
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An experiment performed in the Accelerator Laboratory of University of Jyväskylä, Finland, has succeeded in producing a previously unknown atomic nucleus, 190-Astatine, consisting of 85 protons and 105 neutrons. The nucleus ...
General Physics
Jun 22, 2023
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