An international research team, including a member of the Complexity Science Hub Vienna, investigated the role of "big gods" in the rise of complex large-scale societies. Big gods are defined as moralizing deities who punish ...
Archaeology
Mar 21, 2019
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The world's oceans soak up more carbon than most scientific models suggest, according to new research.
Earth Sciences
Sep 4, 2020
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Advancements in telescopes have enabled researchers to study the universe with greater detail, and to establish a standard cosmological model that explains various observational facts simultaneously. But there are many things ...
Astronomy
Feb 5, 2020
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A decade ago, Gnutella, Kazaa and other early peer-to-peer (P2P) systems showed that a decentralized approach to managing large-scale, widely distributed systems could offer many essential advantages compared ...
New research has found that the population of Ireland was in decline for almost 200 years before the Vikings settled.
Archaeology
Aug 22, 2019
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Less than a decade after unveiling the "Map of Life," a global database that marks the distribution of known species across the planet, Yale researchers have launched an even more ambitious and perhaps important project—creating ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 22, 2021
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Partnerships between ant and plant species appear to arise from—but not drive—rapid diversification of ants into new species. Katrina Kaur of the University of Toronto, Canada, and colleagues present these findings in ...
Evolution
Oct 3, 2019
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Researchers from North Carolina State University and Collaborations Pharmaceuticals have created a free-to-use database of 14,000 known macrolactones—large molecules used in drug development—which contains information ...
Materials Science
Apr 21, 2020
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Marine sediments play a crucial role in the global carbon cycle due to the oxygen consumption and CO2 respiration of the organisms that live in and on the ocean floor. To help predict the changing contribution of this respiration ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 30, 2019
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By analyzing the relative proportion of different plant parts consumed by primates, researchers suggest that primates may be intricately and subtly shaped by two key families of plants: Moraceae and Fabaceae. The study, led ...
Evolution
Jun 16, 2021
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