I was part of a team that recently discovered human-made pollutants in one of the deepest and most remote places on Earth—the Atacama Trench, which goes down to a depth of 8,000 meters in the Pacific Ocean. The presence ...
Earth Sciences
May 1, 2023
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As an ecologist, Dr. Julia Tavares often has to consider how to collect data from remote locations.
Ecology
Apr 29, 2023
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Using hydrophones to eavesdrop on a reef off the coast of Goa, India, researchers have helped advance a new low-cost way to monitor changes in the world's murky marine environments.
Ecology
Apr 27, 2023
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Alaska Airlines canceled more than two dozen flights in its namesake state Thursday because of an ash cloud from a volcano in Russia that drifted into Alaska, the Seattle-based airline said.
Environment
Apr 13, 2023
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On an early spring afternoon, Tregantle Beach is bathed in a dazzling light reminiscent of a painting by British landscape artist JMW Turner as sea, sky and sun merge.
Environment
Apr 9, 2023
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The desert in southern Egypt is filled with hundreds of petroglyphs and inscriptions dating from the Neolithic to the Arab period. The oldest date from the fifth millennium B.C., and few have been studied. Egyptologists at ...
Archaeology
Mar 15, 2023
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On the day parents across the country discover which secondary school their child can attend, a new report exposes how entry rules are thwarting social mobility especially at the most sought-after state schools.
Education
Mar 1, 2023
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Although the Pony Express lasted only a short time in the mid-1800s before being outperformed by the transcontinental telegraph, it inspired a concept for a string of small satellites to transport data from Mars to Earth ...
Planetary Sciences
Feb 23, 2023
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An international team of scientists with a myriad of backgrounds has revealed the process by which unique fingerprints develop. In their research, published open access in the journal Cell, the group studied the development ...
Since Darwin, biologists have been fascinated by the evolution of sociality. In its most extreme form, eusocial species exhibit a division of labor in which certain individuals perform reproductive tasks such as egg laying, ...
Evolution
Jan 31, 2023
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