A herd of reindeer with white, brown or gray coats climb mountains and swim between glaciers on their great migration to their winter pasture in Norway's far north.
Ecology
Sep 30, 2023
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An ecological theory may help to explain why segregation is so widespread and persistent in US cities, according to a paper published today in Buildings and Cities. The new way of framing segregation's endurance may provide ...
Social Sciences
Sep 26, 2023
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It's an Ice Age mystery that's been debated for decades among anthropologists: Exactly when and how did the flow of Homo sapiens in Eurasia happen? Did a cold snap or a warming spell drive early human movement from Africa ...
Archaeology
Sep 22, 2023
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While public discussions often focus on climate change driving people to emigrate, new research published in Nature Human Behaviour shows that net-migration patterns around the world are actually more strongly linked with ...
Social Sciences
Sep 7, 2023
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Imperial researchers have filmed, for the first time, the activity of bodily "pressure sensors" whose discoverers won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Biotechnology
Aug 21, 2023
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An international team of anthropologists, archaeologists and geneticists has learned more about the migration patterns of people living around the Mediterranean Sea during the Iron and Bronze ages. In their study, reported ...
Roughly six million Black people moved away from the American South during the Great Migration between 1910 and 1970, hoping to escape racial violence and discrimination while pursuing economic and educational opportunities. ...
Social Sciences
Jul 27, 2023
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As a new space race heats up, two researchers from the Kansas Geological Survey at the University of Kansas and their colleagues have proposed a new scientific subfield: planetary geoarchaeology, the study of how cultural ...
Space Exploration
Jul 21, 2023
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BESSY II's high-brilliance X-rays can be used to produce microscopic images with spatial resolution down to a few tens of nanometers. Whole cell volumes can be examined without the need for complex sample preparation as in ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 18, 2023
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Coral reefs—the foundation of many aquatic ecosystems—are among the ocean's most vulnerable inhabitants. While natural processes, like animal predation and storms, frequently damage corals, human impact, like ship collisions ...
Ecology
Jul 14, 2023
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