To survive the open ocean, tiny fish larvae, freshly hatched from eggs, must find food, avoid predators, and navigate ocean currents to their adult habitats. But what the larvae of most marine species experience during these ...
Ecology
Feb 4, 2021
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Efforts to understand when corals reproduce have been given a boost thanks to a new resource that gives scientists open access to more than forty years' worth of information about coral spawning.
Ecology
Jan 29, 2021
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The study of warm dense matter helps us understand what is going on inside giant planets, brown dwarfs, and neutron stars. However, this state of matter, which exhibits properties of both solids and plasmas, does not occur ...
General Physics
Jan 28, 2021
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New results from an atmospheric study over the Eastern North Atlantic reveal that tiny aerosol particles that seed the formation of clouds can form out of next to nothingness over the open ocean. This "new particle formation" ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 22, 2021
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The Dark Energy Survey has released a massive, public collection of astronomical data and calibrated images from six years of work. Containing data on nearly 700 million astronomical objects, this second data release in the ...
Astronomy
Jan 14, 2021
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New research led by the University of South Florida has uncovered one of the reasons jellyfish have come to be known as the "world's most efficient swimmer." Brad Gemmell, associate professor of integrative biology, found ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 8, 2021
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Latest images reveal that the A-68A iceberg has shattered into multiple pieces, with two large fragments of ice breaking off from the main berg and floating away in the open ocean. Scientists using satellite data have not ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 24, 2020
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Electronic tags released in the Ganges river show plastic pollution can travel thousands of kilometres in just a few months.
Environment
Dec 2, 2020
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Publisher Springer Nature has announced an open access option for researchers wishing to have their papers published as Gold OA when submitting to Nature and 32 of the Nature primary research journals published by the company. ...
Savvy shoppers increasingly expect to know the origin of the food they eat, whether they shop at farmers' markets or big-box major retailers. A prototype app proposed by researchers at the University of Tokyo aims to provide ...
Environment
Nov 2, 2020
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