On a muggy July evening, Delaware state biologist Jason Davis is doing what kids have done for ages: Trying to catch a firefly. It's nowhere near as easy as the summer evenings of his own childhood, with only a few in this ...
Ecology
Jul 24, 2024
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Researchers using the James Webb Space Telescope have finally confirmed what models have previously predicted: An exoplanet has differences between its eternal morning and eternal evening atmosphere. WASP-39 b, a giant planet ...
Astronomy
Jul 15, 2024
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New Monash research has untangled the influence of regional climate drivers, including the Southern Annular Mode (SAM) and the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (El Niño), on the Antarctic Ice Sheet. Snow accumulation and surface ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 12, 2024
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Torrential rains and surging rivers across northeast India and neighboring Bangladesh have killed at least nine people, disaster officials said Thursday, with more than three million people affected.
Environment
Jul 4, 2024
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Six people have been killed in floods precipitated by torrential rains across northeast India and neighboring Bangladesh that inundated the homes of more than a million others, officials said Wednesday.
Environment
Jul 3, 2024
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The planet is getting warmer and climate change—not surprisingly—impacts the way we feed the world. In Canada, especially, our warming planet alters growing conditions, affects crop yields and shifts the types of crops ...
Ecology
Jul 1, 2024
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Climatic stability over millions of years has allowed ancient and isolated freshwater fishes to flourish in areas such as the 356,000 square kilometers from Shark Bay to Esperance in southwest Western Australia.
Plants & Animals
Jul 1, 2024
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Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have developed nanorobots that kill cancer cells in mice. The robot's weapon is hidden in a nanostructure and is exposed only in the tumor microenvironment, sparing healthy cells. ...
Bio & Medicine
Jul 1, 2024
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Across Asia, the Pacific Ocean, and the Americas, El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) brings variations in winds, weather, and ocean temperature that can cause droughts, floods, crop failures, and food shortages. Recently, ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 26, 2024
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People from the corporate world and higher education sectors are increasingly adopting each other's speech patterns to be more socially inclusive, according to new research published today by Lancaster University.
Social Sciences
Jun 25, 2024
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