A new study has uncovered the significant role stingrays play in shaping estuaries, revealing threatened stingrays in Brisbane Water may move more than 21,000 tonnes of sand per year.
Plants & Animals
Jun 18, 2024
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Hundreds of thousands more breeding pairs of seabirds could return to remote island archipelagos if invasive rats were removed and native vegetation restored, a new paper finds.
Plants & Animals
Jun 18, 2024
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"Surely this is the most solitary organism in the world," wrote paleontologist Richard Fortey in his book about the evolution of life.
Plants & Animals
Jun 16, 2024
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In a study published in Nature Communications, collaborating physicists from Singapore and the UK have reported an optical analog of the Kármán vortex street (KVS). This optical KVS pulse reveals fascinating parallels between ...
Optics & Photonics
Jun 13, 2024
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Earth observations are one of the most essential functions of our current fleet of satellites. Typically, each satellite specializes in one kind of remote sensing—monitoring ocean levels, for example, or watching clouds ...
Planetary Sciences
Jun 13, 2024
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Younger workers are struggling with feelings of loneliness and a lack of appreciation at work and tend to feel more comfortable working with people their own age, according to a survey by the American Psychological Association.
Social Sciences
Jun 13, 2024
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A new machine-learning system developed at the University of Alaska Fairbanks can automatically produce detailed maps from satellite data to show locations of likely beetle-killed spruce trees in Alaska, even in forests of ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 13, 2024
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Researchers have used inkjet printing to create a compact multispectral version of a light field camera. The camera, which fits in the palm of the hand, could be useful for many applications including autonomous driving, ...
Optics & Photonics
Jun 12, 2024
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Renowned for a thriving and intricately studied population of around 900 red deer, the Isle of Rum, part of Scotland's Inner Hebrides, is often considered an outdoor laboratory for scientific research. But the earthworms ...
Ecology
Jun 9, 2024
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The South China Karst, the world's most concentrated karst area, has reduced rocky desertification through extensive conservation and restoration over the past two decades, making it a global "greening" hotspot. However, ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 7, 2024
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