A small team of researchers with members from Thailand, Finland and China, has found that there is a very large and active trade in arachnids across the internet. In their paper published in the journal Communications Biology, ...
As social creatures, we humans care what others think and are influenced by the number of likes, hearts and retweets on social media posts. The downside? An attraction to popular beliefs—whether they're true or false—can ...
Social Sciences
May 26, 2022
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Humans are social creatures, but little is known about when, how and why different populations connected in the past. Answering these questions is crucial for interpreting the biological and cultural diversity that we see ...
Archaeology
Dec 20, 2021
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Election outcomes are notoriously difficult to predict. In 2016, for example, most polls suggested that Hillary Clinton would win the presidency, but Donald Trump defeated her. Researchers cite multiple explanations for the ...
Social Sciences
Jun 30, 2021
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The idea of a complex spider society—in which thousands of spiders live, hunt, and raise their young together in a single colony—is unsettling to many of us. We are perhaps lucky then that this scene is relatively rare ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 31, 2020
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(Phys.org) -- Not all acts of altruism are alike, says a new study. From bees and wasps that die defending their nests, to elephants that cooperate to care for young, a new mathematical model pinpoints the environmental conditions ...
Evolution
Apr 30, 2012
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scars on the jaw of a 120 million year old marine reptile suggest that life might not have been easy in the ancient polar oceans. The healed bite wounds were probably made by a member of the same species. ...
Archaeology
May 4, 2011
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"Am I just a face in the crowd? Is that all I'll ever be? ... Do you think I stand out?" —The Kinks, "A Face in the Crowd"
Plants & Animals
Feb 22, 2011
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Dairy industry professionals continuously work to ensure the highest possible welfare for dairy calves, including fine-tuning their housing to improve overall health, well-being, and performance. Two new studies in JDS Communications ...
Agriculture
Dec 19, 2023
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Sitting anchored to the rocky reef 70 feet (21 meters) below the surface of the ocean, hundreds of scalloped hammerhead sharks swam above me in unison, moving as if one. When most people think of sharks, they don't think ...
Ecology
Apr 11, 2022
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