For a new study, a team of physicists recruited roughly 1,000 undergraduate students at the University of Colorado Boulder to help answer one of the most enduring questions about the sun: How does the star's outermost atmosphere, ...
Astronomy
May 9, 2023
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Andy Weir's bestselling 2011 book, "The Martian," features botanist Mark Watney's efforts to grow food on Mars after he becomes stranded there. While Watney's initial efforts focus on growing potatoes, new research presented ...
Planetary Sciences
Apr 26, 2023
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Your native language could impact your musical ability. A global study that compared the melodic and rhythmic abilities of almost half a million people speaking 54 different languages found that tonal speakers are better ...
Social Sciences
Apr 26, 2023
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Humans, like all mammals, expend energy to keep their internal temperatures within a healthy range. Modern human cities—because we built them that way—do the same thing.
Environment
Apr 12, 2023
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Research by the Milner Center for Evolution at the University of Bath, U.K., along with colleagues at Universities of Oxford and Aberdeen, finds that trust in scientists has hugely increased overall since the COVID-19 pandemic, ...
Social Sciences
Mar 29, 2023
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New UC Riverside research makes it likely that proteins responsible for activating mosquito sperm can be shut down, preventing them from swimming to or fertilizing eggs.
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 16, 2023
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Hummingbirds have the fastest metabolism of any animal. The tropical hummingbirds that live in the Andes Mountains in South America must expend considerable energy to maintain their high body temperatures in cold environments.
Plants & Animals
Mar 15, 2023
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College is a time of transition for young adults. It may be the first time students have the freedom to determine how to spend their time, but this freedom comes with competing interests from academics, social events and ...
Education
Feb 13, 2023
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On a cold winter day, the warmth of the sun is welcome. Yet as humanity emits more and more greenhouse gases, the Earth's atmosphere traps more and more of the sun's energy and steadily increases the Earth's temperature. ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 8, 2023
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Lurking beneath the ocean surface is a little-known chorus of sounds made up of everything from the grunts of a Bocon toadfish and the cough of an alewife to the rasp and ticks made by sablefish.
Ecology
Jan 19, 2023
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