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A current system in the Atlantic Ocean that shapes regional climates and distributes ocean nutrients also serves as a control knob to help regulate temperatures across the planet, new research has found.
What is heat, and what is useful work if a machine consists only of an atom and light particles? In modern quantum technologies, this kind of question…
Researchers have uncovered rainforest communities previously hidden within the rugged gullies of the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area that a…
Climate change presents animals and plants with a fundamental challenge: What can they do when their established habitats become increasingly warm? Th…
Levels in Lakes Mead and Powell have not been so low since 1957, underscoring a water crisis that plagues seven states that rely on the Colorado River…
New research into seafood consumption and production in Brazil highlights how one of the world's most populous countries could build healthier and mor…
There is no question that the current global temperature increase is human-caused. Global warming has long since emerged as the dominant signal amid n…
Every year, thousands of tons of radish by-products generated during kimchi production are discarded despite containing valuable carbon and nutrient r…
The Milky Way has a secret history of galaxy mergers that we are only now starting to uncover. The Hubble Space Telescope has discovered evidence that…
Histone variants help establish DNA methylation at transposons (jumping genes) while preventing this epigenetic modification from spreading to essenti…
Students around the world are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT to find answers to questions about physics, accord…
Researchers at Michigan State University have discovered that neurons in a locust's brain can distinguish among multiple PFAS compounds, including PFO…
Here's what it was like watching a total solar eclipse 90 minutes north of Madrid. DURATÓN, Spain—I'll say it: I'm hooked. Standing in the shadow of the Moon is one of the rarest opportunities to directly sense the mechanics of our Solar System, when the dance between three celestial bodies slides into perfect alignment. It's a mathematical miracle whose rarity and grandeur are made possible by the relative sizes and distances of the Moon and the…
Sunflowers are unable to fully recover from drought, new research has found, contradicting previous findings on the plant's ability to reverse drought…
It took nearly 15 years, researchers around the world and enough computing power to search through a universe of possibilities to answer one question:…
NASA has selected four companies to provide payload processing facilities under the Spacecraft Processing Operations Contract on‑ramp provision. The p…
New research suggests that no matter what we eventually determine the last common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees to be, we'll learn it was a prima…
Physicists at the University of Twente have improved the standard test for the quality of individual particles of light. By letting three photons inte…
Flinders University researchers examined AOD VET provision in Australia in 2024, comparing it with a 2011 review, and found there has been a contracti…
China's space program has returned to flight after an Aug. 10 Long March 7A rocket explosion, launching both a Long March 12 and a Long March 2C rocke…
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When people think about climate change and animals, they might picture melting sea ice, drought-stricken landscapes or species struggling in the wild.…
Children and seniors who have difficulty chewing and swallowing conventional tablets may have an easier way to find pain relief. Cornell researchers h…
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The missing works include three panels from a 15th-century altarpiece by Antonello da Messina, as well as a two-sided devotional painting by the artis…
A new review led by professor Emese Bordy at the University of Cape Town (UCT) Department of Geological Sciences brings together more than two decades…
A NASA-funded air pollution monitoring network has provided one of the most detailed long-term views yet of the role of black carbon, or soot produced…
Cells travel through the body both individually and in collective groups during development, wound healing and diseases such as cancer. New research f…
