There’s no place like home: Many insects moving north in response to climate change find they have nowhere to go in Britain’s intensively managed landscapes,…

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Passive device relies on a layer of material that blocks incoming sunlight but lets heat radiate away. Imagine a device that can sit outside under…

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These trackways allow researchers to explore habitat preferences in high-latitude dinosaurs. Abundant dinosaur footprints in Alaska reveal that high-latitude hadrosaurs preferred tidally influenced habitats, according…

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A University of Georgia researcher is working to correct this misconception and public health threat. More than 30 million people in the United States wrongly…

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There’s a speed limit on the damage surface ponds can do to ice shelves, but that doesn’t mean they’re not dangerous. Dangers to ancient Antarctic…

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EPFL researchers, with colleagues at the University of Cambridge and IBM Research–Zurich, unravel novel dynamics in the interaction between light and mechanical motion with significant…

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Drexel University researchers’ program designs materials with human-like microvasculature. The complex network of veins that keeps us cool during the heat of summer has inspired…

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An international team of researchers has taken a comprehensive look at the genomes of all seven species of watermelon, creating a resource that could help…

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Imagine being trapped inside a collapsed building after a disaster, wondering if anybody will be brave enough to rescue you. Suddenly, a door bursts open,…

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For years news outlets have tied major sporting events to an increase in sex trafficking, but researchers have now revealed that assumption is a myth…

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Researchers use 3-dimensional electron microscopy to map the local connectome in the cerebral cortex. Mammalian brains, with their unmatched number of nerve cells and density…

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New Modeling Tool Has Implications for Better Understanding of Disease Remember domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species and Darwin’s tree of life metaphor…

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The true nature of dark matter is one of the biggest mysteries in the universe. Scientists are trying to determine what exactly dark matter is…

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