Every year, billions of birds undertake extraordinary migrations, crossing vast deserts and open seas with no place to stop, feed, or rest. A new international study published in iScience by a consortium of researchers from Tour du Valat,…
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Birds change altitude to survive epic journeys across deserts and seas
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Scientists Think Greenland’s Ice Is Churning Like Molten Rock : ScienceAlert
Deep inside the Greenland ice sheet, radar images have revealed strange, plume-like structures distorting the layering deposited over eons.
Now, more than a decade after their discovery, scientists think they have figured out what causes these…
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Videos: Humanoid Robot Martial Arts, Perseverance, More
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.
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An Unlikely Culprit Causes Lower Blood Sugar at Higher Altitudes
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Scientists have known for decades that people living at higher altitudes, where…
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Neutron scattering helps clarify magnetic behavior in altermagnetic material
Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have identified the true source of a magnetic effect seen in the material ruthenium dioxide (RuO₂), helping resolve an active debate in the rapidly growing field of altermagnetism. The…
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'Alpha male' AI world shuts out women: Computing prof Hall
Artificial intelligence could change the world but the dearth of women in the booming sector will undermine pledges for inclusive technology, top computer scientist Wendy Hall told AFP on Friday.
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Scientists Turn Cancer’s Bodyguards Against It
Scientists have found a way to turn cancer’s own immune bodyguards into weapons against it. Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have developed an experimental immunotherapy that tackles metastatic cancer in an unexpected…
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New generation of climate models sheds first light on long-standing Pacific puzzle
Researchers have long been puzzled by the observed cooling of the eastern tropical Pacific and the Southern Ocean accompanying global warming. Existing climate models have failed to capture this pattern. At the Max Planck Institute for…
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Scientists Just Recreated the Big Bang’s First Moments, and It’s More Complex Than We Thought
Physicists have made a monumental discovery that sheds light on the early moments of the universe. By recreating conditions resembling the first milliseconds after the Big Bang, researchers at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have uncovered…
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Blood marker from dementia research could help track aging across the animal world
A protein called neurofilament light chain (NfL)—studied in humans in the context of neurodegenerative diseases and aging—is also detectable in the blood of numerous animals, and NfL levels increase with age in mice, cats, dogs and horses….
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