Courtship dazzle in spiders can lose some zing in uncertain climates. Males in places with hard-to-predict rain and temperatures devolve into suitors who woo mostly with cheap, useless gifts.
Researchers have described gift giving in…
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X-ray vision: Seeing through the mystery of an X-ray emissions mechanism
Since the 1960s, scientists who study X-rays, lightning and similar phenomena have observed something curious: In lab experiments replicating these occurrences, electrons accelerated between two electrodes can be of a higher energy than the…
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Climate change experts see dark clouds ahead — Harvard Gazette
Climate experts expect a second Trump administration to feature multipronged attacks on recent years’ climate change progress, with battles in the courts, in Congress, and involving the enormous administrative power vested in the…
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Newly-Discovered Gene Enhances Photosynthetic Efficiency and Plant Productivity
Biologists have identified a new gene in California poplar trees (Populus trichocarpa) — named BOOSTER — that enhances photosynthesis and can boost tree height.
Transgenic hybrid poplar with increased expression levels of BSTR enhanced…
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A new way to create realistic 3D shapes using generative AI
Creating realistic 3D models for applications like virtual reality, filmmaking, and engineering design can be a cumbersome process requiring lots of manual trial and error.
While generative artificial intelligence models for images can streamline…
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Dietary evidence bolsters Clovis hunters’ reputation as mammoth killers
Ancient North Americans are looking more and more like experienced mammoth killers.
Archaeologists have long debated whether the Clovis people, who lived around 13,000 years ago, had the know-how and technology to regularly hunt the…
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New videos reveal the hidden lives of Andean bears
Camera collar footage is unveiling the secret lives of Andean bears (Tremarctos ornatus), South America’s only surviving ursid. A wild Andean bear in Peru was caught eating soil or clay, courting females and even cannibalizing a dead…
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Ultra-wideband Wireless Signals Simplify EV Batteries
A new ultra-wideband wireless system that collects data from batteries could help boost the range of electric vehicles and simplify their development and assembly.
Electric vehicles collect a lot of data from their batteries, such as information…
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Study in neurosurgery patients reveals numerical concepts are processed deep in ancient part of brain
New research reveals the unique human ability to conceptualize numbers may be rooted deep within the brain.
Further, the results of the study by Oregon Health & Science University involving neurosurgery patients suggests new possibilities for…
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Starchy nanofibers shatter the record for world’s thinnest pasta
The world record for the thinnest pasta has been shattered, though the new, narrow noodles are better suited to wound dressings than the dinner table.
From white flour, researchers made starch-rich nanofibers that are about 370…
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