An experiment to grow new forests in central Mexico offers hope that the crucial winter habitat for millions of migrating monarch butterflies could survive into the next century.
When scientists decided to plant hundreds of baby…
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Manliness concerns impede forgiveness of coworkers
To forgive is to move on and set a foundation for a brighter future. In the workplace, forgiveness makes for healthier and more effective workgroups, especially when co-worker transgressions are minor and the need for effective collaboration is…
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How tiny phytoplankton trek long distances upward in the ocean
It’s one of the most massive migrations on Earth: a huge biomass of tiny plankton that travel from deep in the sea toward the surface. Yet not all of those organisms have limbs to propel themselves upward. So how some of them manage…
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Emteq’s Eyewear Detects Emotions, Could Monitor Health
Emteq Labs wants eyewear to be the next frontier of wearable health technology.
The Brighton, England-based company introduced today its emotion-sensing eyewear, Sense. The glasses contain nine optical sensors distributed across the rims that…
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Archaeologists uncover traces of real world Ragnarök
Archaeologists have found traces of a climate disaster 1500-years-ago that might have inspired the legend of Ragnarök from Norse mythology.
Ragnarök is a series of events and natural disasters that culminates in the submersion of Midgard and the…
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Navigation research often excludes the environment. That’s starting to change
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P.F. Velasco and H.J. Spiers. Wayfinding across ocean and tundra: what traditional cultures teach us about navigation. Trends in Cognitive Science. Vol. 28, January 2024, p. 56. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2023.09.004.
P.F. Velasco and…
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DNA from old hair helps confirm the macabre diet of two 19th century lions
A pair of male lions that roamed Kenya more than a century ago gained notoriety as the “man-eaters of Tsavo.” To be sure, the big cats hunted and ate people building a local railway. But a novel DNA analysis of hairs stuck in the…
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A viral gene drive could offer a new approach to fighting herpes
A new gene drive can copy and paste itself into the genomes of herpes simplex viruses in mice. The end goal is a version that disables the virus in humans.
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Uncrackable: Scorpions and Sponges Inspire Sustainable Design – Chemistry | Weizmann Wonder Wander
Humans are by no means alone in the search for more sustainable materials. Nature, too, has been “working” on the problem of sustainability, and it’s been at it for a great deal longer. In a new study, researchers at the Weizmann Institute…
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