Over and over, the numbers tell the same story: 2024 was Earth’s hottest year on record, knocking the previous record holder — 2023 — out of the top spot (SN: 12/6/23). But temperatures alone can’t describe the human cost:…
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Meet a scientist tracking cactus poaching in the Atacama Desert
Pablo Guerrero has been visiting cacti in the Atacama Desert his whole life, first on family trips to the Chilean coast and later as a researcher studying the impacts of climate change and illegal poaching on the fragile flora.
The…
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Climate stress may undermine male spiders’ romantic gift giving
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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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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