A team of shark researchers from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa has solved a long-standing mystery, identifying the first-ever documented mating hub for tiger sharks. The new…
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Acoustic tracking of tiger sharks at Olowalu finds they mate during Maui’s whale season : Maui Now
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Fragment of lost tectonic plate discovered where San Andreas and Cascadia faults meet
A fragment of a long-lost tectonic plate is sliding under the North American continent in the southern part of the Cascadia subduction zone, scientists have discovered. This leftover plate fragment could pose a new earthquake risk to the…
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Giraffe in space? Eerie dark nebula takes on an uncanny shape (photo)
Astrophotographer Greg Meyer has captured an evocative image of a shadowy nebula drifting through interstellar space, which conjures the image of a cosmic giraffe galloping through a sea of stars.
Meyer’s photo reveals the smoke-like mass of LDN…
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New map of Antarctica reveals hidden world of lakes, valleys and mountains buried beneath miles of ice
Scientists have mapped the bedrock beneath Antarctica‘s massive ice sheet in unprecedented detail, revealing hidden structures that form the glacier.
The ice sheet, which spans more than 5.4 million square miles (14 million square kilometers),…
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Scientists Unearth Baby Dinosaur Fossils in a Remote Corner of the Frozen Arctic
Fossils from baby dinosaurs, some no bigger than a fingernail, point to the possibility that certain species lived and nested year-round in the Arctic, enduring freezing temperatures and months of darkness, about 70 million years…
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Archaeologists Unearth 200,000-Year-Old Evidence of Ancient Human-Like Species that Lived Alongside Early Humans
A new archaeological discovery in Sulawesi, Indonesia, has uncovered significant evidence of early human occupation, shedding light on the complex interplay between archaic hominins and Homo sapiens. This discovery, published in the journal PLoS…
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These genes were thought to lead to blindness 100% of the time. They don’t.
Genetic variants believed to cause blindness in nearly everyone who carries them actually lead to vision loss less than 30% of the time, new research finds.
The study challenges the concept of Mendelian diseases, or diseases and disorders…
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At 25, Wikipedia Now Faces Its Most Existential Threat—Generative A.I.
Ian Ramjohn remembers the first time he edited Wikipedia. It was 2004, when the site was just three years old, and its information about the government of his home nation of Trinidad and Tobago was a decade out of date. But with little more than…
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Scientist Spots Little Bee In Orchard — And Realizes She’s Incredibly Rare
This past summer, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) ecologist Molly Jacobson was out collecting specimens around ESF’s orchard in Syracuse, New York, when she stumbled on something amazing.
There, flying among the trees,…
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Our model of the universe is deeply flawed — unless space is actually a ‘sticky fluid’, new research hints
Recent observations have revealed that our understanding of the cosmos is flawed, but it may be because the universe is “stickier” than we assumed, new research proposes.
In a paper that was published on the arXiv preprint server but has not…
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