Male bonobos are able to interpret female fertility signals that do not reliably reflect ovulation. This ability lets them direct their mating attempts toward the moments when conception is most likely, according to research led by Heungjin Ryu…
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Saturday Citations: Nice people are happier; Uranus may not be icy; SIM farm reporting
This week, researchers identified signaling pathways underpinning drug resistance in pancreatic cancer, a normally lethal diagnosis. A physicist proposed that conscious states in the brain may arise from the brain’s ability to resonate with the…
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A long-nosed chameleon hid its true identity for 150 years
Madagascar is widely recognized for its extraordinary variety of chameleons. More than 40% of all species known worldwide live on this island off the East African coast. Among them is the so called Pinocchio chameleon, a reptile described for…
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A comprehensive assessment of Ghana’s energy security dimensions and environmental sustainability in a multi-indices analysis
The results of the energy security analysis are as follows: “Energy portfolio and concentration assessment”, “Assessment of the market structure of the power sector”, “Diversity and dependence assessment with the Shannon–Wiener…
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Widespread land surface cooling from paddy rice cultivation revealed by global satellite mapping
Yuan, S. et al. Sustainable intensification for a larger global rice bowl. Nat. Commun. 12, 7163 (2021).
Qian, H. et al. Greenhouse gas emissions and mitigation in rice agriculture. Nat. Rev….
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Real-World Diagnostics and Prognostics for Grid-Connected Battery Energy Storage Systems
This is a sponsored article brought to you by The University of Sheffield.
Across global electricity networks, the shift to renewable energy has fundamentally changed the behavior of power systems. Decades of engineering assumptions, predictable…
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Laughing about science more important than ever: Ig Nobel founder
With science increasingly coming under attack, using humor as a way to get people interested in scientific research is more important than ever, the founder of the satirical Ig Nobel prizes said.
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The Ivies can weather the Trump administration's research cuts. Public universities that have the most to lose
Most of the media coverage of the federal government’s recent cuts in federal research money for universities has focused on its effects on a handful of elite Ivy League universities, such as Harvard, Columbia and Cornell.
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Superfood potential of Chlorella vulgaris: productivity and antioxidant boost under simulated moon and microgravity conditions
Kovic, M. Risks of space colonization. Futures 126, 102638 (2021).
Caporale, A. G. et al. How to make the Lunar and Martian soils suitable for food production-Assessing the changes after manure…
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Numerical Signature Dataset of Curculionidae and Tenebrionidae Beetle Fragments for ML Identification
The complete methodological pipeline is illustrated in Fig. 1, which outlines the steps from image acquisition to feature extraction and signature analysis for insect classification.
Fig. 1 Methodological Workflow for Fragment-Based Numerical…
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