A mystery interstellar object discovered last week is likely to be the oldest comet ever seen – possibly predating our solar system by more than three billion years, researchers say.
The “water ice-rich” visitor, named 3I/ATLAS, is only the third…
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Brighter, bolder, hotter: Why female guppies can’t resist orange
It turns out color isn’t just fashionable for guppies: According to a new UBC study, the more orange a male, the more virile it is.
The research published in Nature Ecology & Evolution shines light on an enduring evolutionary mystery: why male…
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Nitrogen benchmarking for cropping systems
Foreign Agricultural Service. Grain: World Markets and Trade (U.S. Department of Agriculture, 2023); https://go.nature.com/4ks964W
EU Nitrogen Expert Panel. Nitrogen Use Efficiency (NUE) – Guidance Document for Assessing NUE at Farm Level…
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Consequential differences in satellite-era sea surface temperature trends across datasets
Freeman, E. et al. ICOADS Release 3.0: a major update to the historical marine climate record. Int. J. Climatol. 37, 2211–2232 (2017).
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Hausfather, Z. et al. Assessing recent…
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A neuromorphic processor with on-chip learning for beyond-CMOS device integration
Richter, O. et al. DYNAP-SE2: a scalable multi-core dynamic neuromorphic asynchronous spiking neural network processor. Neuromorphic Comput. Eng. 4, https://doi.org/10.1088/2634-4386/ad1cd7 (2024).
Pehle, C. et al. The BrainScales-2 accelerated…
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Generative artificial intelligence: the ‘more knowledgeable other’ in a social constructivist framework of medical education
The acquisition of knowledge and understanding is more complex than the simply transmitting facts from the external world to the learner. A social, collective notion of knowledge recognises that learners establish a dialogue to stimulate…
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The echoes of social media friends’ travels: social influence and venue selection in a hyperconnected world
To address our research questions, we utilize a real-world, large-scale behavioral dataset to investigate how social connections impact users’ travel decisions. The availability of objective digital traces supports a quantitative observational…
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Forget 3D printing—DNA and water now build tiny machines that assemble themselves
When the Empire State Building was constructed, its 102 stories rose above midtown one piece at a time, with each individual element combining to become, for 40 years, the world’s tallest building. Uptown at Columbia, Oleg Gang and his chemical…
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High-resolution (10 m) dataset of multi-crop planting structure on the Loess Plateau during 2018–2022
Study area
The Loess Plateau is situated in the middle and upper reaches of the Yellow River Basin (https://www.geodata.cn/), covering an area of 6.22 × 105 km2 and spanning latitude 33°69′ to 41°28′N, and longitude 100°86′ to…
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Tariffs and food security in the US–Mexico agricultural corridor
The State of Agricultural Commodity Markets: The Geography of Food and Agricultural Trade: Policy Approaches for Sustainable Development (FAO, 2022).
Brander, M., Bernauer, T. & Huss, M. Nat. Food 4, 331–340 (2023).
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