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Researchers in Spain have discovered that in collectives of moving fire ants, rippling "waves" of density and activity are likely triggered by local r...
Tire rubber contains antioxidant chemicals, most notably 6PPD and DPPD, that are released into the air as tiny particles during normal driving. A sing...
Researchers have found surprising links that show that Neanderthal ancestry influences our immune system today in ways more nuanced than previously re...
Spotted hyenas live in hierarchically organized groups (clans). An individual's dominance over another determines priority access to resources such as...
New research published in BMC Biology helps to fill in questions about the so-called "Furongian gap" from about 497 million to 485 million years ago,...
With the 2026 cotton planting season in full swing, research out of the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station provides a fresh reminder of the impo...
Quantum mechanics is a physics framework that describes how matter and energy behave at an extremely small scale, specifically at the scale of atoms a...
Saltmarsh is disappearing from coastlines around the world, and while brushwood fencing can help bring it back, a new study has found it only works if...
A new study of British wrens has provided new insights into the inner workings of "island syndromes," according to research led by the University of B...
Happy, a Bronx Zoo elephant who gave researchers new insight into the animal's behavior and became the crux of a closely watched animal rights case, h...
An irreversible shift in the chemical makeup of the Arctic Ocean driven by climate change is disrupting the region's food chain, a study suggests. Wid...
Living cells cool much slower than our current understanding of heat conduction can explain, according to new research from the University of Tokyo. R...
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