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Where U.S. states rank on new housing supply pipeline
In order to know where you're going, you must know where you've been, says an old adage. And a new UNLV housing supply rankings report is putting that proverb i...
Historic duck DNA traces wild mallard genetic changes to more than a century of releases
Researchers have long known that releasing domesticated ducks can alter wild populations. Now, a study led by a doctoral student at The University of Texas at E...
Ultrasound reveals hidden tongue movements behind centuries-old language change
Scientists at Lancaster University have observed the hidden tongue movements accompanying a centuries-old change in English speech—offering a rare glimpse of la...
New research fills critical gaps in Central America's freshwater biodiversity knowledge
Three new peer-reviewed publications help to fill critical gaps in knowledge about Central America's freshwater ecosystems, which support extraordinary biodiver...
Fractal patterns reveal hidden limits to AI predictability
Researchers at the University of Sydney have identified a fundamental mathematical reason why artificial intelligence systems can learn different behaviors even...
Prehistoric 'giant rat' found in Thailand from fossil teeth
A giant rodent weighing around 30 kilograms (66 pounds) roamed what is now southern Thailand 33 to 35 million years ago, scientists said, after identifying a pr...
Google turns off AI for schoolchildren by default
Google has said it will switch off its AI tools for schoolchildren by default, after drawing criticism for pushing artificial intelligence features to students...
Australia approves seabed site where a Japanese company will store carbon pollution
Australia has designated a seabed storage site near its northern coast where a Japanese company plans to store massive amounts of carbon pollution using a techn...
Centuries-old cemetery helps scientists link climate shocks to Industrial Revolution disease
During England's Industrial Revolution, when the country's farming-based economy transformed into an industrial one between roughly 1760 and 1840, pollution, ha...
Japan's ALS community is ready to become research partners, nationwide survey suggests
People living with ALS and their families in Japan are eager to help shape research on the disease, even though most have never heard of patient and public invo...
A new route to calculating gluon production in proton–nucleus collisions
In the theoretical study of proton-nucleus collisions, the colliding projectiles can be described as streams of color charges moving along their respective traj...
Earth atmosphere emulators could enable faster and more accurate weather predictions
If you partitioned the entire Earth, from just below the surface to the top of the atmosphere, into 1-kilometer-square chunks, there would be billions of them....