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Snowfall and clouds may slow East Antarctic ice loss in a warmer world
A new modeling study, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, suggests that the East Antarctic Ice Sheet may be more resilient to extreme long-term warm...
NASA's Voyager 1 conserves power, resolves brief communications pause
NASA's Voyager team is celebrating two recent developments with the Voyager 1 spacecraft: In September, they successfully completed a months-long effort to stre...
The genetic cost of being a lazy parent ... if you're a cuckoo finch
African cuckoo finches (Anomalospiza imberbis) are very deceptive birds, or at least the mothers are. They sneak into the nests of other birds, such as prinias...
Marine fossils in Colombia reveal possible evolutionary transition without mass extinction
A remarkably diverse fossil ecosystem in central Colombia that preserves an unusual overlap between survivors of older Jurassic groups and newer Cretaceous line...
Award-winning research helps companies keep products where they're needed most
Before a stick of deodorant reaches a consumer's bathroom counter, it moves through a complex supply chain. Raw materials and packaging components are sourced,...
JWST reveals a distant galaxy that may let most of its ionizing radiation escape
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have found evidence that a distant, exceptionally blue galaxy may allow most of its ionizing radiation t...
NASA's TRACERS first results offer peek into violent magnetic process
NASA's TRACERS (Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites) mission has gathered its first clues to how space weather affects Earth'...
Breeding advance could help protect East African rice harvests from bacterial blight
The rice disease bacterial leaf blight (for short: BB) is causing significant yield losses in Asia and Africa. It is triggered by the bacterium Xanthomonas oryz...
WaterPuzzle uses magnets to model water's hydrogen bonds for hands-on classroom exploration
Water is one of the most essential components of life, and many of its unique properties arise from interactions between its molecules. Hydrogen bonds influence...
China's leading universities often pair leaders with complementary backgrounds, analysis of 132 pairs finds
China's leading universities face two overlapping pressures: competing globally while remaining aligned with national strategic priorities. A study of 132 unive...
Extraterrestrial detection inspired by firefly communications could distinguish alien signals from pulsars
When we think of extraterrestrial intelligence that might be out there among the stars, we tend to think of creatures not too unlike us, though maybe with gray...
Resident experience matters in estimating neighborhood walkability, study shows
Walking has been shown to improve the overall health of a community and can predict the prevalence of chronic diseases, such as obesity, diabetes and cardiovasc...