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Werewolf mice, ghostly frogs and cockroach zombies: The animal versions of our Halloween horrors
Around this time of year, elaborate decorations featuring ghosts, vampires, zombies, witches and werewolves adorn front doors, gardens and store windows across...
Africa's water availability sometimes goes untapped
Water demand in Africa grew by around 26% between 2010 and 2020, yet around 717 million people lacked a piped water supply in 2020, according to research publis...
New catalyst builds proton highways to tackle a long-standing hurdle in green ammonia synthesis
Over a century ago, the Haber-Bosch process, a two-step reaction for the synthesis of ammonia (NH₃), an irreplaceable chemical for the fertilizer industry, prev...
How stealth partisan outlets exploit trust in local journalism
New research from Carnegie Mellon University's Kenneth C. Griffin School of Computer Science found that partisan media operations spent millions of dollars on s...
Rubin observatory reveals two hidden companions of the Milky Way
Preview data from the recently completed NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile point to a wave of discoveries that may complete the census of the Milky Way...
Why people turn a blind eye to prisoner abuse
Common beliefs that people who commit crime are inherently bad and unlikely to change may make the public more accepting of illegitimate harms within the crimin...
Heat-evolved algae offer clues to helping corals withstand warming seas
A research team led by the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) has found that heat-evolved algae maintain more stable biomolecular profiles under elev...
Cosmic microwave background offers evidence of gas flowing in galaxy clusters
The cosmic microwave background (CMB) is a faint glow in the universe dating back to roughly 380,000 years after the Big Bang, long before stars or galaxies eme...
Capturing our closest archaeal relatives offers clues to the origin of eukaryotes
A collaborative research team led by Hiroyuki Imachi and Masaru K. Nobu of the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) and Satoshi Nakaga...
Rainfall can travel from mountain slopes to rivers far faster than expected in mountain catchments
Researchers at University of Tsukuba have found that river responses to rainfall can reach rivers and appear as runoff much more rapidly than previously assumed...
Ancient charcoal remains provide clues about Neanderthal camp organization
Usually, people associate archaeological studies with bones, pottery and primitive tools, but archaeologists often find other clues about how ancient people liv...
How universities can help deliver global biodiversity goals
"Taking Action for Nature" was the theme of CoP 17, the UN Biodiversity Conference 2026, which is drawing to a close in Yerevan, Armenia. A new analysis of Afri...