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Project CETI (Cetacean Translation Initiative) has published two scientific studies presenting the most comprehensive documentation of a sperm whale b...
For decades, ever since biologists recognized the potential environmental harms from climate change, they have worried that plants will not be able to...
Using X-ray lasers, researchers at Stockholm University have been able to determine the existence of a critical point in supercooled water at around -...
Anopheles darlingi mosquitoes—a major vector of malaria in South America—are evolving in response to insecticides, which may make them harder to kill...
Improving tsunami hazard assessments depends on understanding what happens at the moment an earthquake ruptures beneath the seafloor, especially near...
In a study published in Science, an international research team from the Mansoura University Vertebrate Paleontology Center (Egypt) and the University...
One of the most puzzling aspects of common chronic inflammatory skin diseases such as psoriasis is how they become chronic. What allows an ongoing con...
Scientists at Curtin University have solved a long-standing mystery about how some of the world's best-preserved fossils formed in ancient oxygen-free...
Classifying ancient pottery has always depended on the trained judgment of an archaeologist. Identifying the subtle differences between piece types ta...
Benzene, a compound linked with leukemia and other blood cancers, is leaking from gas stoves in Europe, a new study finds. According to the World Heal...
The Mangareva Islands are about 1,600 kilometers southeast of Tahiti in French Polynesia. They get their name (which means "floating mountains") from...
The analysis of a sediment core from an oasis lake in Chad provides new insights into the history of precipitation in the Sahara. The study, led by th...
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