Animal aggression depends on rank within social hierarchies
Credit: Tom Koerner/USFWS Humans and animals alike constantly size up one another. In the workplace, a new employee quickly learns which coworkers are the most...
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Extreme-scale computing and AI forecast a promising future for fusion power
Credit: Photo by Elle Starkman/PPPL Office of Communications. Simulation and image from Robert Hager and Seung-Hoe Ku. Efforts to duplicate on Earth the fusion reactions...
Breaking the patrisharky: Scientists reexamine gender biases in shark, ray mating research
New study analyzes biological drivers of multiple paternity in sharks and rays, challenging decades of unbalanced researchCredit: Georgia Aquarium Shark scientists at Georgia Aquarium, Scripps...
Exploring pieces of heart muscle that fail to compact
University of Houston researcher awarded $2.5M to study "spongy heart"Credit: University of Houston University of Houston pharmacologist Mingfu Wu has been awarded $2.5 million from...
Newly discovered millipede, Nannaria hokie, lives at Virginia Tech
Credit: Virginia Tech Hearing the words "new species discovered" may conjure images of deep caves, uncharted rainforests, or hidden oases in the desert. But the...
A super-Earth is discovered which can be used to test planetary atmosphere models
Credit: RenderArea During the past 25 years astronomers have discovered a wide variety of exoplanets, made of rock, ice and gas, thanks to the construction...
CSU’s Kyle Horton leads NASA study on impact of artificial light on migratory birds
Credit: Kyle Horton A groundbreaking study published in 2017 found that artificial light from the Tribute in Light installation at the National September 11 Memorial...
New evidence COVID-19 antibodies, vaccines less effective against variants
Worrisome new coronavirus variants can evade antibodies that neutralize original virusCredit: Matt Miller/Washington University New research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis...
Neural networks need more than neurons, new project posits
Credit: Vincent Breton-Provencher/MIT Picower Institute By encoding a feature of biological intelligence called reinforcement learning, in which we iteratively learn from successes and failures, "deep...
Fermented wool is the answer
FAU researchers reveal the secret of the famous Pazyryk carpetCredit: FAU/Dr. Andreas Späth The Pazyryk carpet is the world's oldest example of a knotted-pile carpet...
Easy-to-deliver mRNA treatment shows promise for stopping flu and Covid-19 viruses
Credit: (Photo: Georgia Institute of Technology) With a relatively minor genetic change, a new treatment developed by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and...
A COSMIC approach to nanoscale science
Instrument at Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source achieves world-leading resolution of nanomaterialsCredit: Chungnam National University COSMIC, a multipurpose X-ray instrument at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's...
NASA’s ICESat-2 satellite reveals shape, depth of Antarctic ice shelf fractures
Credit: Shujie Wang, Penn State When a block of ice the size of Houston, Texas, broke off from East Antarctica's Amery Ice Shelf in 2019,...
Preventive Medicine publishes special issue focused on eliminating cervical cancer
Moffitt Cancer Center's Dr. Anna Giuliano one of two guest editors for the issueCredit: Moffitt Cancer Center Cervical cancer is a serious global health threat...
A world without cervical cancer: Preventive Medicine publishes special issue to further global efforts to eliminate deadly disease
More than 100 scientists provide guidance towards meeting WHO global strategy of eliminating cervical cancer by 2030Credit: Moffitt Cancer Center Amsterdam, March 4, 2021 -...
