Wits researchers unravel the mystery of non-cotectic magmatic rocks
Research answers question on how some magmatic rocks contain random proportions of minerals than what is expected for rocks of ...
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The physics that drives periodic economic downturns
The physics behind saving, investment and the time-dependent movement of spreading over an area reveals why all good things must ...
Aboriginal scars from frontier wars
Legacy of Australian colonial Native Mounted Police forceCredit: Flinders University Hundreds of Aboriginal men who became native mounted police in ...
UVM author reveals Thoreau’s relevance for today’s environmental and democratic crises
Bob Pepperman Taylor new book published by Notre Dame PressCredit: UVM Photo BURLINGTON - Bob Pepperman Taylor, the Elliott A. ...
Monty Python’s silly walk: A gait analysis and wake-up call to peer review inefficiencies
Credit: Chart created by Erin E. Butler and Nathaniel J. Dominy. Fifty years ago, Monty Python's famous sketch, "The Ministry ...
Sticky tape: A key ingredient for mapping artifact origins
Credit: RIKEN Researchers at the RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science in Japan have demonstrated that combining a highly sensitive ...
New book tells of early Antarctic explorations, continent’s connection to climate
A new book illustrates the environmental history of Antarctica through stories of 19th-century expeditions.Credit: Courtesy Gillen D'Arcy Wood CHAMPAIGN, Ill. ...
5,000-year-old milk proteins point to the importance of dairying in eastern Eurasia
Recent findings push back estimates of dairying in the eastern Steppe by more than 1,700 years, pointing to migration as ...
Each Mediterranean island has its own genetic pattern
Researchers reconstruct migration movements through ancient DNACredit: © David Caramelli The Mediterranean Sea has been a major route for maritime ...
Discovery at ‘flower burial’ site could unravel mystery of Neanderthal death rites
Credit: Graeme Barker The first articulated Neanderthal skeleton to come out of the ground for over 20 ...
WWI helmets protect against shock waves just as well as modern designs
French Adrian helmet suggests simple geometry may save brains from overhead blastsCredit: Joost Op 't Eynde, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. ...
Canterbury Tales is first major literary work developed as an app
Credit: Photo credit: Dave Stobbe for the University of Saskatchewan. A University of Saskatchewan-led international team has produced the first ...
Interactive map of mass uprisings around the world shows nonviolence works
Harvard-developed tool for studying mass uprisings shows that nonviolent uprisings are more successful than violent onesMapping Nonviolent and Violent Campaigns ...
Local activism can’t be crushed, research finds. At most, it changes target
New research by Fabrizio Perretti and Alessandro Piazza in the Strategic Management Journal finds that when community activists reach their ...