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How natural selection acted on one penguin species over the past quarter century
Heads held high at Punta Tombo. Credit: Dee Boersma
Biologists of all stripes attest to evolution, but have debated its details since Darwin’s day. Since...
High incomes study shows women are less than a quarter of top one per...
A new study by LSE’s International Inequalities Institute shows that women make up a smaller and smaller fraction of those with high incomes, the...
Making women’s sanitary products safer and cheaper
The nanofibers we produced are about 200 times thinner than cotton fibers. (a) Commercial sanitary napkins with fiber diameter ~30-40 micrometers; (b) Electrospun nanofiber-based...
Ear ossicles of modern humans and Neandertals – different shape, similar function
Tympanic membrane (grey), ossicular chain (yellow, green, red), and bony inner ear (blue) of a modern human with a One-Eurocent coin for scale.© A....
Have more than eight dental fillings? It could increase the mercury levels in your...
Dental surface restorations composed of dental amalgam, a mixture of mercury, silver, tin and other metals, significantly contribute to prolonged mercury levels in the...
Secure passwords can be sent through your body, instead of air
Potential applications for on-body transmissions include securely sending information to door locks, glucose sensors or other wearable medical devices.Credit: Vikram Iyer, University of Washington
Sending...
Artificial blood vessels developed in the lab can grow with the recipient
Researchers are working to create an "off-the-shelf" material that doctors can implant in a patient, and it can grow in the body. This research...
Creating antimatter via lasers?
The distribution of the laser intensity (orange), the foil electron and foil ion densities (gray), and the positron density (red) in the x--y plane....
The fall and rise of Native North America
Credit: University of Cambridge
The story of Native North America – from its vast contribution to world culture, to the often taboo social problems of...
Longest Record of Continuous Carbon Flux Data is Now Publicly Available
This map shows all of the tower sites around the world that contributed observations to the FLUXNET 2015 data release. Credit: http://fluxnet.fluxdata.org/
Around the world—from...
How wetlands and agriculture, not fossil fuels, could be causing a global rise in...
Wetlands and agriculture, not fossil fuels could be causing a global rise in methane.Credit: Flickr/jalan68
Research published in the American Geophysical Union's journal Global Biogeochemical...
