New RoboBee flies, dives, swims and explodes out the of water
New, hybrid RoboBee can fly, dive into water, swim, propel itself back out of water, and safely land. The RoboBee is retrofitted with four...
Hydropower dams worldwide cause continued species extinction
Hydropower plant (stock image). Scientists have discovered that reservoir islands created by large dams across the world do not maintain the same levels of...
Earliest known marine navigation tool revealed with scanning technology
Scan of the astrolabe artefact, revealing the etches.
Credit: Image courtesy of University of Warwick
Details of the earliest known marine navigation tool, discovered in a...
Studying insect behavior? Make yourself an ethoscope!
Exploded drawing of an archetypal ethoscope. The machine is composed of 2 main parts: an upper case housing the rPi and its camera, and...
New NASA study improves search for habitable worlds
This is a plot of what the sea ice distribution could look like on a synchronously rotating ocean world. The star is off to...
Six degrees of separation: Why it is a small world after all
It's a small world after all.
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It's a small world after all -- and now science has explained why.
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Sea-level rise, not stronger storm surge, will cause future NYC flooding
Street map of New York City showing maximum projected future storm surge. Natural water is in dark blue, 2100 levels are in medium blue...
Taste, not appearance, drives corals to eat plastics
A white fleck of plastic is engulfed by a coral polyp. New research finds the non-nutritive food may simply 'taste good' to the corals.
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Crops evolving ten millennia before experts thought
Professor Robin Allaby.
Credit: University of Warwick
Professor Robin Allaby, in Warwick's School of Life Sciences, has discovered that human crop gathering was so extensive, as...
Smart birds: Canada geese give hunters the slip by hiding out in Chicago
Canada geese at a rail yard in Chicago.
Credit: Mike Ward
It's open season for Canada geese in Illinois from mid-October to mid-January. Unfortunately for hunters,...
How Neanderthals influenced human genetics at the crossroads of Asia and Europe
Scientists are examining DNA sequences we have inherited from Neanderthals. (stock image)
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When the ancestors of modern humans migrated out of...
