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Cognitive cross-training enhances learning, study finds
Illinois professor Aron Barbey led a study that examined how cognitive cross-training affects skill learning.
Credit: Graphic by Julie McMahon
Just as athletes cross-train to improve...
Venus’s turbulent atmosphere
The atmospheric superrotation at the upper clouds of Venus. While the superrotation is present in both day and night sides of Venus, it seems...
Could ‘cocktail geoengineering’ save the climate?
New research from an international team of atmospheric scientists investigates for the first time the possibility of using a "cocktail" of geoengineering tools to...
Cosmologists produce new maps of dark matter dynamics
Slice through the celestial equator showing the radial component of the velocity field (in kilometres per second). Blue regions are falling towards us and...
Child living with HIV maintains remission without drugs since 2008
Researchers have renewed hope to learn how to induce long-term HIV remission in infected babies.
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A nine-year-old South African child who...
Ancient whodunit may be solved: Methane-producing microbes did it!
An outburst of methane produced effects similar to those predicted by current models of global climate change: a sudden, extreme rise in temperatures, combined...
Giant mass extinction quicker than previously thought: End-Permian extinction happened in 60,000 years
Artist's rendering of the landscape during end-Permian extinction.
Credit: José-Luis Olivares/MIT
The largest mass extinction in the history of animal life occurred some 252 million years...
Amphibians and dinosaurs were the new large predators after the mass extinction
This is the fossil of Saurichthys, a top predator among the Triassic fishes.
Credit: Picture: UZH
Some 252 million years ago the largest extinction event occurred...
300 million-year-old ‘modern’ beetle from Australia reconstructed
This is a 3-D habitual and environmental reconstructions of Ponomarenkia belmonthensis restored after linedrawing of the holotype and 2-D reconstruction. The plant is Australian...
Water in moon rocks provides clues and questions about lunar history
This shows secondary electron image of pits left by ion microprobe analyses of a heterogeneous apatite grain in Apollo sample 14321, 1047. Water has...
Moon has a water-rich interior
Evidence from ancient volcanic deposits suggests that lunar magma contained substantial amounts of water, bolstering the idea that the moon's interior is water-rich.
Credit: Olga...
