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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)
Credit: © procy_ab / Fotolia
When the ancestors of modern humans migrated out of...
Live long and … Facebook?
A UC San Diego study links online social interactions to longevity.
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Is social media good for you, or bad? Well,...
Filling the early universe with knots can explain why the world is three-dimensional
This is a computer graphic showing the kind of tight network of flux tubes that the physicists propose may have filled the early universe.
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The blob that ate the tokamak: Physicists gain understanding of bubbles at edge of...
PPPL physicist Michael Churchill.
Credit: Elle Starkman
To fuse hydrogen atoms into helium, doughnut-shaped devices called tokamaks must maintain the heat of the ultrahot plasma they...
Innovative smart watch and smart ring
The 2.5-D RetroShape -- a smart watch with a shape-deforming back -- is among Dartmouth's offerings at UIST 2017.
Credit: © Da-Yuan Huang
A watch that...
Potential human habitat located on the moon
The Marius Hills Skylight, as observed by the Japanese SELENE/Kaguya research team.
Credit: NASA/Goddard/Arizona State University
A study published in Geophysical Research Letters confirms the existence...
Slow Internet? New technology to speed up home broadband dramatically
Data center (stock image).
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Slow internet speeds and the Internet 'rush hour' -- the peak time when data speeds drop by...
