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Growing noise in the ocean can cause dolphins to change their calls
Noise levels in the world's oceans are on the rise, but little is known about its impact on marine mammals like dolphins that rely...
Cacao analysis dates the dawn of domesticated chocolate trees to 3,600 years ago
Researchers analyzing the genomes of cultivated cacao trees have traced their origin to a "single domestication event" some 3,600 years ago. The discovery opens...
New Caledonian crows can create tools from multiple parts
An international team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology and the University of Oxford has revealed that New Caledonian crows are...
Noble metal-free catalyst system as active as platinum
Industry uses platinum alloys as catalysts for oxygen reduction, essential in fuel cells and metal-air batteries, among other applications. Expensive and rare, that metal...
Mystery of how black widow spiders create steel-strength silk webs further unravelled
Researchers at Northwestern University and San Diego State University (SDSU) have better unraveled the complex process of how black widow spiders transform proteins into...
How to mass produce cell-sized robots
Tiny robots no bigger than a cell could be mass-produced using a new method developed by researchers at MIT. The microscopic devices, which the...
Better cardiorespiratory fitness leads to longer life
Cleveland Clinic researchers have found that better cardiorespiratory fitness leads to longer life, with no limit to the benefit of aerobic fitness.
Researchers retrospectively studied...
New Caledonian crows can create compound tools
An international team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Seewiesen, Germany, and the University of Oxford have revealed that New...
A first ‘snapshot’ of the complete spectrum of neutrinos emitted by the sun
About 99 percent of the Sun's energy emitted as neutrinos is produced through nuclear reaction sequences initiated by proton-proton (pp) fusion in which hydrogen...
Crater that killed the dinosaurs reveals how broken rocks can flow like liquid
Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid the size of a small city smashed into the earth. This impact, the one that would lead to...
Mathematicians propose new hunting model to save rhinos and whales from extinction
Mathematicians have created a new model—of a variety commonly found in the world of finance—to show how to harvest a species at an optimal...
