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Couples showing off: Songbirds are more passionate in front of an audience
Both sexes of a songbird called the blue-capped cordon-bleu intensify courtship performances that involve singing and dancing in the presence of an audience, especially...
Secondary forests have short lifespans
Secondary forests, or forests that have regrown after agriculture use, only last an average of 20 years, according to a recently released scientific paper.
The...
Robot masters human balancing act
When walking in a crowded place, humans typically aren't thinking about how we avoid bumping into one another. We are built to use a...
When neglected children become adolescents
Many migrant children separated from their parents at the U.S. border, some of them very young, have landed in shelters where they often experience...
Cooling effect of preindustrial fires on climate underestimated
The Industrial Revolution brought about many things: the steam engine, the factory system, mass production.
But not, apparently, more wildfires. Actually, the opposite.
A new study,...
Scientists push microscopy to sub-molecular resolution
Notorious asphyxiator carbon monoxide has few true admirers, but it's favored by University of California, Irvine scientists who use it to study other molecules.
With...
Revolutionary ultra-thin ‘meta-lens’ enables full-color imaging
Light of different colors travels at different speeds in different materials and structures. This is why we see white light split into its constituent...
Researchers have discovered how to slow aging
Previous research published earlier this year in Nature Medicine involving University of Minnesota Medical School faculty Paul D. Robbins and Laura J. Niedernhofer and...
New tool helps scientists better target the search for alien life
Could there be another planet out there with a society at the same stage of technological advancement as ours? To help find out, EPFL...
Wildfire aerosols remain longer in atmosphere than expected
Rising 2,225 meters into the air on an island in the Azores archipelago, Pico Mountain Observatory is an ideal place to study aerosols—particles or...
Black holes ruled out as universe’s missing dark matter
For one brief shining moment after the 2015 detection of gravitational waves from colliding black holes, astronomers held out hope that the universe's mysterious...
