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Ants use collective ‘brainpower’ to navigate obstacles
Ants use their numbers to overcome navigational challenges that are too large and disorienting to be tackled by any single individual, reports a new...
Moths have a secret but vital role as pollinators in the night
Moths are important pollen transporters in English farmland and might play a role in supporting crop yields, according to a new UCL study.
The research,...
Ancient rocks show high oxygen levels on Earth two billion years ago
Earth crust may have been far more oxygen-rich early in its history than previously thought, setting the stage for the evolution of complex life,...
Growing mountains or shifting ground: What is going on in Earth’s inner core?
Exhaustive seismic data from repeating earthquakes and new data-processing methods have yielded the best evidence yet that the Earth's inner core is rotating—revealing a...
Machine learning cracks quantum chemistry conundrum
A new machine learning tool can calculate the energy required to make—or break—a molecule with higher accuracy than conventional methods. While the tool can...
Older women more likely to conceive twins due to evolution
Women are more likely to conceive fraternal twins once they reach their 30s as a result of an evolutionary response to combat declining embryo...
Can we really tell male and female dinosaurs apart?
Scientists worldwide have long debated our ability to identify male and female dinosaurs. Now, research led by Queen Mary University of London has shown...
Researchers report memresistor material composition breakthrough
Scientists around the world are intensively working on memristive devices that draw extremely low power and behave similarly to neurons in the brain. Researchers...
Researchers create electronic diodes beyond 5G performance
David Storm, a research physicist, and Tyler Growden, an electrical engineer, both with the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, developed a new gallium nitride-based electrical...
Beetle penis field investigations lead to new species discovery in Norway
It took seven years, countless beetle penis field investigations, and hours upon hours on hands and knees in coastal wetlands. This is the story...
Change of direction in immune defense: Frankincense reprograms inflammatory enzyme
A research team from the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena (Germany) and Louisiana State University has clarified the molecular mechanism behind the anti-inflammatory effect...
