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Climate scientists increasingly ignore ecological role of Indigenous peoples
In their zeal to promote the importance of climate change as an ecological driver, climate scientists increasingly are ignoring the profound role that indigenous...
Study reveals strange magnetic behaviour 8-11 million years ago
Research by the University of Liverpool has revealed that strange behaviour of the magnetic field in the South Atlantic region existed as far back...
Climate change on track to wipe out polar bears by 2100
Climate change is starving polar bears into extinction, according to research published Monday that predicts the apex carnivores could all but disappear within the...
Changes in farming urgent to rescue biodiversity, scientists say
Over 360 scientists from 42 countries—led by the University of Göttingen and Westlake University China—call for transition of food production systems to agroecological principles.
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Neanderthals of the Western Mediterranean did not become extinct because of changes in climate
Homo Neanderthaliensis did not become extinct because of changes in climate. At least, this did not happen to the several Neanderthal groups that lived...
Plato was right: Earth is made, on average, of cubes
Plato, the Greek philosopher who lived in the 5th century B.C.E., believed that the universe was made of five types of matter: earth, air,...
Quantum exciton found in magnetic van der Waals material
Things can always be done faster, but can anything beat light? Computing with light instead of electricity is seen as a breakthrough to boost...
Archaeologists use tooth enamel protein to show sex of human remains
A new method for estimating the biological sex of human remains based on reading protein sequences rather than DNA has been used to study...
Single nanoparticles could pave the way for medicines on demand
For the first time, a single, twisted nanoparticle has been accurately measured and characterised in a lab, taking scientists one vital step closer to...
COVID-19: Viral shutdown of protein synthesis method found
Researchers from Munich and Ulm have determined how the pandemic coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 inhibits the synthesis of proteins in infected cells and shown that it...
New insight into the origin of water on the earth
Scientists have found the interstellar organic matter could produce an abundant supply of water by heating, suggesting that organic matter could be the source...
