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Linguists predict unknown words using language comparison
For a long time, historical linguists have been using the comparative method to reconstruct earlier states of languages that are not attested in written...
New duckbilled dinosaur discovered in Japan
An international team of paleontologists has identified a new genus and species of hadrosaur or duck-billed dinosaur, Yamatosaurus izanagii, on one of Japan's southern...
How to get salt out of water: Make it self-eject
About a quarter of a percent of the entire gross domestic product of industrialized countries is estimated to be lost through a single technical...
‘Dominating’ fungus could be solution to producing more biofuels and chemicals
The discovery of a novel enzyme that releases a valuable chemical from agricultural waste could provide an important breakthrough in the upscaling of renewable...
Cleaner water through corn
Corn is America's top agricultural crop, and also one of its most wasteful. About half the harvest -- stalks, leaves, husks, and cobs --...
Extinct ‘horned’ crocodile gets new spot in the tree of life
A study led by scientists at the American Museum of Natural History has resolved a long-standing controversy about an extinct "horned" crocodile that likely...
Nanobodies inhibit SARS-CoV-2 infection, including emergent variants
Australian researchers have identified neutralising nanobodies that block the SARS-CoV-2 virus from entering cells in preclinical models.
The discovery paves the way for further investigations...
Researchers unveil oldest evidence of human activity in African desert cave
Few sites in the world preserve a continuous archaeological record spanning millions of years. Wonderwerk Cave, located in South Africa's Kalahari Desert, is one...
Icy clouds could have kept early Mars warm enough for rivers and lakes, study...
One of the great mysteries of modern space science is neatly summed up by the view from NASA's Perseverance, which just landed on Mars:...
‘Star light, star bright’ as explained by math
Not all stars shine brightly all the time. Some have a brightness that changes rhythmically due to cyclical phenomena like passing planets or the...
Fooling fusion fuel: How to discipline unruly plasma
The process designed to harvest on Earth the fusion energy that powers the sun and stars can sometimes be tricked. Researchers at the U.S....
