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Beavers may help amphibians threatened by climate change
The recovery of beavers may have beneficial consequences for amphibians because beaver dams can create the unique habitats that amphibians need.
That finding was reported...
Hidden symmetry could be key to more robust quantum systems, researchers...
Researchers have found a way to protect highly fragile quantum systems from noise, which could aid in the design and development of new quantum...
Paleontologists find pterosaur precursors that fill a gap in early evolutionary...
Here's the original story of flight. Sorry, Wright Brothers, but this story began way before your time—during the Age of the Dinosaurs.
Pterosaurs were the...
Science of building sandcastles finally understood
Water vapor from ambient air will spontaneously condense inside porous materials or between touching surfaces. But with the liquid layer being only a few...
Space weather discovery puts ‘habitable planets’ at risk
A discovery that links stellar flares with radio-burst signatures will make it easier for astronomers to detect space weather around nearby stars outside the...
Error-prone quantum bits could correct themselves, physicists show
One of the chief obstacles facing quantum computer designers—correcting the errors that creep into a processor's calculations—could be overcome with a new approach by...
Dogs may never learn that every sound of a word matters
Despite their excellent auditory capacities, dogs do not attend to differences between words that differ only in one phoneme (e.g., "dog" vs "dig"), according...
Charles Darwin was right about why insects are losing the ability...
Most insects can fly.
Yet scores of species have lost that extraordinary ability, particularly on islands.
On the small islands that lie halfway between Antarctica and...
Face shields no match for sneeze vortex rings
Do face shields provide enough protection to the wearers against COVID-19 if they don't also wear a mask? Spoiler alert: no. But researchers at...
Breakthrough optical sensor mimics human eye, a key step toward better...
Researchers at Oregon State University are making key advances with a new type of optical sensor that more closely mimics the human eye's ability...
Natural reward theory could provide new foundation for biology
A link between evolution over short time frames (microevolution) and long time frames (macroevolution) that could open new approaches to understanding some of biology's...
