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Alaskan rainforests are a global lichen hotspot, new study shows
The rainforest fjords of Southeastern Alaska harbour one of the highest concentrations of lichen diversity found…
Learning what's dangerous is costly, but social animals have a way of lowering the price
What would you do if the person standing next to you suddenly screamed and ran away?…
SOFIA Finds Clues Hidden in Pluto’s Haze
Remote observations of Pluto by NASA’s telescope on an airplane SOFIA show that the thin haze…
ORNL, LANL-developed quantum technologies go the distance
For the second year in a row, a team from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge…
Geometry guided construction of earliest known temple, built 6,000 years before Stonehenge
The sprawling 11,500-year-old stone Göbekli Tepe complex in southeastern Anatolia, Turkey, is the earliest known temple…
Hollow-core fiber raises prospects for next-generation scientific instruments
The novel fibres’ latest advances, published this week in Nature Photonics, have underlined the technology’s potential…
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…
Genes may play a role in weight gain from birth control
A woman’s genetic make-up may cause her to gain weight when using a popular form of…
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…