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Female monkeys use males as 'hired guns' for defense against predators, study says
Researchers with the Wildlife Conservation Society’s (WCS) Congo Program and the Nouabalé-Ndoki Foundation found that female…
Getting to the core of HIV replication
Viruses lurk in the gray area between the living and the nonliving, according to scientists. Like…
Plants play leading role in cycling toxic mercury through the environment, researchers say
Researchers studying mercury gas in the atmosphere with the aim of reducing the pollutant worldwide have…
Deep diamonds contain evidence of deep-Earth recycling processes
Diamonds that formed deep in the Earth’s mantle contain evidence of chemical reactions that occurred on…
Home advantage persists in European football (soccer) even without fans present
An unprecedented “natural experiment” has shown that, even with spectators completely absent from matches during the…
Why the middle is neglected in politics and other spectrums
When people talk about the political spectrum, it’s often in reference to “opposite sides.” Whether the…
Exploring how storytelling tropes cluster in popular films
An analysis of film tropes—common storytelling elements seen in different movies—explores combinations of tropes that tend…
New study discovers ancient meteoritic impact over Antarctica 430,000 years ago
A research team of international space scientists, led by Dr. Matthias van Ginneken from the University…
450-million-year-old sea creatures had a leg up on breathing
A new study has found the first evidence of sophisticated breathing organs in 450-million-year-old sea creatures.…