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New bio-inspired wing design for small drones
Taking a cue from birds and insects, researchers have come up with a new wing design…
Plants manipulate their soil environment to assure a steady supply of nutrients
Dissolved carbon in soil can quench plants’ ability to communicate with soil microbes, allowing plants to…
What a pair! Coupled quantum dots may offer a new way to store quantum information
Researchers have for the first time created and imaged a novel pair of quantum dots —…
Early North Americans may have been more diverse than previously suspected
Ancient skulls from the cave systems at Tulum, Mexico, suggest that the earliest populations of North…
The 'firewalkers' of Karoo: Dinosaurs and other animals left tracks in a 'land of fire'
In southern Africa, dinosaurs and synapsids, a group of animals that includes mammals and their closest…
Identifying factors associated with reports of accidental opioid poisoning in dogs
Dogs that are smaller, younger, non-neutered, or live in US counties with high opioid prescription rates…
Swing feel in jazz music: The role of temporal fluctuations
In 1931, Duke Ellington and Irving Mills even dedicated a song to the phenomenon of swing…
Mountain vegetation dries out Alpine water fluxes
Researchers confirm the paradox: rather than withering during droughts, plants at higher elevations absolutely thrive, as…
Space super-storm likelihood estimated from longest period of magnetic field observations
A ‘great’ space weather super-storm large enough to cause significant disruption to our electronic and networked…