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How often do you think about the Roman empire? TikTok trend exposes the way we gender history
How often do you think about the Roman empire? This question, posed to men by their…
Boreal and temperate forests now main global carbon sinks, satellite image analysis finds
Using a new analysis method for satellite images, an international research team, coordinated by the French…
Safety on the line: Drivers who juggle multiple jobs are more likely to take risks on the road
The driving profession is unsafe. Taxi drivers and ride-hail drivers, who drive for apps like Uber…
Q&A: Asteroid rocks may hold secrets to the origin of the solar system
Early Sunday morning, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft released a container that subsequently landed in Utah containing material…
Jellyfish: Our complex relationship with the oceans' anti-heroes
Ding! The courier hands me an unassuming brown box with “live animals” plastered on the side.…
How the age of mammals could end
Throughout the past 500 million years, our planet has experienced a total of five mass extinctions.…
Lost in the coffee aisle? Navigating complex buzzwords behind an 'ethical' bag of beans is easier said than done
You’re shopping for a bag of coffee beans at the grocery store. After reading about the…
Using DNA as glue to hold nanostructures together and build ultra-strong colloidal crystal metamaterials
A team of chemical and biological engineers working with a group of nanotechnologists at Northwestern University…
Emperor penguins face a bleak future, but some colonies will do better than others in diverse sea-ice conditions
The long-term future looks bleak for Emperor penguins, but our new research shows some birds may…