Since they first arrived on land, plants have likely been using the same genetic tools to…
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Artificial materials reconstruct porpoise's echolocation
Over millions of years, porpoises have developed powerful biosonar with high accuracy and intelligence to detect…
Overweight Danes are more likely to have overweight dogs according to new research
A new study from the University of Copenhagen reports that the prevalence of overweight dogs is…
Pathological power: The danger of governments led by narcissists and psychopaths
After spending his early life suffering under the Nazis and then Stalin, the Polish psychologist Andrew…
Plasma flow near sun's surface explains sunspots, other solar phenomena
For 400 years people have tracked sunspots, the dark patches that appear for weeks at a…
The benefits of investing in zero-carbon cities
Anew report shows low carbon measures in cities could reduce urban emissions by nearly 90 percent…
Brexit threatens EU climate action, research shows
Brexit could lead both the UK and the European Union to weaken their ambitions to tackle…
Imagining both utopian and dystopian climate futures is crucial – which is why cli-fi is so important
We are headed towards a future that is hard to contemplate. At present, global emissions are…
Quality control in cells
A protective protein that can detect newly-made incomplete and hence potentially toxic protein chains in higher…
A digital archaeologist helps inaccessible collections be seen
Davide Tanasi is a digital archaeologist at the University of South Florida. He creates highly detailed…