Baby seals can change their tone of voice. Credit: John O’ Connor Hoover the seal was initially kept in a family home and could imitate…
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Finding common musical traits across species may shed light on the biology and evolution of rhythm and music. Credit: Filippo Carugati Songbirds share the human…
A new study published in Nature Communications reconstructs regional incidence profiles of COVID-19First identified in 2019 in Wuhan, China, Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an…
In the singlet exciton fission process, a singlet exciton (blue) is created upon absorbing light and then splits into two triplets (red) on ultrafast timescales.…
Tropical forests regularly appear in the news as the front line of climate change and human sustainability challenges. They are some of the most threatened…
A handaxe from the Thar Desert, where Acheulean populations persisted until at least 177 thousand years ago. Credit: Jimbob Blinkhorn The longest lasting tool-making tradition…
Horses of the Eurasian steppe. Credit: A. Senokosov From the Xiongnu to the Mongols, the pastoralist populations of the Eurasian steppe have long been a…
The 17 newly studied craters and depressions are located near the South Pole. While the smallest of these regions (region 11) has a size of…
Current excavations at Bacho Kiro Cave of the 2021 season are unearthing new artifacts from the Middle Palaeolithic Neanderthal occupations. The Initial Upper Palaeolithic Layer…
An Asian flat-tailed house gecko, Hemidactylus platyurus. Videos of these geckos, common in the forests of Singapore, showed that their tails allow them to recover…
The Leang Panninge cave on the southern peninsula of Sulawesi, Indonesia. Credit: Leang Panninge Research Project International research team isolates DNADNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is…
Research team now examines impact of food competition and climate change. A research team from Osnabrück University and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology…
The magnet system of Wendelstein 7-X. Fifty superconducting magnet coils create the magnetic cage for confining the plasma. In the twisted coil forms, computational optimization…
The north-south velocity associated with the retrograde propagating mode of oscillation. Left: observations using the SDO/HMI instrument. Right: numerical model. Credit: MPS/Z-C Liang Ten years…
The figure shows how two of the newly developed nanobodies (blue and magenta) bind to the receptor-binding domain (green) of the coronavirus spike protein (grey),…
A scuba diver observes the purple, white and green microbes covering rocks in Lake Huron’s Middle Island Sinkhole. Credit: Phil Hartmeyer, NOAA Thunder Bay National…
Cartoon about the discovery of carbon-13 in the atmosphere of an exoplanet. In reality, the astronomers were sitting behind their desks analyzing the spectra of…
Virtual Milky Way: gas density around a massive central galaxy in a group in the virtual universe of the TNG50 simulation. Gas inside the galaxy…
While it is widely accepted that climate change drove the evolution of our species in Africa, the exact character of that climate change and its…
Small marine “snowflakes” are very important for the nutrient balance of the oceans. The particle shown here is highly magnified – in reality, small particles…