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Shell-cracking turtles defied mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous period
The mass extinction at the boundary between the Cretaceous and Paleogene periods was catastrophic, wiping out much of life on Earth. Vertebrate groups that domi...
Studies offer insight into how owners experience pet loss
New research from the Dog Aging Project and Texas A&M University highlights that for many families, losing a dog means losing a family member—and that the grief...
If the Laschamps geomagnetic excursion happened today, aviation radiation exposure would be radically altered
Earth's magnetic field acts as a vital shield against radiation arriving from space, but it is not constant. A new international study has examined how a reduct...
Brazil's fire corals may be facing silent extinction, experts say
According to the authors of a study published in the journal Coral Reefs, fire corals may be undergoing a "silent extinction." Coral bleaching occurs when seawa...
How New Jersey's limits on 'forever chemicals' in tap water brought levels down
Levels of toxic "forever chemicals" in New Jersey's public water systems dropped by as much as 55% after the state moved to limit the contaminants in drinking w...
Using 'imaginative' AI to survey past and future earthquake damage
Researchers have used artificial intelligence to develop a new tool for assessing earthquake damage, a leap that could ultimately help first responders in makin...
Amazon wildfire emissions may be up to three times higher than estimated
Fires are a recurring phenomenon in central South America, often intensified by drought and deforestation. In 2024, wildfire activity reached its highest levels...
A captive chimp's instrumental performances hint at the evolution of vocal externalization
In February 2023, a resident at Kyoto University's Center for the Evolutionary Origins of Human Behavior—EHUB—treated researchers to a spontaneous musical perfo...
Significant grade inflation may be occurring in graduate education, according to decades' worth of data
Analysis of two decades of student data at a large U.S. university suggests that grade inflation exists in graduate education. Researcher Vivien Lee and colleag...
A potential antibiotic target emerges as pneumonia-linked enzyme's dynamic structure proves essential
Antibiotics revolutionized health care when they were introduced in the early twentieth century, making many severe and often fatal diseases easily treatable. B...
Scalable flow chemistry speeds deuteration of fatty acids with tunable isotope selectivity
The National Deuteration Facility has developed a capability to use a flow chemistry process to increase efficiency, increase production capacity and reduce dec...
Stabilized hybrid photocatalyst boosts artificial photosynthesis efficiency
A hybrid photocatalyst system from Science Tokyo tackles an overlooked flaw in artificial photosynthesis to dramatically improve CO2-to-formate conversion. Unli...