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Gentle nudges for increased animal welfare
Gentle purchase incentives can lead customers to choose groceries with higher animal husbandry standards more often. A recent study at the University of Bonn at...
Free-text answers and LLMs reveal hidden reasons behind human choices
Why do people make the choices they do? Researchers from the Center Synergy of Systems (SynoSys) at TUD Dresden University of Technology, the Max Planck Institu...
Newfound family ties link Scythian elite burials across the Eurasian steppe
A new ancient DNA study published in Science Advances provides evidence that political power among Scythian elites may have been inherited through family lineag...
Mammals use the same underlying system—preserved through evolution—to process smells
Picture a mouse taking rapid, staccato sniffs of a crumb it's found while foraging for food. Now compare that with a human leaning in for a single, deep inhale...
A benchmark for how different disturbances influence the loss and recovery of carbon and CO₂ in tropical forests
Tropical moist forests account for 70% of global living biomass. Deforestation and degradation—that is, the partial damage to tree stands—as well as the subsequ...
Antarctic ozone loss drove unexpected Southern Ocean cooling, climate model shows
The Southern Ocean has long stood out as an oddity in the global climate system. While most of the planet's surface oceans have warmed in response to rising gre...
Colony connections determine ant wound care: Transitional workers treat injured nestmates
Patients in hospitals generally trust the nursing staff. After all, they have undergone training and, in some cases, have several years of professional experien...
If we force online platforms to control harmful content, where does that leave sex ed?
Most of us have attended sex ed classes in school. If we're lucky, we'll learn about consent and how to roll a condom onto a banana. But the classroom rarely go...
Ultrafast scanning tunneling microscopy reaches the quantum mechanical space-time limit for the first time
Werner Heisenberg's famous uncertainty principle describes one of the most intriguing features of quantum physics: certain pairs of physical quantities describi...
Study reveals systemic barriers slowing down circular plastics transition
A new study from the University of Eastern Finland shows that the transition toward a circular plastics economy is hindered by systemic interdependencies and in...
Paleontological study shows climate change makes marine animals shrink
Whether mussels, crustaceans or fish, marine animals have been responding to environmental crises with a reduction in body size for hundreds of millions of year...
First assessment of online global trade in brachyuran land crabs
New research has begun to lift the lid on the global online trade in land crabs, leading scientists to call for closer monitoring and regulation to better under...