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Fiber-optic cables detect silent whales off Svalbard by tracking pressure waves
A 100-year-old equation and a fiber-optic cable off the coast of Svalbard led researchers to discover they could detect swimming whales—even if they were comple...
AI spots landslide risks near power towers before failures, tests show
Artificial intelligence (AI) can identify landslides and other geological changes that threaten electricity transmission towers, potentially helping operators i...
Mathematicians unleash multifold speed boost for supercomputer simulations of molecules
More than 20% of the workload on the world's 500 fastest supercomputers is spent simulating how atoms and molecules move—with applications ranging from material...
Expert studies emergence of identity-based labor organizing
In the post-COVID-19 era, worker unionization campaigns have increasingly been organized by groups who feel stung by virtue signaling from corporations espousin...
Human DNA can survive on cave walls for thousands of years, opening new window into prehistory
For the first time, scientists have shown that ancient human DNA can survive for thousands of years on cave walls, opening new ways to study prehistoric human a...
Heavy rain may be driving tire pollution into Florida waterways
Florida International University scientists have, for the first time, detected a toxic tire-derived chemical in Florida waterways and developed a new testing me...
Pop song lyrics grew more self-focused in the US and Germany over 50 years, research reveals
Over five decades, popular songs in the U.S. and Germany have become more self-focused—as indicated by the use of pronouns such as "I," "me" and "mine"—while no...
Sicily remained a medieval melting pot despite major political and religious upheavals, ancient DNA reveals
Sicilian populations have been genetically diverse for many centuries, and they have remained that way even through major regime changes and religious transitio...
Decades-long dataset shows which orcas are most at home in Puget Sound
Data spanning nearly half a century shows that endangered southern resident killer whales are spending less time in inland waters, whereas their larger cousins,...
Introducing Weather Jiu-Jitsu, a new approach to avert catastrophic weather events
In a new perspective paper, Qin Huang of Arizona State University and colleagues propose that the worst damage from extreme weather events could be prevented th...
Machine learning rediscovers equations governing ocean biogeochemistry
Climate and ocean models use a series of equations to represent complex natural processes. However, the equations used in these models are often derived from li...
Earth's oldest crater really is more than 3 billion years old, new study confirms
In the Pilbara of Western Australia, some of Earth's oldest rocks lie beneath the sky, as they have for billions of years. They are dark, weathered volcanic roc...