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Bees avoid too much of a good thing by balancing nutrients in pollen, study reveals
New Oxford University-led research reveals that bees can regulate their feeding to avoid overconsuming certain essential nutrients, and that honey bees make a s...
Mountain lions have major ecological impact even in small preserves
Big cats have a big impact. A long-term study showed that when mountain lions began regular visits to a small suburban preserve about 45 miles (72 kilometers) s...
Levels of 'forever chemicals' in dolphins and whales are rising globally
Whales and dolphins inhabit some of the largest and seemingly most pristine environments on Earth, from tropical coastlines to Antarctic waters. Yet even they c...
Payload electronics and flight software being developed for NASA's Landsat 10 spacecraft
Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) is developing electronics and flight software for the NASA/U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Landsat 10 satellite, which is set...
Volcanic shifts suggest Andes mountain growth comes in powerful bursts rather than a slow and steady rise
Scientists have discovered that the southern Andes Mountains don't rise slowly and steadily as previously thought. Instead, the range builds itself in short, po...
Goats listen to human voices to find hidden food treats
Goats appear to have a rare ability not shared by many in the animal kingdom, and that is being able to follow the direction of a human voice to locate hidden o...
Mineral garnet discovered in Mars meteorite may reveal how the red planet evolved billions of years ago
An international team of scientists has identified a completely new type of rock from the red planet and, for the first time, discovered the mineral garnet in a...
Quantum Hall effect gains a new twist in graphene moiré systems
Physicists have long been drawn to the nonlinear Hall effect: a subtle variant of the classical Hall effect, in which an electric voltage appears perpendicular...
Dark matter cannot be ruled out as cause of gamma ray glow at the Milky Way's center, machine learning shows
An international research collaboration between the University of Vienna and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the United States has used machine learnin...
How evolution can make cells smaller without slowing down their growth
A new study led by Marco Fumasoni, principal investigator at Fundação GIMM, shows that evolution can substantially reduce cell size without significantly compro...
UK rivers face rising risk of climate 'whiplash'
Climate change could push UK rivers to dangerous extremes and bring more frequent rapid swings between wet and dry conditions—a phenomenon known as hydroclimati...
NASA's Webb catches exoplanet getting roasted
One well-done gas giant, coming right up! That's the latest from researchers analyzing NASA's James Webb Space Telescope observations of HD 80606 b, an exoplane...