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Chimpanzees' unusually protracted and vulnerable adolescences
For all the diversity of the human condition, one experience is almost universally painful: adolescence. It's also unusual. Most other species pass from puberty...
Hidden for 100 years, bright pink shrub identified as new Australian species
Botanists at the University of New England (UNE) have formally described a new plant species endemic to northeastern New South Wales (NSW), ending more than a c...
Hi-res microscopes give biologists petabytes of data. Scientists are creating an AI assistant to make sense of it
In a cramped, windowless room on the University of California, Berkeley, campus, two bespoke microscopes—each a Swiss Army knife for high-resolution imaging—ope...
Q&A: What can plant evolution teach people about breeding better crops?
Today (May 22) is United Nations International Day for Biological Diversity, drawing attention to a critical resource for developing crops that are resilient or...
Stressed crystal creates nanoscale patterns on chip materials at room temperature
A new chip-making technique exploits a material's crystal structure to create nanoscale patterns at room temperature directly onto hard materials used in device...
Platypus population expands to 20 in Australia's Royal National Park
Scientists from UNSW Sydney have confirmed a reintroduced platypus population in Royal National Park has now grown to 20 known individuals, following the releas...
Social mammals live longer—but bigger groups don't add that many extra years
A new study, published in Ecology and Evolution, shows that social living is associated with longer lifespan, but also that the benefits of sociality level off...
How countries can build effective DNA barcoding networks
Aligning with the International Day for Biological Diversity's theme of "Acting locally for global impact," researchers have released a comprehensive blueprint...
Unclear tasks and command structures may increase fatigue in disaster responders
The frequency of natural disasters is increasing, and hence disaster responders are called on more than ever before. During disaster response, the focus of heal...
Earth's outer core beneath Pacific reversed direction in 2010, satellite data reveal
The liquid iron in Earth's outer core doesn't always behave as expected. When it changed direction in an unexplained way, ESA satellites provided data on the di...
Astronomers discover a super-Earth orbiting a nearby red dwarf
Astronomers from Italy and Brazil have investigated a nearby red dwarf star known as Ross 318 and have discovered an exoplanet orbiting this star, which is at l...
Heat vulnerability follows more than temperature, and this global map exposes the overlooked fault lines
A Nature Sustainability paper titled "A multidimensional assessment of Systemic Cooling Poverty in the Global South," provides the first large-scale, multidimen...