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Fish who display dominant traits are more at risk of consuming microplastic pollution than others in their social group, according to new research. Th...
The classic image of an archaeologist is of someone unearthing a potsherd in Pompeii or opening a Viking grave to better understand the distant past....
Aerosols and clouds play a key role in Earth's climate budget. However, the extent to which they reflect solar energy depends heavily on how much wate...
In a 1930 essay, British economist John Maynard Keynes predicted that in 100 years time, technological advances would have displaced so much human lab...
In a silent war that has raged for millions of years, plants have evolved a sophisticated chemical arsenal to fight back against invading pathogens. N...
People who smile empathically at someone's happiness or frown at their suffering become more attractive. Conversely, smiling out of schadenfreude does...
By combining demand-driven life cycle assessment with a multi-objective optimization framework, researchers identified potential optimal solutions for...
The vulnerability of a shark population to losing even small numbers to fishing has been highlighted by researchers from the University of Chester and...
A new paper calls for ecologists and evolutionary biologists to consider how organisms experience climate rather than how weather stations record it w...
Academic success at university could depend on the changing interaction between students' habits over time rather than fixed traits such as intelligen...
The sight of a saltwater crocodile basking on a mudbank is one of the most iconic and intimidating images of northern Australia. Yet the crocodiles th...
Imagine taking out a 12-inch ruler and finding that the number 12 is on the left side and the number 1 is on the right side. For most native English s...
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