Science
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Food, fear and physics help explain group behavior from plankton to whales
The open ocean is a dynamic environment, where food is patchy, predators are plentiful, and oceanographic conditions change constantly. Life in the pelagic envi...
New spectroscopy method enables direct comparisons of nuclear sizes across heavy elements
The size of a nucleus (nuclear charge radius) is an important physical quantity that reflects the arrangement of protons and neutrons within the nucleus. Partic...
Nearly half of reef-building coral species face higher risk of extinction
A University of Portsmouth scientist has helped lead a major global study, which finds that 44% of the world's reef-building coral species are now threatened wi...
African American young adults favor family support when it comes to caring for older adults
A study led by Nekehia Quashie, an assistant professor of public health in the University of Rhode Island's College of Health Sciences, examined how different A...
First bacterial galactose oxidase expands toolkit for greener drug and food ingredient production
To produce pharmaceuticals, food ingredients, and flavors and fragrances, it is often necessary to oxidize alcohols. In conventional chemistry, this transformat...
Electron density check offers better starting point for chemistry's most difficult metal molecules
New materials and catalysts have the potential to transform everything from food production and medicine to batteries and stainless steel. Computer simulations...
Beyond national parks: Researchers explore a broader future for conservation
As governments prepare to gather in Armenia for the U.N. biodiversity summit, researchers are highlighting a conservation approach that recognizes places where...
Measuring deep-ocean oxygen with microscopic magnetic fossils
Humanity's ongoing disruption of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO₂) concentrations, temperatures, and global nutrient cycles is starving the oceans of oxygen. Alt...
Retail research shifted in five ways, study finds
Retail research has changed during the last couple of decades, according to an analysis of almost 5,200 papers covering business practices, consumer behavior an...
Silicon qubits surpass 99.99% gate fidelity while operating three at once
Silicon spin qubits are a promising platform for building scalable quantum computers as they are compatible with the semiconductor manufacturing technologies us...
Building trust in governments through digital platforms
Around the world, many people report distrusting their government. In some places, such as Latin America, North America and Africa, trust in government has decl...
Molecular snapshots reveal how viral enzymes switch between inserting and removing DNA
Bacteriophages, or viruses that infect bacteria, have a fiendishly simple purpose in life: attach to a bacterial cell, inject their DNA and then use the host's...