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What is STEVE, and how is it different from the aurora?

STEVE is an atmospheric phenomenon that is similar to yet separate from the aurora. It looks like a mauve streak across the night sky.

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Meltwater Beneath Antarctic Glaciers Accelerates Ice Loss, Warns Study

Antarctic glaciers losing ice faster due to hidden meltwater, raising sea level rise concerns

Zenger

Omicron BA.5 more virulent and replicates faster, new study in mice finds

Omicron BA.5 strain is more virulent than its ancestors, a new study in mice has found. The research, published in the journal Science Advances, addresses a challenge to studying and understanding rapidly evolving variants of concern due to a lack of animal models for running tests that could help explain…

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Do languages become less complex with more new adult speakers? Research shows it’s not that simple

If you’ve ever seen Monty Python’s Life of Brian, you might remember that Romanes eunt domus means “Romans go home”. Or does it? Isn’t domus the nominative? Shouldn’t we be using the dative? Or is it the accusative?

The Conversation

When did the Isthmus of Panama form between North and South America?

The linkage of the Americas had outsize impacts globally, and its controversial timing has similarly large implications for science.

LiveScience

New nanoparticle source generates high-frequency light

High-frequency light is useful. The higher the frequency of light, the shorter its wavelength – and the shorter the wavelength, the smaller the objects and details the light can be used to see.

The Conversation

Scientists find weird holes on the ocean floor spewing ancient fluids 'like a fire hose'

Understanding the movement of fluids in the Cascadia subduction zone can help researchers pinpoint the risk of earthquakes

LiveScience

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Networks of silver nanowires seem to learn and remember, much like our brains

Over the past year or so, generative AI models such as ChatGPT and DALL-E have made it possible to produce vast quantities of apparently human-like, high-quality creative content from a simple series of prompts.

The Conversation

A USF professor discovered what was killing sea urchins in Florida, Caribbean. Here’s how

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — She called it cute, the microscopic single-celled organism on her microscope slide. She said she liked its little hairs, and the way it swam beneath her lens. Looking through her microscope, Mya Breitbart found one of the ciliates — this type of single-celled creature — and…

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Marsupials and other mammals separately evolved flight many times, and we are finally learning how

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land on the next tree. Many groups of mammals seem to have taken this evolutionary advice to heart. According to our newly published paper in Science Advances, unrelated animals may even have used the same blueprints for building their “wings”.

The Conversation

The earliest modern humans in Europe mastered bow-and-arrow technology 54,000 years ago

Based on research in France’s Mandrin cave, in February 2022 we published a study in the journal Science Advances that pushed back the earliest evidence of the arrival of the first Homo sapiens in Europe to 54,000 years ago – 11 millennia earlier than had been previously established.

The Conversation

Extinction crisis puts 1 million species on the brink

Nature is in crisis, and it's only getting worse. As species vanish at a rate not seen in 10 million years, more than 1 million species are currently on the brink.

Reuters

Monkeys' brains are wired to read body language – just like ours

In 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic drove a surge in remote work and learning, videoconferencing apps such as Zoom saw their user numbers boom. Plenty of other options were available, but the exponential growth in videoconferencing underlines an essential aspect of human communication: to do it effectively, we need to…

The Conversation

Ancient megalodon super-predators could swallow a great white shark whole, new model reveals

In a new 3D modelling study published this week in Science Advances, we show that the giant extinct shark, Otodus megalodon, was a true globetrotting super-predator.

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No living, smoking gun in Mars meteorite

An analysis of a 1.3 billion-year-old Martian meteorite suggests that the planet had dried out by then

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Researchers say dingo genetic breakthrough sheds light on controversial lineage

Researchers are claiming a major breakthrough in cracking the genetic code of an iconic Australian animal that has been the source of controversy for years.

Zenger

Quake Terror: Experts Identify Giant Tsunami That Decimated Coastal Communities For 1,000 Years

The strongest seismic event known to science is the 1960 earthquake that struck the town of Lumaco,near the city of Valdivia.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Deep Dive into Alpaca’s Nanobody Repertoire Identifies Potent SARS-CoV-2 Neutralizers

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have developed a novel strategy for identifying potent miniature antibodies, so-called nanobodies, against emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants. The approach led to the discovery of multiple nanobodies that in cell cultures and mice effectively blocked infection with different SARS-CoV-2 variants. The findings, which are described in the journals…

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French Cave Tells New Story About Early Humans

A hillside dwelling overlooking the picturesque Rhone Valley in southern France proved irresistible for our ancestors, attracting both Neanderthals and modern humans long before the latter were thought to have reached that part of Europe, a new study suggests. In a paper published Feb. 9 by the journal Science Advances,…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Scientists Develop Electrically Charged Patch for Faster Wound Healing

A team of researchers working at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China has developed an electrically charged thin film patch for promoting faster wound healing. In their paper published in the Science Advances journal, the group describes their patch, how it works, and how well it performed…

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