What controls the pathways of the Labrador Current?
Changes to the flow of the Labrador Current along the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador to Nova Scotia are leading to sudden warmings or...
Geologists are using artificial intelligence to predict landslides
Many factors influence where a landslide will occur, including the shape of the terrain, its slope and drainage areas, the material properties of soil...
Researchers unearth the mysteries of how Turkey’s East Anatolian fault formed
An international team has, for the first time, accurately determined the age of the East Anatolian fault, allowing geologists to learn more about its...
Boom! Detecting gregarious goliath groupers using their low-frequency pulse sounds
From growls to booms, whales, fish and crustaceans all produce sounds. Selecting the gregarious Goliath grouper, researchers deployed a novel automated detector and localization...
What are the characteristics of foreshocks for large earthquakes?
Seismologists agree that foreshocks are the most widely identified signal of an upcoming mainshock earthquake. But do these foreshock sequences have distinctive characteristics that...
Undergrad-driven project reveals drought’s effects on painted turtles
A projected rise in droughts could muddy the waters for painted turtles and some fellow freshwater-dwelling reptiles, says 11 years of data collected by...
Squash bugs are attracted to and eat each other’s poop to stock their microbiome
Squash bugs, a common and difficult-to-control agricultural pest, need healthy bacteria in their gut to grow and stay alive. However, they do not acquire...
Mountains vulnerable to extreme rain from climate change
A new study finds that as rising global temperatures shift snow to rain, mountains across the Northern Hemisphere will be hotspots for extreme rainfall...
How urea may have been the gateway to life
Urea reacts extremely quickly under the conditions that existed when our planet was newly formed. This new insight furthers our understanding of how life...
Cuttlefish camouflage: More than meets the eye
Researchers have shown that the way cuttlefish generate their camouflage pattern is much more complex than previously believed.
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