Woodpeckers’ drumming: Conserved meaning despite different structure over the years
How do animals produce and perceive biological information in sounds? To what extent does the acoustic structure and its associated meaning change during evolution?...
Laundry lint can cause significant tissue damage within marine mussels
Research showed that ingesting lint caused significant abnormality within the mussels' gills, as well as atrophy or deformities leading to loss of definition in...
Research may curb economic losses to power plants after earthquakes
Sitting atop power transformers are bushing systems that play a critical role in supplying communities with electricity. However, these objects are also susceptible to...
More crickets and katydids ‘singing in the suburbs’
The songs that crickets and katydids sing at night to attract mates can help in monitoring and mapping their populations, according to US researchers,...
Ice discharge in the North Pacific set off series of climate events during last...
Repeated catastrophic ice discharges from western North America into the North Pacific contributed to, and perhaps triggered, hemispheric-scale changes in the Earth's climate during...
Chemical innovation stabilizes best-performing perovskite formulation
Researchers have successfully overcome a limiting problem with stabilizing the best-performing formulation of metal-halide perovskite films, a key player in a range of applications,...
Satellite imaging to map groundwater use in California’s central valley
Researchers report in a new study a way to improve groundwater monitoring by using a remote sensing technology (known as InSAR), in conjunction with...
Earthquake forecasting clues unearthed in strange precariously balanced rocks
Naturally formed balancing boulders could be used to help scientists to forecast large earthquakes more precisely.
Scientists repeat century-old study to reveal evidence of evolutionary rescue in the wild
Repeating a study conducted in 1914, scientists have shown that species may be able to evolve and adapt to rapid climate change.
Decent living for all does not have to cost the Earth
A new study reveals that decent living standards could be provided to the entire global population of 10 billion that is expected to be...
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