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Mice plague eastern Australia in record numbers
Jou before Christmas last year, Julie Leven and her husband Des took their campervan to visit their son in northern New South Wales, Australia. Returning at night to their home in Gilgandra, about 430 kilometers northwest of Sydney,…
Artificial life: an interdisciplinary field of research
Artificial life is devoted to the study and creation of life-like structures in various media (computational, biochemical, mechanical or combinations thereof). A central goal is to model and even…
What is gain-of-function research in genetics?
Rumors persist that SARS-CoV-2 was accidentally leaked at an advanced biosafety lab in Wuhan, China. The claim is that the institute was conducting gain-of-function (GOF) research, which produced a potent version of the coronavirus…
How do children understand the meaning of words? The new computer model has answers
Scientists are continually discovering more about how we learn language from an early age, and a new study specifically examines how very young children integrate different sources of information to learn new words.
These sources can…
Study finds dinosaurs wiped out long before asteroid impact
The last stage of the dinosaurs - © Jorge Gonzalez
New research suggests that climate change set the dinosaurs back about 10 million years before the massive asteroid responsible for their extinction reached Earth.
Global cooling of…
Before an asteroid wiped them out, dinosaurs were already in decline: study
Although the asteroid that struck the planet 66 million years ago wiped out the Earth non-avian dinosaurs, new research claims that environmental degradation groups of dinosaurs had started long before the historic event. The…
Former Victoria’s Secret model Bridget Malcolm calls the brand a “performative…
The ex-model Victoria's Secret looks back on her past with the brand. July 1, 2021, 4:09 PM• 5 minutes to readShare on FacebookShare on twitterEmail this articleModel Bridget Malcolm took to social media to reflect on her past…
Dinosaur Biodiversity Declined Before Asteroid Chicxulub Impact: Study | Paleontology
The best-known mass extinction was the disappearance of non-avian dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous, 66 million years ago, after ruling the Earth for 170 million years. The best-supported extinction model is the impact of a…
Treat social media like the climate crisis, researchers say
Photo: André Harnik (PA)Mark Zuckerberg must hand over the keys, according to a team of researchers. In one new paper published in the peer-reviewed journal PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…