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#1285942021-05-12
Ancestors may have created 'iconic' sounds as bridge to first languages
The 'missing link' that helped our ancestors to begin communicating with each other through language may have been iconic sounds, rather than charades-like gestures—giving rise to the unique human power to coin new words describing the world around us, a new study reveals.
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#1352832022-07-11
Ancestral genetic variation essential for rapid evolution of Darwin's finches
In a study, published in Science Advances, an international team of researchers have identified 28 gene regions that have been particularly important in the evolution of Darwin's finches.
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#1335082022-02-24
Ancient DNA helps reveal the social changes in Africa 50,000 years ago that shaped the human story
Every person alive on the planet today is descended from people who lived as hunter-gatherers in Africa.
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#1333292022-02-18
Ancient Methane Gas Ocean Cores Reveal Clues about Global and Environmental Changes
According to a study performed by two researchers from Texas A&M University, sediment cores gathered from the Southern Ocean dating back 23 million years are offering better insight into how ancient methane escaping from the seafloor could have resulted in regional or global climate and environm ...
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#1222772019-09-19
Ancient asteroid collision boosts biodiversity on Earth: study
An international team of scientists found that a collision in the asteroid belt 470 million years ago diversified life on Earth. The study published on Wednesday in the journal Science Advances showed that the breakup of a major asteroid between Jupiter and Mars filled the entire inner solar sys ...
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#1294132021-06-21
Ancient bones provide clues about Kangaroo Island's past and future
A Curtin University-led study of ancient bones on South Australia's Kangaroo Island has provided new information about the Island's past fauna and an insight into how species may live there in the future.
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#1289702021-06-01
Ancient dog breed DNA helps unravel clues about evolution of man's best friend
An international study led by UNSW researchers has mapped one of the most intact and complete dog genomes ever generated.The genome sequence of the Basenji dog could have a big impact on the understanding of dog evolution, domestication and canine genetic diseases.
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#1186762018-10-25
Ancient fish evolved in shallow seas – the very places humans threaten today
You walk and talk and live on land, but your ancient relatives were fish.It took about 480 million years for these fish to evolve and adapt to different environments and become the many different back-boned species (including ourselves) that are known as vertebrates.
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#1269882021-02-11
Ancient hunter-gatherer seashell resonates after 17,000 years
Archaeologists have managed to get near-perfect notes out of a musical instrument that's more than 17,000 years old. It's a conch shell that was found in a hunter-gatherer cave in southern France.
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#1207522019-04-12
Ancient lakes: Eyes into the past, and the future
Baikal, Biwa and Bosuntwi. Maracaibo, Malawi and Matano. Tule, Tahoe and Titicaca.Ancient lakes, they're called: waterbodies more than 130,000 years old. Over their long histories, they've seen countless changes—warming and cooling cycles, wet and dry periods, altered biology and chemistry.
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#1269162021-02-08
Ancient owl vomit helps researchers unpack prehistoric bone secrets
Curtin University researchers studying one of the oldest collections of ancient animal bones in the world have used DNA still present in the bones to identify 17 animal species, including two rodents previously not known to be in the collection.
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#1267662021-01-29
Ancient rivers reveal multiple Sahara Desert greenings
Large parts of the Sahara Desert were green thousands of years ago, evidenced by prehistoric engravings in the desert of giraffes, crocodiles and a stone-age cave painting of humans swimming.
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#1353622022-07-15
Ancient salamander was hidden inside mystery rock for 50 years—new research
In the fairy-tale landscape of the Isle of Skye off the north-west coast of Scotland, the skull of one of the most ancient salamanders ever discovered to date was excavated from Jurassic limestones. But it would be decades until scientists had the technology and the funding to piece the salamand ...
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#1304422021-09-15
Ancient spider mom preserved in amber found to be protecting her young
A trio of researchers with Capital Normal University in China has found evidence of a mother spider protecting her young in an amber sample dated back to 99 million years ago. In their paper published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Xiangbo Guo, Paul Selden and Dong Rend describe where th ...
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#1262332020-12-14
Ancient weather patterns in Europe
A landmark study led by the University of Aberdeen has provided the clearest ever picture of ancient weather patterns in Europe—and could improve models used to predict how climate change will affect the Continent in future.
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#1299662021-08-16
Angry bees produce better venom
Researchers at Curtin revealed how behavioral and ecological factors influence the quality of bee venom, a product widely known for its effective treatment of degenerative and infectious diseases such as Parkinson's and osteoarthritis.
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#1281382021-04-21
Animal culture should be included in conservation efforts
Researchers say conservation of some of the world's most endangered species needs to take cultural knowledge of the animals into account when working out how best to protect them.
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#1343452022-05-10
Animal research: Influence of experimenters on results less strong than expected
For more than ten years now, scientists have been discussing the so-called reproducibility crisis: often, scientific findings cannot be reproduced at a later time and/or in other laboratories, although the studies are carried out under highly standardized conditions.
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#1337052022-03-03
Animals have evolved to avoid overexploiting their resources. Can humans do the same?
People have been trying to understand how predators and prey are able to stay balanced within our planet's ecosystems for at least 2,400 years.
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#1186712018-10-25
Antarctic Ocean carbon dioxide helped end the Ice Age
A team of scientists, led by the University of St Andrews, has shown that rapid CO2 release from the ocean around Antarctica helped end the last ice age.
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#1226902019-10-21
Antarctic ice cliffs may not contribute to sea-level rise as much as predicted
Antarctica's ice sheet spans close to twice the area of the contiguous United States, and its land boundary is buttressed by massive, floating ice shelves extending hundreds of miles out over the frigid waters of the Southern Ocean. When these ice shelves collapse into the ocean, they expose tow ...
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#1312412021-10-28
Antarctic ozone hole is 13th largest on record and expected to persist into November
The 2021 Antarctic ozone hole reached its maximum area on October 7 and ranks 13th largest since 1979, scientists from NOAA and NASA reported today. This year's ozone hole developed similarly to last year's:
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#1260002020-12-03
Antarctic place names recognise 'modern explorers'
Antarctica is getting 28 new place names to recognise British individuals who've made a major contribution to advancing science in the polar regions. The list includes Jonathan Shanklin, co-discoverer of the ozone hole, and Alastair Fothergill, whose BBC films such as Frozen Planet have widened ...
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#1313192021-10-29
Antarctic sea-ice plays an important role in regulating Earth's energy budget
When Earth's snow and ice cover melts, the reflectivity of Earth's surface—known as albedo—decreases. And when the albedo of Earth's surface decreases, a smaller share of sunlight is reflected back into space.
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#1243622020-02-25
Antarctica's ice covered in blood-red snow
Ukrainian scientists got a shock when they woke up on Monday to find that the snow around their station had turned red as blood. But rather than being anything sinister, the red tint in the snow is caused by the microscopic Chlamydomonas nivalis algae.
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#1332672022-02-16
Antarctica's only flowering plants have been growing more rapidly, likely due to warmer temperatures
A team of researchers from Italy, the U.K. and South Africa has found that over the past decade, the only two flowering plants in Antarctica have been growing more rapidly.
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#1265802021-01-12
Anthropogenic heat flux increases frequency of extreme heat events
Anthropogenic, or human-made, heat flux in the near-surface atmosphere has changed urban thermal environments. Meanwhile, the number of extreme temperature events in the first decade of the 21st century grew faster than in the last 10 years of the 20th century. During this period, urban extreme ...
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#1287302021-05-20
Anthropogenic-source nitrogen dominates in precipitation nitrate
Since the Industrial Revolution, human activities have increased the emission of nitrogen oxides (NOx). NOx can promote the generation of ozone and particle matters, and increase nitrogen deposition in the atmosphere.
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#1250992020-04-16
Anti-bat views must not take wing: More informed people must bat for these much-maligned mammals
Bats have got a pretty raw deal in popular culture ever since Bram Stoker’s 1897 book 'Dracula' cemented the connection between largely unlovely ‘hand-winged’ chiroptera and the blood-sucking vampires of folklore. Not even the charisma of Batman, who made his superhero debut 42 years later, has ...
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#1302982021-09-07
Anti-rust' coating for plants protects against disease with cellulose nanofiber
A water-absorbent coat to keep rust away? It may seem counterintuitive but when it comes to soybean plants and rust disease, researchers from Japan have discovered that applying a coating that makes leaf surfaces water absorbent helps to protect against infection.
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#1234002019-12-11
Antibiotic resistance and cancer: six surprising places scientists are looking for new drugs
Scientists recently announced the discovery of a novel antibiotic produced by bacteria living inside a nematode (roundworm). Although this molecule needs further analyses, the finding, published in Nature, brings hope to the fight against antimicrobial or antibiotic resistance, the growing abili ...
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#1269752021-02-10
Antidepressants pose risk for the survival of fish
Fish populations around the world are at risk due to growing levels of pharmaceutical contamination in waterways, according to an international team of researchers from Monash University, the University of Western Australia (UWA), the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, and New York Uni ...
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#1278202021-03-29
Apes constantly reinvent the wheel
Great apes do not pass on their behavior to the next generation. Unlike humans, they do not copy the specific knowledge of those around them, instead learning it anew in each generation. This is shown in a study by Dr. Alba Motes-Rodrigo and Dr. Claudio Tennie of the "Tools and Culture in Early ...
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#1338862022-03-31
Apples and other fruits can host drug-resistant, pathogenic yeasts on surfaces
When they're prepared for transport, apples and other fruits are often treated with a fungicide to prevent spoilage and extend shelf life.
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#1280832021-04-20
Archaeological data demand new approaches to biodiversity conservation
Professor Nicole Boivin, Director of the Department of Archaeology at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany, is part of an international initiative to examine the implications of past land use for contemporary conservation efforts.
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#1331272022-02-11
Archerfish recognize that insects they have never seen before are animals
Lurking beneath overhanging foliage, archerfish have one thing on their mind: taking a well-aimed pot-shot at the next insect that settles within range. Squirting a ballistic jet of water, these tenacious assassins precisely target their victims, ready to dine.
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#1230032019-11-15
Arctic Ocean could be ice-free for part of the year as soon as 2044
It's hard to imagine the Arctic without sea ice.But according to a new study by UCLA climate scientists, human-caused climate change is on track to make the Arctic Ocean functionally ice-free for part of each year starting sometime between 2044 and 2067.
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#1288412021-05-26
Arctic Sea Ice Succumbs To Atlantification
Scientists with the European Space Agency (ESA) said on May 25, 2021, that satellite data have revealed how much warming Atlantic waters are intruding on Arctic sea ice. They said they made their announcement “with alarm bells ringing about the rapid demise of sea ice in the Arctic.”
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#1272142021-02-19
Arctic and tropical Pacific synergistic effects cause extremely cold winter in China
China is just one of many countries in the Northern Hemisphere experiencing an extremely cold winter due in part to both the tropical Pacific and the Arctic, according to an analysis of temperatures from Dec. 1, 2020 to mid-January of 2021.
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#1273092021-02-24
Arctic ice loss forces polar bears to use four times as much energy to survive – study
Polar bears and narwhals are using up to four times as much energy to survive because of major ice loss in the Arctic, according to scientists.
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#1290812021-06-04
Arctic open-water periods are projected to lengthen dramatically by 2100
A team from the Centre for Earth Observation Science at the University of Manitoba has published a paper in the Nature journal Communications Earth & Environment that addresses a large gap in our understanding of Arctic Sea Ice coverage.
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#1269432021-02-09
Arctic permafrost releases more carbon dioxide than once believed
Rising global temperatures are causing frozen Arctic soil— permafrost—in the northern hemisphere to thaw and release CO2 that has been stored within it for thousands of years. The amount of carbon stored in permafrost is estimated to be four times greater than the combined amount of CO2 emitted ...
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#1252262020-04-22
Arctic research expedition likely faces extreme conditions in fast-changing Arctic
In October 2019, scientists trapped a ship filled with equipment in Arctic sea ice with the intention of drifting around the Arctic Ocean for a full year, gathering data on the polar regions and sea ice floes. However, a new study indicates there is a chance the expedition may melt out months be ...
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#1256122020-11-09
Arctic tundra emits more methane during autumn freeze than spring thaw
Arctic tundra, a unique ecosystem characterized by permafrost, contributes to approximately 45% of all Arctic methane sources and therefore plays an important role in global carbon cycle. Arctic region is warming faster than other global regions over the last century. Warmer temperature accelera ...
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#1253072020-04-28
Arctic wildlife uses extreme method to save energy
Researchers from Lund University and the University of Tromsø have examined the immune system strength of the Svalbard rock ptarmigan in the Arctic. This bird lives the farthest up in the Arctic of any land bird, and the researchers have investigated how the immune response varies between winter ...
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#1230322019-11-18
Are We Really in a 6th Mass Extinction? Here's The Science
For more than 3.5 billion years, living organisms have thrived, multiplied and diversified to occupy every ecosystem on Earth. The flip side to this explosion of new species is that species extinctions have also always been part of the evolutionary life cycle.
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#1287062021-05-20
Are developing countries becoming more concerned about nature loss? Here’s what the data says
Awareness of nature loss and calls to address it are growing in developing nations, not just richer parts of the world, researchers said on Tuesday, urging governments and businesses to speed up efforts to make economies more eco-friendly.
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#1345412022-05-18
Are microplastics pervasive in Nigerian drinking water?
In Nigeria, about 90% of water available for drinking is sourced from boreholes, or deep, narrow wells that tap into naturally occurring underground water. A recent study in Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry found that microplastics (MPs) are abundant in the drinking water of these boreholes.
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#1204602019-03-22
Are natural fibres really better for the environment than microplastic fibres?
Researchers from the University of Nottingham have found a much higher percentage of 'natural' fibres than microplastic fibres in freshwater and atmospheric samples in the UK.
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#1304622021-09-15
Are there DBPs in that cup of tea?
Surpassed only by water, tea is the second most consumed beverage worldwide. When boiled tap water is used to brew tea, residual chlorine in the water can react with tea compounds to form disinfection byproducts (DBPs). Now, researchers reporting in Environmental Science & Technology measured 60 ...