In Colombia, rare bird flaunts male and female feathers
A photograph captured by John Murillo of the rare gynandromorphic Green Honeycreeper. On the right side of its body, the bird flaunted the typical blue plumage and black head of …
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Winter storm threatens travel chaos on US east coast
In 2022 the US Northeast was battered by what authorities called the ‘blizzard of the century’ Forecasters warned on Friday that a deluge of snow and wintery conditions could bring …
WWII-era munitions found under water in survey of Southern California industrial waste dump site
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Underwater dump sites off the Los Angeles coast contain World War II-era munitions including anti-submarine weapons and smoke devices, marine researchers announced Friday. A survey of …
Study investigates influence of Arctic cold air on carbon dioxide uptake of the East Sea
Variations in carbon dioxide absorption in the East Sea due to the southward movement of Arctic air. Credit: POSTECH The recent cold spell has plunged South Korean into a deep …
Monitoring the well-being of reservoir water through an uncrewed surface vehicle
(Left) Uncrewed surface vehicle observations depicting depth and nitrate concentrations in Daljeonji Reservoir / (Right) A high-resolution map illustrating the total nitrate, derived from data collected by the vehicle (November …
Inhalable sensors could enable early lung cancer detection
MIT engineers have designed diagnostic particles that can be aerosolized and inhaled. At bottom is a scanning electron micrograph of the particles, which are coated with nanosensors that interact with …
Study finds protected areas for elephants work best if they are connected
A herd of elephants in Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe. Credit: Prof. Rudi van Aarde Conservation measures have successfully stopped declines in the African savanna elephant population across southern Africa, but …
Professor makes monumental discovery in Italy
An aerial photograph of the newly-discovered Imperial Cult ruins by Douglas Boin, Ph.D., and his team. Credit: Douglas Boin, Ph.D. Douglas Boin, Ph.D., a professor of history at Saint Louis …
A day in the life of a mountaintop telescope builder
Margaux Lopez in front of Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s Simonyi Survey Telescope. Credit: Margaux Lopez When she’s in Chile, Margaux Lopez starts most days nine thousand feet below her place …
What’s the social role of violence in these cultural events?
Network structure of psychological reactions during an extreme ritual. Overall network structure based on Extended Bayesian Information Criterion Gaussian Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator (EBICglasso; Foygel & Drton, Citation2010) …