Credit: NASA NASA’s newest climate mission has started collecting data on the amount of heat in the form of far-infrared radiation that the Arctic and Antarctic environments emit to space. These measurements by the Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-Infrared Experiment (PREFIRE) are key to better predicting how climate change will affect Earth’s ice, seas, … Read more
The difference in aggressiveness between categorization strategies. Credit: International Journal of Organization Theory & Behavior (2024). DOI: 10.1108/IJOTB-08-2023-0168 How does discrimination arise? A new paper by Muhammed Alperen Yasar, Ph.D. student at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne University offers valuable insights into the development of discriminatory behaviors in organizations. The study … Read more
Schematic of gift-giving interaction. The donor endows a gift to the recipient. If the recipient reciprocates by adding interest within a certain time limit, the donor and recipient have an equal friendship. However, if the recipient cannot reciprocate appropriately, the recipient becomes subordinate to the donor. Credit: Kaneko and Itao, CC-BY 4.0, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) New findings … Read more
Elephants are among the animals targeted in Namibia’s cull. A Namibian government cull of more than 700 wildlife to cope with its worst drought in decades is under way, with nearly 160 animals already killed, the environment ministry said Tuesday. The government announced the cull last week to relieve pressure on grazing and water supplies, … Read more
Diana Maltseva, at el. Incautious design of shRNAs for stable overexpression of miRNAs could result in generation of undesired isomiRs, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) — Gene Regulatory Mechanisms, Volume 1867, Issue 3, 2024. Credit: Diana Maltseva, at el. The work of a researcher involves not only continuous pursuit of new discoveries but also careful … Read more
First Nations people are more likely to die on the road, a trend seen in ten years of data. Credit: BITR Last year, more than 1,200 people died in road crashes across Australia. But not all Australians face the same level of risk on our roads. Government data across five states and territories show significant … Read more
A model developed by evolutionary mathematicians in Canada and Europe shows that as cooperation becomes easier, it can unexpectedly break down. The researchers at the University of British Columbia and Hungarian Research Network used computational spatial models to arrange individuals from the two species on separate lattices facing one another. Credit: Christoph Hauert and György … Read more
The sunken village of Kallio is emerging from the waters of the Mornos dam. Record-breaking temperatures and prolonged drought in Greece have exposed a sunken village in Athens’ main reservoir for the first time in 30 years. The village of Kallio was submerged in the late 1970s when the Mornos dam was built 200 kilometers … Read more
Kobe University HIRATA Naoyuki was the first to realize that the location of an asteroid impact on Jupiter’s moon Ganymede is almost precisely on the meridian farthest away from Jupiter. This implied that Ganymede had undergone a reorientation of its rotational axis and allowed Hirata to calculate what kind of impact could have caused this … Read more
Thailand has netted more than 1.3 million kilograms of highly invasive blackchin tilapia fish. Thailand has netted more than 1.3 million kilograms of highly destructive blackchin tilapia fish, the government said Tuesday, as it battles to stamp out the invasive species. Shoals of blackchin tilapia, which can produce up to 500 young at a time, … Read more
