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A bluestreak cleaner wrasse (Labroides dimidiatus) swims in a tank at right, with its mirror image at left. Credit: Osaka Metropolitan University An Osaka Metropolitan University-led team has demonstrated that bluestreak cleaner wrasse (Labroides dimidiatus) check their body size in a mirror before choosing whether to attack fish that are slightly larger or smaller than … Read more

A model of NASA’s Voyager spacecraft. The twin Voyagers have been flying since 1977 and are exploring the outer regions of our solar system. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Engineers working on NASA’s Voyager 1 probe have successfully mitigated an issue with the spacecraft’s thrusters, which keep the distant explorer pointed at Earth so that it can receive … Read more

In a new atlas, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign professor Jim Best used the latest research and visually intensive storytelling to highlight the history, culture, change and restoration efforts of the world’s river systems.  Credit: Michelle Hassel The word “atlas,” may conjure images of giant books chock full of maps and a dizzying array of facts … Read more

Credit: Frontiers of Agricultural Science and Engineering (2024). DOI: 10.15302/J-FASE-2024558 As global climate warming becomes increasingly severe, scientists are delving deeper into greenhouse gas emissions across various industries. Recently, a study from Duke Kunshan University and Yangzhou University on the changes in China’s agricultural carbon emissions during the COVID-19 pandemic has garnered widespread attention. A … Read more

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Land was once set aside as Native American reservations because it was undesirable and low in resources, but now interested Native Americans may have economic leverage in the growing industry of clean energy. A team of researchers led by UW–Madison professors Dominic Parker and Sarah Johnston quantified the economic potential of … Read more

A northern resident orca initiates a dive while wearing a Dtag temporarily stuck to its back by neoprene suction cups. The waterproof tag contains two underwater microphones, pressure and temperature sensors, triaxial accelerometers and magnetometers to help researchers understand how orcas move through the water and interact with their environment. Image taken under NOAA permit. … Read more

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The evolution of bones in primates’ knees could have implications for how humans evolved to walk upright, a new study has found. Researchers from King’s College London analyzed the presence of the lateral fabella, a bone in the knee the size of a sesame seed, in 93 different species of primates. … Read more

A wastepicker walks past on a pile of garbage at a landfill in Depok on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia, May 10, 2024. Credit: AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana, File The amount and proportion of the powerful heat-trapping gas methane that humans spew into the atmosphere is rising, helping to turbocharge climate change, a new study finds. … Read more

An example of a track’s trajectory over Milan and how upwind and downwind distances are defined. Credit: Earth’s Future (2024). DOI: 10.1029/2024EF004505 Summer storms are generally more frequent, intense and concentrated over cities than over rural areas, according to new, detailed observations of eight cities and their surroundings. The results could change how city planners … Read more

Credit: ACS Nano (2024). DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.4c02897 A new diagnostic test system jointly developed at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (PME) and UCLA Samueli School of Engineering fuses a powerful, sensitive transistor with a cheap, paper-based diagnostic test. When combined with machine learning, the system becomes a new kind of biosensor that … Read more