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Seismic echoes reveal a mysterious ‘donut’ inside Earth’s core

About 2,890 kilometres beneath our feet lies a gigantic ball of liquid metal: our planet’s core. Scientists like me use the seismic waves created by earthquakes as a kind of ultrasound to “see” the shape and structure of the core.

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As human population grows, people and wildlife will share more living spaces around the world

Human-wildlife overlap is projected to increase across more than half of all lands around the globe by 2070. The main driver of these changes is human population growth. This is the central finding of our newly published study in the journal Science Advances.

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Rare 'polar rain' aurora seen from Earth for the first time

Seen for the first time from the ground, the polar rain aurora produced an eerie green glow captured on camera in Norway.

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A 4,500-year-old collective tomb in France reveals its secret – the final stage in the formation of the ‘European genome’

High-resolution analysis of the genomes of individuals buried in a 4,500-year-old collective tomb at Bréviandes-les-Pointes, near the French town of Troyes, has revealed a surprising story with far-reaching implications. As detailed in an article in the journal Science Advances, the final stage in the formation of the European genome is…

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Gas stoves increase nitrogen dioxide exposure above WHO standards – study

Science Advances report also finds people of color and low-income residents in US disproportionately affected

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Mass die-off half a billion years ago caused by shifting tectonic plates, ancient rocks reveal

A large extinction in the midst of the expansion of life during the Cambrian period was caused by the tectonics of a supercontinent, new research argues.

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Study Finds Climate Change Slowing And Intensifying Heat Waves

Study in Science Advances reveals intensifying global heat waves due to climate change impact.

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Researchers 3D print wood objects from sawdust ink – texture, appearance, and smell similar to the real thing

Researchers have developed a new 3D printing technology that recycles wood waste material. According to a recently published research paper, the new methodology results in 3D-printed objects with the texture, appearance, thermal stability, and smell of natural wood.

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‘Much more fixated on the sausage’: study sheds light on obesity in labradors

Study suggests dogs with POMC gene mutation are hungrier between meals and burn fewer calories when at rest

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Climate change will help locusts

Recent research finds that certain agricultural pests will thrive in a warming planet, threatening agriculture

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Researchers give insight into role of enzyme SMYD3 in prostate cancer progression

According to the American Cancer Society, prostate cancer is the most frequent cancer in males after skin cancer, with over 288,000 new cases diagnosed each year. Read further on Dynamite News:

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What is STEVE, and how is it different from the aurora?

STEVE is an atmospheric phenomenon that is similar to yet separate from the aurora. It looks like a mauve streak across the night sky.

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Meltwater Beneath Antarctic Glaciers Accelerates Ice Loss, Warns Study

Antarctic glaciers losing ice faster due to hidden meltwater, raising sea level rise concerns

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Omicron BA.5 more virulent and replicates faster, new study in mice finds

Omicron BA.5 strain is more virulent than its ancestors, a new study in mice has found. The research, published in the journal Science Advances, addresses a challenge to studying and understanding rapidly evolving variants of concern due to a lack of animal models for running tests that could help explain…

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Do languages become less complex with more new adult speakers? Research shows it’s not that simple

If you’ve ever seen Monty Python’s Life of Brian, you might remember that Romanes eunt domus means “Romans go home”. Or does it? Isn’t domus the nominative? Shouldn’t we be using the dative? Or is it the accusative?

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When did the Isthmus of Panama form between North and South America?

The linkage of the Americas had outsize impacts globally, and its controversial timing has similarly large implications for science.

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New nanoparticle source generates high-frequency light

High-frequency light is useful. The higher the frequency of light, the shorter its wavelength – and the shorter the wavelength, the smaller the objects and details the light can be used to see.

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Scientists find weird holes on the ocean floor spewing ancient fluids 'like a fire hose'

Understanding the movement of fluids in the Cascadia subduction zone can help researchers pinpoint the risk of earthquakes

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Networks of silver nanowires seem to learn and remember, much like our brains

Over the past year or so, generative AI models such as ChatGPT and DALL-E have made it possible to produce vast quantities of apparently human-like, high-quality creative content from a simple series of prompts.

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A USF professor discovered what was killing sea urchins in Florida, Caribbean. Here’s how

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — She called it cute, the microscopic single-celled organism on her microscope slide. She said she liked its little hairs, and the way it swam beneath her lens. Looking through her microscope, Mya Breitbart found one of the ciliates — this type of single-celled creature — and…

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Marsupials and other mammals separately evolved flight many times, and we are finally learning how

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land on the next tree. Many groups of mammals seem to have taken this evolutionary advice to heart. According to our newly published paper in Science Advances, unrelated animals may even have used the same blueprints for building their “wings”.

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The earliest modern humans in Europe mastered bow-and-arrow technology 54,000 years ago

Based on research in France’s Mandrin cave, in February 2022 we published a study in the journal Science Advances that pushed back the earliest evidence of the arrival of the first Homo sapiens in Europe to 54,000 years ago – 11 millennia earlier than had been previously established.

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Extinction crisis puts 1 million species on the brink

Nature is in crisis, and it's only getting worse. As species vanish at a rate not seen in 10 million years, more than 1 million species are currently on the brink.

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Monkeys' brains are wired to read body language – just like ours

In 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic drove a surge in remote work and learning, videoconferencing apps such as Zoom saw their user numbers boom. Plenty of other options were available, but the exponential growth in videoconferencing underlines an essential aspect of human communication: to do it effectively, we need to…

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Ancient megalodon super-predators could swallow a great white shark whole, new model reveals

In a new 3D modelling study published this week in Science Advances, we show that the giant extinct shark, Otodus megalodon, was a true globetrotting super-predator.

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