Colonies of gannets maintain vast exclusive fishing ranges despite doing nothing to defend their territory…
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Spooky action put to order: Different types of ‘entanglement’ classified
A property known as “entanglement” is a fundamental characteristic of quantum mechanics. Physicists and mathematicians…
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Compulsive no more: Clues to what causes compulsive behavior could improve OCD treatments
By activating a brain circuit that controls compulsive behavior, neuroscientists have shown that they can…
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How young genes gain a toehold on becoming indispensable: Tracking a gene from its birth through to its pathway to purpose and evolutionary importance
Scientists have, for the first time, mapped a young gene’s short, dramatic evolutionary journey to…
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Stalagmites provide new view of abrupt climate events over 100,000 years
A new set of long-term climate records based on cave stalagmites collected from tropical Borneo…
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Gene variant may provide novel therapy for several cancer types
A novel gene variant found in human and animal tissue may be a promising treatment…
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Pollution in Northern Hemisphere helped cause 1980s African drought
Air pollution in the Northern Hemisphere in the mid-20th century cooled the upper half of…
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Plesk Zero-Day Exploit Results in Compromised Webserver
We’re tracking a zero-day exploit affecting a still unpatched vulnerability in Plesk that enables an…
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Plesk Zero-Day Exploit Results in Compromised Webserver
We’re tracking a zero-day exploit affecting a still unpatched vulnerability in Plesk that enables an…
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Promising material for lithium-ion batteries
Laptops could work longer and electric cars could drive farther if it were possible to…