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A new study uses boreholes drilled deep beneath Antarctic ice to investigate why the continent’s glaciers are accelerating. More than half a kilometer beneath an East Antarctic glacier, sensors detected water pressure high enough to support almost all the ice above. The measurements provide the first direct confirmation that meltwater from the surface can reach […]

A new study uses boreholes drilled deep beneath Antarctic ice to investigate why the continent’s glaciers are accelerating. More than half a kilometer beneath an East Antarctic glacier, sensors detected water pressure high enough to support almost all the ice above. The measurements provide the first direct confirmation that meltwater from the surface can reach […]

Ancient bones and DNA reveal that dog diversity and their close relationship with migrating humans developed thousands of years ago. Place a village dog beside a toy poodle and a mastiff, and the extraordinary physical range of a single species becomes obvious. An estimated 700 million dogs now live alongside or near humans worldwide. Dogs […]

Ancient bones and DNA reveal that dog diversity and their close relationship with migrating humans developed thousands of years ago. Place a village dog beside a toy poodle and a mastiff, and the extraordinary physical range of a single species becomes obvious. An estimated 700 million dogs now live alongside or near humans worldwide. Dogs […]

Humidity governs the daily rhythms of some insects, raising the question of whether it affects humans too. Inside a tightly controlled chamber, kissing bugs, fruit flies, mosquitoes, and spider beetles adjusted their behavior to repeating changes in humidity. Even after researchers removed the humidity cycle, the insects continued following the established rhythm of moist and […]

Humidity governs the daily rhythms of some insects, raising the question of whether it affects humans too. Inside a tightly controlled chamber, kissing bugs, fruit flies, mosquitoes, and spider beetles adjusted their behavior to repeating changes in humidity. Even after researchers removed the humidity cycle, the insects continued following the established rhythm of moist and […]

Humidity governs the daily rhythms of some insects, raising the question of whether it affects humans too. Inside a tightly controlled chamber, kissing bugs, fruit flies, mosquitoes, and spider beetles adjusted their behavior to repeating changes in humidity. Even after researchers removed the humidity cycle, the insects continued following the established rhythm of moist and […]

Four newly identified chameleons reveal the hidden diversity of Mozambique’s isolated mountain forests. High above the savanna of northern Mozambique, isolated rainforest patches conceal animals found nowhere else. Surveys of these granite mountains have now identified four previously unknown species of Sylvan Chameleons, each confined to a separate “sky island.” Prof. Krystal A. Tolley and […]

Dark energy revived Einstein’s discarded cosmological constant and reshaped the leading model of the universe. In 1917, Albert Einstein had recently completed his general theory of relativity, the framework that transformed how physics understands gravity. He soon applied those equations to a much larger question: how the universe changes over time. Gravity was the natural […]

Dark energy revived Einstein’s discarded cosmological constant and reshaped the leading model of the universe. In 1917, Albert Einstein had recently completed his general theory of relativity, the framework that transformed how physics understands gravity. He soon applied those equations to a much larger question: how the universe changes over time. Gravity was the natural […]