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Ecology Feb 22, 2024

Birds know no borders. Nor do scientists

Over centuries, wetlands all over the world have had to give way to "more useful" types of land—seen from man's perspective.

Condensed Matter Feb 21, 2024

14 parameters in one go: New instrument for optoelectronics

An HZB physicist has developed a new method for the comprehensive characterization of semiconductors in a single measurement. The "Constant Light-Induced Magneto-Transport (CLIMAT)" is based on the Hall effect and allows ...

Social Sciences Feb 16, 2024

Entrepreneurship on the periphery: Between precarious work and the search for a meaningful life

Understanding how the poor deal with the effects of the economic crisis into which Brazil plunged in 2014 was the aim of the research project "The crisis seen from the periphery: struggle for social mobility in the frontiers ...

Evolution Feb 11, 2024

The complete library of Charles Darwin revealed for the first time

Charles Darwin—arguably the most influential man of science in history, accumulated a vast personal library throughout his working life. Until now, 85% of its contents were unknown or unpublished.

Environment Feb 5, 2024

Artists and environmentalists seek creative ways to keep plastics out of landfills

In high school, Jordan Parker wrote a paper on plastic pollution titled: "Is our country doomed to be buried beneath its own garbage?" Decades later, that question continues to galvanize Parker.

Social Sciences Jan 9, 2024

Freedom of thought is threatened by states, big tech and even ourselves. What we can do to protect it

The idea of free speech sparked into life 2,500 years ago in Ancient Greece—in part because it served a politician's interests. The ability to speak freely was seen as essential for the new Athenian democracy, which the ...

Plants & Animals Jan 9, 2024

When polar bears hunt snow geese, hunger justifies the means

Polar bears (Ursus maritimus) take advantage of the winter to build up their fat reserves. Intensive hunting of seals, a resource rich in fat, allows bears to store up enough energy to get through the summer.

Archaeology Nov 14, 2023

Orkney's lost tomb—how researchers made the Neolithic discovery

Orkney in the north of Scotland is renowned for its remarkably well-preserved monuments. Many of these are Neolithic (10,000 BC to 2,200 BC) and consist of stone circles and chambered tombs, which are still highly visible ...

Superconductivity Oct 4, 2023

Superconductivity at room temperature remains elusive a century after Nobel Prize for landmark discovery

On April 8, 1911, Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes scribbled in pencil an almost unintelligible note into a kitchen notebook: "near enough null."

Plants & Animals Jul 18, 2023

Field records of an early-20th century female public health pioneer converted to 21st century data

Natural history collections contain huge amounts of information on diversity, distribution and ecology of a variety of species; however, much of this valuable information is effectively lost to researchers due to historical ...

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