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Plants & Animals 15 hours ago

Scientists find Eurasian jays can use 'mental time travel' like humans

Eurasian jays can remember incidental details of past events, which is characteristic of episodic memory in humans, according to a study published May 15, 2024, in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by James Davies of the University ...

Social Sciences 15 hours ago

Singing researchers find cross-cultural patterns in music and language

Are acoustic features of music and spoken language shared across cultures? Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen have contributed to a global study of music and speech, published in Science ...

Earth Sciences 15 hours ago

Summers warm up faster than winters, fossil shells from Antwerp show

In a warmer climate, summers warm much faster than winters. That is the conclusion of research into fossil shells by Earth scientist Niels de Winter. With this knowledge, we can better map the consequences of current global ...

Quantum Physics 15 hours ago

New method of wavefunction matching helps solve quantum many-body problems

Strongly interacting systems play an important role in quantum physics and quantum chemistry. Stochastic methods such as Monte Carlo simulations are a proven method for investigating such systems. However, these methods reach ...

Plants & Animals 15 hours ago

Using reference genome of the species itself is optimal for SNP calling, finds study

With the advent of next-generation sequencing technologies, restriction-site associated DNA sequencing (RAD-seq) has become a mainstream method for rapidly obtaining high-density single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in ...

Cell & Microbiology 15 hours ago

Researchers conduct first-ever study to characterize microbiota in saliva of weaned piglets

Bacteria of the phyla Firmicutes and Proteobacteria, including those of the genus Streptococcus, are the most common microorganisms found in the saliva of swine, which contains a different microbiota from swine feces and ...

General Physics 16 hours ago

A new family of beautiful-charming tetraquarks: Study illuminates a new horizon within quantum chromodynamics

Exploring the complex domain of subatomic particles, researchers at the The Institute of Mathematical Science (IMSc) and the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) have recently published a novel finding in the journal ...

Environment 16 hours ago

Emissions from fresh food cooking may be degrading air quality

It's been known for years that cooking indoors can taint the air in a home and cause health problems, especially when cooking without proper ventilation.

Biotechnology 16 hours ago

New strategy suppresses unwanted deletion events to make genome editing safer and more precise

A simple and robust strategy developed by KAUST scientists could help to improve the safety and accuracy of CRISPR gene editing, a tool that is already approved for clinical use for the treatment of inherited blood disorders.

Environment 16 hours ago

Air quality alerts are a climate change alarm

The sky over Minnesota was the subject of fascination and frustration over the weekend. Awe over solar-storm triggered northern lights turned to "Aw, not again!" over an air quality alert sparked by smoke drifting from wildfires ...

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