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Biology
Snake’s Secret Language of UV Rays: Predator Evasion and Camouflage Hidden World
Visible (color) and UV (grayscale) photographs of three pit viper species with wide range of UV reflectance. From top to bottom, the species are the prairie rattlesnake, the western diamondback rattlesnake, and the two-stripe forest pit viper (the green one). All of these snakes are closely related species, but exhibit a wide range of UV reflectance. The white circles in…
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Other Sciences
The report records the devastation of Palmyra, an ancient city registered as a World Heritage Site, after the collapse of Assad’s regime.
Photos of Baal Shamin Temple before and after the bombing. Credit: Hasan Ali 2007, Mohammed Fares 2025 Palmyra is one of the most famous sites in Syria for its extraordinary heritage and archaeological sites. The city, which was engraved on the World Heritage List in 1980, saw many of its heritage being destroyed during the war. Following the release of…
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Other Sciences
The fossil skull that shook the world – the complex colonial legacy of Townfind 100 years later
Australopithecus africanus specimens discovered in South Africa, 2.1 million years ago, are cast in three parts: endocrine, face and mandibles of children in the town. Collection from the University of Witwatersland (Institute of Evolutionary Research) in Johannesburg, South Africa. Sterkfontein Cave, Hominid Fossil. Credit: Didier Descouins via Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0 Here’s how the story of a town’s children is…
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Biology
Web-based apps identify insects around the world and around the farm
Insectnet in action. Credit: PNAS Nexus (2024). doi: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae575 Farmers notice insects that are not familiar with leaves. Is this a pollinator? Or pests? Good news when harvesting? Or bad? Do you need to control it? or not? The farmer can take photos, use his smartphone or computer to supply photos to a web-based application called Insectnet, and regain real-time…
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Science
Connect the world’s most early data pazes in the world
Left: A sandstone fragment with sandstone fragments is engraved (credit: George Alexis Pantos). Right: Draw a stone and clarify the rune. Credit: Christel Jillmer Connecting the world’s most known runstone fragments in the world may fit like a jigsaw puzzle puzzle and intentionally separated, and various practical and rituals of the early Germanic Runestone. It shines light on the side.…
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Space & Cosmos
Are we all aliens? The asteroid sample returned by NASA holds the components of life from the world of water.
This image provided by NASA shows the top down view of the Ocillis -Rex touch and go sample mechanism (Tagsam) head, which reveals the rest of the asteroid sample inside. Credit: NASA via AP Scientists reported on Wednesday that the asteroid sample, fetched by NASA, has not only a lifelong building block, but also the salty archeological site of the…
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Environment
In high emission scenarios, the sea surface of the world is very likely to rise between 0.5 and 1.9 meters by 2100.
Expert judgment is essential through the process of predicting the rise in the sea level. The arrow shows the flow of information from experts (green arrows) and probable projections (blue arrows). Credit: The future of the earth (2024). Doi: 10.1029/2024EF005295 The interdisciplinary team of NTU Singapore and Delft Institute of Technology (TU DELFT) in the Netherlands predicts that the emission…
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Biology
The second largest freshwater crayfish, the second largest in the world, once inhabited a lot on the longest river Australia. We have regained it.
The crayfish on the Malay river is always completely protected, and if you catch it, you have to return it to water immediately. Credit: South Australia Malay crayfish used to prosper in the southern part of the Malay Darling Basin. This kind was seen everywhere, from the headwaters of the Australian Alps and the headwaters of the Malan Biji River…
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Science
Opinion: The United States called for time from home -there is a reason why the world should not follow
Credit: Pexels’s August de Richelue US President Donald Trump called for time to work at home. The Presidential Ordinance, who was signed on the first day of this week, asks all federal governments to “take any measures necessary to end remote work agreements and to return to employees to return to face -to -face.” I am. There are several different…
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Earth
In the Arctic, planting more trees actually makes the world warmer
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In many parts of the world, planting more trees means more carbon is stored and global warming is reduced. This is the idea behind recent proposals to plant more trees in Alaska, Greenland and Iceland. However, we recently published a paper in the journal Nature Geoscience arguing that tree planting is not a climate solution in…
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