Lack of Freshwater Places Colorado River Delta Fish at Risk of Extinction
A new study from UCLA shows that Colorado River delta fish risk extinction due to a lack of freshwater. The study is a warning for…
A new study from UCLA shows that Colorado River delta fish risk extinction due to a lack of freshwater. The study is a warning for…
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Josh Tenenbaum, a professor of brain and cognitive sciences at MIT, directs research on the development of intelligence at the Center for Brains, Minds, and…
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A study led by physicists at Swansea University in Wales, carried out by an international team of researchers and published in the journal Physical Review…
An archaeologist from The Australian National University (ANU) has uncovered the world’s oldest known fish-hooks placed in a burial ritual, found on Indonesia’s Alor Island,…
A scientist from Siberian Federal University (SFU) and his colleagues from Austria and Germany constructed a physical and mathematical model of Mars- and Venus-sized planet…
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