New research led by paleoanthropologists at the University of the Witwatersrand and the University of Southern California offers fresh evidence on when early human ancestors stopped regularly climbing trees and committed fully to bipedal walking.
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A new theoretical framework treats heavy giant gravitons as a zero-dimensional defect, allowing bootstrap techniques to compute previously intractable correlation functions in strongly coupled quantum field …
New research suggests U.S. irrigation prevents far more greenhouse gas emissions than it produces by enabling farmers to grow more food on less land, avoiding the …
Stanford researchers implanted human cerebral organoids into mice engineered to lack over 90 percent of their cortex, restoring maze-learning and motor function and creating a model …
A humpback whale mother was observed for the first time tending to her stillborn calf, displaying behavior similar to grief seen in elephants. The rare encounter …
A visit to a New York dental laboratory reveals how prosthodontists and technicians combine ceramics, metals, and digital scanning to fabricate replacement teeth, adapting materials science …
Steady-state photoluminescence alone can mask critical differences in optoelectronic materials, prompting researchers to combine time-resolved, spatially resolved, and spectrally resolved methods into unified characterization platforms.
The UK Climate Change Committee says a third runway cannot be approved under current policies unless the aviation industry funds carbon dioxide removal to stay within …
A University of Chicago radiology professor and the 2025 PMB Early Career Award winner discuss breakthroughs in advanced X-ray imaging, the ingredients of high-impact research, and …
A University of Georgia team has developed an improved light-sheet microscope that captures fast 3D images of seizures in zebrafish, finding that seizures originate in the …
Camera traps in Senegal captured 33 tool transfers among wild western chimpanzees, including mothers guiding offspring to ant-dipping sticks and baobab-cracking stones, offering rare evidence that …
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