Science X Dialog
Science X Dialog is where researchers can share news and information about their own published journal articles.
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Dialog / Humans have lived in the shadow of the Himalayas for more than 5,000 years
Few parts of the world would seem as inhospitable to humans as the highlands of the Tibetan Plateau, near the Himalayas. Archaeologists have long wondered when, where and how our ancestors began to explore and occupy these ...

Dialog / Legal mining increasingly ravages forests in megadiversity hotspot
Colombia is the second most biodiverse country in the world and around half of its land territory is forest-covered. Deforestation is one of the biggest worldwide threats not only for biodiversity but also for climate. In ...

Dialog / Narcissistic people aren't just full of themselves – new research finds they're more likely to be aggressive, violent
We recently reviewed 437 studies of narcissism and aggression involving a total of over 123,000 participants and found narcissism is related to a 21% increase in aggression and an 18% increase in violence.

Dialog / Shape-shifting computer chip thwarts an army of hackers
We have developed and tested a secure new computer processor that thwarts hackers by randomly changing its underlying structure, thus making it virtually impossible to hack.

Dialog / Western fires are burning higher in the mountains at unprecedented rates in a clear sign of climate change
The Western U.S. appears headed for another dangerous fire season, and a new study shows that even high mountain areas once considered too wet to burn are at increasing risk as the climate warms.

Dialog / Emergency communications, second languages and hurricane season
To what extent is the way we think influenced by the language we speak? That is the core question of a research area called linguistic relativity, also known as Whorfianism. Although there has been growing evidence that almost ...

Dialog / Clocks that tell time more accurately use more energy, new research reveals
Clocks pervade our lives, from the cellular clocks inside our bodies to the atomic clocks that underlie satellite navigation.

Dialog / Bell's theorem refuted
Einstein said that the wave function does not describe the physical state of a single object, but the possible states of an ensemble. He also said that quantum mechanics is not complete; there must be hidden variables. Not ...

Dialog / We found a secret history of megadroughts written in tree rings. The wheatbelt's future may be drier than we thought
Drought over the last two decades has dealt a heavy blow to the wheatbelt of Western Australia, the country's most productive grain-growing region. Since 2000, winter rainfall has plummeted by almost 20% and shifted grain-growing ...

Dialog / SETI: microbes may already be communicating with alien species – new research
Are we alone in the universe? The famous SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) program has been trying to answer this question since 1959. American astronomer Carl Sagan, and many others, believed that other human-like ...

Dialog / DNA 'Lite-Brite' is a promising way to archive data for decades or longer
We and our colleagues have developed a way to store data using pegs and pegboards made out of DNA and retrieving the data with a microscope—a molecular version of the Lite-Brite toy. Our prototype stores information in ...

Dialog / A metropolis in medieval Cambodia: How many people lived in the Angkor Empire over time
How big were the world's ancient cities? At its height, the world's first city of Uruk may have had about 40,000 people about 5,000 years ago. In the medieval period, London may have had a population of about a quarter of ...