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Phys.org / What can singing mice say about human speech?

Speech is a crowning achievement of human evolution, the skill that separates us from every other animal. So, it would stand to reason that evolving this capability required some enormous leap in brain complexity. A study ...

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Medical Xpress / Blood test reveals nine tumor cell 'neighborhoods' tied to immunotherapy outcomes

A simple blood test can reveal the geographic relationships among healthy cells surrounding a cancerous tumor, researchers at Stanford Medicine and the Mayo Clinic have found. The test is the first noninvasive way to study ...

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Phys.org / When strength in numbers stops working: Climate extremes rewrite monkey society in Costa Rica

As climate change intensifies, scientists are becoming increasingly concerned about how animals will cope with a more unpredictable world. One way to gain insight is by studying how animals have already responded to natural ...

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Phys.org / 'Indian Niño' drove record heat in 2023 and 2024, new study finds

In 2023 and 2024, Earth's average global surface temperature spiked nearly 0.3 degrees Celsius above what was already expected from climate change. Each year was declared the hottest on record and coincided with deadly wildfires, ...

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Medical Xpress / 'I'm mad at the people who could have solved the problem': What kids say about eco‑anxiety

"This is our home. If we destroy it, and we can't build it up, then that's a part of Earth that's destroyed, and we won't be able to get it back." Matthew, aged 10, isn't alone in feeling this way.

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Phys.org / 'What do you want to be?' The spark that helps Indigenous people go to university

Across Australia, universities and governments say increasing the numbers of Indigenous graduates is one of the main priorities in tertiary education.

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Phys.org / The lost koala: New fossil species was hiding in plain sight for 100 years

In 2024, the Western Australian Museum received a donation. It was a koala skull collected from Moondyne Cave in Margaret River by Lindsay Hatcher, an avid caver. There was something a bit odd about this skull, and we were ...

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Phys.org / Small talk shapes big trends: Physics predicts how language patterns spread

A new model to predict how language changes over time has been developed by a statistical physicist at the University of Portsmouth. The model is a step towards understanding the "statistical physics of language," a scientific ...

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Phys.org / Landsat 9 captures Russia's restless Shiveluch volcano mid-eruption

Near-constant activity continues on the volcano in Russia. Shivelyuch (also called Shiveluch), the most northerly active volcano on the Kamchatka Peninsula, is one of the most active volcanoes in the world. On a near-daily ...

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Phys.org / Heat‑resistant corals could help reefs adapt to climate change

Austin Bowden-Kerby, a pioneer in coral reef conservation, spends many of his days gardening corals for reefs around Fiji and the Pacific. He grows corals in ocean nurseries. Once they're healthy enough, he moves them to ...

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Medical Xpress / Even in Japan, robots are a long way from being fully fledged caregivers—here's why

The robot pauses at the edge of the room as an engineer checks its sensors. Then, with a soft mechanical hum, this humanoid machine begins to move. It lifts a mannequin from a bed, slowly and carefully. The engineers hold ...

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Science X / Huge tsunami in popular area for Alaskan cruises provides lessons in steep, mountainous terrain

When part of a mountain in southeast Alaska slid into the ocean last summer, it triggered the second highest tsunami ever recorded. That tsunami ran 481 meters—one-and-a-half times the height of the Eiffel Tower—up the wall ...

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