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Plants growing at the bottom of sinkholes in China’s Dashiwei Tiankeng Group don’t take up as much carbon as surface plants do, but they have much higher levels of nutrients in their tissues.
Do voters assess political candidates differently based on their race or ethnicity? A recent meta-analysis, published in Acta Politica, sought to answer this by pooling data from 43 experiments conducted over the past decade. The findings reveal that, generally, voters…
How hot could it get? In the first edition of Science News’ Extreme Climate Update, we look at how high temperatures could soar.
Anticipation can be more terrifying than the actual event. This idea, famously captured by filmmaker and “master of suspense” Alfred Hitchcock, has now been scientifically explored by researchers at the University of California, Davis. Their recent study, published in the…
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) There are no wild ligers. Indeed, hybrids were once thought to be rare in nature—and of little consequence in an evolutionary sense. But now we know they can play an important role in…
Somewhere in the not-too-distant universe, a cosmic beast is waking up. The monstrous object is a supermassive black hole. Some 300 million light-years from Earth, it sits at the center of a galaxy called SDSS1335+0728. Over the past four years,…
A massive water-treatment facility located near the Nile River may have been used to build the pyramid of Djoser.
Political tensions in the United States have brought to light a behavior known as “ideological poking.” This term refers to the public display of products that carry messages designed to offend political opponents. Recent research published in the Journal of…
Researchers have devised an “absurdly fast” algorithm to solve the problem of finding the fastest flow through a network.
A 2023 astronaut photo provides a unique perspective of the Sulaiman Mountains in Pakistan, showing how thick clouds of haze get trapped behind the tall peaks.
