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Satellite observations show that Arctic sea ice continues to decline in both winter and summer while becoming thinner, younger, and easier to melt. Scientists say the region could see a nearly ice-free summer before 2050 despite a recent slowdown in summer losses.
8:40 AMScienceDaily
Researchers found that people under general anesthesia can still process language, distinguish types of words, and anticipate what may come next in a narrative. The findings indicate that some complex brain functions continue even when conscious awareness is absent.
8:52 AMScienceDaily
Researchers engineered a plant immune receptor that can recognize multiple fungal threats affecting rice, wheat, and barley. The approach could eventually produce crops with broader and more durable disease resistance.
7:45 AMScienceDailySummary
Satellite observations show that Arctic sea ice continues to decline in both winter and summer while becoming thinner, younger, and easier to melt. Scientists say the region could see a nearly ice-free summer before 2050 despite a recent slowdown in summer losses.
The key shift is not only less ice, but a weaker ice cover that has
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A thinner, younger ice pack leaves the Arctic more exposed to abrupt and self-reinforcing change.
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Researchers found that people under general anesthesia can still process language, distinguish types of words, and anticipate what may come next in a narrative. The findings indicate that some complex brain functions continue even when conscious awareness is absent.
The decisive distinction is between unconscious information processing and conscious experience, which the study does
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The study shows that loss of reported awareness does not mean the brain has stopped building meaning from incoming information.
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Researchers engineered a plant immune receptor that can recognize multiple fungal threats affecting rice, wheat, and barley. The approach could eventually produce crops with broader and more durable disease resistance.
The important advance is engineering one immune component to detect several pathogens, rather than breeding
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Broader genetic resistance could protect staple crops without relying as heavily on fungicides or single pathogen-specific traits.
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Researchers have identified dinosaur fossils stored in a UK museum for roughly a century as belonging to a previously unknown species.
4:12 PMARTnews
A 75,000-year-old spear wound found on a Neanderthal may indicate that violent encounters, including potentially lethal attacks, were more common in Neanderthal life than previously thought.
11:00 AMBBC
Timekeepers periodically add a leap second to keep atomic clocks aligned with Earth's irregular rotation. International efforts could end the practice, replacing occasional clock adjustments with a larger permitted gap between official time and solar time.
3:16 AMAl JazeeraSummary
Researchers have identified dinosaur fossils stored in a UK museum for roughly a century as belonging to a previously unknown species.
The discovery shows that important evidence can remain hidden in established collections long after excavation.
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Reexamining museum collections could expand the fossil record without requiring new excavation.
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A 75,000-year-old spear wound found on a Neanderthal may indicate that violent encounters, including potentially lethal attacks, were more common in Neanderthal life than previously thought.
The wound pushes evidence of organized or repeated interpersonal violence deeper into human prehistory. If
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The finding could revise accounts of how violence shaped early human societies.
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Timekeepers periodically add a leap second to keep atomic clocks aligned with Earth's irregular rotation. International efforts could end the practice, replacing occasional clock adjustments with a larger permitted gap between official time and solar time.
The decisive shift is from correcting clocks to tolerating greater divergence between atomic time and
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A tiny technical adjustment could reshape the global time standard and prioritize machine reliability over precise alignment with the Earth's day.
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