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The next time you sweep away a cobweb without a second thought, consider this: the silken structure is an engineering marvel. According to new research published last week in Current Biology, a North American spider species can change how its webs transmit vibrations. The authors have reported that spiders in urban environments can build webs…
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In 2016, when Juan Diego Ibáñez-Álamo at the University of Granada in Spain met Kaspar Delhey, an expert in bird coloration at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence, a new collaboration was born. “He suggested we study whether urbanisation is associated with differences in bird coloration,” Delhey said. Many studies have investigated how urban…
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Relative humidity is a simple concept as weather phenomena go – but it has significant, far-reaching consequences for how we must take care of ourselves on a hot or wet day. Letting the wind flow freely is the secret to cooling our cities Humidity is the amount of moisture in the air around us, and…
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Falcon 9 launches the 18th Transporter rideshare mission from the Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, U.S.A., as part of the Transporter-18 rideshare mission, on October 2, 2026. The mission delivered 130 payloads in orbit. Multiple payloads developed by Indian companies were successfully deployed in orbit by Space X’s…
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Image used for representational purposes only. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Indian scientists have demonstrated a quantum-secure communications link through open air across more than five times the distance covered in a similar test last year. In the latest demo, on the night of September 27-28, scientists connected the Bhaskaracharya National Institute for Space Applications…
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An aerial view of a boat pulling a dead southern right whale calf in Puerto Madryn, Argentina, September 28, 2026. | Photo Credit: AFP Investigators in Argentina are trying to solve the mystery of baby whales washing up dead in unusually high numbers along the country’s Patagonian coast. Scores of the calf carcasses have been…
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A satellite view of heavily fragmented forests in Machadinho d’Oeste, Rondônia, Brazil, 2024. | Photo Credit: Google Earth Breaking up forests is just as bad for global warming How broken up a forest is can affect local temperatures as much as the forested area, a new study has found. Using satellite data, researchers found that…
The discovery of a protein that can, by itself, dictate the sequence of nucleic acids has caused a stir in the scientific community. Commentaries accompanying the work have highlighted the unusual nature of the finding and its implications for one of the foundational ideas of molecular biology Source link
Thanks to rising sea levels, scientists fear the entire archipelago could be unliveable by the end of the century Source link
India’s cities are bustling with taller buildings and more densely packed populations. The hotter days in many of these cities also come with high humidity, and can make the experience of heat seem unforgiving. One of the reasons is often a perceived lack of winds, which often have to make their way through the nooks…
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