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Warming oceans may force New Zealand’s sperm and blue whales to shift to cooler southern waters
Frédérik Saltré, Flinders University; Karen A Stockin, Massey University, and Katharina J. Peters, University of Canterbury The world’s…
Scientists are turning data into sound to listen to the whispers of the universe (and more)
CSIRO , Author provided Jeffrey Cooke, Swinburne University of Technology We often think of astronomy as a visual…
Flies evade your swatting thanks to sophisticated vision and neural shortcuts
Fly brains can process images very quickly. www.shutterexperiments.com/Moment via GettyImages Jamie Theobald, Florida International University and Ravindra Palavalli-Nettimi,…
What could we do to cool the Arctic, specifically?
titoOnz / shutterstock / NASA Shaun Fitzgerald, University of Cambridge and Hugh Hunt, University of Cambridge The Arctic…
Mystery crater potentially caused by relative of dinosaur-killing asteroid
Kevin Gill/Flickr, CC BY-SA Uisdean Nicholson, Heriot-Watt University; Sean Gulick, University of Texas at Austin, and Veronica Bray,…
From whistling arrows and trumpeting elephants to battle cries and eerie horns, ancient soldiers used sound to frighten and confuse their enemies
Three soldiers (far right) carry karnyxes, long horns with frightening boar-headed mouths that produce eerie calls during battle.…
Ancient megalodon super-predators could swallow a great white shark whole, new model reveals
J.J. Giraldo, Author provided Stephen Wroe, University of New England In a new 3D modelling study published this…
Lying down, sitting, leaning over? What science says about the best way to take your medicine
Shutterstock Elise Schubert, University of Sydney; Nial Wheate, University of Sydney, and Tina Hinton, University of Sydney When…
5 drugs that changed the world (and what went wrong)
Shutterstock Philippa Martyr, The University of Western Australia It’s hard to measure the impact of any one drug…
What is a semiconductor? An electrical engineer explains how these critical electronic components work and how they are made
A silicon disc, or ‘wafer,’ yields dozens of semiconductor chips. Steve Jurvetson/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY Trevor Thornton, Arizona…