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Billion-year-old rocks in South Africa hold evidence for the onset of plate tectonics early in Earth’s history ..read more
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Polar ice sheets are melting faster, slowing Earth’s spin. That is changing how we synchronize our clocks to tell time ..read more
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Astronomers have captured polarized light coming from the Milky Way’s central supermassive black hole, giving insight into its magnetic fields ..read more
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No bigger than a grain of rice, the heart of the instrument is the latest entrant in the quest to build ever tinier gravity-measuring devices ..read more
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Peltocephalus maturin was one of the biggest turtles ever, but unlike similarly sized prehistoric freshwater turtles, it lived thousands of years ago ..read more
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Editor in chief Nancy Shute considers the role that people suffering from a variety of chronic conditions are starting to play in medical research ..read more
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A taste for toxins Researchers have identified a protein that may help a poison dart frog collect toxins from food and transport them to the frog’s skin, Erin Garcia de Jesús reported in “How poison dart frogs hoard toxins in their skin” (SN: 2/10/24, p. 4). Poison dart frogs eat toxic insects. Reader Robert Schier ..read more
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New observations suggest that Japanese tits gesture to communicate complex messages — a rare ability in the animal kingdom and a first seen in birds ..read more
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New research used the game Overcooked to show how offline reinforcement learning algorithms could teach bots to collaborate with — or manipulate — us ..read more
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The brain activity of dogs that were expecting one toy but were shown another suggests canines create mental concepts of everyday objects ..read more