When will researchers learn to use fewer acronyms?

When will researchers learn to use fewer acronyms?

Scientists have analyzed 24 million scientific article titles and 18 million abstracts between 1950 and 2019, looking for trends in acronym use. Despite repeated...
New Study: Lander Exhaust Could Cloud Studies of Lunar Ices

New Study: Lander Exhaust Could Cloud Studies of Lunar Ices

A new study led by scientists at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, shows that exhaust from a midsized lunar...
Endangered large blue butterfly successfully reintroduced to UK

Endangered large blue butterfly successfully reintroduced to UK

The globally endangered large blue butterfly has been successfully reintroduced at Rodborough Common in Gloucestershire in efforts to halt the worldwide decline of this...
Vectaerovenator inopinatus: New dinosaur related to T. rex discovered on Isle of Wight

Vectaerovenator inopinatus: New dinosaur related to T. rex discovered on Isle of Wight

A new study by Palaeontologists at the University of Southampton suggests four bones recently found on the Isle of Wight belong to new species...
Researchers see an earthquake boomerang back and forth

Researchers see an earthquake boomerang back and forth

Researchers have tracked a 'boomerang' earthquake in the ocean for the first time, providing clues about how they could cause devastation on land. Earthquakes occur...
Study: One in four puppies 'separated from their mother too soon'

Study: One in four puppies ‘separated from their mother too soon’

One in four people acquired their puppies before the advised age of eight weeks old, according to new findings from Dogs Trust's pioneering dog...
Coronavirus recovery choices shape future climate

Coronavirus recovery choices shape future climate

A post-lockdown economic recovery plan that incorporates and emphasises climate-friendly choices could help significantly in the battle against global warming, according to a new...
Study: How fish stocks will change in warming seas

Study: How fish stocks will change in warming seas

The study, which generated future projections of climate impacts on fish in a rapidly warming sea region, suggests changes in the availability and catchability...
Dwarf planet Ceres is an 'ocean world,' (Researchers Say)

Dwarf planet Ceres is an ‘ocean world,’ (Researchers Say)

NASA's Dawn spacecraft gave scientists extraordinary close-up views of the dwarf planet Ceres, which lies in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter....
Ancient 'terror crocodiles' lived 82 million years ago, says new research

Ancient ‘Terror crocodiles’ from 82m years ago had banana-sized teeth, Says New Study

A new study, revisiting fossil specimens from the enormous crocodylian, Deinosuchus, has confirmed that the beast had teeth “the size of bananas”, capable to...

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