A research group led by Professor Hiroaki SUZUKI and Takeshi HAYAKAWA from the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Chuo University, graduate student Zhitai HUANG, graduate students Kanji KANEKO (at the time) and Ryotaro YONEYAMA…
Category: 7. Science
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New Species of Bird Discovered in Papua New Guinea
Using camera traps, ornithologists have photographed a previously unknown species of jewel-babbler in the forested karst of the Southern Fold Mountains in Papua New Guinea.
Camera trap images of the holotype and two paratypes of Ptilorrhoa…
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In axolotls and flatworms, regeneration is a body-wide choreograph
Planarian flatworms are small, unassuming creatures with an astonishing talent. Cut one into pieces, and each fragment can regrow a complete animal. This seemingly magical ability comes from their prolific stem cells, known as neoblasts, which…
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Scientists Find Ancient Air Bubbles in 1.4 Billion-Year-Old Salt Crystals
Researchers have found ancient gases and fluids trapped in 1.4-billion-year-old halite crystals from northern Ontario, Canada. Their analyses directly constrain Mesoproterozoic (1.8 to 0.8 billion years ago) oxygen and carbon dioxide…
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Russia’s Plans for a Space Station Includes “Recycling” its ISS Modules
With the International Space Station (ISS) set to retire in 2030, several nations and commercial space companies have plans to deploy their own successor stations. This includes China, which plans to double the size of its Tiangong space…
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NASA Spaceline Current Awareness List #1,179 19 December 2025 (Space Life Science Research Results)
The abstract in PubMed or at the publisher’s site is linked when available and will open in a new window.
In case you missed it: A Science Strategy for the Human Exploration of Mars is a newly published book published by the National Academies…
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Taphonomic patterns of a WWI Alpine mass grave: insights from the Italian front
Malcherek, A. & Więckowski, W. Bioarchaeological investigation of WWI burials at Nowa Osuchowa. Poland J. Confl. Archaeology. 18, 71–96. https://doi.org/10.1080/15740773.2023.2242407 (2023).
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New species are now being discovered faster than ever before, study suggests
About 300 years ago, Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus set out on a bold quest: to identify and name every living organism on Earth. Now celebrated as the father of modern taxonomy, he developed the binomial naming system and described more than…
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Korea Tests Ultra-Rugged Robot to Explore the Moon’s Mysterious Caves
If humans finally colonize the Moon, lunar caves formed from primeval volcanic activity could provide shelter from cosmic radiation and extreme temperatures. But how does one go about safely exploring these uncharted caves before they venture…
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