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Martha Robbins arrived in the mountains of Uganda in 1998. A behavioral ecologist, she came to study a troop of gorillas in the misty forests of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. Low-lying clouds ...

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For practical purposes, utilizing high thermal conductivity materials (HTCMs) to implement regeneration is a promising alternative to attempts of pursuing an ideal thermal diode, while they still ...

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Revisiting dopamine function in cognition through abstract decision-making ...

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis for their foundational discovery of macroscopic quantum ...

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Open in Viewer (A) Schematic of a photocell consisting of quantum dots sandwiched between p and n doped semiconductors. Open circuit voltage and solar photon energy ℏνh are related by the Carnot ...

Assembling the mitochondrial ATP synthase The assembly of the mitochondrial ATP synthase is a complicated process that involves the coordinated association of mitochondrially and nuclear encoded ...

Birds, bees, lizards, elephants, and chimpanzees all share a survival trait: They self-medicate. These animals eat things that make them feel better, or prevent disease, or kill parasites like ...

Future drought is projected to occur under warmer temperature conditions as climate change progresses, referred to here as global-change-type drought, yet quantitative assessments of the triggers and ...