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Analysis of historic baleen plates, the comb structures that are used by some species of whales to filter food, from Southern Hemisphere blue and fin whales.

Historic records provide new insight

U.S. National Science Foundation-funded researchers recently released a new study in Ecology and Evolution o utlining their in-depth analysis of...
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Aerial view of the Amazon Rainforest, near Manaus, the capital of the Brazilian state of Amazonas.

Scientists discover which parts of the Amazon rainforest are most vulnerable to drought

Regions of the Amazon rainforest respond to drought according to differences in local forest environments and in the properties of trees, Scott...
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An illustration of many faint brown dwarf stars surrounding a galaxy. The galaxy occupies most of the image as a fuzzy oval disk.

NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory will detect thousands of elusive brown dwarfs, unlocking Milky Way mysteries

Too big to be planets but too small to be stars, distant brown dwarfs are a key ingredient for understanding the history of the Milky Way. These...
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a wildfire as seen across Loon Lake, British Columbia

Wildfire smoke is reaching almost all lakes in North America

Wildfire smoke, sometimes drifting across hundreds of miles, reached almost every lake in North America at least one day each year from 2019 to 2021...
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Penguins

Seasonal shifts: Phenology events at the bottom of the world

Climate change has affected more than the planet's temperature. As climate change has become more influential, seasonal event timing has fluctuated...
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A gloved human hand holds some mammoth hair next to the foot and hairy leg.

Woolly mammoth chromosomes reconstructed using fossilized sample

An international team of scientists assembled the woolly mammoth's genetic code using fossilized chromosomes from a 52,000-year-old carcass discovered...
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employees work on the network cabling above the racks of Frontera.

NSF announces groundbreaking Leadership-Class Computing Facility project

The U.S. National Science Foundation has begun construction on the Leadership-Class Computing Facility (LCCF), a cutting-edge facility led by the...
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NSF appoints Micah Cheatham as chief management officer

Today, the U.S. National Science Foundation is pleased to announce the appointment of Micah Cheatham as chief management officer (CMO). In this role...
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Transformers: Cooler side of the grid

In a significant step towards resilient, sustainable energy, researchers at The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) are undertaking a...
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