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The "RNA world" hypothesis proposes that the earliest life on Earth may have been based on RNA—a single-stranded molecule ...
But that's only part of the picture, according to a UC Santa Cruz ecologist renowned for using biologging data to tell a ...
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For example ... and these animals were probably living and moving in their environments in ways that we hadn't appreciated before. There was a lot happening and mammals today are really quite ...
In the wild, several types of whales have been spotted sleeping horizontally, close to the surface. But sperm whales seem to ...
Biologgers allow us to see with unprecedented precision how animals move and behave in the wild. But that's only part of the picture, according to a UC Santa Cruz ecologist renowned for using ...
Computer scientists need to grapple with the possibility they will accidentally create sentient artificial intelligence (AI) ...
A mystery beginning in the South Atlantic and ending in South Kensington has finally been solved. The century-long story of ...