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A new study from the University of Alberta shows that people’s grief over the loss of a loved pet should be more recognized and understood. (Photo : Getty Images) Grief Over the Death a Pet Occupational therapy professor Cary Brown, one of the paper’s authors, said that women 55 and older who lived alone expressed

1. Cheng, B., Mazzola, G., Pickard, C. J. & Ceriotti, M., Evidence for supercritical behaviour of high-pressure liquid hydrogen Nature 585, 217–220 (2020). CAS  Article  Google Scholar  2. Karasiev, V. V., Hinz, J., Hu, S. X. & Trickey, S. B. On the liquid–liquid phase transition of dense hydrogen. Nature, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04078-x (2021). 3. Cheng, B., Mazzola,

Some of the small, plain songbirds known as Darwin’s finches might protect their young from flesh-eating parasites just by staying in the nest1. Access options Access through your institution Change institution Buy or subscribe Subscribe to Journal Get full journal access for 1 year 199,00 € only 3,90 € per issue Subscribe Tax calculation will

Researchers with Island Ecology and Evolution Research Group, Instituto de Productos Naturales y Agrobiología discovered that an invasive species of snake has killed virtually all of Gran Canaria’s indigenous reptiles.  Among the findings of Julien Piquet and Marta López-Darias, published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, is a comparison of ecosystems that have been

A 1,600-year-old lyre found in modern Kazakhstan matches musical instruments seen in Anglo-Saxon burials of the first millennium ad, suggesting that technology transfer occurred across thousands of kilometres in antiquity1. Access options Access through your institution Change institution Buy or subscribe Subscribe to Journal Get full journal access for 1 year 199,00 € only 3,90

According to a BBC investigation, some dog breeders are proposing to “crop” the ears of puppies to meet demand fuelled by social media. (Photo : Wikimedia Commons) Cutting a portion of the American Bully breed’s ear flap to produce a pointed appearance is part of the mutilating technique. In the United Kingdom, the method is

Nature Video 14 December 2021 Stretchy electronics go wireless for flexible wearables Wearable technology could benefit from new wireless stretchable diodes Dan Fox Dan Fox View author publications You can also search for this author in PubMed  Google Scholar Twitter Facebook Email High-frequency and intrinsically stretchable polymer diodes Flexible electronics offer a lot of potential

With an 11–12-metre wingspan — comparable to that of a small plane — the winged reptile Quetzalcoatlus northropi must have cast a fearsome shadow as it flew above what is now Texas, 70 million years ago. It remains the largest known flying animal, but relatively few bones of it have been found and almost nothing

NOAA has released an updated version of its white Christmas climatology, or a possibility there will be an inch of snow on the ground on Dec. 25 in any particular year. The updated version was released on Friday. This might be fresh snow falling on the day of Christmas or snow still blanketing places as

NEWS 13 December 2021 What Sci-Hub’s latest court battle means for research Delhi court will scrutinize whether the pirate paper website falls foul of India’s copyright law. The verdict could have implications for academic publishers further afield. Holly Else Holly Else View author publications You can also search for this author in PubMed  Google Scholar

The USGS and its Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO) have raised the alert level and color code to the YELLOW / ADVISORY at Alaska’s Davidof Volcano due to the odds of volcanic unrest.   (Photo : Getty Images) Swarm of Earthquakes Hit Around the Davidof Volcano  Davidof Island, a haven for tufted and horned puffins, is thought

Download PDF Tourists come here to Ragged Point, at the easternmost part of Barbados, for the view. I climb the 17-metre tower of the University of Miami’s Barbados Atmospheric Chemistry Observatory and collect samples of ash, dust and microorganisms, some of which have come all the way across the Atlantic Ocean. Reddish, iron-rich clouds from

Download PDF Nicéa Quintino Amauro always knew who she was. She was born in Campinas, the last city in Brazil to prohibit slavery in 1888. She grew up in a Black neighbourhood, with a Black family. And a lot of her childhood was spent in endless meetings organized by the Unified Black Movement, the most

When four wild bison arrive in north Kent in the spring of 2022, rangers will be in charge of the first wild bison to roam the UK in thousands of years. Bison are Europe’s biggest land animals, with males weighing up to a ton. They were extinct in the wild a century ago but are

NEWS 10 December 2021 DeepMind AI tackles one of chemistry’s most valuable techniques Machine-learning algorithm predicts material properties using electron density. Davide Castelvecchi Davide Castelvecchi View author publications You can also search for this author in PubMed  Google Scholar Twitter Facebook Email The AI predicts the distribution of electrons within a molecule (illustration) and uses

According to AccuWeather experts, a dynamic storm system expected to distribute snow from the Rockies to the Upper Midwest will also bring the chance of severe weather to places further south, as well as the dangerous possibility for nighttime tornadoes to happen. (Photo : Getty Images) “A powerful storm will march over the central United

Download PDF I had the original Jack Stanley chin. That’s what they called it. My chin, with my name. The chin was everything — in the gossip magazines, on television; slap the thing on a movie poster to make a hundred million gross. Of course, it wasn’t just the chin. It was everything else: the