A team of archaeologists from the Universitat Jaume I, the University of Barcelona, and the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA) has developed a new methodology that allows ...

Noah Giansiracusa dispels a myth about the world's largest island. In Slate, he explains why a Mercator projection makes Greenland look far larger than it is, and why this matters. "While the choice ...

Researchers at Concordia have developed a new method of measuring the amount of usable water stored in snowpacks. The comprehensive technique, known as snow water availability (SWA), uses satellite ...

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A new method has revolutionized our ability to map tissue fiber orientation and organization across tissues, diseases and sample preparations. An international group of researchers led by Marios ...

This breakthrough allows researchers to visualize where individual genes are active at the cellular level—information that has long been missing due to technical limitations in tea biology. By ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The 1.0 version of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, issued way back in 1996, only defined three ...

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The venous system maintains the health of our brains by removing deoxygenated blood and other waste products, but its complexity and variability have made scientific study difficult. Now, a UC ...