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..."The specific difficulties [of each language] leave distinct traces in the brain," says neuroscientist Alfred Anwander of the Max Planck Institute... ...for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany....

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...In a book about his travels in Africa published in 1907, British explorer Arnold Henry Savage Landor recounted witnessing an impromptu meal that... ...As he coasted down a river in the Congo Basin with several local hunter-gatherers, a dead rodent floated near their canoe.... ...John Speth of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.... ...Speth and anthropological archaeologist Eugène Morin of Trent University in Peterborough, Canada, described some of those obscure ethnohistorical...

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...During this transition, artists including Leonardo da Vinci and Sandro Botticelli also experimented with paints made from oil and egg (SN: 4/30/14... ..."Usually, when we think about art, not everybody thinks about the science which is behind it," says chemical engineer Ophélie Ranquet of the Karlsruhe... ...proteins, phospholipids and antioxidants helped slow paint oxidation, which can cause paint to turn yellow over time, the team reports March 28 in Nature... ...Communications....

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...The planet's bygone brilliance could have also vaporized water on Europa and Ganymede, planetary scientist Carver Bierson reported March 17 at the... ...THE WOODLANDS, TEXAS -- A young, ultrabright Jupiter may have desiccated its now hellish moon Io.... ..."About 10 thousand times more luminous," said Bierson, of Arizona State University in Tempe.... ...A coruscant Jupiter probably didn't remove significant amounts of ice from Europa or Ganymede, the researchers found, unless Jupiter was brighter...

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...Greene, an astrobiologist at NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif.... ...The largest, TRAPPIST-1b, is the closest to its parent star and receives about four times the radiation Earth receives from the sun, says Thomas ... ...The team's results are "the first "deep dive" look at this planet," says Knicole Colon, an astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in... ...To take TRAPPIST-1b's temperature, Greene and his colleagues used the James Webb Space Telescope to observe the planet in a narrow band of infrared...

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...The high-sulfur environment on such islands influences the birds" coloration, researchers report March 13 in the Journal of Biogeography.... ...Darker feathers might also play a role in detoxifying harmful sulfur-based chemicals or help the owls blend in better with the islands" humid, shadowy... ...at the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research in Trondheim who was not involved with this study.... ...On islands with sulfur-rich volcanic soils or recently active volcanoes -- such as Sulawesi in Indonesia or the Canary Islands -- the owls had darker...

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...LAS VEGAS -- Chia seeds sprouted in trays have experimentally confirmed a mathematical model proposed by computer scientist and polymath Alan Turing... ...These and other blotchy and stripy features in nature are examples of what are called Turing patterns, so named because in 1952, Turing presented... ...In research presented at the American Physical Society meeting, Brendan D"Aquino, who studied in Fenton's lab during the summer of 2022, described... ...It could be that the idea is a mathematical just-so story that happens to produce similar shapes in a computer, says physicist Flavio Fenton of Georgia...