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Dull, featureless camouflage provides better protection from predators than zebra stripes, according to a new study.Biologists explaining the existence of such stripes have proposed the "motion dazzle hypothesis", which suggests that…

An extinct species of wolf made famous in the TV show Game of Thrones split off from others nearly six million years ago and are only a distant relative of today’s wolves, researchers have found.Dire wolves were common across North…

A recent report by the Texas A&M Natural Resources Institute, Texas Water Resources Institute and Texas Land Trust Council shows state-funded conservation easements in Texas provide numerous financial and ecological benefits.The…

DNA from from the fossil remains of five Dire wolves from Wyoming, Idaho, Ohio and Tennessee revealed that the extinct species and grey wolves were in fact very distant relatives.Getty ImagesBefore Dire wolves became extinct about 13,000…

NYU today announced that the University has received more than 100,000 applications for first-year undergraduate admission, a 20% increase over last year. Applicants to NYU represent more than 10% of all Common App unique applicants. Some…

The SARS-CoV-2 virus that is causing the COVID-19 pandemic is just one of many different viruses in the coronavirus family. Many of these are circulating in populations of animals like bats and have the potential to "jump" into the human…

Mothers with multiple children report more fragmented sleep than mothers of a single child, but the number of children in a family doesn't seem to affect the quality of sleep for fathers, according to a study from McGill University.A…

For more than 40 years Rich Hawryluk has been a guiding light and solver of nearly intractable problems at PPPL. His countless accomplishments have supported and enhanced the role of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma…

The I AM HYDRO Prize partners are helping to reach unlikely applicants with outside-the-box solutions. Photo by Bryan Egner, U.S. Department of EnergyThe power of advanced manufacturing is being leveraged across countless industries,…

When the Solar Energy Research Institute was first envisioned, the United States was only months out of the oil embargo crisis of 1973–74. The new research institute was a response to this crisis and part of a national effort to find new,…