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Every year, 27.7 million tons of Saharan dust crosses the Atlantic Ocean and settles on the Amazon rainforest, delivering roughly the exact amount of phosphorus the rainforest loses to runoff, which means the world's most productive forest is fertilised, year afte - Space Daily

Every year, 27.7 million tons of Saharan dust crosses the Atlantic Ocean and settles on the Amazon rainforest, delivering roughly the exact amount of phosphorus the rainforest loses to runoff, which means the world's most productive forest is fertilised, year afte - Space Daily

The connection is one of those facts about the planet that nobody designed and almost no one outside the relevant atmospheric science literature knows about. Every year, somewhere between 180 and 200 million tons of fine particulate dust gets picked up from t…

A critical initialization for biological neural networks - Nature

A critical initialization for biological neural networks - Nature

Basic properties of symmetric random matrices can explain the emergence of macroscopic patterns in neural networks, suggesting that initialization conditions of connected neural populations may confer computational advantages across the mouse brain.

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft returns unfamiliar views of a familiar world - Ars Technica

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft returns unfamiliar views of a familiar world - Ars Technica

As a bonus, it captured Mars images from a rare perspective."

Scientists think humans developed right-handedness thanks to these 2 factors - Yahoo

Scientists think humans developed right-handedness thanks to these 2 factors - Yahoo

A new study explored what aspect of humanity's evolution led to 90% right-hand dominance by collecting data from thousands of primates.

Scientists find a hidden route to the moon that saves fuel - Space

Scientists find a hidden route to the moon that saves fuel - Space

"The systematic analysis we applied in our work is something that could be adopted more widely going forward."

Astronomers believe Neptunian moon is lone intact survivor of ancient collision - CNN

Astronomers believe Neptunian moon is lone intact survivor of ancient collision - CNN

Neptune’s third-largest moon, Nereid, could be an intact survivor from the planet’s original satellite system, upending previous assumptions.

Discovery of new fossils in Northwest Canada changes view of early animal evolution - Phys.org

Discovery of new fossils in Northwest Canada changes view of early animal evolution - Phys.org

Researchers have uncovered a remarkable fossil site in a remote part of Canada's Northwest Territories, offering unprecedented insight into the earliest evolution of complex animal life on Earth. Findings from the site represent life from the Ediacaran biota—…

Scientists improve knowledge on sea level rise—and confirm it has been accelerating since 1960 - Phys.org

Scientists improve knowledge on sea level rise—and confirm it has been accelerating since 1960 - Phys.org

Sea level rise is a direct consequence of human-induced climate change: global warming. It is relentless and very hard to stop. It arises from human-induced warming and the consequential expansion of the ocean, plus the addition of more and more water from me…

Non-Mendelian inheritance of DNA methylation patterns in mice - Nature

Non-Mendelian inheritance of DNA methylation patterns in mice - Nature

Davidovich et al. investigate allele-specific DNA methylation inheritance patterns in mouse liver and muscle. Most patterns are Mendelian, but ~7% are non-Mendelian, including new imprinted genes and a paramutation at the Capn11 locus.