Uganda Science News API

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            "title": "300-million-year-old brain rhythm links humans, birds, and lizards",
            "description": "While lizards sleep, a slow, invisible rhythm quietly links their brains with the rest of the body.",
            "content": "Sleep looks peaceful on the outside, but inside the brain, it is anything but quiet. Neurons pulse, blood flows, and hidden rhythms rise and fall like slow ocean tides.\nFor decades, scientists believed that one of the slowest of these rhythms, called... [5325 chars]",
            "url": "https://interestingengineering.com/culture/infraslow-brain-rhythm-in-lizards",
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                "name": "Interesting Engineering",
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            "title": "High-resolution geomechanical modeling reveals accelerating infrastructure risks from permafrost degradation in Northern Alaska",
            "description": "Permafrost degradation causes irreversible damage to Arctic civil infrastructure and threatens the broader pan-Arctic economy. Currently, the lack of community-scale, geomechanics-based mapping of Arctic infrastructure geohazards hinders effective local infrastructure planning. Here, we develop a framework that integrates physics-constrained geotechnical models with a process-based ground thermal model to assess the 21st century changes in thaw settlement and bearing capacity of civil infrastructure foundations at a 30-meter spatial resolution. We find that settlement is accelerating and bearing capacity is decreasing nonlinearly at both regional and local scales. By mid-century, less than 10% of the infrastructure in northern Alaska is projected to be at risk; however, a transition window emerges between the 2060 s and 2080 s. During this transition period, infrastructure risk will increase sharply, and most infrastructures are projected to be at risk. Our results underscore the urgent need for proactive adaptation strategies to protect Arctic infrastructure from permafrost degradation-induced geohazards. Accelerating ground settlement and reduced bearing capacity poses a critical threat to essential infrastructure due to permafrost degradation in Northern Alaska, according to integrated physics-constrained geotechnical model and process-based ground thermal modeling system.",
            "content": "Rantanen, M. et al. The Arctic has warmed nearly four times faster than the globe since 1979. Commun. Earth Environ. 3, 168 (2022).\nBiskaborn, B. K. et al. Permafrost is warming at a global scale. Nat. Commun. 10, 264 (2019).\nSmith, S. L., O’Neill, H... [8917 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-026-03240-5?error=cookies_not_supported&code=31f4c92b-de65-46ef-bbe6-78e76fed3fb6",
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            "title": "(Rescheduled from Jan 26) Behind the Science: Herbivores That Chewed Through Time: How Insects and Pathogens Responded to Earth’s Biggest Events",
            "description": "Announcing a new After-Hours series at the National Museum of Natural History: Behind the Science A monthly after-hours series featuring NMNH scientists and researchers Each month, join the National Museum of Natural History for the new series, Behind the Science, where NMNH researchers share insights into their latest discoveries and explore the fascinating questions driving their work—from the origins of life to the future of our planet. Come learn what’s happening behind the scenes and how science shapes our understanding of the natural world. Programs take place in Q?rius, the Coralyn W. Whitney Science Education Center. Topics and speakers announced on a rolling basis, but save the dates now! February 10 (RESCHEDULED FROM JAN 26): Conrad Labandeira, Paleobiology The leaves of plants are everywhere. They provide the primary documentation of insect and pathogen feeding styles – or herbivory – on plants in the modern and fossil records. Leaves also are the most abundant, macroscopic item in the fossil record during the past 400 or so million years. During the past 25 years, studies of insect and pathogen damage on fossil and modern leaves have addressed the response of herbivores to major events of the fossil record. These events include, in chronological order, the origin of herbivory itself, the appearance of seed plants, the profound ecological crisis at the end of the Paleozoic, the appearance of flowering plants, the profound ecological crisis at the end of the Mesozoic, and a major change in the global climate 56 million years ago. Let’s put damaged, fossil leaves to work in helping us to understand how insect and pathogen herbivores have historically transformed the world we live in. Upcoming Dates: Jan. 26: Feb. 10: Conrad Labandeira, Paleobiologist Mar. 10: Briana Pobiner, Anthropologist Apr. 14 May 11 Jun. 9 Jul. 14 Aug. 11 Sep. 15 Oct. 13 Nov. 10 Dec. 8",
            "content": "Announcing a new After-Hours series at the National Museum of Natural History:\nBehind the Science\nA monthly after-hours series featuring NMNH scientists and researchers\nEach month, join the National Museum of Natural History for the new series, Behin... [1648 chars]",
            "url": "https://naturalhistory.si.edu/events/rescheduled-jan-26-behind-science-herbivores-chewed-through-time-how-insects-and-pathogens-responded-earths-biggest-events",
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            "publishedAt": "2026-01-23T20:26:07Z",
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