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The University of Exeter is a UK public research university whose scientists conduct studies in ecology, evolutionary biology, and animal behavior.
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Exeter's Kubo Macak says the 37 states with published cyber-law positions, most in the Global North, should state the legal weight they intend them to carry. His paper argues that states publishing nothing have no comparable way to explain their silence.
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Exeter and Essex researchers report in Nature that butterfly wing patterns in flight create motion illusions, widespread across about 400 European species. The finding is presented as helping explain why so few predators hunt butterflies on the wing, though the tests used bird-vision models and human volunteers.
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Fishtek Marine's two-year trial with 10 Cornish gillnet fishers found the Looming Eye Buoy cut seabird catch risk by 59% and a bird-of-prey kite by 71%. Both were tested on working boats, giving gillnet fleets a field-tested option for gear the RSPB says has resisted bycatch fixes.
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Male green swordtails in a University of Exeter experiment bred on-screen females more than 24% larger over nine generations of virtual mate choice. The method lets a two-screen test range over far more possible mates, on evidence from 23 fish watching video.
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Safa Donmez's Ankara team found a VR river scene plus classical music added about 4 mmHg to the drug-driven blood pressure drop in 130 emergency patients. By 60 minutes the groups matched, so hospitals would be adopting a faster first quarter-hour of care.
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Daniel Kattnig modelled a semicircular canal under the conditions most favourable to electromagnetic induction and found the bird's own thermal fluctuations leave a directional signal far too slow to steer by.
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The framework, produced with Green Futures Solutions at the University of Exeter for Earthshot Prize judging, asks whether a solution's economics improve as it spreads, and it attaches a 2030 target to each area.
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An ALLFED preprint ran two 100-year simulations under 2C of warming, one with the Atlantic circulation forced down and one left alone, then layered wheat, maize and rice models on top of both. It has not been peer reviewed.
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Exeter and The Earthshot Prize say 51 solution areas sit near thresholds where progress becomes self-propelling. The prize co-wrote the report and will use it to choose what it backs through 2030.
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The instability that ruffles estuaries and Jupiter's cloud decks has now been imaged in the Sun's own plasma. The matched simulations backing that reading leave the energy question it was invoked to answer still open.
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AlphaGenome Atlas scores every possible single-letter change in the human genome and hands the result to anyone with a browser, which moves the scarce input from computing a prediction to confirming one. Price and drug-developer partnerships go unmentioned in the release.
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The Marine Biological Association's case for the boom rests on underwater video, eggs, juveniles and 120 surveyed divers, while the shellfish landings that fell alongside it are so far timing rather than attributed cause.
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The UN's first overshoot report puts warming at 1.4C now, 1.8C at the optimistic peak and 2.6C on current policy, which turns the climate trade from preventing a breach into paying for the return trip.
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A 78-day playback experiment on Great Barrier Reef spiny chromis separates the window that stunted growth from the one that broke escape responses, which is what makes vessel traffic a lever managers can pull.
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EarthGrid melted its way three metres into a California quarry in January and now talks about commercial work next year. The undergrounding demand is real; the delivery evidence is thin.
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An international group writing in BioScience says AI models, satellite feeds and proprietary sensors have put unverifiable steps inside the method itself. Every fix they propose is lab-side.
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