Nigeria Science News API

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            "title": "Could Bacteria Turn Martian Dust Into Concrete?",
            "description": "Will future Mars habitat questions be solved with biology?",
            "content": "Shipping bricks to Mars is a nonstarter. Every pound launched from Earth carries a huge cost, and if we were to build a crewed outpost on the Red Planet, we would need a lot more than a few bags of mortar. That’s why some engineers keep coming back t... [4316 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.zmescience.com/space/could-bacteria-turn-martian-dust-into-concrete/",
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                "name": "ZME Science",
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            "title": "The evolution of negotiation strategies diversifies parental cooperation",
            "description": "Parental cooperation is not self-evident, as conflicts often arise over individual contributions. Evolutionary game theory suggests this conflict may be resolved through negotiation, where parents adjust their care level based on their partner’s contribution. However, mathematical negotiation models typically predict low parental cooperation. As these models are not dynamically explicit and mostly neglect stochasticity, we employ individual-based simulations to investigate how parental negotiation strategies evolve and shape care patterns. Our results differ markedly from earlier analytical predictions. Parental negotiation strategies readily evolve, resulting in four alternative care patterns: uniparental care, sex-biased care and two types of egalitarian biparental care. Effective cooperation evolves regularly but, contrary to common expectations, always relies on a Tit-for-Tat strategy rather than parental compensation. Our study underscores that diverse cooperative patterns in animals can emerge from sex-specific negotiation strategies, even in the absence of initial sex roles and environmental variation. Parents often negotiate during offspring care. A simple evolutionary model incorporates explicit negotiation rules to explain why the behavioural patterns of parental care are highly diverse in nature.",
            "content": "Royle, N. J., Smiseth, P. T. & Kölliker, M. The Evolution of Parental Care (Oxford University Press, 2012).\nRemeš, V., Freckleton, R. P., Tökölyi, J., Liker, A. & Székely, T. The evolution of parental cooperation in birds. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 1... [10294 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-025-09125-1?error=cookies_not_supported&code=c1940053-087f-45af-8185-95456e41f4fc",
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                "name": "Nature",
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            "title": "Why protests can bring people together across political divides",
            "description": "How can people with diametrically opposed views suddenly stand shoulder to shoulder in protest? Researchers from Copenhagen, Oslo and Mainz have investigated this question. The starting point is the COVID protests, which were driven by three unifying strategies.",
            "content": "How can people with diametrically opposed views suddenly stand shoulder to shoulder in protest? Researchers from Copenhagen, Oslo and Mainz have investigated this question. The starting point is the COVID protests, which were driven by three unifying... [3498 chars]",
            "url": "https://phys.org/news/2025-12-protests-people-political.html",
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            "publishedAt": "2025-12-04T01:30:01Z",
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                "name": "Phys.org",
                "url": "https://phys.org"
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