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"Protecting whales from the impact of ship strikes is a huge global challenge. We've seen the benefits of slowing ships down at local scales through programs like 'Blue Whales Blue Skies' in California. Scaling up such programs will require a concerted effort by conservation organizations, governments and shipping companies," said co-author Jono Wilson, director of ocean science at the California Chapter of The Nature Conservancy, which helped identify the need for this study and secured its funding.

Its main insight is that the shape of brain regions affects the structure of brain networks formed within and a description of how connectivity at different scales comes together to form highly complex patterns.

Axions also fall neatly out of string theory, a hypothesis about the underlying geometry of the universe, and might be able to unify gravity, which explains interactions on cosmic scales, with the theory of quantum mechanics, which describes the infinitesimal.

"Studying the rate at which galaxies formed lets us directly test our theories and, so far, we're lining up with what general relativity predicts at cosmological scales."

The new analysis, called a "full-shape analysis," broadens the scope to extract more information from the data, measuring how galaxies and matter are distributed on different scales throughout space.