Aug. 22, 2019 -- Used as a propaganda tool by the Nazis and Soviets during the Second World War and Cold War, the remains of a 10th century male, unearthed beneath Prague Castle in 1928, have been the subject of ...
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Aug. 22, 2019 -- 34 million years ago the warm 'greenhouse climate' of the dinosaur age ended and the colder 'icehouse climate' of today commenced. Antarctica glaciated first and geological data ...
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Aug. 22, 2019 -- Horseshoe bats are bizarre-looking animals with giant ears and elaborate flaps of skin on their noses that they use like satellite dishes. There are about a hundred different species of horseshoe ...
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Aug. 20, 2019 -- Fecal transplants are helping expand koala microbiomes, allowing the marsupials to eat a wider range of eucalypts and possibly survive habitat loss. A study has analyzed and altered microbes in ...
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Aug. 20, 2019 -- Impulsiveness in adolescence isn't just a phase, it's biology. And despite all the social factors that define our teen years, the human brain and the brains of other primates go through ...
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Aug. 20, 2019 -- Scientists have created a synthetic nano-sized factory, based on natural ones found in bacteria. This research could someday lead to new medical, industrial or bioenergy ...
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Aug. 20, 2019 -- Queen stingless bees face an increased risk of being executed by worker bees if they mate with two males rather than one, according to new ...
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Aug. 20, 2019 -- Researchers have identified key immunological changes in people who abruptly develop an allergic reaction to mammalian meat, such as beef. The work is an important step in developing a treatment for ...
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Aug. 20, 2019 -- The rare isotope iron-60 is created in massive stellar explosions. Only a very small amount of this isotope reaches the earth from distant stars. Now, a research team has discovered iron-60 in ...
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Aug. 20, 2019 -- Pluripotent cells can give rise to all cells of the body, a power that researchers are eager to control because it opens the door to regenerative medicine and organ culture for transplants. But ...
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Aug. 20, 2019 -- Researchers who rush in after storms to study the behavior of spiders have found that extreme weather events such as tropical cyclones may have an evolutionary impact on populations living in ...
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Aug. 16, 2019 -- Researchers studied a small piece of papyrus that was excavated on the island of Elephantine on the River Nile a little over 100 years ago. The team used serval methods including non-destructive ...
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Aug. 15, 2019 -- Eumelanin -- a natural pigment found for instance in human eyes -- has, for the first time, been identified in the fossilized compound eyes of 54-million-year-old crane-flies. It was previously ...
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Aug. 15, 2019 -- Chemists are working on techniques to produce useful compounds from wood and other fast growing non-edible plant waste, through a chemical process named ...
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Aug. 14, 2019 -- Over the past several years, microplastic particles have repeatedly been detected in sea-water, drinking water, and even in animals. But these minute particles are also transported by the atmosphere ...
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Aug. 14, 2019 -- Bacteria, like people, have complicated relationships. A group of researchers was able to engineer the genomes of 4 species of gut bacteria to make them rely on each other for essential nutrients ...
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Aug. 14, 2019 -- A new species of giant penguin -- about 1.6 metres tall -- has been identified from fossils found in Waipara, North Canterbury in New ...
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Aug. 13, 2019 -- Moose are picky eaters, and that's a good thing for their ...
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Aug. 13, 2019 -- Subsurface explorers have uncovered a previously undescribed 'Jurassic World' of around 100 ancient volcanoes buried deep within the Cooper-Eromanga Basins of central ...
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Aug. 12, 2019 -- Scientists have found a way to make single-celled bacteria behave like stem cells, differentiating into genetically unique individuals as they ...
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