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A Rest Stop for Half a Billion Birds last updated on: Mon, 24 Jul 2017 09:00:02 GMT
During their migration between Europe and Africa, hundreds of millions of birds stop in Israel to rest and refuel. Hop aboard a government-sponsored tractor spreading birdseed and corn to keep the birds away from local crop fields.
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What We Finally Got Around to Learning at the Procrastination Research Conference last updated on: Fri, 21 Jul 2017 18:12:52 GMT
For the last 20 years, academic researchers have gathered at this event to share and debate their studies without being mocked.
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Scott Pruitt Spent Much of Early Months at E.P.A. Traveling Home, Report Says last updated on: Mon, 24 Jul 2017 04:01:17 GMT
The agency’s new chief spent 43 of 92 days from March through May in Oklahoma or traveling to or from the state, a watchdog group found.
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Q&A: Even Tiny Changes in Earth’s Orbit Would Yield Global Catastrophe last updated on: Mon, 24 Jul 2017 17:13:56 GMT
A minute alteration in the planet’s trajectory around the sun would have disastrous results, a scientist estimates.
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Trilobites: The Rhythms That Make Elephant Seals Run or Fight last updated on: Fri, 21 Jul 2017 20:50:52 GMT
New research suggests that elephant seals use rhythm to recognize and respond to other members of their species in the wild.
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An Experiment in Zurich Brings Us Nearer to a Black Hole’s Mysteries last updated on: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 17:45:59 GMT
IBM researchers used an exotic material known as a Weyl semimetal to confirm the existence of a gravitational anomaly predicted in equations that describe the universe.
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Trilobites: Giant Squids, Giant Eyes, but Rather Small Brain Lobes last updated on: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 20:17:21 GMT
A rare opportunity to study the giant squid’s visual brain suggests the deep-sea beasts don’t have the complex body-patterning skills for which their shallow-water relatives are famous.
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Trilobites: What a Total Solar Eclipse Looks Like From Space last updated on: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 20:00:37 GMT
A time lapse made from a Japanese weather satellite’s images shows the shadow the moon casts on the Earth when it blocks out the sun.
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It’s High Time for Ticks, Which Are Spreading Diseases Farther last updated on: Mon, 24 Jul 2017 19:17:19 GMT
The disease-carrying blood suckers are spreading more pathogens and putting more Americans at risk for rare illnesses.
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Richard Dawkins Event Canceled Over Past Comments About Islam last updated on: Mon, 24 Jul 2017 13:59:50 GMT
A Berkeley radio station canceled an event promoting Mr. Dawkins’s new book, citing past comments and tweets that it said had “hurt people.”
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With More Ships in the Arctic, Fears of Disaster Rise last updated on: Sun, 23 Jul 2017 22:14:29 GMT
A decline in sea ice is allowing more marine travel, but experts say the remote region is unprepared to face an emergency at sea.
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Companies Rush to Develop ‘Utterly Transformative’ Gene Therapies last updated on: Sun, 23 Jul 2017 19:05:16 GMT
Gene therapy for cancer is becoming a reality but works best for blood cancers like leukemia and not yet in more common ones like lung cancer.
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Bag With Moon Dust in It Fetches $1.8 Million From a Mystery Buyer last updated on: Fri, 21 Jul 2017 21:26:58 GMT
A lunar landing, a museum loan, a theft, a critical error, a legal battle — and now, a sale at auction. What’s next for this bag of moon dust?
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The Shift: As Self-Driving Cars Near, Washington Plays Catch-Up last updated on: Fri, 21 Jul 2017 14:02:08 GMT
Congress is taking its first steps to regulate autonomous vehicles, as the technology moves closer to fruition.
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Australia Seeks to Extend Commercial Fishing in Protected Waters last updated on: Fri, 21 Jul 2017 10:13:11 GMT
The government wants to allow fishing in 80 percent of the country’s protected maritime reserves, up from the current 64 percent.
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A Cheap Fix for Climate Change? Pay People Not to Chop Down Trees last updated on: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 18:00:17 GMT
A new experiment showed a simple way to save endangered chimpanzees in Uganda and slow the rate of global warming and carbon dioxide emissions.
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Trilobites: A Sensor on Your Skin That Looks and Feels Like a Temporary Tattoo last updated on: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 15:39:22 GMT
Researchers have developed a new breathable, wearable sensor that can monitor vital signals without irritating skin.
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Something Strange in Usain Bolt’s Stride last updated on: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 15:59:03 GMT
Bolt is the fastest sprinter ever in spite of — or because of? — an uneven stride that upends conventional wisdom.
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Diagnosis: Why Couldn’t This Man Stop Hiccupping? last updated on: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 09:00:02 GMT
It started as a normal bout, but no remedy cured them. What was causing these relentless spasms?
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Raymond Sackler, Psychopharmacology Pioneer and Philanthropist, Dies at 97 last updated on: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 00:29:33 GMT
Purdue Pharma, a company led by Dr. Sackler and his brothers, made the painkiller OxyContin. His donations put his name on schools, museum galleries and a planet.
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The Immense, Eternal Footprint Humanity Leaves on Earth: Plastics last updated on: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 18:20:36 GMT
More than 8 billion metric tons of plastic have been made since the 1950s, researchers found. Because it does not degrade, most is still in the environment.
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Why Are Dogs So Friendly? The Answer May Be in 2 Genes last updated on: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 18:00:13 GMT
A team of researchers reported that the friendliness of dogs may share a genetic basis with a human disease called Williams-Beuren syndrome.
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Trilobites: Humans First Arrived in Australia 65,000 Years Ago, Study Suggests last updated on: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 17:28:25 GMT
Ancestors of Aboriginal Australians arrived thousands of years earlier than previously believed, according to newly uncovered archaeological evidence.
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A 9-Year-Old Tripped, Fell and Discovered a Million-Year-Old Fossil last updated on: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 12:14:48 GMT
Jude Sparks was playing with his brothers in New Mexico when he stumbled over the fossilized tusk of a Stegomastodon, a prehistoric, elephantine creature.
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Security Company Is Replacing a Mall Robot That Fell Into a Fountain to the Internet’s Delight last updated on: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 15:16:57 GMT
The K5 has a passing resemblance to R2-D2 — and a dash of Paul Blart, mall cop. Its creators took the online mockery in stride.
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Wildfires Roar Across Southern Europe last updated on: Tue, 18 Jul 2017 13:27:51 GMT
The blaze season is in full swing along the Mediterranean coast, fed by a mixture of strong winds, dry weather and high heat.
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