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Trilobites: Why Do Zebras Have Stripes? Scientists Camouflaged Horses to Find Out last updated on: Wed, 20 Feb 2019 19:00:04 GMT
If you spend time around horses or flies, you might want to invest in some zebra print.
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Neptune Has a Newly Discovered Moon. What Else Is It Hiding? last updated on: Wed, 20 Feb 2019 22:29:56 GMT
There is much more to learn about the solar system’s eighth planet, which hasn’t been visited by a spacecraft for 30 years.
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Trilobites: Sleepless Flies Lived Long Lives. Why Not Us? last updated on: Wed, 20 Feb 2019 19:00:04 GMT
Flies deprived of sleep didn’t see reductions in their life spans. Does that mean we’ve got sleep deprivation all wrong?
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ScienceTake: Inside the Spittlebug’s Bubble Home last updated on: Tue, 19 Feb 2019 20:00:48 GMT
Those foamy eruptions on garden plants protect a slow and steady sap drinker that is growing into a froghopper. But it has to stick its hind end out to breathe.
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White House Panel Will Study Whether Climate Change Is a National Security Threat. It Includes a Climate Denialist. last updated on: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 00:36:40 GMT
The Pentagon and federal intelligence agencies have said that climate change is a threat. Now, the White House is planning a panel to study whether that is true.
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Saving the Bats, One Cave at a Time last updated on: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 16:34:21 GMT
Biologists are searching caves and abandoned mines in the West, hoping to spare many species of the winged creatures from the devastating fungus, white-nose syndrome.
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Out There: In Science, as in Sports, the Sidelines Matter last updated on: Tue, 19 Feb 2019 15:16:00 GMT
Tomorrow’s Nobel prizes are won today off-season and in the back office.
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For a Black Mathematician, What It’s Like to Be the ‘Only One’ last updated on: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 17:52:04 GMT
Fewer than 1 percent of doctorates in math are awarded to African-Americans. Edray Goins, who earned one of them, found the upper reaches of the math world a challenging place.
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Trilobites: Searching Tardigrades for Lifesaving Secrets last updated on: Fri, 15 Feb 2019 10:00:15 GMT
Researchers are drawing inspiration from the proteins that they think let hearty water bears cheat time by decelerating their biology.
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Measles Outbreak: Your Questions Answered last updated on: Wed, 20 Feb 2019 20:21:11 GMT
The disease was declared eliminated in 2000. So far this year, there have been more than 100 cases.
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Trump Says Space Force Creation a ‘National Security Priority’ last updated on: Tue, 19 Feb 2019 22:35:16 GMT
President Trump signed an order to begin the process for establishing a new branch of the military that would be dedicated to handling threats in space. But critics say it still raises the danger of militarizing space.
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How the Spittlebug Builds Its Bubbly Fortress last updated on: Tue, 19 Feb 2019 07:30:04 GMT
Spittlebugs feed on plant sap and then excrete bubbly foam to create a protective fortress around themselves. Later, they emerge as adult froghoppers.
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Becoming Greta: ‘Invisible Girl’ to Global Climate Activist, With Bumps Along the Way last updated on: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 18:39:18 GMT
A Swedish girl’s solitary act of civil disobedience has turned her into a symbol for climate action. But her path hasn’t been easy.
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Bonaire: Where Coral and Cactus Thrive, and the Sea Soothes the Soul last updated on: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 18:33:46 GMT
In a dying reef world, the writer explores the underwater bliss of a little Caribbean island that is showing the world just how to save coral.
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Embryo ‘Adoption’ Is Growing, but It’s Getting Tangled in the Abortion Debate last updated on: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 01:54:34 GMT
Many agencies that offer donated embryos, including most of those supported by federal grants, are affiliated with Christian or anti-abortion rights organizations.
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A Mother Learns the Identity of Her Child’s Grandmother. A Sperm Bank Threatens to Sue. last updated on: Sat, 16 Feb 2019 10:00:11 GMT
The results of a consumer genetic test identified the mother of the man whose donated sperm was used to conceive Danielle Teuscher’s daughter. Legal warnings soon followed.
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Q&A: A Tree Grows in — Well, You Don’t Want to Know last updated on: Tue, 19 Feb 2019 22:30:43 GMT
Fruit on trees grown near outhouses and latrines usually is safe. That’s not true of produce found on the ground in the same areas.
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The New Old Age: Dialysis Is a Way of Life for Many Older Patients. Maybe It Shouldn’t Be. last updated on: Fri, 15 Feb 2019 20:33:15 GMT
So-called conservative management can ease symptoms without dialysis in some people with kidney disease. But many of them are never given the option.
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Tom Cade, a Savior of the Peregrine Falcon, Dies at 91 last updated on: Fri, 15 Feb 2019 18:26:56 GMT
After DDT had wiped the bird out on the East Coast, he led the effort to bring it back. It was eventually removed from the federal endangered species list.
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They’ve Taken America’s Temperature — and It’s Running High last updated on: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 22:59:03 GMT
Data from Kinsa, which makes internet-connected smart thermometers, indicates it’s a bad year for colds, but not the flu.
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Photos From the Opportunity Rover’s Mission on Mars last updated on: Fri, 15 Feb 2019 07:15:32 GMT
Scientific highlights and snapshots from the journey of NASA’s long-lasting robotic explorer.
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Skipping School to Save the Earth last updated on: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 21:22:17 GMT
Inspired by a 16-year-old Swede, thousands of young people are expected to take Friday off to march for action on climate change.
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Trilobites: An Icy Superhighway Once Carried Glaciers From Namibia to Brazil last updated on: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 14:34:48 GMT
Researchers matched up a jigsaw puzzle of ice that once flowed between two landmasses now separated by an ocean.
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The Perfect Valentine? A Math Formula last updated on: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 15:37:05 GMT
Nothing says ‘I love you’ like a customizable algebraic equation.
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