When faced with environmental threats like bad weather, predators or oil spills, wild birds secrete a hormone called corticosterone. Traditionally, researchers have analyzed blood samples to detect corticosterone levels in ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 16, 2011
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(AP) -- Atlantis' astronauts checked their ship's flight systems and packed up Thursday in hopes of an on-time end to their triumphant Hubble Space Telescope repair mission, although the weather prospects were dismal.
Space Exploration
May 21, 2009
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Japan's space agency says its new flagship H3 rocket will have a second test flight on Saturday, two days later than an initially planned liftoff that was postponed due to a bad weather forecast at the launch site in southwestern ...
Space Exploration
Feb 14, 2024
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A research group from Nagoya University has accurately simulated air turbulence occurring on clear days around Tokyo using Japan's fastest supercomputer. They then compared their findings with flight data to create a more ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 13, 2023
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The farewell flight of Europe's workhorse Ariane 5 rocket, scheduled for Tuesday, has been postponed for 24 hours due to bad weather, operator Arianespace said.
Space Exploration
Jul 4, 2023
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A controversial research project in Norway on whales' hearing was suspended after a whale drowned, researchers said on Wednesday, as activists slammed the "cruel and pointless" experiments.
Ecology
Jun 7, 2023
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The U.S. government is launching a new program to combat the scourge of abandoned crab and lobster traps, which can dilute harvests and kill other fish in coastal waters from Maine to Alaska.
Ecology
Apr 22, 2023
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I love a good space launch, and I have been eagerly awaiting NASA's powerful new Space Launch System rocket to take off as the first part of NASA's ambitious Artemis Mission to put U.S. astronauts back on the Moon. But this ...
Space Exploration
Nov 14, 2022
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Earlier this week, the Artemis I moon mission was scrubbed again; now we have to wait for a new launch window.
Space Exploration
Sep 9, 2022
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A simple conservation strategy deployed by conservationists and scientists from BirdWatch Ireland, Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin is greatly assisting in the extraordinary success of threatened Roseate ...
Ecology
Aug 23, 2022
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