Australian zoo says white rhino birth 'sign of hope'
US white majority to linger if immigration slows
Whites would lose their majority in the U.S. three years later than expected if immigration growth slows, according to census estimates released Wednesday.
May 15, 2013
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What the birth rate says about changing family dynamics
(Phys.org) —An Iowa State University sociologist is not surprised by a recent U.S. Census Bureau report showing a spike in the number of unmarried women giving birth. According to the report, nearly 36 percent of babies ...
May 10, 2013
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Herschel telescope bows out after successful mission
Europe's deep-space Herschel telescope has given up the ghost—running out of coolant after a successful mission to observe the birth of stars and galaxies, the European Space Agency said Monday.
Apr 29, 2013
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ALMA pinpoints early galaxies at record speed
(Phys.org) —A team of astronomers has used the new ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) telescope to pinpoint the locations of over 100 of the most fertile star-forming galaxies in the early ...
Apr 17, 2013
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A model predicts that the world's populations will stop growing in 2050
Global population data spanning the years from 1900 to 2010 have enabled a research team from the Autonomous University of Madrid to predict that the number of people on Earth will stabilise around the middle ...
Apr 04, 2013
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World population not likely to stabilize at 10 billion people
Projections suggesting the world human population will stop growing around 10 billion people at the end of this century are improbable, according to new research by SFI Postdoctoral Fellow Marcus Hamilton and collaborators.
Mar 20, 2013
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The climb to the pouch begins in utero
Scientists have visualised the short pregnancy of a small species of the kangaroo and wallaby family of marsupials, the tammar wallaby (Macropus eugenii), for the first time by high-resolution ultrasound. ...
Mar 18, 2013
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ALMA finds 'monster' starburst galaxies in the early universe
Some of the brightest galaxies in the universe – infant galaxies that churned out tens of thousands of stars each year at the dawn of the universe – evolved much sooner and in greater numbers than previously ...
Mar 13, 2013
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Scientists identify why some fathers are left holding the baby
A century old mystery as to why, for some animals, it's the father rather than the mother that takes care of their young has been cracked by scientists at the University of Sheffield and University of Bath.
Mar 12, 2013
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Poaching pushing South African rhino towards edge
Lizards facing mass extinction, new research suggests
South Africa mulls legal rhino horn trade
Gene invaders are stymied by a cell's genome defense
Gene wars rage inside our cells, with invading DNA regularly threatening to subvert our human blueprint. Now, building on Nobel-Prize-winning findings, UC San Francisco researchers have discovered a molecular machine that ...
Feb 14, 2013
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Spitzer and Hubble discover strobe-like flashes in suspected binary protostar
(Phys.org)—Two of NASA's great observatories, the Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes, have teamed up to uncover a mysterious infant star that behaves like a strobe light.
Feb 07, 2013
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