As dinosaurs go, Spinosaurus is one of the most recognizable: a predator with sharp claws, a long jaw full of teeth, and a big sail on its back. It lived near rivers, hunting for fish, 100 million years ago in a place that's ...
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As rain offers a welcome relief to fire-scorched Australia, concerns over flash floods and freshwater contamination cast a shadow on the joy. Already, massive fish kills have been reported due to heavy ash and sediment in ...
Environment
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A new, battery-free sensor can detect water leaks in buildings at a fraction of the cost of existing systems.
Nanophysics
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A team of chemists at the University of Konstanz in Germany has succeeded in synthesizing canataxpropellane—one of the most complex natural products ever produced. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group ...
New insight on how a butterfly species developed the ability to adjust its wing eyespot size in response to temperature has been published today in eLife.
Plants & Animals
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About 4,000 years ago, Asyut was an important cultural center in Middle Egypt. The ancient city with its temples, palaces, libraries, and houses later disappeared under Nile flood sediments and modern construction, which ...
Archaeology
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A fine layer of dust thought to have been left by the first winter monsoon ever to cross northeastern Tibet has been uncovered by scientists, revealing the moment when the great weather phenomenon that waters much of Asia's ...
Earth Sciences
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Diseases transmitted from wildlife are a common threat to livestock and humans in Alberta, according to new research by University of Alberta biologists.
Ecology
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Chinese astronomers have carried out spectroscopic observations of the lenticular galaxy IC 676. Results of these observations provide more insights into the nature of the galaxy's double nuclei. The study was detailed in ...
Last Christmas, for the first time in its existence, a ski resort in the French Alpine town of Montclar could count neither on Mother Nature nor its artificial snow machines to produce enough of the white stuff to cover its ...
Environment
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