After a century of scientific confusion, we can now officially add five new species to Australia's long list of trapdoor spiders—secretive, burrowing relatives of tarantulas.
Plants & Animals
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In the United States, parents commonly enroll their children in extracurricular activities with the goal of helping them enhance their personal and academic achievements. However, according to researchers at Penn State and ...
Education
Aug 11, 2021
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With heatwaves, bushfires, and floods, small towns and their surrounding communities have confronted a combination of successive disasters fuelled by climate change. And it's predicted to only get worse.
Social Sciences
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New research shows that mixing low viscosity alginic acid with calcium phosphate cement (CPC), a material commonly used as a bone replacement, confers three functional improvements: shorter setting time, increased compressive ...
Biochemistry
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In the infamous words of Jurassic Park consultant Dr. Ian Malcolm, "life finds a way". In the depths of the ocean, in volcanic springs, under four meters of ice: almost anywhere scientists can think of to look for life on ...
Evolution
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Populist parties in national parliaments have a different style of working from their colleagues in other parties. They often vote against Cabinet proposals, but do not ask more questions about Cabinet activities. This is ...
Political science
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Contrary to the popular song, the neck bone is actually connected to one of 22 separate head bones that make up the human skull. These plate-like bones intersect at specialized joints called sutures, which normally allow ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 11, 2021
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For the first time, researchers have developed a successful approach for identifying proteins inside different types of neurons in the brain of a living animal.
Molecular & Computational biology
Aug 11, 2021
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People in the Pacific Northwest braced for another major, multiday heat wave starting Wednesday, just over a month after record-shattering hot weather killed hundreds of the region's most vulnerable people when temperatures ...
Environment
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Tourists flock by the thousands to the coastal town of Mendocino for its Victorian homes and cliff trails, but visitors this summer are also finding public portable toilets and signs on picket fences pleading: "Severe drought. ...
Environment
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