To find food, dazzle mates, escape predators and navigate diverse terrain, birds rely on their excellent color vision.
Plants & Animals
Jun 15, 2020
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Picture 500 million cars stacked in rows. That's how much carbon—about 1,000 petagrams, or one billion metric tons—is locked away in Arctic permafrost.
Earth Sciences
Jun 15, 2020
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Throughout history, portraits featuring the human profile have evolved to reflect changing cultural norms. A new study led by Helena Miton, a Santa Fe Institute Omidyar Fellow, and co-authored by Dan Sperber of Central European ...
Social Sciences
Jun 15, 2020
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The COVID-19 pandemic threatens the survival of organizations nationwide that provide critical outdoor environmental and science education to K-12 students, with an alarming 63% of such groups uncertain about their ability ...
Education
Jun 15, 2020
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Many of us have seen informational posters at parks or aquariums specifying how long plastics bags, bottles, and other products last in the environment. They're a good reminder to not litter, but where does the information ...
Environment
Jun 15, 2020
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Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have demonstrated a potentially new way to make switches inside a computer's processing chips, enabling ...
Quantum Physics
Jun 15, 2020
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An animation of four days of imagery from NASA's Terra satellite showed the progression and landfall of Tropical Storm Nuri.
Environment
Jun 15, 2020
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The discovery of a tiny insect fossil is unearthing big questions about the global movement of animals and the connection to changes in climate and shifting continents across deep time. The fossil, estimated to be 50 million ...
Archaeology
Jun 15, 2020
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While crop diseases have devastating consequences on agriculture, causing losses of up to 30% in some crops, plants constantly evolve to maintain robust immune systems that allow them to perceive pathogens and develop defenses. ...
Biotechnology
Jun 15, 2020
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Many serious diseases, including autism, schizophrenia and numerous cardiac disorders, are believed to result from mutation of an individual's DNA. But some large mutations, which still make up only a small fraction of the ...
Biotechnology
Jun 15, 2020
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