Nature is inspiring scientists all the time. Some ideas are still in research, like beaver-inspired super-warm wetsuits. But others are already part of human life, like Velcro (based on burdock burrs) and the Japanese bullet ...
Materials Science
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When people feel happier, they're more likely to donate to charity. That's what we, two economists who study what motivates environmentally conscientious consumption and support for free services, found in a new study published ...
Social Sciences
Jul 15, 2023
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Homosexual behavior is not limited to humans. Biologists have reported homosexual behavior in many species of wild animal, ranging from bats and birds to dolphins and primates.
Evolution
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An international team of researchers has chosen the location which best represents the beginnings of what could be a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene.
Environment
Jul 15, 2023
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Using the upgraded Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope (uGMRT), astronomers from India and Australia have performed radio observations of a pulsar known as PSR J0026–1955. Results of the observational campaign, published July ...
A giant panda has given birth to squirming, squealing healthy twin girls at a South Korean theme park.
Ecology
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The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a monster in the making in this observation of the exceptional galaxy cluster eMACS J1353.7+4329, which lies about eight billion light-years from Earth in the constellation ...
Astronomy
Jul 15, 2023
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The Athens Acropolis, Greece's top tourist attraction, closed during the hottest hours on Friday and may well close again Saturday as the country wilts under a heatwave.
Environment
Jul 15, 2023
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Tens of millions of Americans were facing dangerously high temperatures Friday as a powerful heat wave stretched from California to Texas, with its peak expected this weekend.
Environment
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A juvenile green sea turtle rehabilitated at the Florida Keys-based Turtle Hospital was fitted with a satellite-tracking transmitter and released Friday to join an online race that follows long-distance migrations of sea ...
Ecology
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