Stand out from the herd: How cows communicate through their lives
Farmers might finally be able to answer the question: How now brown cow?
Plants & Animals
Dec 18, 2019
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Nearly half of Finnish pastors have a positive attitude towards euthanasia
One in five pastors would approve of euthanasia as part of Finnish health care, and up to half of pastors have a positive attitude towards it, a new Ph.D. thesis from the University of Eastern Finland shows.
Social Sciences
Dec 18, 2019
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A warm space station welcome for cool new hardware
Astronaut Christina Koch recently gave a warm welcome to a very cool arrival to the International Space Station: a new piece of hardware for the Cold Atom Lab, an experimental physics facility that chills atoms to almost ...
Space Exploration
Dec 18, 2019
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Sustainable adhesives of the future won't stick around
For the health of the planet and our own bodies, plastics of the future ideally should not be made of plastics at all but should still be able to function like plastics. One particularly important job that plastics perform ...
Materials Science
Dec 18, 2019
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Europe powers up for third and fourth Orion spacecraft
Europe will power the NASA spacecraft that take astronauts to a new international outpost and forward to the moon, following decisions made by ESA Member States at Space19+ in Seville, Spain.
Space Exploration
Dec 18, 2019
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Why some planets eat their own skies
For many years, for all we knew, our solar system was alone in the universe. Then better telescopes began to reveal a treasure trove of planets circling distant stars.
Astronomy
Dec 18, 2019
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Taking an X-ray of an atomic bond
Understanding the behavior of materials at their interfaces—where they connect to and interact with other materials—is central to engineering a variety of devices used to process, store and transfer information. Devices ...
Materials Science
Dec 18, 2019
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Proof of a decades-old theory hides in the thinnest of materials
By layering two-dimensional (2-D) materials, scientists as The University of Manchester and Cornell University have confirmed electrochemical phenomena based on theory established in the 1950s.
Nanophysics
Dec 18, 2019
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Bite marks in fossils reveal demise of our early relatives
New fossil data show that our fishy ancestors may have risen to dominance by becoming predators of their ancient jawless cousins.
Paleontology & Fossils
Dec 18, 2019
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Methane leak visible from space
Data from the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite revealed that an explosion in a natural gas well in Ohio in February 2018 released more than 50 000 tons of methane into the atmosphere. The blowout leaked more of this potent ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 18, 2019
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