Several brown bears in the Pyrenees mountains that separate Spain from France have ditched their usual hibernation for food as winter temperatures remain unusually clement, environment and animal experts said Thursday.
Ecology
Jan 21, 2016
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In the mid-19th century, astronomers hypothesised an extra planet in our solar system, orbiting between the Sun and Mercury.
Astronomy
Jan 21, 2016
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Finnish hunters have been authorised to kill nearly 20 percent of the country's wolf population in a controversial trial cull that opens this weekend, aimed at managing stocks, officials said Thursday.
Ecology
Jan 21, 2016
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Technology world centenarian IBM has boosted its Internet cloud offerings with the takeover of live video streaming services firm Ustream.
Business
Jan 21, 2016
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Tropical Cyclone Corentin developed in the Southern Indian Ocean as NASA's Global Precipitation Measurement or GPM mission core satellite flew overhead and analyzed the storm's rainfall and clouds.
Earth Sciences
Jan 21, 2016
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College students who are addicted to the Internet report positive and negative effects on their family relationships, according to new research from Georgia State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel ...
Social Sciences
Jan 21, 2016
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In a nationwide study, University of Arizona sociologists Christina Diaz and Jeremy E. Fiel found that the negative effect of young motherhood on educational attainment and earnings is not limited to those from disadvantaged ...
Social Sciences
Jan 21, 2016
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Invisible structures shaped like noodles, lasagne sheets or hazelnuts could be floating around in our Galaxy radically challenging our understanding of gas conditions in the Milky Way.
Astronomy
Jan 21, 2016
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Researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, have discovered that a social laboratory rodent, the prairie vole, shows an empathy-based consoling response when other voles are distressed. This ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 21, 2016
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A persistent controversy in catalysts for fuel cells has just been solved by a team of researchers from the Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences at the University of Tsukuba.
Materials Science
Jan 21, 2016
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