Hundreds of Spanish livestock farmers staged a protest Thursday in the Pyrenees town of Ainsa against the re-introduction of brown bears to the mountain region saying the predators are a menace to their flocks.
Ecology
Aug 22, 2019
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Wildlife-supporting countries on Thursday backed regulating international trade in giraffes in a bid to offer more protection to the gentle giants, feared to be facing a "silent extinction".
Ecology
Aug 22, 2019
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A rocket that's the last of its kind delivered the newest, most powerful GPS satellite to orbit for the Air Force on Thursday.
Space Exploration
Aug 22, 2019
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The Asian elephant is the forgotten elephant.
Ecology
Aug 22, 2019
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Plastic continues to make big news, especially in Connecticut where a single-use plastic bag fee took effect on August 1st. With estimates of 4.8 to 12.7 million tons of plastic finding its way to the world's oceans in a ...
Environment
Aug 22, 2019
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Over the past 300 years, 79 plants have been confirmed extinct from three of the world's biodiversity hotspots located in South Africa—the Cape Floristic Region, the Succulent Karoo, and the Maputuland-Pondoland-Albany ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 22, 2019
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Neutrinos come in three flavours made up of a mix of three neutrino masses. While the differences between the masses are known, little information was available about the mass of the lightest species until now.
General Physics
Aug 22, 2019
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Using a technique that can precisely edit DNA bases, MIT researchers have created a way to store complex "memories" in the DNA of living cells, including human cells.
Biotechnology
Aug 22, 2019
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The enzyme-nitrogenase-can be traced back to the universal common ancestor of all cells more than four billion years ago.
Earth Sciences
Aug 22, 2019
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Microbial life on Mars may potentially be transported across the planet on dust particles carried by wind, according to a study conducted in the Atacama Desert in North Chile, a well-known Mars analogue. The findings are ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 22, 2019
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