The Los Angeles Zoo has put on display a baby okapi (oh-KAH-pee), a reclusive species that in the wild is found deep in the now-vanishing dense rainforests of central Africa.
Plants & Animals
Jan 23, 2018
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When you hear the term "psychopath," you probably picture Charles Manson or Jeffrey Dahmer. Psychologists, however, define it as a personality trait, and we all fall somewhere along a scale from low to high levels of psychopathy.
Economics & Business
Jan 23, 2018
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Food scientist Lili He and colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Amherst report that they have developed a new, rapid and low-cost method for detecting bacteria in water or a food sample. Once commercially available, ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jan 23, 2018
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When honeybee colonies get larger, common sense suggests it would be noisier with more bees buzzing around.
Plants & Animals
Jan 23, 2018
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The powerful earthquake that struck beneath the Gulf of Alaska early Tuesday generated a tsunami, but before gauges could show that it was very small, warnings went out to a vast swath of the state and British Columbia, while ...
Environment
Jan 23, 2018
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Two exoplanets in the TRAPPIST-1 system have been identified as most likely to be habitable, a paper by PSI Senior Scientist Amy Barr says.
Astronomy
Jan 23, 2018
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Seven years ago, a computer beat two human quizmasters on a "Jeopardy" challenge. Ever since, the tech industry has been training its machines to make them even better at amassing knowledge and answering questions.
Computer Sciences
Jan 23, 2018
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Two US astronauts floated outside the International Space Station on Tuesday for a seven-hour, 24-minute spacewalk to repair the orbiting outpost's aging robotic arm, NASA said.
Space Exploration
Jan 23, 2018
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Scientists studying the Earth's mantle recently made an unexpected discovery. Five hundred and fifty kilometres below the Earth's surface, they found highly oxidized iron, similar to the rust we see on our planet's surface, ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 23, 2018
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Portland State study spotlights cultural barriers to student financial success
Social Sciences
Jan 23, 2018
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