Power. Ambition. Jealousy. According to a new study, the same things that fuel deadly clashes in humans can also tear apart chimpanzees, our closest animal relatives.
Plants & Animals
Mar 26, 2018
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Low energy Iris which originated on March 24, 2018 is likely to hover around a low end Category 1 cyclone. Iris will track south through the Coral Sea. The Vanuatu Meteorological Service says Tropical Cyclone Iris has moved ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 26, 2018
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Tropical Depression Jelawat, a newly-formed tropical cyclone over Western Micronesia is expected to strengthen into a Tropical Storm and enter the southeastern border of the Philippines by this afternoon (March 26). However, ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 26, 2018
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We tend to think of heroes in terms of a psychological profile: brave, altruistic, strong.
Social Sciences
Mar 26, 2018
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And then there were... 44. Eight bison—four calves and their mothers—were released in mid-March on public lands in northern Colorado, bringing the total number of animals in the Laramie Foothills Bison Conservation Herd ...
Ecology
Mar 26, 2018
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EPFL biologists and geneticists have uncovered how the circadian clock orchestrates the 24-hour cycle of gene expression by regulating the structure of chromatin, the tightly wound DNA-protein complex of the cell. The work ...
Biotechnology
Mar 26, 2018
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Both the medium and the message are STEM—encouraging fourth and fifth-grade African-American and Latino boys to embrace the cool factor of science, technology, engineering and mathematics through hands-on engineering activities ...
Social Sciences
Mar 26, 2018
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While people tend to describe tropical oceanic islands as 'paradises on Earth' and associate them with calm beaches, transparent warm waters and marvellous landscapes, archipelagos are often the product of a fierce natural ...
Ecology
Mar 26, 2018
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Many life-threatening diseases are caused or exacerbated by a mere change of a single nucleotide building block in the universal genetic DNA code. Such "point mutations" can turn a single cell in the human body into a cancerous ...
Biotechnology
Mar 26, 2018
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Half of Alberta's upland boreal forest is likely to disappear over the next century due to climate change, a new study shows.
Environment
Mar 26, 2018
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