Amazon begins its foray into live streaming of NFL games Thursday night when it will air a matchup between the Chicago Bears and Green Bay Packers on its Prime Video service.
Internet
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On paper at least, the Mexico City school appeared to be structurally sound and built to withstand a major earthquake. But it collapsed, killing 26 people, most of them children. And now authorities are looking into whether ...
Environment
Sep 27, 2017
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A rumbling, belching volcano that's threatening to blow had forced more than 7,000 people to flee their homes by Wednesday on an island in the Pacific nation of Vanuatu.
Earth Sciences
Sep 27, 2017
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Human activities, like spreading cities, transport and construction, generate a lot of noise that travels faster in water than in air.
Plants & Animals
Sep 27, 2017
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After a nine-week voyage to study the lost, submerged continent of Zealandia in the South Pacific, a team of 32 scientists from 12 countries has arrived in Hobart, Tasmania, aboard the research vessel JOIDES Resolution.
Earth Sciences
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Vocal communication is central to the lives of many birds, which use sound to attract mates and defend territories. Penguins are no exception, but we know little about how or why penguin vocalizations vary geographically ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 27, 2017
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Three seemingly unrelated praying mantis groups inhabiting Cuba and the rest of the Greater Antilles actually share an ancient African ancestor and possibly form the oldest endemic animal lineage on the Caribbean islands, ...
Plants & Animals
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Populations of many North American songbirds are declining, and in many cases we don't understand why—for example, whether the problem lies with reproductive success or in the survival rates of adults. Conservation efforts ...
Ecology
Sep 27, 2017
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Remember the movie The Princess Bride, when the characters debate the existence of R.O.U.S.es (Rodents of Unusual Size), only to be beset by enormous rats? That's kind of what happened here.
Plants & Animals
Sep 27, 2017
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Many species of owl are able to hunt without being heard by their prey by suppressing the noise of their wings at sound frequencies above 1.6 kilohertz (kHz)—including the range at which human hearing is most sensitive.
Mathematics
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