A Central Florida bird has begun to plunge so swiftly toward extinction in the wild that biologists are considering the risky option of capturing the last of the species, including fewer than two dozen females.
Ecology
Dec 27, 2017
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Hezekiah Olopade has just received a lesson in building video games.
Business
Dec 27, 2017
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A fireball that lit up the evening sky is lighting up social media.
Space Exploration
Dec 27, 2017
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Gentrification reduces crime rates and increases public safety in city neighborhoods, according to a new study by MIT researchers.
Social Sciences
Dec 27, 2017
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Wildfires continue to scar California beyond the normal fire season in what's been a particularly catastrophic year for natural disasters across the U.S. But a new big-data solution for predicting wildfire spread is also ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 27, 2017
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Most responsible pet owners know that animals and booze don't mix, but with the Christmas season upon us, many Australians will be drinking a little more than usual.
Plants & Animals
Dec 27, 2017
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22
An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of four new 'hot Jupiter' extrasolar worlds by the HATSouth survey. The newly found exoplanets received designations HATS-50b through HATS-53b. The finding is presented ...
Carbon-carbon (C-C) bonds make up the skeleton of all organic molecules. However, creating such ubiquitous C-C bonds artificially is still a complicated task. In particular, since several molecules used in medicine, pharmacology ...
Materials Science
Dec 27, 2017
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Bacteria not only develop resistance to antibiotics, they also can pick it up from their rivals. In a recent publication in Cell Reports, researchers from the Biozentrum of the University of Basel have demonstrated that some ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 27, 2017
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Microbes like bacteria aren't conscious enough to form memories, but a group of scientists in Texas developed a new way for them to do so at the genetic level.
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 27, 2017
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