Hubble Space Telescope celebrates Halloween with a glowering, dying star
A hypnotizing vortex? A peek into a witch's cauldron? A giant space-spider web?
Astronomy
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Experts name new species of human ancestor
An international team of researchers, led by University of Winnipeg palaeoanthropologist Dr. Mirjana Roksandic, has announced the naming of a new species of human ancestor, Homo bodoensis. This species lived in Africa during ...
Evolution
Oct 28, 2021
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Making plastic durable and degradable
Polyethylene is the most abundantly manufactured plastic in the world. Due to properties like durability, it has many diverse, and even long-term uses. Professor Stefan Mecking's team in the Department of Chemistry at the ...
Materials Science
Oct 28, 2021
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Professor examines new developments in mapping tribal displacement
The history of indigenous displacement and land dispossession is a long, troubled and still incomplete history of the United States. It's been widely reported that since 1776, the year America was founded, the U.S. has seized ...
Social Sciences
Oct 28, 2021
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How legumes give oxygen to symbiotic bacteria in their roots
Scientists discover the genetics inside legumes that control the production of an oxygen-carrying molecule, crucial to the plant's close relationships with nitrogen-fixing bacteria.
Plants & Animals
Oct 28, 2021
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Palestinians unveil huge mosaic at Jericho desert castle
Palestinian authorities on Thursday unveiled one of the largest floor mosaics in the world, in the occupied West Bank city of Jericho, after years of restoration.
Archaeology
Oct 28, 2021
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Climate change misinformation fools too many people, but there are ways to combat it
In recent decades, people in the UK have watched climate change shift from being an abstract threat discussed on the news to an increasingly common presence in everyday life. As the frequency and intensity of heatwaves, floods ...
Environment
Oct 28, 2021
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Satellite images show positive impact of conservation efforts for China's coastal wetlands
Coastal wetlands support diverse and vital ecosystems central to coastal areas' biodiversity and economic vitality. However, coastal wetlands are threatened by sea level rise that can lead to flooding and land use changes ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 28, 2021
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'I could be killed at any time': The anguish of being wrongfully convicted of murder
Maurice Caldwell spent 20 years in prison before his wrongful conviction for a 1990 murder in San Francisco was finally overturned.
Social Sciences
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After California's 3rd-largest wildfire, deer returned home while trees were 'still smoldering'
When a massive wildfire tears through a landscape, what happens to the animals?
Plants & Animals
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