Having built their nest over the vertical ventilation pipe of an old nuclear weapon bunker in Poland, every year a large number of wood ants fall down the pipe to never return back to their colony.
Plants & Animals
Aug 30, 2016
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FBI Director James Comey is again warning about the bureau's inability to access digital devices because of encryption.
Security
Aug 30, 2016
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The first study to investigate how dog brains process speech shows that our best friends in the animal kingdom care about both what we say and how we say it. Dogs, like people, use the left hemisphere to process words, a ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 30, 2016
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Increasingly polluted rivers in Africa, Asia and Latin America pose a disease risk to more than 300 million people and threaten fisheries and farming in many countries, a UN report warned Tuesday.
Environment
Aug 30, 2016
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When a fingertip explores the surface of a material, mechanoreceptors called Meissner's corpuscles (MCs) near the surface of the skin mainly respond to low-frequency vibration stimuli such as fluttering or slipping on the ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 30, 2016
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New research has resolved a mystery over why female fiddler crabs visit and leave many males during mating season, and found the females aren't just being picky.
Plants & Animals
Aug 30, 2016
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(Edmonton) University of Alberta mechanical engineering professors Pierre Mertiny and Marc Secanell are looking to make an old technology new again and save some money for transit train operators such as the Edmonton LRT ...
Energy & Green Tech
Aug 30, 2016
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Australia is known as a country full of deadly creatures - now people have trapdoor spiders hiding in their backyards.
Plants & Animals
Aug 30, 2016
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Working with creative mathematical tasks is important for pupils both to reflect on mathematics as well as for their subsequent test results. Being faced with creative tasks during exercise has evident effects on all pupils, ...
Social Sciences
Aug 30, 2016
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The sequencing of the Atlantic cod genome in 2011 demonstrated that this species lacks a crucial part of its immune system. In a follow-up study, Kjetill S. Jakobsen and collaborators have investigated a large number of additional ...
Biotechnology
Aug 30, 2016
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