Sometimes it pays to be unpredictable. A new study shows that when bipedal desert rodents called jerboas are being chased, sudden changes in direction, gait and speed help them elude hungry predators and likely give them ...
Plants & Animals
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Insects have much better vision and can see in far greater detail than previously thought, a new study from the University of Sheffield has revealed.
Plants & Animals
Sep 5, 2017
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Indigenous people who live on Chile's Easter Island far out in the Pacific have voted to create a vast marine protection zone.
Ecology
Sep 5, 2017
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Hurricane Harvey began with raging winds, but its legacy will be water. Seemingly endless, relentlessly insidious water—a staggering 40 inches or more that swamped parts of Houston in just five days.
Environment
Sep 5, 2017
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The owner of two of the country's largest newspapers has purchased the Daily News, a New York tabloid that is famous for generations of hard-punching reporting and irreverent headlines but that has struggled recently to find ...
Business
Sep 5, 2017
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United Technologies plans to boost its aerospace business by paying $22.75 billion for flight deck maker Rockwell Collins.
Business
Sep 5, 2017
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