Monarch butterflies are moving south through Texas on their annual autumn migration to overwintering sites in Central Mexico, but millions die in collisions with vehicles while flying low across Texas highways. Monarch numbers ...
Plants & Animals
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Using NASA's Chandra spacecraft, European astronomers have detected a diffuse X-ray emission around an ultraluminous X-ray pulsar in the galaxy NGC 5907. The newly detected emission could be an expanding nebula powered by ...
The grasslands of the Canadian Prairies are a hidden gem for bird watchers, with millions of migratory birds passing through the area each year. But they are also one of the most transformed landscapes in the world, vanishing ...
Ecology
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Organizations are always looking for the ingredients that make a good employee, with many turning to personality tests as a means to find out.
Social Sciences
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The Golden State is on fire, which means that an idea of American utopia is on fire, too.
Environment
Nov 5, 2019
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A trio of researchers with the University of Manchester, Università di Roma 'La Sapienza' and Sorbonne Universities has sparked a major debate among cosmologists by claiming that data from the Planck space observatory suggests ...
Last week Woolworths announced a new food delivery system, in collaboration with US company TerraCycle, that delivers grocery essentials in reusable packaging.
Environment
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A team of researchers from the University of California and Arizona State University has found a way to create a material that demonstrates tropistic behavior. In their paper published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology, ...
A wealth gap between black and white Americans can be traced almost exclusively to an income gap and less to other factors, as had been hypothesized, according to recent research by a University of Virginia economist.
Social Sciences
Nov 5, 2019
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Researchers from the University of Washington are using high-tech tags to record the movements of swordfish—big, deep-water, migratory, open-ocean fish that are poorly studied—and get a window into the ocean depths they ...
Plants & Animals
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