Hippopotamuses can eat nearly 100 pounds of food daily—and, as a result, they fill the pools where they spend much of their lives with huge amounts of poop.
Plants & Animals
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A team of researchers from Deakin University in Australia and Clemson University in the U.S. has found that female finches change the song they sing to their eggs when temperatures rise. This results in hatchling mitochondria ...
The world's next generation cosmic observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope, is due for launch on an Ariane 5 from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana in late December.
Astronomy
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NASA's Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) and a NASA-U.S. Naval Research Laboratory space weather payload to study the Sun's radiation lifted off at 5:19 a.m. EST on Tuesday, Dec. 7.
Planetary Sciences
Dec 8, 2021
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Tempted by the tangy taste of tomato juice? Consumers may prefer a product sold from grocery store shelves over a minimally pasteurized refrigerated product, but only by a small margin, new University of Florida research ...
Agriculture
Dec 8, 2021
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Caltech researchers have discovered certain conditions that enable different laboratory animals to regenerate amputated appendages. Upon consuming a diet high in sugar and an essential amino acid, three different species—the ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 8, 2021
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A new concept has been developed that has the potential to assist new instruments in the investigation of fundamental science topics such as gravitational waves and dark matter.
Optics & Photonics
Dec 8, 2021
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Language and social identity have been making headlines recently. Last month, Air Canada's CEO Michael Rousseau faced scrutiny over not knowing French—his language deficit is helping support Bill 96 in Québec (which seeks ...
Social Sciences
Dec 8, 2021
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For the first time, researchers have revealed the soft tissues of a 165-million-year-old ammonite fossil using 3D imaging.
Biotechnology
Dec 8, 2021
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Over the years, hundreds of new synthetic drugs that mimic the effects of illegal and legal substances have emerged. The underground nature of each drug's development and distribution makes its international popularity hard ...
Analytical Chemistry
Dec 8, 2021
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