Wolf packs don't actually have alpha males and alpha females, the idea is based on a misunderstanding
You may have heard that a wolf pack is led by an alpha pair.
Plants & Animals
Apr 26, 2021
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From displaced children to criminal gang members: Tracing social origins of crime
How do youngsters forced onto the street by violence and poverty go from being considered vulnerable, displaced minors to feared criminals?
Social Sciences
Apr 19, 2021
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Bacteria use enzymes to defuse the immune system
These enzymes are of use to bacteria in two very different ways: to obtain food and to protect them from your body's immune system. Dr. Fatemeh Askarian at NMBU has discovered that these enzymes promote the ability of multi-drug ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 14, 2021
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No one has been murdered in Norway so far this year
Seven murders were registered during the first three months of last year, the same number as the year before.
Social Sciences
Mar 30, 2021
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Five myths about the Big Bang
The whole universe was packed together in an infinitely small point, then it exploded, and the entire mass that made up the universe was sent out into space.
Astronomy
Mar 22, 2021
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Green transition: The whole world can learn from a small town in Iceland
Nowadays cities are quite unsustainable places. They consume a lot of the world's resources and account for more than half of the world's emissions of greenhouse gases, contributing substantially to the ongoing climate crisis.
Earth Sciences
Aug 22, 2019
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New research challenges the origin of 'The Egtved girl'
Where was home for The Egtved girl? This question is a hot topic in Bronze Age archaeology right now.
Archaeology
Aug 21, 2019
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What happens to flowers and birds when we massacre mosquitoes with modern traps?
If you believe the advertisements, there are electronic mosquito killers that can eliminate these insects over an area of several thousand square meters.
Plants & Animals
Aug 19, 2019
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Mathematical models can predict animals' risk of extinction
Can we predict the extinction of endangered species? In short: yes—and we can achieve this by using mathematical models as our windows into the future.
Plants & Animals
Jul 1, 2019
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Why we need a modern origin story today
If history can help us understand the world we live in, why not teach about the whole of history and the whole of time? That is what big history tries to do. I have been teaching big history courses for almost 30 years.
Social Sciences
Mar 19, 2019
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