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Engineering Dec 8, 2017

Research team develops novel program to make more cost effective runways

An aircraft's impact on the runway is likely the last thing to cross anyone's mind when boarding a flight. The constant taking off and landing of aircraft throughout the day places stress on runway pavement, which needs to ...

Plants & Animals Dec 6, 2017

Separated since the dinosaurs, bamboo-eating lemurs, pandas share common gut microbes

A new study from North Carolina State University, the Smithsonian and Duke University finds that bamboo lemurs, giant pandas and red pandas share 48 gut microbes in common - despite the fact that they are separated by millions ...

Plants & Animals Dec 4, 2017

Brigitte Macron fetes first panda born in France

Named "godmother" to France's first panda cub in August, French First Lady Brigitte Macron helped baptise her fluffy charge on Monday in one of her most high-profile outings since her husband's election.

Ecology Nov 25, 2017

Photographer captures human face of endangered species

Can you love an animal to death?

Social Sciences Nov 16, 2017

Why cuteness wins over neediness when making charitable donations

What is the most important factor you consider before choosing where you might make a donation to charity? Most people I ask reply, understandably, that the neediness of the recipient is key.

Plants & Animals Nov 14, 2017

Sad farewell as Malaysia-born panda heads to China

Malaysia's first locally-born giant panda headed to its homeland China on Tuesday, with officials bidding a sad goodbye to the female cub.

Cell & Microbiology Oct 27, 2017

Using networks to understand tissue-specific gene regulation

Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital have discerned that different tissue functions arise from a core biological machinery that is largely shared across tissues, rather than from their own individual regulators. In ...

Ecology Oct 26, 2017

Climate change may slowly starve bamboo lemurs

Madagascar's Cat-sized greater bamboo lemurs are considered one of the most endangered primate species on Earth. They almost exclusively eat a single species of bamboo, including the woody trunk, known as culm. But they prefer ...

Ecology Oct 11, 2017

Scientists begin bold conservation effort to save the vaquita porpoise from extinction

An international team of experts has gathered in San Felipe, Mexico at the request of the Mexican government (SEMARNAT) and has begun a bold, compassionate plan known as VaquitaCPR to save the endangered vaquita porpoise ...

Ecology Oct 3, 2017

Livestock grazing harming giant panda habitat

Increased livestock grazing in China's Wanglang National Nature Preserve has damaged one third of all giant panda habitat in the park, a new study by Chinese and U.S. scientists finds.

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