The Great Barrier Reef is booming with new life after the world's biggest reproductive event—coral spawning—delivered Southern Cross University's Distinguished Professor Peter Harrison a narrow window to help secure its ...
Plants & Animals
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Just in time for the holidays, astronomers have come across a new image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, that some say resembles a wreath. You might even think of the red dust cloud ...
Astronomy
Dec 23, 2011
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If you want to conduct groundbreaking but contentious biological research, go to China. Last year, Chinese scientist He Jiankui announced he had created the world's first gene-edited human babies, shocking the world at a ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 4, 2019
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A common close partnership which sees baby fish sheltering from predators among the poisonous tentacles of jellyfish will be harmed under predicted ocean acidification, a new University of Adelaide study has found.
Ecology
Jun 28, 2016
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Compared with the rest of the animal kingdom, mammals have the biggest brains and produce some of the smallest litters of offspring. A newly described fossil of an extinct mammal relative—and her 38 babies—is among the ...
Archaeology
Aug 29, 2018
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Around the world, mothers speak differently to their children than they do to other adults—and Princeton researchers have found a new way to quantify that vocal shift.
Social Sciences
Oct 12, 2017
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Rising human carbon dioxide emissions may be affecting the brains and central nervous systems of sea fish, with serious consequences for their survival, according to new research.
Environment
Jan 16, 2012
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Think your kids grow fast? Scientists say one dinosaur baby went from tiny to a true titan in the blink of a prehistoric eye.
Paleontology & Fossils
Apr 21, 2016
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A baby elephant believed to have died during a nine-day labour was born alive at an Australian zoo on Wednesday, amazing its keepers and defying expert opinion that such an outcome would take a "miracle".
Plants & Animals
Mar 10, 2010
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A baby elephant was dramatically rescued from a manhole in central Thailand after his mother was sedated to allow the operation to proceed, wildlife officials said.
Plants & Animals
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