More than a few eyebrows were raised at the weekend when it was reported a staggering 433 people won the jackpot of a government-backed lottery in the Philippines—sharing in 236 million pesos (about A$6.2 million).
Mathematics
Oct 6, 2022
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Many people try to make society change for the better. The real challenge is how to get good solutions to scale up for major change. New research suggests that social change may depend on the relationship between beneficial ...
Social Sciences
Apr 1, 2022
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Masturbation is common across the animal kingdom but is especially prevalent among primates, including humans. Historically, this behavior was considered to be either pathological or a by-product of sexual arousal, and recorded ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 6, 2023
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A pair of researchers at Macquarie University has found that women are able to accurately gauge a man's interest in casual sexual relationships by noting the shape of his face. In their paper published in the journal Evolution ...
A new study from the Department of Ethology, Eötvös Loránd University, showed that dogs may not equally benefit from observing the "helpful action" of a human demonstrator in the classic detour around a V-shaped fence ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 26, 2023
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People want to help each other, even when it costs them something, and even when the motivations to help don't always align, a new study suggests.
Social Sciences
Jun 3, 2020
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Anyone who has seen a cat experience catnip knows that it makes them go a bit wild—they rub in it, roll on it, chew it, and lick it aggressively. It is widely accepted that this plant, and its Asian counterpart, silvervine, ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 14, 2022
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Paleontologists said Thursday they had discovered a new giant carnivorous dinosaur species that had a massive head and tiny arms, just like Tyrannosaurus rex.
Paleontology & Fossils
Jul 10, 2022
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New research shows that a rapidly-growing environmental science field—which measures nature's effects on human well-being—has a diversity problem that threatens its ability to make universal scientific claims.
Social Sciences
May 6, 2022
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A striking and extremely rare half female, half male bird has been spotted by a University of Otago zoologist.
Plants & Animals
Dec 12, 2023
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