Around the world, more than 7,000 languages are spoken, most of them by small populations of speakers in the tropics. Papua New Guinea (PNG), where nine million people speak 850 languages, is the most linguistically diverse ...
Social Sciences
Jun 3, 2021
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Each summer, the University of Chicago welcomes high school students from around the world for a unique course on paleontology, which culminates with two weeks of fieldwork spent hunting for fossils.
Archaeology
Sep 30, 2019
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Andy Weir's bestselling 2011 book, "The Martian," features botanist Mark Watney's efforts to grow food on Mars after he becomes stranded there. While Watney's initial efforts focus on growing potatoes, new research presented ...
Planetary Sciences
Apr 26, 2023
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(Phys.org)—Materials scientists from The University of Queensland (UQ) are set to revolutionise the fresh fruit industry with a new technology that converts gases into a powder form.
Biotechnology
Nov 27, 2012
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Two Tennessee high school students have now done what many scientists strive for: publishing their research in a top science journal. Dalton Chaffee and Hayes Griffin worked with mentor R. Tucker Gilman, a former postdoctoral ...
Evolution
Aug 27, 2013
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(Phys.org)—Women want more, but men want more than others, a study by economists at The University of Queensland has found.
Social Sciences
Dec 5, 2012
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During the spring of 2021, a group of eight biology students from Leiden set out into the dunes in search of amphibians. Using DNA, they determined the geographic origin of the animals. And guess what? In many cases they ...
Ecology
Dec 1, 2022
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Don't let low grades haunt your students. A new study in the Journal of Animal Science shows that performance in foundational biology courses is a strong predictor of performance in high-level animal science courses.
Other
May 31, 2013
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West Virginia University's Duncan Lorimer might be the godfather of the fast radio burst, but a pair of international students has taken exploring these mysterious cosmic flashes to a new level.
Astronomy
Jun 23, 2020
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Diarrheal disease is the second leading cause of death in children under five years old—killing as many as 1.5 million children worldwide every year. These startling statistics from the World Health Organization (2009) ...
Analytical Chemistry
Sep 6, 2012
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