'The blob,' food supply squeeze to blame for largest seabird die-off
The common murre is a self-sufficient, resilient bird.
The common murre is a self-sufficient, resilient bird.
Ecology
Jan 15, 2020
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When NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission spacecraft arrived at the asteroid Bennu, it discovered more rocks and boulders than envisioned. Mapping all these potential hazards was necessary to select a location to collect a sample of ...
Space Exploration
Dec 24, 2019
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The Chinese social credit system has been given an unequivocally negative reception by the media in the west. Set to be rolled out nationwide in 2020, the system has even been described by one journalist as China's "most ...
Social Sciences
Dec 17, 2019
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A project lead by an international team of researchers use publicly available data with images of the sky dating as far back as the 1950s to try to detect and analyse objects that have disappeared over time. In the project ...
Astronomy
Dec 12, 2019
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Children who participated in a citizen science project called MammalWeb, where they used camera traps to detect wildlife visiting their schools, were able to identify twice the number of UK mammals by the end of the project. ...
Ecology
Dec 11, 2019
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Academic journal rules are penalising citizen scientists and indigenous knowledge, say US and Australian scientists.
Other
Dec 3, 2019
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Strange ribbons of purple light that appeared in the sky—known as Steve—became the subject of debate in 2017, as their origins were unbeknown to scientists. Now, photographs of this remarkable phenomena have been studied ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 29, 2019
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Researchers have developed a free virtual reality game which allows players to experience the thrill of the hunt as a hungry predator feasting on swarming flies.
Plants & Animals
Nov 7, 2019
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When two galaxies merge, there are brief periods of stellar baby booms. A group of astronomers led by Lingyu Wang (SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research) has now used a sample of over 200,000 galaxies to confirm that ...
Astronomy
Oct 21, 2019
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Monitoring progress on the UN Sustainable Development Goals requires a huge amount of data. Citizen science could help fill important data gaps, say IIASA researchers.
Environment
Oct 9, 2019
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