Two NASA satellites and one of NASA's Global Hawk aircraft got good looks at Gabrielle when it weakened from a tropical storm to a depression. Although Gabrielle is now a remnant low pressure area, there are a couple of other ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 6, 2013
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(Phys.org) -- In a crowd, looking different can be dangerous, at least if you’re a pigeon.
Plants & Animals
Apr 13, 2012
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(Phys.org) —Last week was a big one for space science, as it was announced that astronomers created the first realistic virtual universe—a computer simulation called "Illustris" that is able to recreate 13 billion years ...
That the morphology of many pollinators corresponds strikingly to the shape of the flowers they pollinate was observed more than 150 years ago by Charles Darwin. He described this perfect mutual adaptation of flowers and ...
Plants & Animals
May 18, 2016
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A Philippine hawk-eagle feared to be heading for extinction has been bred in captivity for the first time, its breeders said Thursday.
Plants & Animals
Apr 19, 2012
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Using a one-of-its-kind flight arena, University of Arizona entomologist Goggy Davidowitz and his group study how giant hawk moths use energy resources for two of nature's most costly evolutionary traits: ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 6, 2011
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Some theories of the early universe predict density fluctuations that would have created small "primordial black holes," some of which could be drifting through our galactic neighborhood today and might even be bright sources ...
Astronomy
Feb 22, 2018
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For two people to communicate in a loud, crowded room, they need to be standing side by side. The same is often true for neurons in the brain. But the same way a cell phone allows two people to communicate clearly across ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 29, 2021
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It started with a blind date. Theoretical astrophysicist Kip Thorne was a divorced single dad raising a teenage daughter when he got a call in September 1980 from a close friend - fellow scientist Carl Sagan.
Astronomy
Nov 25, 2014
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Have a question about artificial intelligence and think theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking is the man to ask?
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