Morning sickness, shiny hair, and bizarre and intense cravings for pickles and ice cream—what expectations do pregnant women impose on their bodies, and how are those expectations influenced by cultural perspectives on ...
Social Sciences
Aug 10, 2013
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Venus will be at its dazzling brightest as December begins, appearing in the southwestern sky after sunset. This beautiful "evening star" will set two hours after the sun on Dec. 1 and an hour later at month's end.
Space Exploration
Dec 1, 2011
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Looks like the Sagittarius Teapot's got a new whistle. On March 15, John Seach of Chatsworth Island, NSW, Australia discovered a probable nova in the heart of the constellation using a DSLR camera and fast 50mm lens. Checks ...
Astronomy
Mar 17, 2015
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Armed with a newly minted undergraduate degree in geology, Jasper Baur is in the mining business. Not those mines where we extract metals or minerals; the kind that kill and maim thousands of people every year. Baur and colleagues ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 20, 2021
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Early class start times are associated with lower grades and poorer attendance, according to a study tracking attendance and grades of university students.
A team of researchers at the University of York has found that bedtime might be the best time for children with poor vocabulary skills to learn new written vocabulary words. In their paper published in the journal Royal Society ...
NISAR will help researchers explore how changes in Earth's forest and wetland ecosystems are affecting the global carbon cycle and influencing climate change.
Earth Sciences
Oct 27, 2023
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A collaborative research project between the University of Haifa and the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology has found that "morning people" and "night people" differ from each other in their gut microbiome—the bacterial ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 3, 2022
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A new scientific study shows how periods of drought affect photosynthesis throughout the course of the day. The study found that plants in regions that are typically dry increase their CO2 intake during the morning hours ...
Environment
Aug 12, 2023
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If you've ever been woken up before sunrise by the trilling and chirping of birds outside your window, you may have wondered: why do birds sing so loud, so early in the morning?
Plants & Animals
Aug 19, 2020
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