Older beetle parents 'less flexible'
Older parents are less flexible when it comes to raising their offspring, according to a new study of beetles.
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Divorced parents may impact some teens' academics
Parental divorce is associated with a lower grade point average (GPA) among adolescents, with a stronger association seen in teens with more educated mothers, according to a study published March 4, 2020 in the open-access ...
Social Sciences
Mar 4, 2020
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Earth's cousins: Upcoming missions to look for 'biosignatures' in exoplanet atmospheres
Scientists have discovered thousands of exoplanets, including dozens of terrestrial—or rocky—worlds in the habitable zones around their parent stars. A promising approach to search for signs of life on these worlds is ...
Astronomy
Feb 15, 2020
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Love matters: How parents' love shapes children's lives
Parents often put their own relationship on the back burner to concentrate on their children, but a new study shows that when spouses love each other, children stay in school longer and marry later in life.
Social Sciences
Feb 12, 2020
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Researcher discovers earliest fossil evidence of parental behavior
A team led by Carleton University's Hillary Maddin has discovered the earliest fossil evidence of parental care. The fossil predates the previous oldest record of this behavior by 40 million years and is featured in an article ...
Archaeology
Dec 24, 2019
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Astronomers present a concept for the next NASA flagship mission
Astronomers are making the case for a new mission to search for Earth-like planets outside our solar system.
Astronomy
Dec 16, 2019
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Reef fish caring for their young are taken advantage of by other fish
Scroungers and parasites seem to show up in nature wherever life produces something useful, and that includes parental care. Among birds, for example, the practice of laying eggs in other birds' nests is surprisingly common.
Ecology
Oct 9, 2019
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Imprinting on mothers may drive new species formation in poison dart frogs
The old saying that people marry their parents may be true for poison dart frogs, and it may even lead to the formation of new species, according to a new study in Nature based on work at the Smithsonian Tropical Research ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 3, 2019
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Total annihilation for supermassive stars
A renegade star exploding in a distant galaxy has forced astronomers to set aside decades of research and focus on a new breed of supernova that can utterly annihilate its parent star—leaving no remnant behind. The signature ...
Astronomy
Aug 15, 2019
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Gemini Planet Imager analyzes 300 stars
Over the past four years, an instrument attached to a telescope in the Chilean Andes—known as the Gemini Planet Imager—has set its gaze on 531 stars in search of new planets. The team, led by Stanford University, is now ...
Astronomy
Jun 12, 2019
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