A team of geologists, paleontologists and environmental scientists from Jiangsu Normal University and the Chinese Academy of Science, working with a colleague from Coastal Carolina University, has found that human attempts ...
More than 100 years ago, Charles Doolittle Walcott from the Smithsonian Institution was asked to examine strange star-shaped fossils with lobes hailing from the ~ 514-million-year-old Conasauga Formation in Alabama. Walcott ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Feb 24, 2023
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France has matched its record dry spell of 31 days without significant rainfall, the country's weather service said Tuesday, amid concerns over water reserves in parts of Europe still reeling from last year's severe drought.
Environment
Feb 21, 2023
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Authorities in Hong Kong said late Tuesday they had canceled the work visa of a Chinese biophysicist who was jailed for creating the world's first gene-edited babies, throwing cold water on his plans to relocate his research ...
Other
Feb 21, 2023
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Calves' well-being, including their physical and emotional health, is always top of mind for those in the dairy industry, particularly during the weaning stage. In a recent study appearing in JDS Communications, researchers ...
Veterinary medicine
Feb 20, 2023
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Chilean Barbara Hernandez, who became the first person recorded to have swum 2.5 kilometers (1.5 miles) in the near-freezing Antarctic Ocean, says fear—not other people—is her rival.
Other
Feb 20, 2023
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The Antarctic Ocean area covered by ice has shrunk to a record low, exposing the thicker ice shelves buttressing Antarctica's ground ice sheet to waves and warmer temperatures, scientists reported Thursday.
Environment
Feb 16, 2023
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Plants can move in ways that might surprise you. Some of them even show "sleep movements," folding or raising their leaves each night before opening them again the next day. Now, researchers reporting in the journal Current ...
Evolution
Feb 15, 2023
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The Canadian capital's iconic Rideau Canal Skateway—the largest outdoor rink in the world and a UNESCO heritage site—may not open this winter for the first time in five decades, due to a lack of ice.
Environment
Feb 15, 2023
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Like so many of the planet's natural habitats, wetlands have been systematically destroyed over the past 300 years. Bogs, fens, marshes and swamps have disappeared from maps and memory, having been drained, dug up and built ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 12, 2023
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