The Discovery Channel's now iconic "Shark Week" is upon us, and so is the perception that sharks are responsible for a lot more carnage than statistics bear out.
Plants & Animals
Jul 21, 2023
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El Niño is a term derived from Spanish to describe a natural phenomenon marked by higher-than-average sea surface temperatures in the tropical Eastern Pacific. The convective Extreme El Niño denotes events with daily rainfall ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 20, 2023
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Sabertooth cats make up a diverse group of long-toothed predators that roamed Africa around 6–7 million years ago, around the time that hominins—the group that includes modern humans—began to evolve.
Evolution
Jul 20, 2023
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An international team led by astronomers from the Curtin University node of the International Center for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) has discovered a new type of stellar object that challenges our understanding of the ...
Astronomy
Jul 19, 2023
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Temperatures reached new highs on Monday as heatwaves and wildfires scorched swathes of the Northern Hemisphere, forcing the evacuation of 1,200 children close to a Greek seaside resort.
Environment
Jul 17, 2023
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Scientists have discovered the traces of the world's oldest known glaciers, dating from 2.9 billion years ago, in rocks sitting under the world's largest gold deposits in South Africa. This suggests the presence of continental ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 13, 2023
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Not all carbon emissions are made for the same reason—they range from more essential purposes like heating a home to nonessential "luxury" activities like leisure travel. However, proposals for the implementations of carbon ...
Environment
Jul 13, 2023
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Wildfires raging across Canada have already broken records for total area burned, the number of people forced to evacuate their homes and the cost of fighting the blazes, and the fire season is only halfway finished, officials ...
Environment
Jul 7, 2023
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Language is a uniquely human skill. That's why studying how people learn and use language is crucial to understanding what it means to be human. Given that most people in the world—an estimated 60%—are multilingual, meaning ...
Social Sciences
Jul 6, 2023
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Scientists from a number of leading research institutions including the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, used the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) telescope to observe 68 of SpaceX's satellites. The authors ...
Astronomy
Jul 5, 2023
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