Medical scanners and the same software used to assess building strength after the Canterbury earthquakes, have revealed new information about the diet and dining preferences of New Zealand's extinct moa.
Plants & Animals
Jan 14, 2016
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In 1991 physicists first detected a cosmic ray – a high-energy particle from space – with an energy beyond anything they'd dreamed of. They called it the Oh-My-God particle.
General Physics
Jan 11, 2016
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The expectant father clings to seagrass and soon tiny creatures resembling filaments of string begin to emerge from deep within a pouch on his abdomen. Within seconds the newborn seahorses are swept away by the fast moving ...
Ecology
Dec 22, 2015
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One of the scourges of infections in hospitals—biofilms formed by bacteria that stick to each other on living tissue and medical instruments, making them harder to remove—can be tricked into dispersing with the targeted ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 18, 2015
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A thigh bone found in China suggests an ancient species of human thought to be long extinct may have survived until as recently as the end of the last Ice Age.
Archaeology
Dec 17, 2015
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Riding a "hoverboard" will zip you around town and make you the coolest person in the neighborhood. But it might also be risky.
Consumer & Gadgets
Dec 17, 2015
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The IPCC's Fifth Assessment lists sustainable harvesting as having the most significant climate mitigation benefit for the world's forests. This view has been widely embraced, from the media to forest managers. However, researchers ...
Environment
Dec 15, 2015
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It is a battle being played out around resource-rich Australia.
Environment
Dec 3, 2015
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(Phys.org)—A trio of researchers, two from the University of California and one from the University of New South Wales, has found that female peacock spiders prefer a multi-modal manner of courtship from potential mates. ...
Testing of aerial drones to track the movements of sharks in Australian waters began Wednesday as the government admitted there was "no easy way" to protect swimmers from the predators.
Ecology
Nov 25, 2015
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