Children with hearing loss often fail to pick up on nuances in other people's emotional responses. As a result, they do not always understand what is going on. Yung-Ting Tsou, a Ph.D. student at Leiden University, found that ...
Education
Nov 16, 2020
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Ants are excellent navigators and always find their way back to the nest. But how do they react when an obstacle or a predator blocks their path?
Plants & Animals
Apr 9, 2020
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Each year, from September to mid-October, the tiny and very precious mountain pygmy-possums arise from their months of hibernation under the snow and begin feasting on billions of bogong moths that migrate from Queensland ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 16, 2019
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Did you know that Nike makes a line of clothing and shoes created from recycled plastic bottles? Did you know that consumer products giant, Procter & Gamble, made eco-friendly industrial products for commercial use? Or that ...
Economics & Business
Aug 1, 2019
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Have you ever wondered how top goal keepers such as Manuel Neuer or Gianluigi Buffon decide which corner to dive to in a penalty kick situation? You are in good company. Ever since the first penalty kicks were introduced ...
Other
Apr 23, 2018
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Consider the bee that keeps circling your coffee cup or glass of juice—an unsung pollinator hero helping farmers grow tons of fruit and vegetables for our consumption. You try to shoo away the bee, but it dodges your hand ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 18, 2016
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Fish viewed digital models with unfamiliar fish faces longer and from a further distance than models with familiar faces, according to a study published November 25, 2015 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Masanori Kohda ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 25, 2015
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Specially designed shopping centres geared at encouraging shoplifters to think twice before they commit a crime are the way forward, according to researchers at Lancaster University.
Social Sciences
May 19, 2015
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Color and pattern change upon maturation is not uncommon among numerous animals. These changes tend to signify sexual development within the species and also increased male–male competition in searching for mates. Among ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 3, 2015
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Aerial photos from the 1940s and 1950s are being used to probe the climate history of the Antarctic Peninsula.
Earth Sciences
Dec 22, 2014
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