Cincinnati Zoo says premature hippo gets some mother's milk
The Cincinnati Zoo says a prematurely born baby hippo is getting some of her mother's milk.
The Cincinnati Zoo says a prematurely born baby hippo is getting some of her mother's milk.
Plants & Animals
Jan 27, 2017
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Researchers from the University of Zurich have succeeded in documenting an extremely rare case of evolutionary adaptation 'in action' among wild snow voles near Chur. The selective pressure triggered by several consecutive ...
Evolution
Jan 26, 2017
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On May 12, 2008, 900 federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, armed with military-grade weapons and vehicles, stormed the Agriprocessors meat processing plant in Postville, Iowa, in what was, at the time, the ...
Social Sciences
Jan 24, 2017
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Microgreens are sprouting up everywhere from upscale restaurants to home gardens. They help spruce up old recipes with intense flavors and colors, and are packed with nutrients. Now testing has shown that for mice on a high-fat ...
Biochemistry
Dec 14, 2016
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A polymer gel consists of a three-dimensional cross-linked polymer network swollen with liquid molecules. However, most conventional polymer gels are brittle because stress concentration readily occurs in their cross-linked ...
Polymers
Dec 1, 2016
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A NIMS research team developed a new mass analysis technique that operates under a completely different principle from that of conventional mass analysis techniques.
Analytical Chemistry
Aug 31, 2016
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Pregnant women often rely on two identities—a pregnant self and a non-pregnant self—to help them navigate the profound psychological and physiological effects that pregnancy has on their body image, according to a Penn ...
Social Sciences
Aug 23, 2016
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Researchers at Nagoya University establish a new index based on rib strength measurement, which can use fossil records to predict whether extinct mammalian species lived exclusively in the water, were occasionally on land, ...
Archaeology
Jul 25, 2016
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Investigators at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in collaboration with scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have identified a natural molecular pathway that enables cells to burn off calories as heat rather ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 30, 2016
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Researchers at MIT and Brigham and Women's Hospital have developed nanoparticles that can deliver antiobesity drugs directly to fat tissue. Overweight mice treated with these nanoparticles lost 10 percent of their body weight ...
Bio & Medicine
May 2, 2016
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