Dr. Helen Cowie from the University of York's Department of History is investigating human-animal relationships throughout history and has found that what society considers "traditional" and "long-standing" interactions with ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 11, 2023
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Launched in July this year, Pokémon Go has become a global phenomenon, reaching 500 million downloads within two months of release.
Ecology
Nov 16, 2016
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Scientists are among the millions of die-hard Game of Thrones fans digesting the show's finale today.
Earth Sciences
May 20, 2019
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For many fans, sports betting is most associated with the glare of television screens broadcasting every sporting event imaginable in a glitzy casino in Las Vegas—for decades, one of the only places in the U.S. where spectators ...
Social Sciences
Jan 31, 2023
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While studying genetic diversity in bumblebees in the Rocky Mountains, U.S., researchers from Uppsala University discovered a new species. They named it Bombus incognitus and present their findings in the journal Molecular ...
Evolution
Apr 7, 2021
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World leaders must act to "save humanity", UN chief Antonio Guterres said on Monday as they met for the historic COP26 climate summit that observers said got under way with more talk than action.
Environment
Nov 1, 2021
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People around the world are living longer, healthier lives than they were just half a century ago.
Ecology
Jul 18, 2023
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Nearly 300 Tyrannosaurus rex bones that were dug up from three sites in the United States and assembled into a single skeleton sold Tuesday at an auction in Switzerland for 4.8 million francs ($5.3 million), below the expected ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Apr 18, 2023
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This year's Nobel Prize season approaches as Russia's invasion of Ukraine has shattered decades of almost uninterrupted peace in Europe and raised the risks of a nuclear disaster.
Other
Sep 30, 2022
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William H. McNeill, the prize-winning scholar who wove the stories of civilizations worldwide into the landmark "The Rise of the West" and helped pioneer the history of disease and epidemics in "Plagues and People," has died ...
Social Sciences
Jul 13, 2016
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