Scientists with the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History and collaborators surveying the birdlife of Borneo have discovered a startling surprise: an undescribed species of bird, which has been named the Spectacled ...
Plants & Animals
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Flash drought is a new phenomenon with increasing prominence due to global warming. Drought develops rapidly without sufficient early warning, and has stricken the world with severe impacts during recent years, such as the ...
Environment
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In order to make transistors that operate using the spin of electrons rather than their charge, it is necessary to find a way of switching spin currents on and off. Furthermore, the lifetime of the spins should at least be ...
Nanophysics
Oct 17, 2019
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Since its invention during the Second World War for soldiers stationed in countries where malaria transmission rates were high, researchers have worked to pinpoint precisely how DEET actually affects mosquitos. Past studies ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 17, 2019
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Poverty-focused groups including government agencies trying to help people living in poverty need to make a systemic cultural change to connect more meaningfully with them and develop better policies, according to a University ...
Economics & Business
Oct 17, 2019
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Scientists from the Instituto de Neurociencias CSIC-UMH in Alicante, Spain, under the supervision of Professor Angela Nieto, have discovered the molecular mechanism that ensures equilibrium in left-right signaling cascades ...
Evolution
Oct 17, 2019
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Despite their important ecological role as decomposers, termites are often overlooked in research. Evolutionary biologists at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) have constructed a new ...
Evolution
Oct 17, 2019
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Ever felt like you've been queuing forever?
Paleontology & Fossils
Oct 17, 2019
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The Paris zoo's latest attraction is a brainless, eyeless, single-celled organism with no limbs or stomach but more than 700 genders.
Plants & Animals
Oct 17, 2019
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Imagine that your boss Ethan calls you into his office. He expresses disappointment in your recent performance and lack of commitment. How would you react? Accept the feedback and put in more effort? Would you pout in your ...
Social Sciences
Oct 17, 2019
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