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[:eu]Glass Eels: See-Through, Slippery and Guided by Magnetism and Tides[:]
A study published Friday in Science Advances shows, for the first time, that European eels might link magnetic cues with the tides to navigate. Studying juveniles during the crucial stage […]
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[:eu]Climate Science Meets a Stubborn Obstacle: Students[:]
As more of the nation’s teachers seek to integrate climate science into the curriculum, many of them are reckoning with students for whom suspicion of the subject is deeply rooted.
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[:eu]Third Gravitational Wave Detection, From Black-Hole Merger 3 Billion Light Years Away[:]
Astronomers said Thursday that they had felt space-time vibrations known as gravitational waves from the merger of a pair of mammoth black holes resulting in a pit of infinitely deep […]
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[:eu]Genetic Tidying Up Made Humped Bladderworts Into Carnivorous Plants[:]
Greetings, human. Have you met the humped bladderwort? With new tools that allowed researchers to observe the plant’s genome more closely than ever before, they were able to see just […]
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[:eu]Brenda Milner, Eminent Brain Scientist, Is ‘Still Nosy’ at 98[:]
Dr. Milner, a professor of psychology in the department of neurology and neurosurgery at McGill University in Montreal, is best known for discovering the seat of memory in the brain, […]
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[:eu]Can Prairie Dogs Talk?[:]
An Arizona biologist believes that their sounds should be considered language — and that someday we’ll understand what they have to say.
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[:eu]The Harmony That Keeps Trappist-1’s 7 Earth-size Worlds From Colliding[:]
New research provides an explanation for the dynamics of how this planetary system could have formed and remained in stable harmony over billions of years.
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[:eu]Tundra May Be Shifting Alaska to Put Out More Carbon Than It Stores[:]
A new study suggests that Alaska, with its huge stretches of tundra and forest, may be shifting from a net sink, or storehouse, of carbon to a net source. The […]
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[:eu]6 Bots That Deliver Science and Serendipity on Twitter[:]
Not all Twitter bots are trying to spam, hack or peddle you fake news. Some are works of creativity, programmed to tweet diagrams of imaginary bird migrations or haikus composed […]