TOKYO, June 14 (UPI) –Experiments by researchers at Kyoto University in Japan suggest cats have rudimentary understanding of physics and the principle of cause and effect. Previous studies have shown cats use their hearing to anticipate the presence of …
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Microscopy Masters asks one thing of citizen scientists: Find proteins in electron microscope images. The task will probably give participants new appreciation for biologists who decipher the structures of teeny, tiny molecules. It’s not easy. The goal …
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Looking for America: A journey into the country’s divided heart (Kindle Single)The 2016 election is unlike any that we’ve seen before. The campaign has seen the rise of Donald Trump, the New York provocateur w…
Previous experiments in space were limited to the incineration of samples no bigger than an index card, said David Urban, lead researcher for the Spacecraft Fire Experiment, or Saffire. “We tried for years to find a vehicle and a circumstance where this …
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Nearly half of all sun-like stars are in gravitationally-bound binary systems, but to date only nine planets orbiting paired stars have been discovered by Kepler. All those previously found have been Saturn-sized or smaller, and tended to orbit close to …
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Chiral molecules–compounds that come in otherwise identical mirror image variations, like a pair of human hands–are crucial to life as we know it. Living things are selective about which “handedness” of a molecule they use or produce. For example, all …
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And, in case you’re interested, researchers put together a video of Bombay night frogs’ twist on fertilization. Sign up to get the latest science news delivered weekly right to your inbox!
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Reptiles rapidly invaded the seas soon after a global extinction wiped out most life on Earth, according to a new study led by University of California, Davis, researchers. Global climate change — likely triggered by massive volcanic eruptions — killed …
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