Published online December 6, 2016. Further Reading N. Akpan. Flying animals can teach drones a thing or two. Science News. Vol. 187, February 7, 2015, p. 18. A. Grant. Capturing the wonders of hummingbird flight. Science News. Vol. 189, January 23 …
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Moon Express, a startup company based in Cape Canaveral, will soon become the first company to travel to the Moon and explore its potential for resources. The US government has granted permission to the company to launch from the US and aim for the Moon …
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News from Nowhere: A Facsimile EditionThe classic utopian novel from the visionary designer and socialist activist William Morris, re-created in an accessible facsimile…
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News Behind The News (NbN): Weekly News and Analysis on India, 28 November 2016NbN is a weekly analytical bulletin on India and South Asia. NbN covers weekly unbiased analysis on Indian politics, bi-lateral re…
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The Syrian civil war and subsequent refugee migration caused sudden changes in the area’s land use and freshwater resources, according to satellite data analyzed by Stanford researchers. The findings, published in the Dec. 5 issue … Read more
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Our grasp of food allergy science is as jumbled as a can of mixed nuts. While there are tantalizing clues on how food allergies emerge and might be prevented, misconceptions are plentiful and broad conclusions are lacking, concludes a new report by the …
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OMICS International, one of the world’s biggest publishers of fake and substandard science studies for cash, is trying to expand into Ottawa. OMICS has offered to buy least one journal published by Canadian Science Publishing, a private firm spun off …
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Looking up close at the anatomy, the differences between B. charon and B. stygius were clear. Tia has interned at Science News, Wired.com, and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and has written for the Center for Investigative Reporting, Scientific American …
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Her landing near Dover also propelled her into the record books, the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT) said, as it is claimed to be the first time a woman has crossed the channel by paramotor. She said: “It’s great to be the first woman to do anything …
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NEW HAVEN, Conn., Dec. 5 (UPI) –Researchers at Yale University have discovered a new “microprotein” hiding inside the human genome. Microproteins are proteins too small to be observed using traditional biochemical analysis techniques. Scientists named the …
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The United States’ biggest social networks are working together to build a database of photos and videos used to recruit people into terrorism, the companies said. Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, and Google’s YouTube will create a shared database that …
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