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Lanky Bird's Killer Kick Quantified
The secretary bird kicks snakes to death with a strike that packs five times the bird's own weight in a fraction of a second, scientists say.
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Researcher: Number of blizzards doubled in past 20 years
Snowstorms like the historic blizzard that lashed the East Coast this weekend may be more numerous than they used to be. The number of blizzards each year has doubled in the past two decades, according to preliminary research by geographer Jill Coleman at Ball State University in Muncie, Ind. From 1960-94, the United States averaged about nine blizzards per year. But since 1995, the average is 19 blizzards a year, she said.
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A Cathedral of Ice
A scientist dives beneath the surface of the frigid Antarctic ice sheet and finds a landscape full of colors, light, and
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Yes, Let’s Start Tracking Misleading Press Releases About Scientific Findings
Science of Us is not a fan of press releases that misrepresent research findings. Here’s what I wrote on the subject back in August: “Every day, countless universities send countless press releases hyping new findings to journalists around the country. It's shocking how often these press releases overhype the findings — there have been times when I’ve been sent a press release stating X, only to open up the actual study itself and find no evidence for that claim.
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Army lab shipped live anthrax to other labs by mistake - for a decade
A brigadier general who led an Army biodefense lab in Utah is among a dozen individuals facing potential disciplinary actions -- including loss of jobs -- for egregious failures that contributed to the facility mistakenly shipping live anthrax to other labs for more than a decade, according to the military's accountability investigation report. "Over time, you see there is complacency that the leadership should have recognized and taken action to correct,"...
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The Trials of Alice Goffman
Her first book, ‘On the Run' — about the lives of young black men in West Philadelphia — has fueled a fight within sociology over who gets to speak for whom. By Gideon Lewis-Kraus.
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Trivers’ Pursuit
Renegade scientist Robert Trivers is lauded as one of our greatest thinkers—despite irking academia with blunt talk and bad manners. By Matthew Hutson.
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First new sound wave class in half a century to revolutionize stem cell therapy
A new class of sound wave has been developed for the first time in 50 years that looks set to revolutionize the use of stem cells in medical treatments. Created by acoustics experts from RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, the sound waves – known as “surface reflected bulk waves” – are gentle enough to manipulate stem cells without causing damage, something that has not previously been possible with sound waves.
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Scientists have figured out how the Earth looked a billion years ago
By the time Dietmar Mueller arrived at the University of Texas as a graduate student in the mid-1980s, scientists had already long embraced a once-astonishing idea: that the continents on which all human history has unfolded, rather than fixtures of constancy, were orphans of a former grand supercontinent called Pangaea. Showered with awards, the pioneers of this theory—plate tectonics—had by and large dispersed in search of the next big challenge.
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2015: The Year in Science and Environment
While astronomers homed in on habitable worlds beyond our Solar System, negotiators in Paris were very much focused on preserving our own bit of real estate in the cosmos.
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Scientist Captures Amazing Photos of Massive Alaskan Sockeye Salmon Run
Jason Ching has spent years studying and photographing the world of sockeye salmon, and in a new short film, we see the fish like we never have before.
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How carrots inspired the technology behind high smartphone and tablet screens
This Christmas, as consumers around the world hope Santa will give them a smartphone, TV or tablet computer, few people know that the lowly carrot inspired the liquid crystals at the core of such high-tech gadgets.
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The Government's New Food Rules will be a Huge Deal. Bacon Lovers are not Going to be Happy.
The 2015 US dietary guidelines are going to drop soon—and not everyone will find them palatable. Here's what you need to know.
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Molecule clears Alzheimer's plaques in mice
A molecule can clear Alzheimer's plaques from the brains of mice and improve learning and memory, Korean scientists have found in early tests. Exactly how it gets rid of the abnormal build-up is not understood. The small Nature Communications study hints at a way to tackle the disease even once its in full swing, dementia experts say. But there is no proof the same method would work in people - many more years of animal trials are needed first.
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Scientists Post Extreme Weather Warning
Climate change means that temperate Europe faces the twin threat of life-threatening heat waves and periods of bitter cold over the next 20 years.
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Singing And Talking Abilities Evolved The Same Way In Birds, Humans
While birds and humans sound differently when singing, the exact same mechanisms are at play and evolved separately in their vocal production. They both also learn to speak and sing through vocal imitation learning.
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Chief Coca-Cola scientist leaves amid criticism over obesity research
Rhona Applebaum, Coca-Cola’s chief scientist and health officer, is stepping down from the company. The news follows reports that Applebaum helped set up a nonprofit research group tasked with downplaying the role of sugary drinks in the obesity epidemic and highlighting the benefits of exercise. In August, The New York Times reported that the company had financial ties to the research group—the Global Energy Balance Network...
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Earth’s Magnetic Field: Just Returning to Normal?
Earth’s magnetic field has been getting weaker, leading some scientists to think that it might be about to flip, but the field may simply be coming down from an abnormally high intensity rather than approaching a reversal, scientists write in a new paper published online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Earth's Underground Water Quantified
A new calculation fixes the total amount of groundwater on the planet, held in rock and soil below our feet, at 23 million cubic km.
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Ethical Questions Arise After Scientists Brew Super Powerful 'SARS 2.0' Virus
More than a decade after its outbreak, the name “SARS” still incites memories of worldwide panic over a disease that, we thought at the time, couldn’t be stopped. Now, 13 years later, scientists have created a hybrid version of a virus that could be the world’s next pandemic, a “SARS 2.0.” The findings have brought up ethical questions about whether scientists should pursue “gain-of-function” research, or work that could increase the virulence of certain...
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