It can start before a hurricane even makes landfall. What really concerns experts, though, are places that don’t experience a lot of hurricanes but are still vulnerable to storm surge.This map shows that in the event of a big hurricane, based on the characteristics of the shoreline, the coasts of Northwest Florida and Georgia would be at comparable risk to the Gulf Coast.

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Submitted on September 9th 2017 by iamsanchez

Scientists have identified the genomes of close to 8,000 microorganisms from samples taken out in the field – and around a third of them are distinct from any life forms known to science, adding a crazy 20 new branches to our tree of microscopic...

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Submitted on September 13th 2017 by kxh with 4 comments

Julius Caesar kept a cache of it in the government treasury and the Greeks even put it on their money. It was worth its weight in gold – but no one knows if it still exists.

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Submitted on September 8th 2017 by CatLady with 2 comments

Wild tigers are to be reintroduced to Kazakhstan 70 years after they became extinct in the country. The animals will be reintroduced in the Ili-Balkhash region in a project that involves the creation of a nature reserve and the restoration of a forest that is part of the animal’s historical range.

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Submitted on September 9th 2017 by Chubros

Do our pets love us—or just the treats we give them? To find out, Gregory Berns, a neuroscientist at Emory University, trained dogs to go inside an MRI scanner. He ... describes the surprising results in his new book, What It’s Like to Be a Dog

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Submitted on September 10th 2017 by LisMan with 3 comments

Egyptian archaeologists have uncovered the tomb of a goldsmith dedicated to the god Amun and the mummies of a woman and her two children, the antiquities ministry said on Saturday.

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Submitted on September 9th 2017 by maelstorm

Some flowers are not only gorgeous, but they are also delicious. However, others can be poisons. Do you know which are toxic and which are safe to eat? Test your knowledge now! Please, make sure that

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Submitted on September 11th 2017 by ellie925 with 3 comments

In the wake of Harvey, it’s time to treat science denial as gross negligence—and hold those who do the denying accountable.

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Submitted on September 9th 2017 by maelstorm with 2 comments

Bacteria have an unfortunate—and inaccurate—public image as isolated cells twiddling about on microscope slides. The more that scientists learn about bacteria, however, the more they see that this hermitlike reputation is deeply misleading, like trying to understand human behavior without referring to cities, laws or speech. “People were treating bacteria as … solitary organisms that live by themselves,” said Gürol Süel, a biophysicist at the University of California, San Diego. “In fact, most bacteria in nature appear to reside in very dense communities.”

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Submitted on September 9th 2017 by drunkenninja

As Texas and Louisiana cope with the destruction wrought by Hurricane Harvey and as Hurricane Irma continues to ravage Caribbean islands on its way to the United States, many are asking a pertinent question: Who should pay for the damage? According to a "landmark" study published in the journal Climatic Change on Thursday, the answer is clear: Big Oil. "We know that the costs of both hurricanes will be enormous and that climate change will have made them far...

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Submitted on September 8th 2017 by TNY