Goats learn how to solve complicated tasks quickly and can recall how to perform them for at least 10 months, which might explain their remarkable ability to adapt to harsh environments, say researchers at Queen Mary University ...
Plants & Animals
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Male bears are seemingly always on the prowl, roaming much greater distances than females, particularly for mating. For bear evolution, studying the paternally inherited Y chromosome is therefore a rich source to trace both ...
Ecology
Mar 25, 2014
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Influential economic ideas first advanced in 1911—stressing innovation and entrepreneurialism as the fundamental generators of growth and wealth—were deemed inappropriate for developing countries, stunting progress in ...
Economics & Business
Mar 25, 2014
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Scientists have used one of the brightest lights in the Universe to expose the biochemical structure of a 50 million-year-old fossil plant to stunning visual effect.
Archaeology
Mar 25, 2014
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Knowing what another person wants is not a trivial issue, particularly when the other's desires are different from our own. The ability to disengage from our own desire to cater to someone else's wishes is thought to be a ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 25, 2014
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Facebook on Tuesday announced a $2-billion deal to buy a startup behind virtual reality headgear that promises to let people truly dive into their friends' lives.
Business
Mar 25, 2014
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A crew of two Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut blasted off Tuesday from Kazakhstan on a Russian Soyuz rocket for the International Space Station, with US-Russia space cooperation pressing on despite the diplomatic ...
Space Exploration
Mar 25, 2014
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When life on Earth was first getting started, simple molecules bonded together into the precursors of modern genetic material. A catalyst would have been needed, but enzymes had not yet evolved. One theory is that the catalytic ...
Analytical Chemistry
Mar 25, 2014
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The flight muscles moving inside flies have been filmed for the first time using a new 3D X-ray scanning technique.
Plants & Animals
Mar 25, 2014
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Caribbean officials have launched a project to monitor volcanic gases on the island of St. Lucia and their impact on people and the environment.
Earth Sciences
Mar 25, 2014
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