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Fabric fab for rehab, cooking up eruptions, down to the wire for virus testing, and why researchers want the Blues
How pyroclastic flows cheat friction Massey University, University of Oregon, University ...
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A team of geographers has developed a series of models -- using a massive, crowdsourced, fitness-tracking database -- that strongly predict how terrain slope affects human travel rates. The geographers will apply their new models to wildland firefighters: During their spring training in 2019, ...
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A ruby-throated hummingbird. Research from the University of Toronto Scarborough found that larger hummingbirds show better mechanochemical efficiency than smaller ones. [See related image Here.] More about this image A study by ...
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04/12/2019 01:00 AM EDT
A ruby-throated hummingbird. Research from the University of Toronto Scarborough found that larger hummingbirds show better mechanochemical efficiency than smaller ones. [See related image Here.] More about this image A study by ...
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An adult male painted bunting. Painted buntings breed primarily in the United States during the summer, then migrate to Mexico, Central America, southern Florida and the Caribbean over the winter. [Image 2 of 3 related images. See Image ...
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Chinese violet cress, a plant native to central China, in which researchers recently discovered two new fatty acids in the oil. [See related image Here.] More about this image A team of researchers led by the University of ...
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An adult male painted bunting in Oklahoma during summer months. [Image 1 of 3 related images. See Image 2.] More about this image A team of researchers, led by Andrea Contina of the University of Oklahoma (OU), has identified the ...
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A tree swallow returns to its nest box to incubate eggs. Researchers surrounded the nestÂs opening with an antenna that was coupled with a tracking tag on the bird. Using this design on each nest box and bird, researchers recorded more than 177,000 feeding visits for 63 females in ...
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An adult male painted bunting. Researchers are working in collaboration to better understand why certain painted bunting populations are declining. [Image 3 of 3 related images. Back to Image 1.]More about this image A team of ...
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Bioluminescence from a red tide lights the waves blue in San Diego, California. More about this image Bioluminescent red tides like the one that lit up the waves in San Diego, California, are due to a gathering of dinoflagellates, including Ceratium falcatiforme and ...
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Ed Cahoon of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln was part of a research team that discovered two new fatty acids in the oil of the Chinese violet cress, a plant native to central China. [See related image Here.] More about this image A ...
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A team of researchers investigated ant colonies to look at the relationship between group size and social behaviors. They found that simply increasing group size, even if it doesnÂt lead to division of labor, can benefit members of the group. Clonal raider ants, like those seen here, form a dense ...
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