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W hen an asteroid made Meteor Crater in northern Arizona, it did more than leave the Earth’s best preserved impact crater.
It’s said the outflow of the Amazon into the Atlantic Ocean is equivalent to 219,000 cubic meters of water per second (7.7 ...
This whole class of astronomical objects has set off a search for causes, but even the most likely previous theories don’t ...
The mystery microbe seemingly straddles the line between living and non-living. It’s cellular, and can create its own ...
An animation using data from the European Space Agency (ESA) allows you to "listen" to Earth's magnetic field being disrupted ...
Pupping grounds, where mother sharks deliver and their babies start their lives, are unknown, despite the pups being ...
Some of these amphiphiles can form bilayers, trapping a droplet of liquid inside, even if the outside is also more of the ...
As Professor of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Paul Griffin explains in a recent piece for The Conversation, Stratus is ...
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Known to science as Dermatobia hominis, the human botfly can be found across Central and South America. A reasonably common ...
The third and final experiment involved a different set of two boxes. One box contained nothing, and the other contained male moths. Male moths can also emit ultrasonic sounds at a similar frequency ...
Unlike Dolní Věstonice 13, Ötzi can’t be said to display a Neanderthal-like thorax, although his barrel-chested body plan does suggest that he was specifically adapted to living in cold environments.