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Here’s one way to get back at your sibling: release a deadly odor. Honeybee researchers have discovered the first example of a pheromone that shortens the lifespan of other family members — in this case, older sisters.
“Just one little sniff can change your life,” said ...
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All around the world, blue whales aren’t singing like they used to, and scientists have no idea why.
Every year, the largest animals on Earth are singing in ever-deeper voices. Among the suggested explanations are ocean noise pollution, changing population dynamics and new mating ...
Physical Science
SAN FRANCISCO — Google will become directly involved in deploying energy technologies, the company’s director of climate initiatives said Monday.
The company has long supported and invested in renewable energy but kept its participation to greening its campus and funding ...
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SAN FRANCISCO — Google will become directly involved in deploying energy technologies, the company’s director of climate initiatives said Monday.
The company has long supported and invested in renewable energy but had kept its participation to greening its campus and funding several ...
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Flurries of questions about mysterious triangle-shaped snowflakes may soon subside, thanks to new research on snowflake formation. Most snowflakes are hexagons because of the arrangement of hydrogen bonds in the water molecule. But the new study, appearing online at arxiv.org ( ...
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Flurries of questions about mysterious triangle-shaped snowflakes may soon subside, thanks to new research on snowflake formation. Most snowflakes are hexagons because of the arrangement of hydrogen bonds in the water molecule. But the new study, appearing online at arxiv.org ( ...
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All around the world, blue whales don’t sing like they used to, and scientists have no idea why.
Every year, the largest animals on Earth are singing in ever-deeper voices. Among the suggested explanations are ocean noise pollution, changing population dynamics and new mating ...
Physical Science
Can one species be transmuted into another just by swapping their blood? What are those funny little things swimming in my water? Did this Einstein guy get his math right?
Those are a few of the questions addressed in a trove of history-making papers published by the United ...
Physical Science
Earth
A ruddy nebula reflects the light from a huge, nearby star in this latest image released by the Hubble Space Telescope’s operators.
The Iris Nebula is a bit mysterious. It’s not hot enough to emit its own light, like some nebulas do. Instead, the Iris reflects light from the ...
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Edwin Hubble
Staying socially connected may be just as important for public health as washing your hands and covering your cough. A new study suggests that feelings of loneliness can spread through social networks like the common cold.
“People on the edge of the network spread their loneliness to ...
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What may be the most thorough study ever of a single organism has produced a beta code for life’s essential subroutines, and shown that even the simplest creatures are more complex than scientists suspected.
The analysis combined information about gene regulation, protein production ...
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A small, private company launched New Zealand’s first rocket into space to cheers from about 50 people gathered on a small island off the country’s coast.
As the noise of the blastoff sent sheep running, the 18-foot rocket raced into the sky, reaching beyond the Kármán line, ...
Physical Science
Earth
Astronomers have captured a distant black hole creating the galaxy that will eventually become its home.
By sending a jet of gas and highly energetic particles into a neighboring galaxy, the black hole has touched off star formation at a rate 100 times the galactic average.
“Our study ...
Physical Science
Scientists in Belgium have uncovered a new way to shake things up. Violent bouncing of a water droplet coated with oil causes the oil layer to move inside and fracture into many oily globs. In a paper published in the December Chaos, researchers at the University of Liège in Belgium call ...
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CERN announced early Monday that the Large Hadron Collider has become the world’s highest-energy particle accelerator. The LHC pushed protons to 1.18 TeV (trillion electron volts), surpassing the previous record of 0.98 TeV held by Fermilab’s Tevatron .
mechanical failure just ...
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Large Hadron Collider
CERN announced early Monday that the Large Hadron Collider has become the world’s highest-energy particle accelerator. The LHC pushed protons to 1.18 TeV (trillion electron volts), surpassing the previous record of 0.98 TeV held by Fermilab’s Tevatron .
The LHC has had a rough ...
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Large Hadron Collider
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Tired of the portraits, landscapes and abstract art that peppers the walls of most art museums? According to Dutch photographer Wim von Egmond, there’s one art subject that ...
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If you want to arm yourself with some nice science trivia for tonight’s dinner conversation, check out this lecture by Diane Bunce , a professor of chemistry at The Catholic University in Washington, DC. She gets off to a slow start, so you may want to skip the first two minutes.
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Thanksgiving is about eating, and though local, organic food might be what the cool kids are eating, most people are still eating products of the industrial food system.
Whether you’re talking turkey, cranberries or potatoes, industrial-scale processes have been developed to drive ...
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The Texas Attorney General filed charges Monday against Laurie D’Alleva for allegedly selling prescription drugs like Botox from websites she owned, including discountmedspa.com.
Agents descended on her Mansfield, Texas home and carried out boxes, computers, and other possible ...
