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Methanol fuel gives this tiny beetle bot the freedom to roam

Aug 19 2020 2:00 PM

A new robot insect uses energy-dense methanol as fuel, not batteries. It could be a blueprint for future search-and-rescue bots with long run times.

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Ancient sculptures hint at universal facial expressions across cultures

Aug 19 2020 2:00 PM

Interpreting the emotions carved onto sculptures from long ago offers a new way to study how humans perceive facial expressions.

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Culling dingoes with poison may be making them bigger

Aug 19 2020 8:00 AM

Meat laced with toxic powder has been used for decades to kill dingoes. Now, dingoes in baited areas are changing: They're getting bigger.

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Ethan Hawke stars in 'Tesla,' a quirky biopic about the iconic inventor

Aug 19 2020 6:00 AM

The new movie 'Tesla' follows the rise and fall of Nikola Tesla, whose early inventions panned out far better than later projects.

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Dust can spread influenza among guinea pigs, raising coronavirus questions

Aug 18 2020 5:01 PM

In three out of 12 guinea pig pairs, an animal coated in influenza virus, but immune to infection, spread the virus to another rodent through dust.

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New Guinea has more known plant species than any island in the world

Aug 18 2020 8:00 AM

In the first verified count of plants on New Guinea, a team of 99 botany experts identified more than 13,600 species.

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In a first, astronomers spotted a space rock turning into a comet
Aug 18 2020 6:00 AM

Scientists have caught a space rock in the act of shifting from a Kuiper Belt object to a comet. That process won't be complete until 2063.

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Death Valley hits 130�� F, the hottest recorded temperature on Earth since 1931
Aug 17 2020 4:32 PM

Amid a heat wave in the western United States, California's Death Valley is back in the record books with the third hottest temperature ever recorded.

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How two new fungus species got named after the COVID-19 pandemic
Aug 17 2020 12:00 PM

Tiny fuzz on a beetle and fake leopard spots on palms now have Latin names that will forever nod to the new coronavirus.

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Hubble watched a lunar eclipse to see Earth from an alien's perspective
Aug 17 2020 6:00 AM

Hubble observed sunlight filtering through Earth's atmosphere during a lunar eclipse to see what a habitable exoplanet's atmosphere might look like.

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Hurricanes have names. Some climate experts say heat waves should, too
Aug 14 2020 9:00 AM

A newly formed international alliance aims to raise awareness about extreme temperatures and protect vulnerable populations.

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Why do we miss the rituals put on hold by the COVID-19 pandemic?
Aug 14 2020 6:00 AM

Even solitary rituals bind us to our groups and help calm anxieties. What happens when those traditions are upended?

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Interfaith soccer teams eased Muslim-Christian tensions - to a point
Aug 13 2020 5:20 PM

Soccer bonded Christian and Muslim teammates in Iraq, but that camaraderie didn't change attitudes.

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Newly discovered cells in mice can sense four of the five tastes
Aug 13 2020 2:08 PM

Some cells in mice can sense bitter, sweet, sour and umami. Without the cells, some flavor signals don't get to the ultimate tastemaker - the brain.

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The oldest known grass beds from 200,000 years ago included insect repellents
Aug 13 2020 2:00 PM

Found in South Africa, 200,000-year-old bedding remnants included fossilized grass, bug-repelling ash and once aromatic camphor leaves.

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Climate change, not hunters, may have killed off woolly rhinos
Aug 13 2020 11:00 AM

Ancient DNA indicates that numbers of woolly rhinos held steady long after people arrived on the scene.

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