BOOK REVIEW 25 January 2021 Chemical clues reveal stories from the birth of the Solar System. Meenakshi Wadhwa Meenakshi Wadhwa is director and professor in…
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Category: Science
New skull of tube-crested dinosaur reveals evolution of bizarre crest
The first new skull discovered in nearly a century from a rare species of the iconic, tube-crested dinosaur Parasaurolophus was announced today in the journal…
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The bird librarian
WHERE I WORK 25 January 2021 Leah Tsang helps to bring bird poisoners to justice as part of her role at Australia’s oldest museum. James…
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The bird librarian
WHERE I WORK 25 January 2021 Leah Tsang helps to bring bird poisoners to justice as part of her role at Australia’s oldest museum. James…
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Found at last: the ‘Sapling Fort’ where Native Alaskans made a stand
A totem pole in Sitka National Historical Park, Alaska, near the site of a fort built by Indigenous people in the nineteenth century. Credit: Brad…
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The moon that made Saturn a pushover
Saturn (left) might have the migration of its moon Titan (right) to thank for its conspicuous tilt. Credit: Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library Planetary science 25…
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No more needles for diagnostic tests?
Blood draws are no fun. They hurt. Veins can burst, or even roll — like they’re trying to avoid the needle, too. Oftentimes, doctors use…
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Wet and wild: There’s lots of water in the world’s most explosive volcano
There isn’t much in Kamchatka, a remote peninsula in northeastern Russia just across the Bering Sea from Alaska, besides an impressive population of brown bears…
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New technique builds super-hard metals from nanoparticles
Metallurgists have all kinds of ways to make a chunk of metal harder. They can bend it, twist it, run it between two rollers or…
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Regulating the ribosomal RNA production line
The enzyme that makes RNA from a DNA template is altered to slow the production of ribosomal RNA (rRNA), the most abundant type of RNA…
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