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Falcon Vs Raven: Slo-Mo Video Compares Birds’ Flight
[ Filed under Science & in the Earth & Nature category ] Watching birds in flight is so fascinating – it seems effortless to them, but so many factors are at play while the animals glide...
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Quirky Animation Explains Why Music Makes Humans Happy
[ Filed under Science & in the Earth & Nature category ] According to a YouTube video from fantastic science goofballs AsapScience, music is “the combination of audio frequencies and intricate...
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Atlantic Ocean Study Reveals “Black Holes” On Earth
[ Filed under Science & in the Earth & Nature category ] The phenomenon of black holes in space was only theoretical until the late 1950s and early 1960s, when scientists began to apply the...
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Newly Unearthed Fish Fossil is a Missing Evolutionary Link
[ Filed under Science & in the Earth & Nature category ] In southwest China, a small suburb has become the hub of aquatic evolution. A 419-year-old fossil of a fish with a discernible jaw was...
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And They’re Off: Dung Beetle Species Gallops Like a Horse
[ Filed under Science & in the Earth & Nature category ] Legs and the way organisms use them are signposts of the evolutionary process. Bi- and quad-pedal movement is for us silly mammals....
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Green Infrastructure Project to Divert Brooklyn Floodwater
[ Filed under Science & in the Earth & Nature category ] Those who thought rich white kids were the only recent contaminates in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood are in for a...
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Desert Billboard Makes Clean Drinking Water From Thin Air
[ Filed under Science & in the Earth & Nature category ] Access to potable water is a problem in much of the world, but the impact is felt especially hard in the coastal deserts of Peru....
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Animal Magnetism: Dogs Are Sensitive to Magnetic Fields
[ Filed under Science & in the Earth & Nature category ] A recent study has shown that canines are magnetically sensitive. Now, before you go sticking refrigerator magnets to your dog, it...
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Smoking Caterpillar Blows Nicotine to Ward Off Predators
[ Filed under Science & in the Earth & Nature category ] Remember the hookah-smoking, puzzle-talking caterpillar from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland? It turns out that that animated...
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Instant Oil: Making Crude With Algae In Less Than an Hour
[ Filed under Science & in the Earth & Nature category ] Science has a love for making things go faster. Take the million-year process of converting algae into crude oil for example....
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Sun-Starved Chinese Residents Get Fake Sunrise Videos
[ Filed under Science & in the Earth & Nature category ] The air pollution in China is a problem known and discussed around the world. Beijing in particular suffers from such a thick cloud of...
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New Species of River Dolphin Has Been Hiding in Plain Sight
[ Filed under Science & in the Earth & Nature category ] For the first time in more than a century, a new species of river dolphin has been discovered. A team of scientists from Federal...
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After the Ice: Pics Strips Away Ice to Show Naked Antarctica
[ Filed under Science & in the Earth & Nature category ] Antarctica is the most mysterious continent on the planet. The 5,400,000-square mile land mass is completely covered with ice, and no...
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The Stars Aligned In This Series Of Nature Photographs
[ Filed under Science & in the Earth & Nature category ] No, it’s not color correction. And don’t worry, you aren’t hallucinating. That’s pure mother nature at work in these bio-luminescent...
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Fowl Science: Chickens With Prosthetic Tails Mimic Dino Walk
[ Filed under Science & in the Earth & Nature category ] Scientists have known for a long while that birds are distant descendants of dinosaurs. There’s a good chance that studying the...
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Talk With the Animals: Device Translates Dolphin’s Whistle
[ Filed under Science & in the Earth & Nature category ] We humans have known for a long time that dolphins communicate with each other through their clicks and whistles, many of which are...
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Incredible Time Lapse Video Shows Hidden Underwater Lives
[ Filed under Science & in the Earth & Nature category ] Sea life is fascinating, but we rarely get to see the incredibly slow-moving life of coral, sponges, underwater fungi and other...
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Drink Up: Tree Branches Can Be Effective Water Filters
[ Filed under Science & in the Earth & Nature category ] Since that expensive water filtration pitcher in your refrigerator is less than portable when you go camping, MIT researchers have...
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Nano Desalination Chip: Clean, Affordable Drinking Water
[ Filed under Science & in the Earth & Nature category ] According to data from the World Health Organization and UNICEF, over 780 million people – or about one in nine – lack access to safe,...
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Face the Music: Sea Predator Looks Deceptively Delicate
[ Filed under Science & in the Earth & Nature category ] The deep ocean is a scary place full of bizarre creatures and vicious predators. Although most humans will never personally encounter...
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