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The world’s largest seismically isolated building, the new international terminal at Istanbul’s Sabiha Gökçen Airport, is now complete and open for business.
Stretching over more than two million square feet, the terminal doesn’t sit directly on the soil, but rather on ...
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A biologist walks into a sushi bar and orders some tuna. What does he get? Escolar, a nasty fish with buttery flesh that can cause bizarre episodes of diarrhea, accompanied by a waxy intestinal discharge.
It’s not a joke. It happened five times to the same scientists during a brief ...
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A new infrared image of the galaxy Centaurus A reveals the gassy, ghastly bones of a galaxy that it consumed several hundred million years ago.
The parallelogram of stars leftover from the collision had been obscured by dust. But using new processing techniques in the infrared part of the ...
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Bones
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In the grand scheme of human space programs in Russia and the United States, catastrophic failures are relatively rare. But they are often quite spectacular and make a big impression on the public ...
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WASHINGTON — Malaria that is resistant to the best available drug is more widespread in Southeast Asia than previously reported, new research shows. The worrisome finding poses a risk that travelers could carry this strain of the malaria parasite to other parts of the globe and unwittingly ...
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Resistance
The latest evidence in the disappearance of the mammoths, and nine other North American species weighing over a ton, comes from fossilized dung fungus. But despite their lowly origin, if the new findings hold, they point away from human causes and could rule out an asteroid impact ...
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The latest evidence in the disappearance of the mammoths, and nine other North American species weighing over a ton, comes from fossilized dung fungus. But despite their lowly origin, if the new findings hold, they point away from human causes and could rule out an asteroid impact ...
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Thanks to their vast underground fungus farms, leafcutter ants are one of Earth’s most successful species — and one secret of their agricultural success is bacteria, which the ants use like fertilizer.
By farming with microbes that pull nitrogen from the air, the ants thrive in ...
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In an extinction scenario that might have been concocted by Douglas Adams or a taxonomically-minded Kafka, a classification error has allowed fishermen to drive a species of skate to near-oblivion.
If it vanishes, the flapper skate will be the first fish officially exterminated by ...
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After decades of seeing plants as passive recipients of fate, scientists have found them capable of behaviors once thought unique to animals. Some plants even appear to be social, favoring family while pushing strangers from the neighborhood.
Research into plant sociality is still young, ...
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After decades of seeing plants as passive recipients of fate, scientists have found them capable of behaviors once thought unique to animals. Some plants even appear to be social, favoring family while pushing strangers from the neighborhood.
Research into plant sociality is still young, ...
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ORLANDO, Fla. — The curse of the mummy may truly be fatal. An examination of mummified bodies has revealed that ancient Egyptians suffered from hardening of the arteries in surprising frequency, suggesting that blame for heart disease extends beyond the modern culprits of smoking, fast food ...
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It’s not just NASA that’s hip to the social media game anymore. Now, the Russian space agency Roscosmos has one of its own blogging from the International Space Station.
The blog, as translated by Russia Today , includes pictures from the ISS — and covers a much different ...
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This photo from the Hubble Space Telescope reveals a strange, faint “X” shape extending from the center of the spiral galaxy NGC 4710.
Spiral galaxies are named for the arms curling outward from a central core of stars and gas. All of them have some sort of bulge at the ...
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The evolutionary march of the penguins happened in double time, according to new genetic calculations.
A study of DNA from ancient and modern Adélie penguins suggests that scientists may have miscalculated the rates at which genetic clocks tick off evolutionary time in other species as ...
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More than $20 billion in stimulus money has poured into the nation’s universities, according to a new collection of data gathered by a trio of research consortia.
California’s institutions were the big winners, snagging 1,602 grants worth almost $1.2 billion, but the money was ...
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Scientists have long wondered how an extinct goat who once lived on barren Mediterranean islands, could survive in such a harsh environment. Now they know: In a first-of-its-kind trick for the mammal kingdom, this goat lived like a lizard.
Myotragus balearicus skeletons were made from ...
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Unlike most Western guys and gals looking for love, Africa’s Hadza foragers pair up without regard to each other’s size and strength, a new study finds. And that stature-may-care approach underscores the often unappreciated variety of human mating strategies, the researchers say.
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The retooled Jaguar supercomputer blew away the competition on the latest list of the 500 fastest computers in the world, clocking an incredible 1.759 petaflops — 1,759 trillion calculations per second.
The machine, housed at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National ...
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On one of the Galapagos islands whose finches shaped the theories of a young Charles Darwin, biologists have witnessed that elusive moment when a single species splits in two.
In many ways, the split followed predictable patterns, requiring a hybrid newcomer who’d already taken ...
