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Orangutan able to guess a taste without sampling it, just like us
Naong drinking.Credit: Tomas Persson
Without having tasted a specific new juice mix before, an orangutan in a Swedish zoo has enough sense to know whether...
“Sleeping beauty” is a new species from the Peruvian Andes
The new Sleeping beauty rain frog, scientifically known as Pristimantis pulchridormientes shows the striking red coloration on its rear limbs. Credit: Germán Chávez
A new...
Global warming’s next surprise: Saltier beaches
Researchers have developed models that show that increases in temperature associated with global warming will not only make inland locations more salty, but would...
A Black Hole Story Told by a Cosmic Blob and Bubble
Two cosmic structures show evidence for a remarkable change in behavior of a supermassive black hole in a distant galaxy. Using data from NASA’s...
Venus may have been habitable, NASA climate modeling suggests
Observations suggest Venus may have had water oceans in its distant past. A land-ocean pattern like that above was used in a climate model...
Unearthed: The cannibal sharks of a forgotten age
Image of a thin-section through an Orthacanthus coprolite with a black box indicating the tooth of an Orthacanthus. Credit: Aodhán Ó Gogáin (Trinity College Dublin)
Scientists...
Mars gullies likely not formed by liquid water
The highly incised gullies on the eastern rim of the 150 km × 125 km Hale crater (located at 35.7°S, 323.4°E) as seen in...
Britain’s last hunter-gatherers discovered using breakthrough analysis of bone fragments
Selection of bone fragments from the Cnoc Coig assemblage used within this research; highlighting the range of sizes, elements and preservation. From top, L-R,...
Earth interacted with supernova remnants for 1 million years
Supernova remnant. When massive stars with more than ten solar masses have, at the end of their evolution, consumed all of their nuclear fuel...
Textbook story of how humans populated America is ‘biologically unviable,’ study finds
Map outlining the opening of the human migration routes in North America revealed by the results presented in this study.Credit: Courtesy of Mikkel Winther...
College students who misuse stimulants more likely to have ADHD, substance-use disorder
A new study by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators finds that college students who misuse stimulant drugs are more likely to have attention-deficit hyperactivity...
