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First underwater video footage of the Trues beaked whale

First underwater video footage of the True’s beaked whale

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Breaching True´s beaked whales (Image credit: Dylan Walker) The True's beaked whale is a deep-diving mammal so rarely seen that it often defies recognition at...
Brain architecture alters to compensate for depression

Brain architecture alters to compensate for depression

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These are brain scans of chronically depressed patients before and during treatment. Left: Before treatment, depressed patients had a thicker cortex in the frontal,...

Magnetic fields at the crossroads

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From compasses used in ancient overseas navigation to electrical motors, sensors, and actuators in cars, magnetic materials have been a mainstay throughout human history....
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It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s — a key discovery about human memory

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Johns Hopkins University cognitive psychologists are the first to link human's long-term visual memory with how things move.Image Credit:Flickr/amy leonard As Superman flies over the...
One of greatest mass extinctions was due to an ice age and not to Earths warming

The cold exterminated all of them

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Permian-Triassic boundary in shallow marine sediments, characterised by a significant sedimentation gap between the black shales of Permian and dolomites of Triassic age. This...
Study suggests complex life was present on Earth 2.33 billion years ago

Study suggests complex life was present on Earth 2.33 billion years ago

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MIT earth scientists have found evidence that eukaryotes — the domain of life comprising animals, plants, and protists — were present on Earth as...
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Blueberry concentrate improves brain function in older people

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Drinking concentrated blueberry juice improves brain function in older people, a new study says. Image Credit: Flickr/arsheffield Drinking concentrated blueberry juice improves brain function in...

World’s largest autism genome database shines new light on many ‘autisms’

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Latest study identifies 18 new autism-linked genes, deepening understanding of autism's broad spectrum The newest study from the Autism Speaks MSSNG project -- the world's...
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How nature creates forest diversity

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In the new study, the researchers combined tree physiology, ecology, and evolution to construct a new model in which tree species and their niches...
Study shows how skates rays and sharks sense electrical fields

Study shows how skates, rays and sharks sense electrical fields

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This is an Ampullary bundle with afferent nerve.Credit: Julius Lab, UCSF Sharks, rays and skates can hunt for prey hidden in the sandy sea floor...
World first synthetic receptor mimics how cells talk to the world around them1

Researchers create new tool that measures active learning in classrooms

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San Francisco State University researchers used an optimized computer program to classify sound into three categories in classroom audio recordings. Credit: San Francisco State...