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2024-04-03 @ 16.14.06 ∈ In English

After 10 years of work, landmark study reveals new ‘tree of life’ for all birds living today
The largest-ever study of bird genomes has produced a remarkably clear picture of the bird family tree. Published in the journal Nature today, our study shows that most of the modern groups of birds first appeared within 5 million years after the extinction of the dinosaurs.
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2024-04-02 @ 11.07.11 ∈ In English

Saving a Sea Monkey Sanctuary | Hakai Magazine
If Great Salt Lake were to disappear, an annual five million tonnes of farmed fish and shrimp could disappear with it. That’s roughly equal to the wild seafood the United States and Canada combined manage to catch in a year.
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2024-03-31 @ 9.13.45 ∈ In English

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Why It’s Time to Stop Saving the Planet*
Western cultures — and even some climate scientists and sustainability advocates — often share the idea that there is the “natural world” and the “human world.” The natural world is seen as pristine and untouched, while the human world is chaotic and ever changing. But all living things change the world around them in order to build homes, eat, drink and move around.
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2024-03-29 @ 19.48.02 ∈ In English

Massachusetts: robotic police dog shot and credited with averting bloodshed
Robotic dog, controlled remotely by state troopers, deployed in house to locate person and found someone armed in basement
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2024-03-27 @ 19.10.17 ∈ In English

Bladderwort: How a Carnivorous Plant Could Be Used in Mosquito Control
Bladderwort is a rootless, aquatic plant that uses small sacs to ingest and feed on small underwater creatures, including mosquito larvae. A new study in India finds that the bladderwort Utricularia aurea placed in stagnant pools of water could reduce mosquito larvae abundance by more than 70 percent.
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2024-03-25 @ 18.21.54 ∈ In English

More people care about climate change than you think
The majority of people in every country support action on climate, but the public consistently underestimates this share.
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2024-03-25 @ 17.16.03 ∈ In English

Wild bird gestures ‘after you’: Japanese tit uses wing movements for gestural communication
By analyzing over 320 nest visitations in detail, the researchers saw that the wing-fluttering display prompted the mate who was being fluttered at to enter the nest box first, while the one who fluttered entered second, determining the order of nest entry and mirroring the "after you" gesture observed in human communication.