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How hot is too hot for microbial life?

How hot is too hot for life to survive? Ever since microbes were discovered squirming around in hydrothermal springs several decades ago, the limit of heat-loving (thermophilic) organisms has been a moving target. The current record-holder is “strain 121,” an archaeon isolated from the Mothra hydrot...
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When they first meet, wild dolphins tell each other their names.

It’s been known for some time that captive dolphins can invent new vocalizations. Although such whistles may be harder for us to pronounce than names like “Flipper” or “Willy”, they nonetheless serve many of the same purposes among porpoises. That’s because dolphins make up new whistles that other d...
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The whole universe is made of math. At least, according to one researcher.

In this excerpt from his new book, Max Tegmark proposes that our reality isn't just described by mathematics, it is mathematics.
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Seeding clouds could bring more rain to arid areas. But, the evidence isn’t there yet.

Controlling the weather could reap higher profits for power companies, but the data on the effectiveness of cloud seeding is still inconclusive.
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Colliding molecules in Mars’ atmosphere may hold the key to an ancient climate mystery.

Climate change on Earth is a well-established phenomenon, but scientists have long struggled to explain an even more dramatic change of conditions, long ago in a far-off land. Mars is a dry, frigid planet today, with an average ground temperature of about -60 °C. Liquid water seems to be possible on...
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New spacesuits from Boeing will have astronauts looking smarter, sleeker and bluer.

Boeing has introduced a line of sleeker, smarter and perhaps most-noticeably, bluer spacewear.
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Know the difference between a penguin and a rock? You could help these researchers.

By: Lishka Arata Many things distinguish penguins from rocks. There’s color difference (usually), behavior (penguins waddle, rocks don’t), social structure (rocks don’t have one) — the list goes on. But why might someone need to distinguish between rocks and penguins? It’s a skill central to a long-...
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Digital archivists are creating an AI-curated library of everything Trump says.

AI could make it easier for journalists, scholars and citizens to access and search the television news archive to hold elected officials to their word
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A "lid" in our neurons seems to hold on tightly to LSD molecules.

Looking at one serotonin receptor, two separate teams uncover how LSD trips last so long and why they help us to find meaning in the mundane.
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Or, flipped around, dogs aren't any better than cats when it comes to memory.

Cats and dogs don’t have many things in common, but according to this study, their ability to remember events might be one of them. Here, the researchers tested whether cats could remember information from a single past event. To do so, the scientists first let the cats explore several containers, s...
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Some travelers pick up genes that confer antibiotic resistance after just two days.

Tourists to some countries return with genes that render bacteria resistant to most antibiotics, and it takes just two days in some cases.
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A small tarp conceals a big paleontological find in Montana.

A small favor turns into a fortuitous discovery.
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Lab mice may have led scientists astray.

Long held as the standard model for animal research, scientific advances have called the reign of lab mice into question
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What scientists learned by dropping a dead, frozen gannet into a tank.

A dead, frozen gannet reveals the secrets to how the birds survive dives of over 100 feet.
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Looking at just southern England, researchers recorded over 3 trillion insects passing by each year.

Put together, the mass of insects in just southern England alone weighs more than 600 elephants.
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A prominent critic of predatory scientific publishers has shuttered his blog for unknown reasons.

Last week, we learned that Scholarly Open Access, Jeffrey Beall’s website and blog, had gone down. Beall, an academic librarian at the University of Denver, has earned fame, and notoriety, for his list of what he calls ‘predatory’ open access publishers and journals. It’s still not clear what led to...
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