Frozen water mains and strained natural gas supplies left the US Midwest struggling Thursday as a deadly Arctic air mass had tens of millions of Americans shivering for a second day.
Environment
Jan 31, 2019
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A group caring for an injured South American hawk that turned up in a park in Maine says the bird had to be euthanized after its condition deteriorated.
Plants & Animals
Jan 31, 2019
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After almost a decade, a team of international experts on Thursday revealed the results of their painstaking work to preserve the tomb of Egypt's legendary Pharaoh Tutankhamun.
Archaeology
Jan 31, 2019
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A plan to test the use of a new technology to help endangered salmon in a Maine river that is critical to their existence has been abandoned, at least for now.
Ecology
Jan 31, 2019
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Ford Motor Co. and other manufacturers want to help their workers take a load off. Or at least make it easier to lift a load up.
Hi Tech & Innovation
Jan 31, 2019
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A paternity test on a baby orangutan has come back with a surprising result.
Plants & Animals
Jan 31, 2019
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Little life could endure the Earth-spanning cataclysm known as the Great Dying, but plants may have suffered its wrath long before many animal counterparts, says new research led by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Earth Sciences
Jan 31, 2019
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New research from Cornell University shows zebra finches engage in socially-guided vocal learning, where they learn their songs by watching their mothers' reactions to their immature songs.
Plants & Animals
Jan 31, 2019
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A University of Southampton study suggests that the membrane of salmon eggs may evolve to cope with reduced oxygen levels in rivers, thereby helping their embryos to incubate successfully.
Plants & Animals
Jan 31, 2019
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A decade ago, scientists noticed something very strange happening when buckyballs—soccer ball shaped carbon molecules—were dumped onto a certain type of multilayer graphene, a flat carbon nanomaterial. Rather than rolling ...
Nanomaterials
Jan 31, 2019
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