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World Carbon Dioxide Concentration Increasing
Global CO2 (in ppm) from 1980 to 2018. The value of 400 ppm was passed for the first time in human history.
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Dogs know when humans are lying to them - Researchers found that dogs react differently to false information given to them by a misinformed human than they do to a human who is flat-out lying to them.42 minutes ago
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137 human genomes from the Middle East fill gaps in human history - Whole-genome sequencing efforts around the world have offered important insights into human diversity, historical migrations, and the relationships between...
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Is Homo longi an Extinct Human Species? - A newly analyzed skull from northeastern China may signal a species that had closer ties to us than Neanderthals. The post Is Homo longi an Extinc...1 hour ago
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The Secret behind Songbirds' Magnetic Migratory Sense - A molecule found in the retinas of European robins seems to be able to sense weak magnetic fields, such as that of Earth, after it is exposed to light. --...1 hour ago
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Babylonians calculated with triangles centuries before Pythagoras - Over a millennium before the Greek philosopher Pythagoras, Babylonian surveyors were using Pythagorean triangles to accurately share out farmland3 hours ago
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Diatoms, an Evolutionary Mystery, Come into Nano-Focus - The jewels of the microbial world, when seen with new nano-scale imaging techniques, look like Gothic cathedrals. Source4 hours ago
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L & FP, 49: The Reichstag Fire-panic lesson on agit prop and lawfare - Vivid recently reminded us of the painful, bloody lesson of history taught by Hitler’s seizure of power in 1933. I responded, noting: [I]sn’t it interestin...4 hours ago
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Early molten moon’s deep secrets - Recently, a pair of NASA studies identified the most likely locations to find pieces of the Moon's mantle on the surface, providing a map for future lunar ...17 hours ago
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Spanish cave art was made by Neanderthals, study confirms - Study says pigments on cave stalagmites were applied through ‘splattering and blowing’ more than 60,000 years ago Neanderthals, long perceived to have be...1 day ago
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Earth’s Inner Core Is Growing Lopsided - A geological mystery is unfolding far beneath our feet, and it may shed light on the life-sustaining magnetic field that extends far above our heads.2 days ago
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Springer Nature launches Research Digests with Scientific American - Springer Nature has launched a new service where research authors can purchase a promotional article on Scientific American to explain their science to a p...2 days ago
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A Plant That ‘Cannot Die’ Reveals Its Genetic Secrets - Events in the genome of Welwitschia have given it the ability to survive in an unforgiving desert for thousands of years.3 days ago
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Neanderthal and Denisovan blood groups deciphered - The blood groups of three Neanderthals one Denisovan have been determined by a team including a palaeoanthropologist, population geneticists, and haematolo...6 days ago
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Cognitive Hurdles to Teaching Evolution - In another post, I describe research by Deborah Kelemen showing that even young children could grasp counterintuitive evolutionary concepts—a finding that ...1 week ago
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Woese, uma voz do passado, conclamou uma nova biologia para um novo século - uma ciência mais fundamental - American Society for Microbiology Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews Volume 68, Issue 2, June 2004, Pages 173-186 https://doi.org/10.1128/MMBR.68....
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From Extinction to Ginkgo... - Check out installment #3 of the Great Moments in Plant Evolution on the *Brooklyn Botanic Garden's website... *this time we are talking about the origin o...
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Mutated virus could be more contagious - A new, unreviewed report theorises the coronavirus may have mutated to become more contagious shortly before it spread widely around the globe, but the jur...1 year ago
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Imaging scans show where symbols turn to letters in the brain - Scientists watched brain activity in a region where reading takes root, and saw a hierarchy of areas that give symbols both sound and meaning.1 year ago
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A running list of how President Trump is changing environmental policy - The Trump administration has promised vast changes to U.S. science and environmental policy—and we’re tracking them here as they happen.2 years ago
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Amazing four-legged fossil shows how walking whales learned to swim - A fossil discovered in Peru shows that early whales managed to spread around the world while they were still capable of walking on land2 years ago
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New Book: The Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Medicine (2019) - Medicine is grounded in the natural sciences, among which biology stands out with regard to the understanding of human physiology and conditions that cause...2 years ago
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Metamorfose: a beleza e o design das borboletas (português) - Documentário completo Metamorfose das Borboletas em português. Veja o VÍDEO aqui no blog: Ao longo da história, as borboletas têm fascinado artistas, filós...
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