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FRIDAY HARBOR, Wash. — This week’s Salish Sea Expedition is unfolding amid the heavily trafficked waters off the San Juan Islands, but there’s still plenty of room here for scientific discoveries. For example, researchers riding a deep-water submersible called Cyclops 1 announced that they discovere...
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Some types of bacteria that are either commonly consumed or already found in our guts can create electricity, according to a new study published Wednesday (Sept. 12) in the Journal Nature. Electricity-generating, or "electrogenic," bacteria aren't something new — they can be found in places far awa...
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Tonks the baby aye-aye may answer that question. Born at the Denver Zoo on Aug. 8, Tonks is one of only 24 of the nocturnal lemurs in captivity in the United States. Aye-ayes (Daubentonia madagascariensis) are native to Madagascar.
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The Netflix thriller tells the story of Ashraf Marwan, a real-life Egyptian agent who spied for Israel in the 1970s
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Emergency crews in North Carolina scrambled Friday to rescue hundreds of people stranded in their homes by flood waters unleashed by Hurricane Florence. The drama was unfolding in the riverfront town of New Bern, which was hit by a huge storm surge as the sprawling Category 1 hurricane came close t...
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Japan's determined bid to return to commercial whale hunting was blocked by anti-whaling nations in a tense vote Friday at the International Whaling Commission meeting in Brazil. Anti-whaling nations led by Australia, the European Union and the United States, defeated Japan's "Way Forward" proposal...
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Paul Manafort is reportedly nearing a plea deal to avoid trial on charges stemming from work he did for pro-Russia political forces in Ukraine
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The mutilated carcass of a female white rhino, who had given birth just months ago, lay rotting on a hill beside a road that meanders through South Africa's Kruger National Park. There's nothing else left here," said Frik Rossouw, a senior investigator in South African National Parks (SANParks) ser...
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A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below. Climate change mitigation Climate change communication Inconvenience vs. rationality. Reflections on different faces of climate contrarianism in Poland and Norway A new, valid measure of climate change understanding: associations w...
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A new discovery of abstract symbolic drawings on a rock has been found in the Blombos Cave, about 300 km east of Cape Town in South Africa. The fragment - which some say looks a bit like a hashtag - puts the date of the earliest drawing at 73,000 years ago. As archaeologist Chris Henshilwood tells A...
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SEATTLE (AP) — Helicopters and trucks are relocating hundreds of mountain goats from Olympic National Park in an effort officials said will protect natural resources, reduce visitor safety issues and boost native goat populations elsewhere in Washington state.
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Mysterious New Mexico: Miracles, Magic, and Monsters in the Land of Enchantment. By Benjamin Radford. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0-8263-5450-1. 300 pp. Softcover, $24.95. Welcome to New Mexico, where I had no idea that there were odd paranor...
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A manned mission to Mars is (very) slowly coming together for the folks at NASA. There's a lot of incredibly specific planning that goes into a mission to another planet, and Mars will give scientists and engineers a long list of challenges to overcome, but there's one thing that no planet-h...
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A gunman killed five people, including his wife, before turning the gun on himself as a Kern County sheriff’s deputy closed in
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Violent protests in the southern city of Basra have dashed the prime minister's hopes of a second term