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How Deep is the Deepest Hole in the World?
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An internet search about the world’s deepest hole turns up the suggestion "Kola Superdeep Borehole screams."
🌐 scientific american
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Quantum SETI
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And that raises the question of how we are going to be able to crunch through SETI data as it gets bigger and bigger in scope.
🌐 scientific american
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Recommended Books, February 2020
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Print & Full Archive Subscription This digital issue plus 12 new issues (in print, digital and tablet formats) plus archive access to 1845.
🌐 scientific american
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Family Farms Try to Raise a New Cash Cow: Solar Power
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In late 2017, Byron Kominek went looking for more profitable alternatives, including installing solar panels and selling electricity to the utility.
🌐 wired
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Survival Of The Friendliest: How Our Close Friendships Help Us Thrive
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Very few people understand that your social relationships can actually change your health.
🌐 npr
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Study finds quarter of climate change tweets from bots
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Image copyright Getty ImagesA study by researchers at Brown University has found a quarter of posts about climate change on Twitter were written by bots.
🌐 bbc
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Bumblebees can recognize objects across different senses
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Photo by Lars Chittka/QMULFeb. 21 (UPI) -- The ability to recognize objects across different senses is an important part of the human brain's ability to produce mental images of the world and sustain conscious awareness.
🌐 upi
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'Antarctica Melts,' NASA Says, Showing Effects Of A Record Warm Spell
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'Antarctica Melts,' NASA Says, Showing Effects Of A Record Warm SpellEnlarge this image toggle caption NASA NASAWhere there was a white ice cap, there are now brown blotches of land; melted snow and ice have created ponds of water.
🌐 npr
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Earliest evidence of hominin interbreeding revealed by DNA analysis
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Several hundred thousands years before humans and Neanderthals interbred, another pair of hominin populations interbred -- the earliest instance of hominin interbreeding yet discovered.
🌐 upi
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Songbird study reveals changes in fall migration
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The new analysis, published this week in the journal The Auk: Ornithological Advances, showed the fall migration of black-throated blue warblers is getting longer.
🌐 upi
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Australia’s horrific fires may permanently change the country’s landscape
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This ecosystem will not recover.
🌐 popular science
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Despite a “Double-Barreled” Flu Season, the Vaccine is Mostly Doing its Job
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Despite a weird flu season, this year’s flu shot is working relatively well to prevent influenza, particularly among children, according to a new report.
🌐 scientific american
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Methane Emissions from Oil and Gas May Be Significantly Underestimated
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The research, published yesterday in the journal Nature, delves into the sources of "fossil" methane emissions, or methane that comes from the Earth’s geologic formations.
🌐 scientific american
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Wait, Is That Backpack … Floating?
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The trick, I think, is that the bag is suspended on some kind of elastic cord.
🌐 wired
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Prehistoric migration could hint at how birds will handle climate change
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Today, rising temperatures are causing some birds to migrate earlier each spring.
🌐 popular science
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Frozen bird discovered in Siberia is 46,000 years old, scientists discover
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Scientists from Stockholm University’s Centre for Palaeogenetics and the Swedish Museum of Natural History have studied the bird, revealing that it died 46,000 years ago.
🌐 fox news
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Shipwreck from doomed 1840s Royal Navy Arctic expedition reveals its secrets
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Stunning artifacts have been recovered from the wreck of HMS Erebus, one of two 19th-century Royal Navy ships involved in a doomed expedition to locate the Northwest Passage.
🌐 fox news
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Siberian permafrost yields 46,000-year-old horned lark
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Scientists found the frozen remains of a 46,000-year-old horned lark in the permafrost of northeastern Siberia.
🌐 upi
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Researchers Map Structure of Coronavirus “Spike” Protein
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Previous research revealed that coronaviruses invade cells through so-called “spike” proteins, but those proteins take on different shapes in different coronaviruses.
🌐 scientific american
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Romulus mystery: Experts divided on 'tomb of Rome's founding father'
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According to legend, Romulus founded the city on Palatine Hill in 753 BC after killing his twin brother Remus.
🌐 bbc
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What is a new moon?
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The modern definition of the new moon occurs “when the Moon and Sun are at the same geocentric ecliptic longitude,” explains NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio on its website.
🌐 fox news
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Scientists discover powerful antibiotic using AI
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Image copyright Getty ImagesIn a world first, scientists have discovered a new type of antibiotic using artificial intelligence (AI).
🌐 bbc
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Duck-billed dinosaurs had the same bone tumors as people
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Diagnosing illness in dinosaurs isn’t easy.
🌐 popular science
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The Art of Animal Adaptation
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As human activity increases, animal behavior adapts, often by becoming more nocturnal in order to avoid people.
🌐 scientific american
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African Killfish Can Put Aging on Pause. Do They Hold the Secrets of Longevity?
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If the pond the fish lives in dries up too much, killifish embryos can stop maturing for over six months.
🌐 discover magazine
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New moon on deck: What you need to know
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“By the modern definition, New Moon occurs when the Moon and Sun are at the same geocentric ecliptic longitude.
🌐 fox news
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How to sell your unwanted gadgets for cash
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It's hard to give a definitive answer about which platform will be best for you—it really depends on what you're selling, what condition it's in, and where you live.
🌐 popular science
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DNA from ancient packrat nests reveals Earth's ecological history
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A Pleistocene-age packrat midden is seen at City of Rocks National Reserve in south central Idaho.
🌐 upi
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