Category: Science
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Storm coming…
From flooded spring fields to summer hailstorms and drought, farmers are well aware the weather is changing. It often means spring planting can’t happen on time or has to happen twice to make up for catastrophic losses of young seedlings. It also means common pre-emergence herbicides are less effective. (1) But things are not simple.…
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Lungs and limbs… Fish and wolves…
Lungs and limbs have been thought of as key innovations that came with the vertebrate transition from water to land. But in fact, the genetic basis of air-breathing and limb movement was already established in our fish ancestor 50 million years earlier, according to a recent genome mapping of primitive fish. The new study changes…
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Formation. Growth. (Gods?!)
Scientists used high-performance TEM to image the process of gold atoms assembling into nanocrystals. It was discovered that the atoms undergo a spontaneous transition between disordered and crystalline states. (1) Order out of chaos. Chaos out of order. So much known of a motto, that we usually fail to see beyond our self. The obvious…
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Behavioral interactions. A self being…
Biologists often study animal sociality by collecting observations about behavioral interactions. These interactions can be things like severe or minor fights, cooperative food sharing or grooming. But to analyze animal behavior, researchers need to make decisions about how to categorize and code these interactions. That gets tricky. (1) Push. Push back. Who did start the…
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Irrational Thoughts: Why something exists?
Part of ‘Beyond the wall of Existence’ project: An attempt to propose new ideas to solve the great philosophical mysteries of Existence and Being. One of the greatest questions of all time is how the world exists. Why is the matter that we see here? The most fundamental of questions. Where it all began. Why…
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