Tag: cosmos
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Cloning. Being.
The identity of wild cloning sea star larvae has been a mystery since they were first documented in the Caribbean. The most commonly collected cloning species was thought to belong to the Oreasteridae, on the basis of similarity with sequences from Oreaster reticulatus and Oreaster clavatus. (1) Sea stars cloning themselves. Humans drowning. Stars exploding.…
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Touch Earth. Sense that flower…
Seismic waves, commonly associated with earthquakes, have been used by scientists to develop a universal scaling law for the sense of touch. A team used Rayleigh waves to create the first scaling law for touch sensitivity. (1) Touch the rhinoceros. Touch me. Touch Earth. They all feel it. And so do you. A sense of…
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Simple. The worst enemy of truth…
Charles Darwin's 1842 theory about the formation of ring-shaped reefs, called atolls, is incorrect, but 'it's so beautiful, so simple and pleasing' that it still appears in textbooks and university courses, said a marine geologist. The accurate description is more complicated, and biologists are hoping to set the record straight. (1) Simple is beautiful. Simple…
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Venus on Moon…
A growing body of research suggests the planet Venus may have had an Earth-like environment billions of years ago, with water and a thin atmosphere. (1) Read me a poem. Try not to cry. I am here. Just listen to the moon. Will you travel far away? Will you forget me? My thought will always…
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Can you accept yourself?
Researchers have now developed a new model that describes driving behavior on the basis of one underlying 'human' principle: managing the risk below a threshold level. This model can accurately predict human behavior during a wide range of driving tasks. In time, the model could be used in intelligent cars, to make them feel less…
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