Plants Don't Have Mouths, But They Can Sing

Photo by Mark Leffingwell/Daily Camera

Susan Jeremy’s horse leads us to something peculiar, down the hill behind the Three Leaf Farm in Lafayette, Colorado.
A singing plant.
Like the story of the burning bush, this plant seems to have something to say, as well — at least based...

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BAE systems' new hybrid drones to 'revolutionise' warfare | Science | News

Engineers have unveiled ambitious an ambitious new concept for adaptable unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) which are so agile they can take off and land like a helicopter and still fly like plane.
Experts believe the drones of the future, which will alternate between fixed-wing flight and...

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A Single Mutation in Zika Led to Devastating Effects

ISTOCK, ubrxOne mutation in the Zika virus is responsible for catastrophic consequences in its hosts. A sequence change resulting in one amino acid substitution can convert an ancestral Zika strain that causes only mild microcephaly into one that causes severe fetal microcephaly in mouse...

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Junk Science: The Fallacy of Fetal 'Pain'

In March of 2015, the West Virginia legislature overrode the Governor’s veto of HB 2568, the “Pain-Cable Unborn Child Protection Act.” As noted by the Governor, who vetoed a similar bill last year, the bill is unconstitutional. Arizona passed a similar law in 2012, and...

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Nasa and Russia team up for MANNED lunar satellite to act as human gateway to Mars | Science | News

The Nasa-led program will see the two space agencies build a lunar satellite much like the International Space Station (ISS) that can home astronauts and will orbit the moon.
Dubbed the Deep Space Gateway, the station will allow astronauts to study the moon in close detail and will also be...

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Opinion: Banning Shark Fin Sales in the U.S. Will Backfire

A proposal to do so would cause waste, promote less sustainable fisheries, and penalize US fishers who follow best practices.




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The proposed Shark Fin Sales Elimination Act of 2017, currently being considered by Congress, is supported by a number of...

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Arizona Lawmakers Approve Controversial Abortion Bill

PHOENIX, March 25 (Reuters) – Arizona lawmakers on Wednesday passed a controversial measure blocking women from buying insurance that includes abortion coverage through the federal health care exchange.
The fiercely-debated bill also requires doctors to tell women they could...

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Life after death: THIS is what it feels like to die | Science | News

Reddit users have taken to the social news aggregator site with some claiming their world “became soft and foggy”. 
For some people, death is not the end. Thanks to medical advancements, doctors are now able to bring some patients back from the dead after their heart has stopped...

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How Poison Frogs Avoid Poisoning Themselves

The phantasmal poison frog, Epipedobates anthonyi, is the original source of epibatidine, discovered by John Daly in 1974. In fact, epibatidine is named for frogs of this genus. Epibatidine has not been found in any animal outside of Ecuador, and its ultimate source, proposed to be an...

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Proof of alien life? Scientists discover 'cosmic rays from deep space' | Science | News

A team of scientists now believe that a rare form of cosmic ray is coming from far away galaxies 326million light-years away.
Experts had not seen anything like fast radio bursts (FRBs) before 2001 and some speculate they may be signals sent from life on other planets.
Since then, they have...

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The Caterpillar that Cries Wolf

REPRODUCED WITH PERMISSION, JAYNE YACK, JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY, DOI:10.1242/jeb.046805, 2011North American walnut sphinx moth caterpillars (Amorpha juglandis) look like easy meals for birds, but they have a trick up their sleeves—they produce whistles that sound like bird alarm...

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World to end on September 23 – but predictor David Meade says he’s available NEXT WEEK | Science | News

It is not known whether David Meade is losing confidence in his prediction the apocalypse will begin on Saturday, September 23, or whether he, like many others, believes the process will be long drawn out.
Canadian radio producer Robyn Flynn revealed the details from Mr Meade on her Twitter...

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Sexual Touch Promotes Early Puberty

ISTOCK, GETTYContrary to the longstanding belief that puberty is largely controlled by hormones, new evidence shows that sexual touch is a powerful puberty promoter. Touching prepubescent female rats’ genitals can cause the brain region that responds to such tactile stimuli to double in...

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End of the world: Will Planet X hit earth on September 23 in Nibiru crisis? | Science | News

Theorists believe a mysterious planet already hidden in the Solar System will collide with Earth, killing everyone and devastating the planet, sometime this Saturday. 
The bizarre claim has been put forward by a number of conspiracy fans, most notably David Meade. 
He has tied the disaster...

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Metabolomics Data Under Scrutiny | The Scientist Magazine®

ISTOCK, LUISMMOLINAMetabolomics screens can detect thousands of different compounds in a given sample, but contrary to the assumptions of numerous studies, not every detected compound represents a unique metabolite—far from it, according a to a study published today (September 15) in...

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Briton emerges from eight-month MARS mission probe into ALIEN planet 'for 2030 launch' | Science | News

The crew has been restricted to a dome as part of a Nasa-backed study into surviving on Mars.
The crew of four men and two women were placed into quarantine on a vast plain below the summit of the world’s largest active volcano in January.
It has sparked speculation that the space...

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Biology Labs Hit by Harvey’s Eye Face Long Road to Recovery

Damage from Hurricane Harvey to the main campus of the Marine Science Institute. In the background is the drilling rig (since removed) that smashed a research pier.THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MARINE SCIENCE INSTITUTEWhen Edward Buskey of the Marine Science Institute (MSI) at the University of...

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End of the world: What is Nibiru? The mysterious planet ‘that will DESTROY Earth’ | Science | News

Christians claim that the arrival of the planet will mark the apocalypse and could herald Jesus’ return, while other conspiracy theorists believe that it is a rogue planet which has yet to be detected by space officials – or has but they are covering it up to prevent widespread panic.
The...

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After Harvey, Mosquito Control Ramps Up

FLICKR, AIR NATIONAL GUARD, SSGT DANIEL J. MARTINEZAt dusk on Thursday (September 14), U.S. Air Force Reserve cargo planes took to the skies over Harris County, Texas, to spray about 600,000 acres around Houston with a potent mosquito-killing insecticide, complementing similar efforts...

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Spacecraft makes lightning fast journey to International Space Station | Science | News

The craft launched on Tuesday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 9.30pm BST and arrived at its destination a mere five hours and 38 minutes later at 2.57am BST.
A Russian Soyuz rocket gave a flawless launch sequence and the crew made their journey in a Soyuz MS-06 space...

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Scientists’ Expectations for Brexit Mostly Grim

ISTOCK, DNY59On June 23, 2016, the UK electorate voted 51.9 percent to 48.1 percent to leave the European Union. As a community, scientists were overwhelmingly opposed to leaving: a Nature poll from March of that year showed that 83 percent of UK researchers were pro-remain, and only 12...

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Hurricane Jose latest - Jose and Irma caught in astronaut’s photo from space | Science | News

ISS commander Randy Bresnik has been keeping a close on Hurricane Irma from above and sharing the images with his followers on Twitter.
Not only did Mr Bresnik capture the weather disaster on photograph, but in the same picture, uploaded with the caption “Unfortunately, a tale of two...

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Sea Anemones Illuminate the Evolution of Embryo Development

Polyps of the starlet sea anemone Nematostella vectensis. Their single body opening (mouth) is surrounded by extended tentacles. The cells producing digestive enzymes and insulin-like peptides are part of the folds running internally along animal.PATRICK STEINMETZHumans and most other...

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What happens when you die - man reveals there are NO white lights or angels | Science | News

Reddit user ‘Pwnographik’ took to the social news aggregator site to tell his tale of what happened to him when he died.
He became ill in a foreign country and was forced to go on a Ketogenic (no carb) diet that ended up destroying the lining of his stomach.
As a result, he suffered from...

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Mongolian Dinosaurs and the Poaching Problem

The Nemegt Basin in Mongolia is a hotspot for oviraptorosaurs. The yellow silhouettes represent the known (right) and suspected (left) localities of the new species.GREGORY FUNSTON, UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTAIn 2006, Mongolian customs officials confiscated a slab of rock full of dinosaur bones...

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Hurricane Irma: Solar flares could wreak HAVOC on satellites as storm barrels towards US | Science | News

As Hurricane Irma barrels towards the US, devastating the Caribbean islands along the way, the likes of Nasa and weather forecasters will be relying on satellites to keep up to date with the powerful storm.
However, the two solar flares – the strongest in 12 years – could put satellite...

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Research Labs Evacuate Ahead of Irma

Hurricane Irma, September 4-5, 2017WIKIMEDIA, NOAAHurricane Irma has destroyed islands in the Caribbean, left 1 million residents without power in Puerto Rico, and killed at least 10 people. As the Category 5 hurricane takes aim at southern Florida, mandatory evacuations have pushed tens...

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Black hole WARNING: Huge void 100,000 bigger than sun discovered | Science | News

The team from Japan’s Keio University found a black hole, which is 100,000 times the size of our sun, within a molecular gas cloud near the centre of the Milky Way. 
And they believe its discovery might help explain the evolution of the phenomena.
Professor Tomoharu Oka, who led the...

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Scientists Fear DACA Cancellation | The Scientist Magazine®

FLICKR, JEFF POWERSUpdate (September 5): As expected, President Trump made his decision to end the DACA program official. “The program known as DACA that was effectuated under the Obama administration is being rescinded,” Attorney General Jeff Sessions told reporters this morning....

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THIS is how humanity will be killed off, according to Nobel Prize winners | Science | News

Some 50 Nobel Prize winners, representing a quarter of living winners from chemistry, physics, physiology, medicine and economics, were asked to participate in a Times Higher Education survey to give their theories on how humanity will die out.
Just over a third of the brainiacs believed...

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Opinion: Tales from the Nonacademic Career Path

ISTOCK, BAONAOver the last month, I have been on a quest: To find out how those of us scientists searching for jobs outside academia were faring and if my own experience in looking beyond the ivory tower was an outlier or a representative measurement. As I was preparing to leave The...

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Alien life hopes boosted as water discovered on star system’s planets | Science | News

At 40 light-years away, the TRAPPIST-1 star system is the closest solar system to Earth that has been discovered.
The solar system was discovered in February by Nasa which found seven planets orbit the relatively dim star.
The newly-discovered solar system has attracted the interest of alien...

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An Immunological Timeline for Pregnancy

ISTOCK, GRINVALDSDuring pregnancy, a woman’s immune system undergoes various changes as it balances protection against pathogens with tolerance of fetal antigens. But the timing of particular changes, and how they regulate the onset of labor, have so far been difficult to define. Now,...

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