Imagine if your boss called a meeting in May to announce that he’s committing 10 percent of the company’s revenue to the development of a brand-new mass-market consumer product, made with a not-yet-ready-for-mass-production component. Oh,…
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Hunting Down Giant Viruses That Attack Tiny Algae – Environment | Weizmann Wonder Wander
They were said to come from outer space, and there were even claims that they were actually bacteria and that they undermined the very definition of viruses. Giant viruses, nicknamed “giruses,” contain enormous quantities of genetic material…
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How rapid intensification spawned two monster hurricanes in one week
One of the widest hurricanes on record slammed into Florida’s Gulf Coast on September 26 as a powerful Category 4 storm, inundating Florida’s coast with meters-high storm surge and sending tropical storm–force winds as far as…
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Scientists may have an explanation for why some batteries don’t last
Rechargeable lithium-ion batteries don’t last forever. Over time, they hold onto less charge, eventually transforming from power sources to bricks. One reason: hidden, leaky hydrogen, new research suggests.
Unwanted hydrogen…
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A method of ‘look twice, forgive once’ can sustain social cooperation
The theory of indirect reciprocity holds that people who earn a good reputation by helping others are more likely to be rewarded by third parties, but widespread cooperation depends on agreement about reputations. In most theoretical models…
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The world’s oldest cheese is now revealing its secrets
When scientists discovered the world’s oldest preserved cheese smeared on the necks of ancient mummies in China, it raised a lot of questions.
Now DNA analysis is answering some of them. It solidified that two of the three curdled…
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This fish has legs — and it uses them for more than just walking
It’s a bird! It’s a crab! No, it’s a fish that can taste with its legs.
Some sea robins, a group of fishes with two winglike fins and six crablike legs, use their legs to dig in sand and find buried prey with a sense much like…
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Couples Therapy – Life Sciences | Weizmann Wonder Wander
Like people, bacteria have their preferences when it comes to relationships. Some are totally independent, while others prefer company. Salmonella and many other kinds of bacteria are of the social type: They can live and even thrive inside a…
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Skeletal remains of Franklin expedition crew member identified
Researchers from the University of Waterloo and Lakehead University have identified the skeletal remains of James Fitzjames who served on the HMS Erebus during Sir John Franklin’s 1845 Northwest Passage expedition.
The Franklin expedition was a…
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Some of Earth’s extinct giants may have been smaller than thought
Body size estimates of some of Earth’s larger-than-life species may have been just that: a little bit too large for real life.
Take Dunkleosteus, an armored fish with a powerful bite force that lived around 360 million years ago…
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