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Sharks used as ocean sensors to aid hurricane research
4+ hour, 28+ min ago (354+ words) CTV News Sharks used as ocean sensors to aid hurricane research "Please come home: Mother of 14-year-old girl last seen in North York 3 days ago appeals for her safe return EXCLUSIVE: Innocent Canadians detained after their bag tags switched in…...
Grocery store worker finds two rare orange lobsters in a shipment
5+ hour, 43+ min ago (298+ words) The average person has a 1-in-20 million to 1-in-30 million chance of finding an orange lobster. A New Hampshire grocery store worker found not one, but two orange lobsters over the weekend. Nathan, a Market Basket employee of 20 years, found…...
Some Plants Have A Genetic Superpower That May Help Them Survive A Cataclysm
10+ hour, 47+ min ago (759+ words) Most people are diploid. That is, we have two sets of chromosomes " one set from each parent. But that's not always the case for other species, especially plants. "Strawberries, for example, have eight sets of chromosomes," says Yves Van de…...
Don Zagier's approximation of Markov's diophantine equation
14+ hour, 27+ min ago (342+ words) Markov numbers are integer solutions to The Wikipedia article on Markov numbers mentions that Don Zagier studied Markov numbers by looking the approximating equation x" +y" +z" = 3xyz+ 4/9 which is equivalent to wheref(t) is defined as arccosh(3t/2). It wasn't clear to…...
Why the tooth fairy is important for theoretical physics
6+ hour, 3+ min ago (605+ words) Credit: D. Saadeh et al. , Phys. Rev. Lett. , 2016; Modifications: E. Siegel/public domain An astrophysics column on big questions and our universe. However, as cosmologist Mike Turner made famous in the 1990s, we have a saying in theoretical physics about how we should…...
Rise" plushie joins Artemis I Snoopy ZGI indicator at Charles M. Schulz museum
4+ hour, 4+ min ago (49+ words) KION Central Coast Sooji Nam reports on the zero-gravity indicator plushies that are a part of space history. Jump to comments " KION 46 is committed to providing a forum for civil and constructive conversation....
Scott Kelly spent a year in orbit while his identical twin brother stayed on Earth, and when he came home NASA discovered his gene expression had changed in ways that didn't fully reverse
2+ hour, 42+ min ago (34+ words) When Scott Kelly returned from 340 days aboard the International Space Station, NASA's twin study revealed that roughly seven percent of his gene expression had shifted in ways that never fully returned to baseline....
U. N. agency to remove worst-case climate scenario
11+ hour, 7+ min ago (167+ words) May 19 (UPI) -- Climate scientists have decided to remove their worst-case scenario for how hot the Earth could get if nothing is done to slow global warming. The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change seems ready to drop its most…...
Scientists create egg to bring giant 12ft flightless bird back from dead
8+ hour, 33+ min ago (514+ words) SCIENTISTS are planning to bring back to life a giant 12ft bird that went extinct 600 years ago using an artificial egg. The moa was a flightless bird similar to an emu that weighed around 230kg and lived for millions of years in…...
Machine identities swamp real users
13+ hour, 50+ min ago (296+ words) Daily Tribune Machine identities swamp real users PGMN anchor defends network amid NBI entrapment of founder 28-year-old man nabbed for illegal firearm in Muntinlupa Suarez faces Avila in U. S. Marcial gushes over Netflix show DHSUD, Quezon City roll out in-city rental…...