What Breeds Make Up This Mutt?
Experts did little better than dog lovers — and nobody did very well — when asked to describe the heritage of various mutts.
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CreditSuzanne DeChillo/The New York Times Babies’ Cries May Foretell Their Adult Voices, a Study Shows
New research indicates that the pitch of a baby’s cries at 4 months old may predict the pitch of its speech at age 5.
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Creditvia YouTube Women Making Science Videos on YouTube Face Hostile Comments
After studying 23,005 comments left on videos about science and related topics, a researcher says, “I could see why people would not want to be on YouTube.”
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CreditReuters It Came From a Black Hole, and Landed in Antarctica
For the first time, astronomers followed cosmic neutrinos into the fire-spitting heart of a supermassive blazar.
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CreditAnthony Murphy Drought and Drone Reveal ‘Once-in-a-Lifetime’ Signs of Ancient Henge in Ireland
A local photographer’s drone captured signs, exposed by drought conditions in the soil, of a 5,000-year-old monument in a field north of Dublin.
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CreditZhaoyu Zhu Archaeologists in China Discover the Oldest Stone Tools Outside Africa
Chipped rocks found in western China indicate that human ancestors ventured from Africa earlier than previously believed.
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CreditScanpix Denmark/Reuters A Giant Iceberg Parked Offshore. It’s Stunning, but Villagers Hit the Road.
A village in Greenland is on alert amid fears that a huge iceberg could break apart and send a flood wave over the settlement.
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CreditKatrin Linse & Leigh Marsh This Snail Goes Through Metamorphosis. Then It Never Has to Eat Again.
The transformation of a deep sea mollusk is comparable to an average person growing as much as 60 feet tall with a giant sac of bacteria filling its guts.
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CreditMark Evans/Getty Images AsiaPac Is Your Horse in a Good Mood? See if It Snorts.
A new study suggests that a horse’s exhalations may signal contentment or pleasure, rather than a simple clearing of the animal’s nasal passages.
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Credit New Clues to How the Biggest Dinosaurs Got So Big
A fossil found in Argentina that is more than 200 million years old suggests the most giant of dinosaurs existed earlier than paleontologists believed.
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Credit Never Mind the Summer Heat: Earth Is at Its Greatest Distance From the Sun
During aphelion, our planet receives 7 percent less sunlight than in January, but changes in the planet’s orbit are not what causes our seasons.
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Credit Owls See the World Much Like We Do
Barn owls have simpler brains than primates, but they can process information about things moving in their environment in a similarly complex way.
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Credit Lots of Successful Women Are Freezing Their Eggs. But It May Not Be About Their Careers.
The decision to head to the fertility clinic for women in a study had more to do with an absence of suitable partners and little to do with getting ahead at work.
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Credit It’s Time for a Chemistry Lesson. Put on Your Virtual Reality Goggles.
A new tool allows researchers to manipulate molecules in three dimensions, recalling physical models used to visualize forests of atoms in the past.
