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How Do Birds Flock? Researchers Do the Math to Reveal Previously Unknown Aerodynamic Phenomenon Apr. 25, 2024 — How do birds fly in a coordinated and seemingly effortless fashion? Part of the ... Read More

Pesticides Kill Birds

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It turns out these memories can tell us a lot about people — they tend to be self-aggrandizing — and how the human brain remembers things. Read More

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Donations for a political candidate can be motivated by support for that candidate or by opposition to the candidate's opponent. New research published in Social Science Quarterly found that ... Read More

We were very wrong about birds

While terrestrial dinosaurs like the famed Tyrannosaurus ... [Related: Birds are so specialized to their homes, it shows in their bones.] Within these two family trees, the team looked for ... Read More

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Art Meets Ecology In A Mile-Long Poem One year ago this month, we launched our podcast Universe Of Art, which features arts-focused science stories, like ... you can listen to how birds sing ... Read More

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The Biden campaign and top Democrats are wrestling with how best to use artificial intelligence, exposing the party’s anxiety over falling behind Republicans in the race to deploy technology ... Read More

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We field a torrent of science news updates every week and on Saturday morning, we highlight three or four of them based on the observed preferences of a panel of dogs as shown by the ... Read More

Environmental Science News

May 3, 2024 — New research suggests that countries' current plans to remove CO2 from the atmosphere will not be enough to comply with the 1.5 C warming limit set out under the Paris .. Read More

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May 2 (UPI) -- SpaceX successfully launched the Maxar 1 mission carrying two next-gen WorldView Legion satellites Thursday from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. April 29 (UPI) -- Dozens ... Read More

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Your running speed partly comes down to factors you can't control, like genetics, and partly relies on your training. How can we truly know if AI is sentient? We do not yet fully understand the ... Read More