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Australian Geographic - 22 hours 8 min agoIn Sturt National Park, near Tibooburra in central Australia where temperatures can range from freezing to nearly 50 C, there lives a small bird with a white back, forked tail and as we've just discovered a very clever strategy to survive its extreme environment. The post Tiny radio transmitters reveal hidden survival tactic in Aussie desert bird appeared first on Australian Geographic .
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Retraction Watch - 22 hours 52 min agoA Nature journal has retracted a decades-old immunology paper that has been cited more than 1,000 times and, the author claims, spurred the development of new drugs. The paper on antibody diversity appeared in Nature Immunology in 2002. The article, cited 1,016 times, according to Clarivate's Web of Science, is the most cited work for … Continue reading Nature journal retracts two papers by immunology researchers for image duplication...
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Nature - 1 day 7 hours agoMeasuring trust isn't enough. Furthering knowledge about the institutions and norms of science is the best way to build credibility.
Nature - 1 day 7 hours agoFresh restrictions could result in China being less open with foreign collaborators, say some researchers.
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An 11-year-old's casual rock hunt in Wyoming ended with a big fossil find. While searching for quartz crystals and other rocks on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land in southwest Wyoming with his grandparents in September, Touren Pope spotted what experts now say is a 48-million-year old turtle specimen, nearly...
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In December, NASA took another small, incremental step towards autonomous surface rovers. In a demonstration, the Perseverance team used AI to generate the rover's waypoints . Perseverance used the AI waypoints on two separate days, traveling a total of 456 meters without human control. "This demonstration shows how far our capabilities have advanced and broadens how we will explore other worlds," said NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman . "Autonomous technologies like this can help...
Mother Jones - 1 day 19 hours agoThis story was originally published by Vox and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Australia is famously a place with some of the world's most dangerous and frightening animals. Venomous spiders. Deadly snakes. Jellyfish with fatal stings. But it is also home to one of the world's cutest: the flying fox, also known as the giant […]...
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