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There's a common assumption that if someone starts learning a language when they are very young, they will quickly become fluent. Many people also ass...
Sea level can temporarily change for a variety of reasons—atmospheric pressure shifts and water accumulation from wind and storms, for example—which c...
Anyone who has seen a hummingbird poking her beak deep into a trumpet creeper blossom, or a honeyeater using its brush-tipped tongue to extract nectar...
Though previous research has shown that bird populations are declining across North America, a new study is the first to show that the pace of loss ha...
Researchers from the University of Oxford, Nanjing Agricultural University, and Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (Chinese Academy of Sc...
Why does your dog rush to "help" when you are searching for something, while your cat seems… eh, less concerned? New research suggests that this diffe...
A newly published study co-authored by University of South Florida alum Louis Coticchio and USF integrative biologist Deby Cassill challenges long-sta...
Could a Moroccan cave hold a crucial piece of the puzzle of human origins? Hominin fossils dating back 773,000 years discovered in the country are bri...
A new study examining small-scale farming in Tanzania argues that major agricultural development initiatives, including the Alliance for a Green Revol...
A study by the University of New Hampshire challenges common assumptions about aging and intimacy, revealing that many single adults aged 60 to 83 con...
Scientists have developed a new edge-of-field water-treatment system that reduces the load of excess nutrients washing into waterways from farm draina...
The applications of ultrathin, conductive films such as those made of graphene have many applications, but it's been thought their efficacy is limited...
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