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Genetic patterns of world’s farmed, domesticated foxes revealed via historical deep-dive

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Credit: Anna Kukekova, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Domesticated animals play a prominent role in our society, with two-thirds of American ...

Researchers train sheep to complete awake MRI imaging

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A group of sheep. Credit: INRAE – Sophie Normant Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a technique commonly used to explore ...

Wild bats found to possess high cognitive abilities previously considered exclusive to humans

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Fruit bat. Credit: Yuval Barkai Researchers at Tel Aviv University have tracked free-ranging Egyptian fruit bats from a colony based ...

NASA first sample shows asteroid Bennu could be from small ocean world

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NASA’s first asteroid sample is the most pristine sample of its kind. Now, back on Earth, the sample from asteroid ...

Research shows Darwin and Wallace both right on butterfly evolution

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Birdwing butterflies of the Troides haliphron species group, in which females (right) were observed to be more visibly diverse than ...

Sixty-million-year-old grape seeds reveal how the death of the dinosaurs may have paved the way for grapes to spread

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Lithouva – the earliest fossil grape from the Western Hemisphere, ~60 million years old from Colombia. Top figure shows fossil ...

Earliest, Most Distant Galaxy Discovered with Webb Telescope Dates to 300Mil Years After Big Bang

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This infrared image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope was taken by the Near-Infrared Camera for the JWST Advanced Deep ...

44,000-year-old mummified wolf discovered well-preserved

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This is one big, bad — and old — wolf. Researchers are examining a 44,000-year-old mummified wolf in Russia deemed ...

Scientists Have Found a New Climate Tipping Point — And It’s Not What You Think

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Approximately 3 million years ago, during the Pliocene epoch, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels were similar to today. Global temperatures averaged ...

NASA astronauts will stay at the space station longer for more troubleshooting of Boeing capsule

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Two NASA astronauts will stay longer at the International Space Station as engineers troubleshoot problems on Boeing’s new space capsule ...