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Disease-carrying ticks hitchhike into US on migratory birds
Posted: October 26, 2015Researchers who examined thousands of migratory birds arriving in the United States from Central and South America have determined that three percent carry ticks species not normally present in the…
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Waterfalls are more threatened than you might think
Posted: October 25, 2015More than 100 years ago today, a 63-year-old Michigan schoolteacher took the first ride ever down Niagara Falls in a barrel. Annie Edson Taylor may have survived, but the future will tell…
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Want to know how healthy the air quality is today in your area? There's an app for that!
Posted: October 24, 2015Yareli Sanchez lives in Los Angeles and jogs regularly, but she never used to know if the day’s air quality was bad until after she had already set out for…
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Artificial lung to help study air pollution effects
Posted: October 23, 2015Air pollution is one of the leading causes of lung cancer and respiratory diseases, responsible for one in eight global deaths, according to the World Health Organisation.However, researchers will soon…
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Was the Bronze Age plague really spread by flies?
Posted: October 23, 2015When the plague swept through Europe in 1665, no one could figure out how the devastating disease spread. But after a tailor in the small village of Eyam in central…
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Newly discovered large asteroid will make flyby on Halloween
Posted: October 23, 2015A large near-Earth asteroid named 2015 TB145, discovered on October 10 by the University of Hawaiʻi’s Pan-STARRS1 Telescope atop Haleakala, Maui, will pass close to Earth on October 31. The asteroid has…
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NASA Spots the 'Great Pumpkin'; Get ready to see a Halloween Asteroid!
Posted: October 22, 2015NASA scientists are tracking the upcoming Halloween flyby of asteroid 2015 TB145 with several optical observatories and the radar capabilities of the agency's Deep Space Network at Goldstone, California. The…
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Ocean Heat Content Reveals Secrets of Fish Migration Behaviors
Posted: October 22, 2015Researchers at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science developed a new method to estimate fish movements using ocean heat content images, a dataset commonly…
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How will rising sea levels impact the Phillippines?
Posted: October 22, 2015More than 167,000 hectares of coastland — about 0.6% of the country's total area — are projected to go underwater in the Philippines, especially in low-lying island communities, according to…
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The fish that cools off by jumping OUT of the water
Posted: October 21, 2015On hot, humid days, you might jump into water to cool down, but for the tiny mangrove rivulus fish, cooling down means jumping out of water, according to a new study from…
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