#A call to arms: Enlisting private land owners in conservation

“#A call to arms: Enlisting private land owners in conservation” People recreating in Yellowstone National Park, the world’s first protected area. Protected areas like Yellowstone are invaluable, but they not enough to adequately conserve endangered species in the United States. Credit: Edward Hammill/Utah State University In 1872 the United States created Yellowstone, the first National…

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#Scientists achieve major breakthrough in preserving integrity of sound waves

“#Scientists achieve major breakthrough in preserving integrity of sound waves” Credit: CC0 Public Domain In a breakthrough for physics and engineering, researchers from the Photonics Initiative at the Advanced Science Research Center at The Graduate Center, CUNY (CUNY ASRC) and from Georgia Tech have presented the first demonstration of topological order based on time modulations….

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#Enhanced water repellent surfaces discovered in nature

“#Enhanced water repellent surfaces discovered in nature” New discoveries about the nanostructure of insects, such as the eye of a mosquito, could help engineer enhanced water repellent coatings. Credit: Ling Wang, Penn State Through the investigation of insect surfaces, Penn State researchers have detailed a previously unidentified nanostructure that can be used to engineer stronger,…

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#Scientists count all the tiny snails in the Arctic

“#Scientists count all the tiny snails in the Arctic” Microgastropods. Credit: SPbU Shell-bearing microgastropods are snails whose size is less than five millimeters. They represent one of the least studied groups of metazoan living organisms in the oceans. Ivan Nekhaev is a senior research associate at the Department of Applied Ecology at St Petersburg University,…

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#Image: Hubble spies sparkling galaxy

“#Image: Hubble spies sparkling galaxy” Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, T. Armandroff As beautiful as the surrounding space may be, the sparkling galaxy in the foreground of this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope undeniably steals the show. This spotlight-hogging galaxy, seen set against a backdrop of more distant galaxies of all shapes and sizes,…

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#Released Siamese crocodile found nesting in the wild

“#Released Siamese crocodile found nesting in the wild” The female Siamese crocodile was released into the wild in 2018 and has just been found nesting. Credit: Hor Leng A Siamese crocodile that was released into the wild in 2018 has been recorded nesting in Cambodia’s Cardamom Mountains. The female crocodile was identified by her tail…

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#How well do you know your bumblebees?

“#How well do you know your bumblebees?” Credit: CC0 Public Domain A citizen science collaboration, of which the University of Aberdeen is part of, launched a new tool this week to help members of the public learn more about bumblebees. To mark Bees’ Needs Week, the X-Polli:Nation project launched the fun species identification tool which…

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#New explosive materials to bring nontoxic ammunition

“#New explosive materials to bring nontoxic ammunition” Matthew Gettings, a Purdue Ph.D. candidate, holds a cup containing silver salts, a new lead-free explosive. Credit: Purdue University photo/Jared Pike Every time a gun fires, lead leaches into the air. A scientific advancement could provide a comparable replacement for lead-based explosive materials found in ammunition, protecting soldiers…

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#Separating gamma-ray bursts

“#Separating gamma-ray bursts” The figure indicates how similar different GRBs are to each other.  Points which are closer together are more similar, and points which are further away are more different.  What we find is that there are two distinct groups, one orange and the other blue.  The orange dots appear to correspond to “short”…

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