White sky at night not a city bird\'s delight ');
document.write('Free-living songbirds show increased stress hormone levels when nesting under white street lights. But different light spectra may have different physiological effects as this study finds, suggesting that using street lights with specific colour spectra may mitigate effects of light pollution on wildlife Source: TheGuardian - Discipline: Animal Behavior');
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Aphantasia: A life without mental images ');
document.write('Scientists identify the condition aphantasia, in which people cannot create images in their head Source: BBC News - Discipline: Neuroscience');
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Thousands of microbes in house dust ');
document.write('The dust in our homes contains an average of 9,000 different types of fungi and bacteria, a study suggests. Source: BBC News - Discipline: Microbiology');
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Dainty step gives mosquito legs strength to walk on water ');
document.write('A mosquito can bear up to 23 times its total body weight on each leg, which is crucial for landing on water – the insect\'s secret is way it stands Source: New Scientist - Discipline: Evolution');
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Great Barrier Reef species more at risk from climate change, says study ');
document.write('Tropical species with smaller geographical ranges are more likely to die out in a warming climate than those that can adapt by ‘invading’ new regions Source: TheGuardian - Discipline: Marine Biology');
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The Bacteria That Turn Amoebas Into Farmers ');
document.write('Most people think of bacteria as germs, signs of filth, or unwanted bringers of disease. Slowly, that view … Source: National Geographic - Discipline: Microbiology');
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Octopuses seen throwing things may be using shells as weapons ');
document.write('The gloomy octopuses crowded at Jervis Bay, Australia, appear to spit and throw debris such as shell at each other in what could be an intentional use of weapons Source: New Scientist - Discipline: Animal Behavior');
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Hormones boost placebo effect by making you want to cooperate ');
document.write('Therapies based on hormones that make us more trusting enhance our natural placebo effect – a finding that could alter the way clinical trials are conducted Source: New Scientist - Discipline: Neuroscience');
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These Newborn Pandas Face 4 Big Threats to Survival ');
document.write('The blind, hairless babies born recently at Washington D.C.\'s National Zoo are completely dependent on their mothers—who can sometimes accidentally crush them. Source: National Geographic News - Discipline: Animal Behavior');
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Why Dung Beetles Watch the Sky While Rolling Poop Balls ');
document.write('The poop-hoarding insects have an amazingly advanced internal GPS that allows them to navigate by day or night. Source: National Geographic News - Discipline: Animal Behavior');
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Be wary of studies that link mental ill health with creativity or a high IQ ');
document.write('The idea that genius and madness are intertwined is an ancient one. But in truth, in this desperately underfunded field, we don’t even have objective tools to diagnose disorders of the mind, let alone back up claims such as this Source: TheGuardian - Discipline: Neuroscience');
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Humans are \'unique super-predator\' ');
document.write('A new study confirms humans\' status as a unique super predator, and points to ways our impacts on other species could be lessened. Source: BBC News - Discipline: Animal Behavior');
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Scientists reject claims of lab-grown mini human brain ');
document.write('It made headlines, but a claim to have cultured a nearly fully formed brain is \"entirely unjustified\", say neuroscientists contacted by New Scientist Source: New Scientist - Discipline: Neuroscience');
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Archaeologist\'s Execution Highlights Risks to History\'s Guardians ');
document.write('A scholar\'s brutal death at the hands of ISIS is a reminder that archaeologists can find themselves on war\'s front lines, protecting artifacts. Source: National Geographic News - Discipline: Archaeology');
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Massive Aztec human skull rack found in Mexico City ');
document.write('Archeologists have discovered a massive ceremonial skull rack from the heyday of the Aztec empire in the heart of Mexico City, a find that could shed new light on how its rulers projected power by human sacrifice, the team said on Thursday. Source: Reuters - Discipline: Archaeology');
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Marine mammals thriving in Thames ');
document.write('Ten years of public sightings show that large marine mammals are regularly found in the River Thames. Source: BBC News - Discipline: Marine Biology');
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To Decode Elephant Conversation, You Must Feel The Jungle Rumble ');
document.write('The trumpeting roar of an elephant is loud. But scientists living with herds in the forests of central Africa say the deep rumbles that humans can\'t hear, but can feel, carry crucial messages, too. Source: NPR - Discipline: Animal Behavior');
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Blind children can repurpose brain\'s visual center to process speech — study ');
document.write('Findings that highlight how brain’s ‘plasticity’ allows congenitally blind and sighted children to adapt to sensory experiences could inform future treatments Source: TheGuardian - Discipline: Neuroscience');
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Who’s the First Person in History Whose Name We Know? ');
document.write('“It’s me!” they’d say, and they’d leave a sign. Leave it on the cave wall. Maybe as a … Source: National Geographic - Discipline: Anthropology');
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Nice spiders finish last – and seal the fate of the colony ');
document.write('The giant silken cities built by Anelosimus studiosus spiders collapse more rapidly if the colony\'s inhabitants are not aggressive enough Source: New Scientist - Discipline: Animal Behavior');
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Earliest human hand bone unearthed in Africa ');
document.write('Discovery shows many features we take for granted emerged nearly 2 million years ago, much earlier than thought Source: CBSNews - Discipline: Anthropology');
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How do you recognize a long-lost friend? ');
document.write('New brain study determines how you can tell the difference between a stranger and someone you haven\'t seen in a while Source: CBSNews - Discipline: Neuroscience');
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DNA-testing dog poo: Spanish city on the scent of owners who don\'t pick up ');
document.write('Tarragona has threatened to use a DNA database of registered dogs to match droppings found on the street to dog owners Spain’s north-eastern city of Tarragona has threatened to use DNA analysis of dog droppings to track down owners who fail to clear up their pet’s mess. Source: TheGuardian - Discipline: Genetics');
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Seagulls Have a Gruesome New Way of Attacking Baby Seals ');
document.write('Kelp gulls are eating the eyeballs from newborn Cape fur seals—a behavior never before seen in nature, a new study says. Source: National Geographic News - Discipline: Animal Behavior');
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Scientists find evidence of prehistoric massacre in Europe ');
document.write('Archeologists say they discovered a 7,000-year-old mass grave in Germany with skeletal remains from the continent\'s first farmers Source: CBSNews - Discipline: Archaeology');
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Were Carbs A Brain Food For Our Ancient Ancestors? ');
document.write('Once ancient humans learned to cook, starchy foods could have given them a calorie bump that fueled the evolution of the human brain, British researchers argue in a new paper. Source: NPR - Discipline: Neuroscience');
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Tropical Octopus Definitely Mates Beak-to-Beak ');
document.write('Larger Pacific striped octopus couples engage in a host of behaviors unheard of among other octopuses Source: Smithsonian - Discipline: Animal Behavior');
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Hornless cattle will herald a gene-editing revolution on farms ');
document.write('Gene editing has created cattle that do not need painful horn removal. The same technique can spare other new breeds from suffering or culling Source: New Scientist - Discipline: Genetics');
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Octopus Genome Offers Insights Into One Of Ocean\'s Cleverest Oddballs ');
document.write('Octopuses are cool. They can regrow lost arms, change the color of their skin, and are surprisingly smart. Scientists who sequenced the first octopus genome say it\'s nearly as big as a person\'s. Source: NPR - Discipline: Genetics');
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Listening To Whale Migration Reveals A Sea Of Noise Pollution, Too ');
document.write('Christopher Clark, an engineer turned whale biologist, wired the world\'s oceans with hydrophones. Whales sing as they migrate, he learned. And the ship sounds clouding the ocean can deeply interfere. Source: NPR - Discipline: Animal Behavior');
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Darting eyes in REM sleep are seeing objects in your dreams ');
document.write('When your eyes move during sleep, are they \"seeing\" anything? Research suggests these movements could be looking at objects in our mind\'s eye Source: New Scientist - Discipline: Neuroscience');
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How Did Rare White Whale Spotted Off Australia Get That Way? ');
document.write('A fluke of genetics can produce animals with no pigment at all—albinos—or creatures that are mostly white. Source: National Geographic News - Discipline: Genetics');
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Before Humans Showed Up, Huge Animals Were The Norm ');
document.write('In Earth\'s history, there have been some incredibly large animals that look sort of like animals we have today, just a lot bigger. In North America, there was a sloth that was the size of an elephant. Source: NPR - Discipline: Evolution');
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Archeologist Believes He\'s Found Egyptian Queen Nefertiti\'s Tomb ');
document.write('Nicholas Reeves, a residential scholar at the School of Anthropology at the University of Arizona, tells Renee Montagne his hypothesis is based on studying laser scans of King Tutankhamun\'s tomb. Source: NPR - Discipline: Archaeology');
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Newly discovered dwarf lemurs are totally unafraid of humans ');
document.write('A group of small lemurs that has no fear of humans and live on a tiny island smaller than New York\'s Central Park could be a new species of primate Source: New Scientist - Discipline: Animal Behavior');
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Why You\'re More Likely To Be Killed By a Bee Than a Bear ');
document.write('Our fear of bear attacks is far greater than the actual risk of being mauled or killed, experts say. Source: National Geographic News - Discipline: Animal Behavior');
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Why modern life is making dementia in your 40s more likely ');
document.write('From background radiation to chemicals in the food chain, environmental changes are contributing to a rapid global rise in neurological diseaseMy interest in neurological disease was triggered by a second friend dying of motor neurone disease (MND), which in purely statistical terms was exceptional. Source: TheGuardian - Discipline: Neuroscience');
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This Ancient British Monument Was 10 Times Bigger Than Stonehenge ');
document.write('As they excavate the site, archaeologists search for clues about what caused an “insane” building boom in Stone Age Britain. Source: National Geographic News - Discipline: Archaeology');
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Ancient reptiles attacked with giant fangs ');
document.write('Saber-toothed mammal-like reptiles the size of large dogs roamed the Earth 300 million years ago Source: CBSNews - Discipline: Paleontology');
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Toxic frogs\' venomous head spikes could kill you ');
document.write('Researchers discovered the amphibians\' dangerous weapons the hard way in the wilds of Brazil Source: CBSNews - Discipline: Evolution');
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Can You Protect Your Tummy From Traveler\'s Diarrhea? ');
document.write('There are about as many myths and misconceptions about traveler\'s diarrhea as there are names for it, such as Delhi belly and Montezuma\'s revenge. We\'re here to explain what actually will help. Source: NPR - Discipline: Microbiology');
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Why the long face? Researchers compile directory of horse facial expressions ');
document.write('New study has identified 17 discrete expressions in horses (three more than chimpanzees) which may give researchers insight into their emotional states Source: TheGuardian - Discipline: Evolution');
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Scientists in Iran clone endangered mouflon – born to domestic sheep ');
document.write('Poaching has driven the Isfahan mouflon close to extinction in Iran, where scientists are hailing the rare successful example of interspecies cloning Source: TheGuardian - Discipline: Genetics');
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Wasp masters turn enslaved spiders into zombies to build their nests ');
document.write('Parasitic wasp larvae drug their orb spider hosts into altering their normal webs to create a perfect nest for them to transform into adult wasps Source: TheGuardian - Discipline: Evolution');
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Ancient find baffles archaeologists ');
document.write('Israeli archaeologists say they are trying to decode ancient inscriptions written in Hebrew discovered at a dig in Jerusalem. Source: BBC News - Discipline: Archaeology');
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Fish \'at risk\' to trawlers revealed ');
document.write('Lab-based experiments produce the first evidence of the characteristics of individual fish that leave them at greater risk of getting caught. Source: BBC News - Discipline: Marine Biology');
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Why music makes us feel good: It releases brain’s painkillers ');
document.write('Naturally occurring opioids make sex and drugs feel good. Now it seems they can also explain music\'s beneficial effects on pain and well-being Source: New Scientist - Discipline: Neuroscience');
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Secret ecosystem found on hills deep beneath the ocean’s surface ');
document.write('A treasure trove of life has been found hiding several kilometres under the sea on abyssal hills that dot the ocean floor Source: New Scientist - Discipline: Marine Biology');
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Why Do High-Altitude Snow Leopards Breathe Like Pussycats? ');
document.write('How these big cats thrive in low-oxygen mountain habitats is still a mystery, study says. Source: National Geographic News - Discipline: Evolution');
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Toxic algae bloom in Pacific even larger than thought ');
document.write('A vast bloom of toxic algae off the West Coast is denser, more widespread and deeper than scientists feared even weeks ago Source: CBSNews - Discipline: Marine Biology');
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Ancient walrus made do without tusks ');
document.write('\"We see them gradually change from these sea-lion-looking animals to the really weird-looking, giant-tusked modern walrus\" Source: CBSNews - Discipline: Evolution');
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It Took A Musician\'s Ear To Decode The Complex Song In Whale Calls ');
document.write('Male humpback whales create \'songs\' together, scientists say. Katy Payne was the first to hear the shifts in pitch and pattern in the collective calls as complex music — haunting, evolving tunes. Source: NPR - Discipline: Animal Behavior');
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Answer to earthworm\'s ability to digest poisons unearthed by scientists ');
document.write('All plants contain toxins which continue to work after leaf fall, so how worms are able to stomach dead grass and leaf litter has long been a mystery Source: TheGuardian - Discipline: Evolution');
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Ancient life form\'s complex sex life ');
document.write('One of the oldest-known complex organisms had a surprising complicated sex life, scientists report. Source: BBC News - Discipline: Evolution');
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Bonobos\' clue to speech evolution ');
document.write('A study finds that wild bonobos use a single high-pitched call in a variety of contexts, showing a linguistic flexibility that was thought to be uniquely human. Source: BBC News - Discipline: Evolution');
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U.S. drones capture breath samples from humpback whales in study ');
document.write('Researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in Cape Cod have begun using a helicopter-style drone to monitor humpback whales off the coast, collecting breath samples from their blowholes and taking aerial pictures. Source: Reuters - Discipline: Marine Biology');
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Peacock spider\'s adorable dance will captivate you ');
document.write('His moves are intended to woo females, but they seem to work on humans, too Source: CBSNews - Discipline: Animal Behavior');
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Heavy Loads Of Pollen May Shift Flight Plans Of The Bumblebee ');
document.write('Foraging bumblebees can pick up nearly half their weight in pollen before heading home to the hive, research shows. All that weight tucked into hollows on their hind legs can complicate flying. Source: NPR - Discipline: Animal Behavior');
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