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URBANA, Ill. — Bathed in an otherworldly purple glow, James Santiago points to a curled leaf at the base of a spinach plant. “This is an issue we saw all…
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The Ursid meteor shower will light up Connecticut skies on the winter solstice. Here's when to watch – CT Insider
- The Ursid meteor shower will light up Connecticut skies on the winter solstice. Here’s when to watch CT Insider
- December’s overlooked meteor shower peaks next week — will the Ursids surprise us? Space
- This meteor shower will peak soon. Here’s…
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Dissociable memory modulation mechanisms facilitate fear amnesia at different timescales
Given the findings of short-term fear amnesia following the retrieval-extinction paradigm, we set out to map the temporal dynamics of fear amnesia, as well as its cue specificities – whether the amnesia triggered by a specific CS+…
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Europe’s Alps on track to lose 97 percent of glaciers by century’s end, study finds – POLITICO
That means only 110 of the region’s roughly 3,200 glaciers would survive to see the next century. Those are located in the Alps, as the region’s other mountain range, the Iberian Peninsula’s Pyrenees, is set to lose its remaining 15…
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Study: at least half of world’s glaciers to disappear by 2100
View of the Rhone Glacier, near Goms, in Switzerland. Parts of the glacier are covered by sheets to protect them from melting.
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Finding the point of no return: Sun’s shifting, spiky atmospheric boundary mapped in detail for 1st time
Scientists have created the first detailed maps of the outer edge of the sun’s atmosphere, a shifting boundary where solar material breaks free of the sun’s magnetic grip and streams out into space.
The new maps, built using close-up measurements…
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Iconic 'Little Foot' fossil may be new type of human ancestor – Phys.org
- Iconic ‘Little Foot’ fossil may be new type of human ancestor Phys.org
- Little Foot hominin fossil may be new species of human ancestor | Evolution The Guardian
- “Unidentified Human Relative”: Little Foot, One Of Most Complete Early Hominin…
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