Researchers have found that Norway spruce trees can accumulate gold in their needles.
The study was published in Environmental Microbiome and detailed how soil bacteria produce gold in the spruces’ needles. This process is called
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Webb discovers rapidly growing black hole in the very early universe
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Using the joint NASA/European Space Agency/Canadian Space Agency James Webb Space Telescope, a group of astronomers has discovered a supermassive black hole within the distant galaxy CANUCS-LRD-z8.6. The galaxy is among the farthest…
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At The Edge Of Our Solar System, NASA’s Voyager 1 Found A ‘Wall Of Fire’
Nothing manmade has reached further from Earth than the Voyager series of spacecraft. Hurtling away from the sun at 38,000 miles an hour, the duo have now traveled over 12 billion miles, with Voyager 1 set to be a light-day from Earth by the end…
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Magnetic crystals guide baby sea turtles
Researchers decode the mystery of baby sea turtle magnetic navigation. For over 100 million years, sea turtles, and baby sea turtles, have navigated Earth’s oceans with remarkable…
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Enrichment of diverse seed-based artificial diets with date palm pollen affects the fitness and physiological responses of Spodoptera littoralis (Boisduval, 1833)
Sharifi, M., Rajaei, A., Khamar, E. & Ghaderi, K. The first report of damage to Spodoptera littoralis (Boisduval, 1833) (Lep.; Noctuidae) on strawberry in Iran. Appl. Entomol. Phytopathol. 89, 129–130.
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How parakeets make new friends in a surprisingly human way
Forming new social connections is not always easy, even for animals known for their intelligence and communication skills. Researchers at the University of Cincinnati discovered that monk parakeets meeting unfamiliar birds tend to “test the…
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Wildfires raged on after Earth’s worst mass extinction
Fire once seemed strangely absent from Earth’s history right after the worst mass extinction the planet had ever seen.
This stretch of time, about 250 million years ago in the Early Triassic, looked like a world with hardly any wildfires. The…
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Sharpest-ever view of a star’s disk reveals surprising details
A telescope can show a lot, but astronomers always want to see more detail in the sky. They look not only at stars, but also at the faint structures around them, including thin disks of gas.
A new trick with light has now helped capture the…
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Comparative evaluation of play environment design elements in autism schools using AHP and GRA
American Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (DSM-5) (5th ed.). American Psychiatric Publishing, 2013.
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Autism spectrum disorder: Overview.
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Scientists may have found the planet that made the Moon
- Reconstructing Theia’s makeup: A new study in Science identifies the most likely chemical composition of Theia, the ancient planetary body that collided with early Earth.
- Clues to its birthplace: Theia’s reconstructed composition points to…
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