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Young Birds Learn Life Skills From Their Older Siblings And Flock Mates
Newly hatched European great tits learn life skills less from their parents and more from siblings and other flock mates, according to a study published October 9th in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Sonja Wild of the Max Planck…
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Naked mole rats live for decades — genetic tweaks reveal insights into ageing
Naked mole rats (Heterocephalus glaber) can live for around 30 years. Credit: Getty
Four subtle tweaks to an enzyme could help explain why naked mole rats’ can live for nearly 30 years, an unusually long lifespan for a creature its size.
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Naked mole rats reveal genetic secret to long life
Victoria GillScience correspondent, BBC News
Washington Post via Getty ImagesThey are weird, bald, subterranean rodents that look like sausages with teeth, and they…
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Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is losing water ‘like a fire hose’ on full blast — and it’s ‘rewriting what we thought we knew’ about alien star systems
The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS began blasting water “like a fire hose” before it was anywhere near the sun, according to a recent study.
Researchers observed the comet scattering water unusually early in a discovery that sheds light on how the…
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Visual confirmation: Groundbreaking image shows two black holes orbiting each other for first time
For the first time ever, astronomers have imaged two black holes orbiting each other, finally offering visual proof for the existence of black hole pairs.
Spotted through the faint fluctuations of radio light captured by telescopes both on the…
