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Astronomers Spot Giant X-Ray Rings around Stellar-Mass Black Hole

Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have detected a set of eight X-ray rings around a low-mass black hole in V404 Cygni, a binary system located about 7,800 light-years away in the constellation of Cygnus. These rings are created by light echoes, a phenomenon similar to echoes on Earth from sound waves bouncing off hard surfaces. V404 Cygni is a...

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New Lineage of Carnivorous Plants Discovered

The newly-identified lineage of carnivorous plants is represented by the western false asphodel (Triantha occidentalis), a species of flowering plant from North America; its trap is unique among carnivorous plants and, unexpected based on theory, in placing all of its prey-capture sites next to its insect-pollinated flowers. “Carnivorous plants have fascinated people since the Victorian era becau...

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Study: Great Apes Use ‘Hello’ and ‘Goodbye’ Signals to Begin and End Social Interactions

In a paper published this week in the journal iScience, an international team of researchers documented chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and bonobos (Pan paniscus) purposefully using signals to start and then end social activities, a behavior not seen outside of the human species until now. “We were able to launch rockets and land on the Moon because we have the ability to share our intentions, wh...

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New Lineage of Carnivorous Plants Discovered

The newly-identified lineage of carnivorous plants is represented by the western false asphodel (Triantha occidentalis), a species of flowering plant from North America; its trap is unique among carnivorous plants and, unexpected based on theory, in ...

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Astronomers Spot Giant X-Ray Rings around Stellar-Mass Black Hole

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New Lineage of Carnivorous Plants Discovered

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Study: Great Apes Use ‘Hello’ and ‘Goodbye’ Signals to Begin and End Social Interactions

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Songbirds Can Taste Sugar, Ornithologists Say

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Scientists Discover New Species of Amazonian Marmoset

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Botanists Discover Seven New Tobacco Species in Australia

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Some Birds Pluck Hair Directly from Live Mammals, Scientists Say

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Giraffes are Socially Complex Animals, Says New Review

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Scientists Use DNA Barcoding to Identify Tool Materials of New Caledonian Crows

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Study: Physical Exercise Improves Health of Brain and Other Organs through Epigenetic Changes

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Study: Physical Exercise Improves Health of Brain and Other Organs through Epigenetic Changes

Some sections of our DNA are genes, which are instructions for building proteins, while other sections — called enhancer...

Scientists Use DNA Barcoding to Identify Tool Materials of New Caledonian Crows

Using a taxonomic method called DNA barcoding, researchers have identified, from just a few recovered tool specimens, th...

Giraffes are Socially Complex Animals, Says New Review

Giraffes (Giraffa camelopardalis) exhibit many of the features typical of mammals with complex cooperative social system...

Some Birds Pluck Hair Directly from Live Mammals, Scientists Say

Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul have o...

Botanists Discover Seven New Tobacco Species in Australia

Nicotiana insecticida, one of the newly-discovered species, is remarkable in its insect trapping abilities. Nicotiana...

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Scientists Discover New Species of Amazonian Marmoset

A new, pseudo-cryptic species of the Amazonian marmoset genus Mico has been identified by a team of researchers led by D...

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Songbirds Can Taste Sugar, Ornithologists Say

Seeing a bird eat nectar from a flower is a common sight in our world. The ability to detect sugars, however, is not anc...

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Study: Great Apes Use ‘Hello’ and ‘Goodbye’ Signals to Begin and End Social Interactions

In a paper published this week in the journal iScience, an international team of researchers documented chimpanzees (Pan...

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New Lineage of Carnivorous Plants Discovered

The newly-identified lineage of carnivorous plants is represented by the western false asphodel (Triantha occidentalis),...

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Astronomers Spot Giant X-Ray Rings around Stellar-Mass Black Hole

Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have detected a set of eight X-ray...