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Thomas Bewick Scientist of the Day

Thomas Bewick, an English artist, naturalist, and print maker, was born Aug. 12, 1753.

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SETI Institute: Turn down the radio. Better! Let's have another look for those aliens  

QTH? Lower-frequency 'scope seeks ET

The Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence Institute is launching a pilot experiment that will hunt for signs of alien civilisation using the Murchison Widefield Array, a low frequency radio telescope.…

 
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He's Brilliant, She's Lovely: Teaching Computers To Be Less Sexist  

Algorithms teach computers how to process language. But because they draw on human writing, they have some biases. Researchers are trying to weed out those problematic associations.

 
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Surveys of corn, soybean fields reveal implications for pollinator conservation  
What kind of insect pollinators are commonly found in corn and soybean fields? The answer to that question can be found in a new article, say researchers who used modified pan traps to compare the insect communities found in the two crops.  
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Plant response to carbon dioxide emissions depends on their neighbors  
Plants may have a hard time adapting to climate change if they move to new regions to keep up with changing habitats, according to new research.  
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Morphological analysis of a light-controlling organ suggests two new deep-sea fish species  
Two new species can be added to the bioluminescent deep-sea fish family Opisthoproctidae, or 'barreleyes' -- named for the fishes' tubular eyes -- according to a new study.  
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The ivory trade isn't just a disaster for elephants. It threatens our future too | Ian Redmond  
Elephants prop up the forest and savannah ecosystems we need to store carbon. To stabilise the climate, we must stop their slaughter by ivory poachers

Today is World Elephant Day, when people with a passion for pachyderms come together to celebrate the wonder of elephants and raise funds to protect them. It seems paradoxical that the largest land animal, which has come to symbolise strength and sagacity, should be so vulnerable but across Africa and Asia numbers are dwindling as human activities and expanding agriculture squeeze elephants into smaller and smaller patches of fragmented habitat.

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Related: Britain is hastening the extinction of the African elephant | Jonathan Baillie

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The curious case of a wearables cynic and his enduring fat bastardry  

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This light of Mine by Delton Barrett

Everyone is not gonna' like everything you create but it's not your passion to create what others will like, is it? Be you. Follow me up on my Instagram and Facebook Page.

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Ten trillionths of your suntan comes from intergalactic photons  

But fear not our galaxy has in-built SPF protection

Astronomers led by the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) in Australia have calculated that ten trillionths of your suntan comes from beyond our local galaxy.…

 
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Slowly pulling proteins apart reveals unexpected path to stability  

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To get a detailed look at how different proteins are folded, researchers freeze them in a crystalline structure and bombard them with extremely short bursts of x-rays. By recording how the x-rays bounce off the samples, scientists can reconstruct the different shapes—or conformations—that a protein can take. They then use a variety of techniques to determine how the proteins fold themselves into their final structures. But there are limits to these techniques that have caused most studies to focus on smaller, simpler proteins. The average protein found within a human cell, however, is neither small nor simple. Most are more like an economy-sized box of Christmas lights that have haven't been opened in a decade. In a new study, researchers at Duke University have taken a different approach to studying the conformations of one of these larger proteins. By slowly pulling apart a protein called Protein S, they discovered a previously unknown stable conformation made possible by a little help from its best friend. The results show that biochemists need to start rethinking some of their assumptions.

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Killer whales in McMurdo Sound near the McMurdo Station, the National Science Foundation's (NSF) main logistics and research hub on Antarctica. NSF runs the U.S. Antarctic Program (USAP). In addition to maintaining three U.S. research stations on the continent, USAP supports research projects in an array of scientific disciplines, including for example, aeronomy and astrophysics, biology and medicine, geology and geophysics, glaciology, and ocean and climate systems. Outreach such as the Antarctic Artists and Writers program and education programs are also supported. For more information about USAP, visit the program's website here.

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Juno shoots 'Marble Movie' of Jupiter  

Blinded observers granted gift.

NASA has gifted blinded space fanciers another glimpse of Jupiter through its Juno cameras.…

 
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Elephants on the path to extinction - the facts  

The world's population of elephants is nearing a critical point. Karl Mathiesen explains why there has never been a more dangerous time to be an elephant

The largest of all land beasts, elephants are thundering, trumpeting six-tonne monuments to the wonder of evolution. From the tip of that distinctive trunk with its 100,000 dextrous muscles; to their outsize ears that flap the heat away; to the complex matriarchal societies and the mourning of their dead; to the points of their ivory tusks, designed to defend, but ultimately the cause of their ruin.

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X-ray pulsars plot the way for deep-space GPS  
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Rickshaw Confessions — From a Driver in Mumbai  
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A Famous Fortuneteller Reveals His Secrets  
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The Race To Save A Dying Language  
I n 2013, at a conference on endangered languages, a retired teacher named Linda Lambrecht announced the extraordinary discovery of a previously unknown language.  
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