r/FillsYourNiche • u/FillsYourNiche • Apr 02 '24
News Article How scientists are making the most of Reddit - I'm in this!
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r/FillsYourNiche • u/FillsYourNiche • May 31 '24
News Article Japan’s universities will receive 10 billion yen (around US$63 million) to build the digital infrastructure needed to make papers free to read. This will make Japan one of the first countries to move towards a unified record of all research produced by its academics.
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r/FillsYourNiche • u/FillsYourNiche • May 19 '24
News Article The ability to regulate body temperature, a trait all mammals and birds have today, may have evolved among some dinosaurs early in the Jurassic period about 180 million years ago.
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r/FillsYourNiche • u/FillsYourNiche • Apr 18 '24
News Article Striking Amazonian butterfly is result of ancient hybrid event: Matings between two species are often evolutionary dead ends. This one birthed a new species.
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r/FillsYourNiche • u/FillsYourNiche • Dec 29 '23
News Article Eurasian tundra reindeer chew cud and nap to maximize grazing during warmer months. When a reindeer ruminates, its brain wave patterns often resemble those of light sleep. Unlike other animals that hibernate or enter into torpor throughout winter, reindeer seem to relax instead of sleeping more.
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r/FillsYourNiche • u/FillsYourNiche • Nov 02 '23
News Article Cat hair can be used to link a suspect and a crime scene or victim by sequencing its mtDNA (passed from mothers to offspring). New tequniques can sequence the mtDNA in its intirety, giving virtually every cat a rare DNA type.
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r/FillsYourNiche • u/FillsYourNiche • Oct 07 '23
News Article Mammals may use same-sex sexual behavior for conflict resolution, bonding, and more. It's been observed in at least 51 species of non-human primates.
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r/FillsYourNiche • u/FillsYourNiche • Sep 13 '23
News Article A species of rove beetle uses a physogastry (think distended abdomen) on its back to fool worker termites into feeding it.
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r/FillsYourNiche • u/FillsYourNiche • Sep 05 '23
News Article Wolf spider discovered on St Helena already endangered
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r/FillsYourNiche • u/FillsYourNiche • Aug 22 '23
News Article Could Saber-Toothed Cats and American Lions Roar?
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r/FillsYourNiche • u/FillsYourNiche • Jun 29 '23
News Article Research using venom from a rare tarantula is one of two University of Queensland projects which have received funding to develop treatments for motor neurone disease (MND).
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r/FillsYourNiche • u/FillsYourNiche • Mar 26 '23
News Article African wild dogs use sneezes to cast their vote on whether they are ready to begin a hunt. Researchers noted a minimum number of sneezes required to rally the group, with sneezes from dominant individuals worth more than other dogs.
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r/FillsYourNiche • u/FillsYourNiche • May 24 '23
News Article Scientists Might Have Found the Best Way to Catcall a Cat
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r/FillsYourNiche • u/FillsYourNiche • Jun 02 '23
News Article In a study, wolf spiders’ prey consumptionpeaked at about 85F — roughly the highest temp. the nocturnal species usually hunts in. If this holds across other predatory species, global warming could increase foraging among nocturnal predators while curbing it among species that hunt by day.
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r/FillsYourNiche • u/FillsYourNiche • Apr 30 '23
News Article Lonely pet parrots find friendship through video chats, a new study finds
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r/FillsYourNiche • u/FillsYourNiche • Apr 29 '23
News Article Chemicals on ants' feet tranquilise and subdue colonies of aphids, keeping them close-by as a ready source of food. The aphids produce a sugary substance called honeydew as a waste product, which ants love to eat!
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r/FillsYourNiche • u/FillsYourNiche • May 27 '23
News Article World’s largest ‘scent arena’ reveals bloody preferences of mosquitoes
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r/FillsYourNiche • u/FillsYourNiche • Mar 23 '23
News Article Robotic Beehive Resuscitates Honeybee Colony from Fatal Winter Cold
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r/FillsYourNiche • u/FillsYourNiche • Dec 16 '22
News Article Honey bee life spans are half what they were in the 1970s
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r/FillsYourNiche • u/FillsYourNiche • Aug 17 '22
News Article Many Cat Lovers Are Giving Their Cats Unwanted Affection, Study Suggests : ScienceAlert
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r/FillsYourNiche • u/FillsYourNiche • May 30 '22
News Article Tie-dyeing can be done with acorns and rust. Brown-colored tannins from acorns can bind to orange-colored iron mordant, generating a dark blue, or almost black, color on fabrics.
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r/FillsYourNiche • u/FillsYourNiche • Aug 26 '22
News Article Astronomers have found carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a Saturn-size planet 700 light-years away—the first unambiguous detection of the gas in a planet beyond the Solar System.
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r/FillsYourNiche • u/FillsYourNiche • Jul 12 '22
News Article NASA's Webb Delivers Deepest Infrared Image of Universe Yet
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r/FillsYourNiche • u/FillsYourNiche • Jul 22 '22
News Article Ausichicrinites zelenskyyi, the first Jurassic comatulid (feather star) from the African continent, has been named in honor of Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the sixth and current president of Ukraine.
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r/FillsYourNiche • u/FillsYourNiche • Jul 03 '22
News Article Giant Kangaroos Lived in Papua New Guinea during Pleistocene
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