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Earth’s First Giant – Eurasia Review
A two-meter-long skull, a total body length of 17 meters, a weight of 45 tons, fins that paint the sea - what looks like a sperm whale is actually a reptile and lived in the oceans about 250 million years ago. Today, an international…
New ichthyosaur species discovered was dinosaur ocean monster
The skull of the first giant creature to ever live on Earth, the ichthyosaur "Cymbospondylus youngorum" currently on display at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHM). Credit: Photo by Natalja Kent, courtesy of the Natural…
Research Engineer, Optimal Energy Management of Multi-Microgrids job with NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF…
job descriptionWe are looking for a research engineer to work on optimizing the energy efficiency of several networked micro-grids.The position mainly covers the following tasks.Take responsibility for the concept, design,…
The science behind the rapid spread of Omicron
As Omicron has quickly become the dominant variant of the coronavirus in South Africa and the UK, scientists are starting to piece together what gives it its evolutionary advantage.Researchers are further refining and expanding their…
We know enough about Omicron to know we’re in trouble
Updated at 12:00 p.m. ET on December 17, 2021Much has changed for Omicron in just two weeks. By early December, the variant was barely present in Europe, appearing in 1 to 2% of COVID cases. Now it's accountant 72 percent of new cases in…
Arts & Culture Newsletter: Kennedy Center Honors celebrates Joni Mitchell, and so do we
Hello and welcome to the UT Arts & Culture newsletter.I am David L. Coddon, and here's your guide to all the essentials in San Diego arts and culture this week.If ever there was a year to watch the Kennedy Center Honors, it's this one.…
How Hydras regenerates decapitated buds
FFrom the tail of salamanders to deer antlers, the innate ability of some animals to regenerate lost body parts has captivated scientists for centuries and has led research into the molecular mechanisms of such healing in the hope that…
UK provides clues as to how Omicron could play in the US
LONDON — The UK is emerging as a testing ground in the battle for dominance between the new Omicron variant of the coronavirus and Delta, the earlier strain that is currently the cause of most infections in the US- United and Europe.How…
Find out how an extinct mollusk got its weird shell
If you've seen one ammonite, you might think you've seen them all. Most of the 10,000 extinct cephalopod species sported tightly coiled shells with polished mouthfuls of tentacles.Enter Nipponites mirabilis, a species of ammonite straight…
Switching costs in stochastic environments lead to the emergence of pairing behavior in…
Binary choice experimentsTo test whether the animals would really adopt a simple WSLS strategy and exhibit PM behavior, we conducted binary choice experiments using budgerigars, which have been widely used in studies of different cognitive…