A bill in state legislature would make a nocturnal creature Indiana's official state mammal
Rep. Victoria Garcia Wilburn wrote a bill inspired by a fifth grade class that would designate Indiana's official state ...
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Watch: Good Old Times As Rohit Sharma Bats With Ajinkya Rahane In Mumbai's Ranji Trophy Session
The 37-year-old, who endured a horror run with the bat in the national team's tour of Australia recently, took part in a morning practice session at the Wankhede stadium here. The past few weeks ...
Scientific American25d
The Curious History of Venn Diagrams
In his book The Mathematical Universe, mathematician William Dunham wrote of John Venn’s namesake legacy, the Venn diagram, “No one in the long history of mathematics ever became better known ...
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Bats Hitch a Ride on Storm Fronts When Migrating, Saving Energy by ‘Surfing’ Through the Sky, Study Finds
Researchers tracking female bats in central Europe found they migrated much farther in a single night than previously thought. The findings could help protect bats from wind turbine collisions ...
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New foot-long crustacean named after Darth Vader
The foot-long crustacean has been named Bathynomus vaderi and sports a head that resembles the iconic helmet of Darth Vader from the Star Wars. It is the first giant sea bug discovered in ...
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Florida's 7-foot-9 center meets Shaq in epic video: 'Pick on someone your own size'
He was seen arguing with a man shorter than him and then turning around to find the 7-foot, 9-inch tall Florida Gators center Olivier Rioux standing behind him. Rioux made O’Neal look like a ...
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Alien-like US spy drone dodges Russian jamming, powering Ukraine’s defense
United States-based defense technology firm Shield AI has announced that its alien-like vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) V-BAT drone demonstrated its ability to electronic warfare ...
The Financial Times26d
Foot-and-mouth outbreak in Germany forces meat and dairy export ban
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. German meat and dairy products have been placed under international curbs after the country’s first ...
Science Daily26d
Wind turbines impair the access of bats to water bodies in agricultural landscapes
Bats depend on open bodies of water such as small ponds and lakes for foraging and drinking. Access to water is particularly important for survival in the increasingly hot and dry summers caused ...
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German meat exports face disruption after foot-and-mouth disease case
HAMBURG, Jan 13 (Reuters) - Germany's meat and dairy exports outside the EU face severe restrictions after the country’s first case of the livestock disease foot-and-mouth was confirmed on ...
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First foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in Germany for 35 years
Germany's national animal health institute confirmed that foot-and-mouth disease had been detected in samples from one animal, and the rest of the herd was slaughtered. It wasn't clear how the ...