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Penguins Help to Map Antarctica’s Growing Mercury Threat
When Philip Sontag first visited Antarctica as a Ph.D. student, he brought back an unusual souvenir: a huge bag of penguin ...
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Antarctica’s only native insect’s unique survival mechanism
What’s the only native insect of Antarctica have to do to survive? An Osaka Metropolitan University-led international ...
Scientists uncover the survival mechanism of Antarctica's only native insect
Scientists from Osaka Metropolitan University have discovered how the Antarctic midge survives in extreme climates through a ...
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A non-flying mosquito, the only insect native to Antarctica, provides clues about cryopreservation
It experiences obligatory diapause, a period of dormancy that is naturally induced at a fixed time in an organism's life cycle. When we think of Antarctic animals, most would mention penguins, and ...
Google officially changes the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Maps
After announcing it would be renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, Google has officially changed on its Maps ...
California farm donates hundreds of thousands of eggs to wildfire victims and first responders
As consumers face skyrocketing egg prices and widespread shortages, a California farm is donating hundreds of thousands of ...
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Declining biodiversity and emerging diseases are entwined, more study needed
Five years ago, the COVID-19 pandemic served as a wake-up call. Since then, health experts worldwide have sat on tenterhooks, ...