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A new dinosaur: Flying without feathers
- Published_at:2015-04-29
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- description: Birds evolved from dinosaurs – but it wasn’t a smooth transition. Plenty of creatures tried different ways to get into the air – like this newly discovered dinosaur species, Yi qi, unearthed in China. This pigeon-sized creature had elongated fingers...
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Top 10 Cutest Animals in Science 2014
- Published_at:2014-12-16
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- description: From TV-watching marmosets to pretend baby penguins, this is Nature’s pick of the cutest animal stories in science this year.
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Laniakea: Our home supercluster
- Published_at:2014-09-03
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- description: Superclusters – regions of space that are densely packed with galaxies – are the biggest structures in the Universe. But scientists have struggled to define exactly where one supercluster ends and another begins. Now, a team based in Hawaii has come...
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Fish out of water
- Published_at:2014-08-27
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- description: Around 400 million years ago, fish left the water and started to evolve into land-loving creatures. But how did the transition happen? A new and unusual experiment could shed some light on the kinds of changes that enabled fins to become limbs....
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Charting culture
- Published_at:2014-07-31
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- description: This animation distils hundreds of years of culture into just five minutes. A team of historians and scientists wanted to map cultural mobility, so they tracked the births and deaths of notable individuals like David, King of Israel, and Leonardo da...
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A virtual Universe
- Published_at:2014-05-07
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- description: Scientists at MIT have traced 13 billion years of galaxy evolution, from shortly after the Big Bang to the present day. Their simulation, named Illustris, captures both the massive scale of the Universe and the intriguing variety of galaxies --...
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The beginning of everything
- Published_at:2014-03-17
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- description: Scientists from the Centre for Astrophysics have found evidence of gravitational waves created mere moments after the dawn of the Universe. These waves were created in a period of rapid expansion called cosmic inflation. This new evidence could prove...
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Singing stars
- Published_at:2013-08-21
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- description: Scientists have turned light signals from distant stars into sound. By analysing the amount of hiss in the sound, they can work out the star's surface gravity and what stage it's at in its evolution from dwarf to red giant. Read the research paper:...
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Why chimps don't play baseball
- Published_at:2013-06-26
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- description: Humans are much better at throwing than any other animal. Even our closest living relatives, chimpanzees, can't match our pitching performance. This video shows how our skill is down to the anatomy of our shoulders. Read the original research paper...
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See-through brains
- Published_at:2013-04-10
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- description: Scientists have come up with a way to make whole brains transparent, so they can be labelled with molecular markers and imaged using a light microscope. The technique, called CLARITY, enabled its creators to produce the detailed 3D visualisations you...
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LOL cats like stroking too
- Published_at:2013-01-30
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- description: Why do hairy mammals like being stroked? Scientists think that the answer lies in a particular group of neurons which respond to gentle stroking in mice. Nature Video learns more with a little help from some furry friends: LOL cats. Read the Nature...
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The Story of You: ENCODE and the human genome
- Published_at:2012-09-10
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- description: Ever since a monk called Mendel started breeding pea plants we've been learning about our genomes. In 1953, Watson, Crick and Franklin described the structure of the molecule that makes up our genomes: the DNA double helix. Then, in 2001, scientists...
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Slow-motion mammals shaking themselves dry
- Published_at:2012-08-14
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- tags: Nature, NPG, Nature News, shaking animals, shake, animal, animals, mammal, mammals, dog, wet dog, shaking dog, pig, kangaroo, frequency, frequencies, tune, tuned frequencies, slow-motion, dry
- description: This is not just another cute animal video compilation. This is science. David Hu and colleagues at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta filmed 33 wet mammals as they shook themselves dry. Watch their slow-motion footage and find out how...
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