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• Color vision strategy defies textbook picture

  14-09-2016 20:00
  
  Cone cells in the retina see in black and white and color.
  
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• New York state will monitor its use of AI after signing new bill into law

  27-12-2024 23:13 via cbc.ca
  
  A bill signed into law last week will prevent New York state government agencies from replacing human workers with artificial intelligence software and will require agencies to conduct reviews and publish reports that detail how they're using AI.
  
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• NASA spacecraft successfully completes closest-ever approach to the sun

  27-12-2024 13:04 via cbc.ca
  
  NASA said on Friday that its Parker Solar Probe was 'safe' and operating normally after successfully completing the closest-ever approach to the sun by any human-made object.
  
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• Nasa makes history with closest-ever approach to Sun

  27-12-2024 11:28 via bbc.com
  
  Scientists hope the probe can help us better understand how the Sun works.
  
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• Charities to get £15m to save surplus farm food

  27-12-2024 05:06 via bbc.com
  
  Cash could be used for new technology or to provide training to more staff, the government says.
  
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• National Trust warns UK's most precious heritage at risk from extreme weather

  27-12-2024 01:09 via bbc.com
  
  A blurring of the distinctions between seasons is also a challenge for insects and their predators.
  
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• Deadline to record forgotten footpaths to be scrapped

  26-12-2024 03:01 via bbc.com
  
  Walking campaigners welcome the move, which the government says will help prevent paths from being lost.
  
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• Illegal trade booms in South Africa's 'super-strange looking' plants

  26-12-2024 01:47 via bbc.com
  
  A biodiversity hotspot has become the stomping ground of poachers.
  
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• Bird flu kills 20 big cats at US animal sanctuary

  25-12-2024 22:36 via bbc.com
  
  The animals - including a Bengal tiger, cougars and bobcats - have died of the virus over the past several weeks.
  
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• Penguins and iceberg-watching: Marking Christmas in Antarctica

  25-12-2024 07:39 via bbc.com
  
  Staff working out in the wilds of Antarctica share their Christmas Day plans.
  
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• Spacecraft attempts closest-ever approach to Sun

  24-12-2024 12:25 via bbc.com
  
  The hope is the probe could help us to better understand how the Sun works.
  
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• Northern Lights: The aurora that dazzled us in 2024

  24-12-2024 04:20 via bbc.com
  
  There has been lots of aurora activity seen in the UK this year and there is likely to be even more in the coming year.
  
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• Scientists unveil 50,000-year-old baby mammoth remains

  23-12-2024 19:24 via bbc.com
  
  "Yana" is the latest pre-historic discovery in a crater in a remote region of Russia.
  
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• Bee-harming pesticides' emergency approvals to end

  21-12-2024 02:19 via bbc.com
  
  Planned legal changes will see three neonicotinoid pesticides completely banned from any future use.
  
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• Ancient landmarks closed off to walkers, campaigners say

  20-12-2024 01:11 via bbc.com
  
  They include a neolithic burial mound in Wiltshire and an Iron Age hill fort on the edge of Dartmoor.
  
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• What happened in climate news in 2024? Take our quiz

  19-12-2024 20:00 via cbc.ca
  
  In this week's issue of our environmental newsletter: we give you a chance to try our end-of-year climate quiz, respond to a reader email about fossil fuel ads on transit and check out a listener's leisurely deconstruction and reconstruction project.
  
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• How forensic genetic genealogy came to Ottawa from California — and where it's headed next

  19-12-2024 10:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Family tree enthusiasts are helping police solve decades-old homicides. And the former California district attorney who helped bring the technique to the world with the prosecution of the Golden State Killer back in 2018 says it has the potential to solve many more — as long as it's managed appropriately.
  
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• How cold case DNA technique came to Ottawa from California — and where it's headed next

  19-12-2024 10:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Family tree enthusiasts are helping police solve decades-old homicides. And the former California district attorney who helped bring the technique to the world with the prosecution of the Golden State Killer back in 2018 says it has the potential to solve many more — as long as it's managed appropriately.
  
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• Nasa astronauts Butch and Suni's homecoming delayed again

  18-12-2024 12:28 via bbc.com
  
  Nasa says that the astronauts stuck on the space station will have to wait even longer to get home.
  
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• Just 3 months after a shark took his leg, this P.E.I. kiteboarder was back on the water

  18-12-2024 10:00 via cbc.ca
  
  After a shark attack took his right leg, professional kiteboarder Lucas Arsenault is back on the water. Lucas Arsenault was on vacation with his family in Turks and Caicos in May when a shark attacked him while snorkelling. He lost his right leg.
  
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• 'I could hear bones shatter': P.E.I. kiteboarder recounts shark attack that took his leg

  18-12-2024 10:00 via cbc.ca
  
  After a shark attack took his right leg, professional kiteboarder Lucas Arsenault is back on the water. Lucas Arsenault was on vacation with his family in Turks and Caicos in May when a shark attacked him while snorkelling. He lost his right leg.
  
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• Bin-busting bears in Tofino and Ucluelet making quick work of bear-resistant garbage cans

  18-12-2024 02:31 via cbc.ca
  
  Wildlife officials say about a dozen smarter-than-your-average bears have learned how to burglarize the bear-resistant garbage bins used in the Vancouver Island region.
  
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• Trouble in Arctic town as polar bears and people face warming world

  18-12-2024 01:36 via bbc.com
  
  Climate change makes it trickier for Churchill's residents to co-exist with increasingly hungry predators
  
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• Could this be what our home on Moon or Mars might look like?

  18-12-2024 00:42 via bbc.com
  
  India tested its first analog space mission in the Himalayan mountains of Ladakh.
  
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• HIF-2α drives TH2 cells | Science Signaling

  17-12-2024 15:01 via science.org
  
  Inhibiting HIF-2α impairs the development and function of asthma-promoting helper T cells in mice.
  
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• Erratum for the Research Article “Reciprocal regulation of mTORC1 signaling and ribosomal biosynthesis determines cell cycle progression in activated T cells” by T. Rosenlehner et al. | Science Signaling

  17-12-2024 15:01 via science.org
  
  HomeScience SignalingVol. 17, No. 867Erratum for the Research Article “Reciprocal regulation of mTORC1 signaling and ribosomal biosynthesis determines cell cycle progression in activated T cells” by T. Rosenlehner et al.Back To Vol. 17, No. 867 Full accessErrata Share on Erratum for the Research Article “Reciprocal regulation of mTORC1 signaling and ribosomal biosynthesis determines cell cycle pr…
  
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• Castration-resistant prostate cancer is resensitized to androgen deprivation by autophagy-dependent apoptosis induced by blocking SKP2 | Science Signaling

  17-12-2024 15:01 via science.org
  
  Blocking androgen receptor and the E3 ligase SKP2 may treat castration-resistant prostate cancer.
  
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• Bile acid–induced metabolic changes in the colon promote Enterobacteriaceae expansion and associate with dysbiosis in Crohn’s disease | Science Signaling

  17-12-2024 15:01 via science.org
  
  Bile acids promote Enterobacteriaceae overpopulation by increasing intestinal oxygen availability.
  
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• AXL-TBK1 driven AKT3 activation promotes metastasis | Science Signaling

  17-12-2024 15:01 via science.org
  
  The pathway that activates AKT3 to drive epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition in pancreatic cancer is revealed.
  
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• Major report joins dots between world's nature challenges

  17-12-2024 14:00 via bbc.com
  
  A new approach is needed to tackle the interlinked crises afflicting the planet, scientists warn.
  
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