Neeltje Boogert, an associate professor at the University of Exeter in the U.K., is the senior author of a new scientific study about how to best scare away gulls, out now from the Royal Society.
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Scientists have extracted the oldest RNA molecules out of a woolly mammoth, gaining a snapshot into the processes at work in the extinct mammal's body just before it died.
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Two years ago, Colombia's president announced the country would stop exploring for fossil fuels.
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The county purchased a historic farm and plans to turn it into a park sometime next year.
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This year is the 25th anniversary of humans inhabiting the International Space Station. A new PBS documentary looks at how the ISS was built and the challenges of surviving in outer space.
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But with an ongoing drought gripping the West, Don McMillan's work is an essential part of providing water to millions of people in Central Arizona.
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