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Plants don’t think, they grow: The case against plant consciousness

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Astronomers make history in a split second with localization of fast radio burst

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Most college students are not aware that eating large amounts of tuna exposes them to neurotoxic mercury, and some are consuming more than recommended, suggests a new study, which found 7% of participants consumed > 20 tuna meals per week, with hair mercury levels > 1 µg/g ‐ a level of concern.

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Scientists link excess nitrogen degrading Hawaiian coral to a wastewater treatment plant that injects treated sewage water into the ground

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Teens and young adults who seek solitude may know what's best for them, research suggests (n=979)

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Self driving cars will clog roads to avoid cost of parking

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Waves in Saturn's rings give precise measurement of planet's rotation rate

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Astronomers find the progenitor to a unique type of supernova

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A new in-depth study of moral reasoning challenges the popular notion that people are unable to think through difficult moral problems and rely primarily on automatic "gut" reactions to make tough decisions.

6 years ago news.ucsc.edu

Study calculates capacity of North American forests to sequester carbon

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Video tags reveal surprising details of blue whale feeding behavior

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Solar greenhouses generate electricity and grow crops at the same time, study reveals - Magenta panes also help plants save water

7 years ago news.ucsc.edu

New paleogenomic research conducted by an international team rules out likelihood that inhabitants of Easter Island intermixed with South Americans prior to arrival of Europeans on the island in 1722, even though genetic traces of South Americans are found in present-day indigenous residents.

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Four Earth-sized planets detected orbiting the nearest sun-like star

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Researchers have identified a superluminous supernova located 10 billion light-years from Earth

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Music professor receives patent to help fight beetles ravaging Western forests

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Some bats develop resistance to devastating fungal disease: White-nose syndrome has decimated the little brown bat, but researchers found small populations in New York that appear to have developed resistance to the disease.

7 years ago news.ucsc.edu disease

Follow-up of Kepler data yields more than 100 confirmed exoplanets

8 years ago news.ucsc.edu

Water clouds have been detected on a brown dwarf star that is the coldest known object outside our solar system.

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UCSC, SRI release new game for Darpa crowd-sourced software verification program

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Jupiter may have swept through the early solar system like a wrecking ball, destroying a first generation of inner planets before retreating into its current orbit

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Female pumas kill more prey but consume less when their territories bump into human development.

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Study of mountain lion energetics shows the power of the pounce: High-tech collars enable scientists to record the energetics of mountain lion hunting behavior, showing why cats use "stalk and pounce" and how they overpower large prey

10 years ago news.ucsc.edu

New study of primate genomes reveals an ongoing battle to control "jumping genes," driving the evolution of greater genomic complexity

10 years ago news.ucsc.edu

Study shows how epigenetic memory is passed across generations: Researchers traced markers of gene repression through cell division and showed both sperm and eggs transmit a memory of gene repression to embryos

10 years ago news.ucsc.edu

Novel chip-based platform could simplify measurements of single molecules: A nanopore-gated optofluidic chip combines electrical and optical measurements of single molecules onto a single platform

10 years ago news.ucsc.edu

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Plants don’t think, they grow: The case against plant consciousness

Astronomers make history in a split second with localization of fast radio burst

Most college students are not aware that eating large amounts of tuna exposes them to neurotoxic mercury, and some are consuming more than recommended, suggests a new study, which found 7% of participants consumed > 20 tuna meals per week, with hair mercury levels > 1 µg/g ‐ a level of concern.

Scientists link excess nitrogen degrading Hawaiian coral to a wastewater treatment plant that injects treated sewage water into the ground

Teens and young adults who seek solitude may know what's best for them, research suggests (n=979)

Self driving cars will clog roads to avoid cost of parking

Waves in Saturn's rings give precise measurement of planet's rotation rate

Astronomers find the progenitor to a unique type of supernova

A new in-depth study of moral reasoning challenges the popular notion that people are unable to think through difficult moral problems and rely primarily on automatic "gut" reactions to make tough decisions.

Study calculates capacity of North American forests to sequester carbon

Video tags reveal surprising details of blue whale feeding behavior

Solar greenhouses generate electricity and grow crops at the same time, study reveals - Magenta panes also help plants save water

New paleogenomic research conducted by an international team rules out likelihood that inhabitants of Easter Island intermixed with South Americans prior to arrival of Europeans on the island in 1722, even though genetic traces of South Americans are found in present-day indigenous residents.

Four Earth-sized planets detected orbiting the nearest sun-like star

Researchers have identified a superluminous supernova located 10 billion light-years from Earth

Music professor receives patent to help fight beetles ravaging Western forests

Some bats develop resistance to devastating fungal disease: White-nose syndrome has decimated the little brown bat, but researchers found small populations in New York that appear to have developed resistance to the disease.

Follow-up of Kepler data yields more than 100 confirmed exoplanets

Water clouds have been detected on a brown dwarf star that is the coldest known object outside our solar system.

UCSC, SRI release new game for Darpa crowd-sourced software verification program

Jupiter may have swept through the early solar system like a wrecking ball, destroying a first generation of inner planets before retreating into its current orbit

Female pumas kill more prey but consume less when their territories bump into human development.

Study of mountain lion energetics shows the power of the pounce: High-tech collars enable scientists to record the energetics of mountain lion hunting behavior, showing why cats use "stalk and pounce" and how they overpower large prey

New study of primate genomes reveals an ongoing battle to control "jumping genes," driving the evolution of greater genomic complexity

Study shows how epigenetic memory is passed across generations: Researchers traced markers of gene repression through cell division and showed both sperm and eggs transmit a memory of gene repression to embryos

Novel chip-based platform could simplify measurements of single molecules: A nanopore-gated optofluidic chip combines electrical and optical measurements of single molecules onto a single platform