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According to a new paper published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, some of the smallest bees studied have photoreceptors as sharp as those of much larger honeybee drones. The post Some of Smallest Bee Species See Best, New Study Finds appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News .
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Mumbai: DNA profiling is being carried out to establish the identities of Indian citizens who died in the disaster in Nepal.
It's a small, simple ring made of copper alloy and engraved with a handful of Greek letters and the image of a pottery vessel.
We often think of microbes as organisms that live around us, like the Salmonella bacteria and flu viruses that cause illness.
In grasslands across the American West, four-legged fire prevention crews are busy at work, helping keep wildfire risk under control. These cattle, goats and sheep stomp down tall grasses as they munch their way through plants that could otherwise burn, lowering the risk of catastrophic fires in the process.
Recent observations with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have revealed a giant, evolving, 10-sided atmospheric wave encircling Saturn's south pole. This discovery marks the first time a large, regular-sided jet pattern has been observed in the planet's southern hemisphere.
Is a kiss just a kiss? Or is it a sign of love, affection, a biological urge, a contract or even an assault? Law, history, evolution and anthropology show that it can be all those things.
