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Magnetoreception helps them locate themselves, which is vital for turtles and songbirds alike

Selective breeding and the Dutch royal family played a part

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s leader, arrives in Germany keen to build bridges

The military skills of the country’s ground forces have eroded over time

It's a jungle out there in the suburbs, where many wild mammals are thriving near humans. That's the conclusion of a large-scale study using camera trap images from hundreds of citizen scientists in Washington, D.C., and Raleigh, North Carolina.

Air India issued a string of directives for cost-cutting. The crew if arrived late will not get reimbursements for their cab fare, will have to fly domestic class for a year, will share hotel room in a gender sensitive manner and also encouraged staff of Boeing 777 and 787 to transfer to Delhi but without offering any benefits.

Air India issued a string of directives for cost-cutting. The crew if arrived late will not get reimbursements for their cab fare, will have to fly domestic class for a year, will share hotel room in a gender sensitive manner and also encouraged staff of Boeing 777 and 787 to transfer to Delhi but without offering any benefits.

There will be some lingering trade pain for U.S. agriculture according to the former chief ag negotiator for the U.S. Trade Representative.

MeerKAT survey will examine a million individual stars - 1,000 times the number of targets in any previous search-in the quietest part of the radio spectrum, monitoring for signs of extraterrestrial technology, confirmed Breakthrough Listen - the $100 million astronomical programme searching for signs of intelligent life in the universe.

A county supervisor in Iowa is facing opposition to his proposal to allow guns into public areas of the county courthouse. The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reports that about a dozen … Click to Continue »

A new study of online social forums indicates the online tool is likely valuable to helping students succeed in collegiate physics courses. Researchers found that when the online forum showed denser collaboration networks, the students who were most central in the network were more likely to achieve a higher final course grade.

The first storm of the wet season Tuesday dumped nearly an inch of rain on parts of the Bay Area, making roads especially slick for early morning commuters. Parts of the North Bay — Petaluma, Santa Rosa and Sebastopol — were doused with nearly an inch of rain, according to the National Weather Service. San Francisco had received close to a tenth of inch by about 7 a.m., but the main “precipitation band” of the storm hadn’t yet swept into the city, said Drew Peterson, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service. Читать дальше...

McAfee is warning about potentially malicious websites tied to these celebrity names.

Having lost his parents as a boy, he found his calling in scholarship, going from the 'Cambridge History of Iran' to the colossal English-language resource that is 'Encyclopedia Iranica'

Astronomers have analyzed an exceptional white dwarf displaying periodic transits produced by fragments of a shredded planetesimal.

The ruling AIADMK in Tamil Nadu today dismissed its arch rival DMK's corruption charges against it as "baseless" and vowed to successfully fight the cases in court.

The US pushed hard to split South Sudan from its northern neighbor. But instead of ending violence, the move led to a civil war, which caused nearly 400,000 deaths, according to a new study.
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During a Monday press conference, President Donald Trump called on ABC News reporter Cecilia Vega and said she seemed “shocked” that she was called on. “She’s shocked that I picked … Click to Continue »

Adrien Rabiot doesn’t want to stay at PSG… The midfielder has just rejected his club’s third definitive contract offer, which stood at €7.2m/year, or €138k/week, plus bonuses, according to extremely reliably PSG news outlet Paris United. They claim that Rabiot’s relationship with sporting director Antero Henrique is approaching untenable. SEE MORE: ‘Klopp called me on FaceTime…’ South […]

The State Department will no longer provide visas for the same-sex domestic partners of foreign diplomats and United Nations employees in a rule change that went into effect on Monday, potentially endangering those from countries that criminalize LGBTQ marriage.

It happened after the basement wall of an east Erie home collapsed Nov. 6, killing Gary Hoffman and Michael McGurn.

A scandal-plagued politician may not exactly thrill voters — but very possibly will win their votes anyway, a new FiveThirtyEight analysis shows.

Peter Sheridan said the term risks legitimising such figures’ influence on communities when they were simply organised criminals.

If I skipped a month's rent maybe I could just about afford Michelin-starred avocado toast – or perhaps some 'white miso tofu filled with avocado mousse, topped with caviar and a warm roast chicken broth'