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White-tailed deer are one of the few wild species that scientists have found to be infected with the coronavirus – at least so far. Andrew C/WikimediaCommons, CC BY – Authors Sue VandeWoude, University Distinguished Professor of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology and Director of …
Human-caused climate change significant driver of destructive conditions as even drier decades lie ahead, researchers say. Houseboats are moored on Lake Oroville reservoir during the California drought emergency in Oroville, California, on 2021 May 25. Photograph: Patrick T Fallon/AFP/Getty Images – By Gabrielle …
According to researcher Marc-Antoine Fardin, under the right circumstances, cats’ bodies can behave like liquids. Nevena Uzurov/Moment via Getty Images – Authors By Beth Daley, Editor and General Manager and Thalia Plata, Editor Interviewed Jean Berko Gleason, Professor Emerita of Psychological and Brain …
Archaeologists excavating the windswept Ness of Brodgar are unearthing a treasure trove of neolithic villages, tombs, weapons and mysterious religious artifacts, some to be displayed in a blockbuster exhibition. ‘A gateway into a liminal world’ … the Standing Stones of Stenness, Orkney, built …
The love god Kamadeva prepares to shoot Shiva with a love dart. British Museum/Wikimedia Commons – By Jeffery D. Long, Professor of Religion and Asian Studies, Elizabethtown College 2022 Feb 11 – With the coming of Valentine’s Day, images of a chubby Cupid …
An Egyptian Muslim woman holds candles in front of the Coptic Christian Cathedral in tribute to the victims of a bomb attack in Cairo on 2016 Dec 17. Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters – By Paul Rowe, Professor and Coordinator of Political and International …
Valkyrie combines electric VTOL with jet-powered cruise in an amphibious stealth package. Valkyrie Systems Aerospace – By Loz Blain 2022 Feb 02 – Reno-based Valkyrie Systems Aerospace has received a research grant from the US Air Force to further develop its remarkable HoverJet Guardian …
Human exposure to 2,4-D has substantially risen despite a multitude of health and environmental concerns. A herbicide-resistant weed grows in a field of soybeans in Three Oaks, Michigan. Photograph: Jim West/Zuma Press Wire/Rex/Shutterstock – By Nina Lakhani in New York Last modified on …
The US Department of Agriculture has been called in to trap and relocate the feisty fowl before they begin nesting. Wild turkeys have been causing trouble at NASA’s Ames Center in Mountain View, California, pecking at cars, blocking traffic and leaving droppings everywhere. …
An Orthodox priest takes part in a rally in protest against an official visit of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople to Kyiv in August 2021. Anna Marchenko\TASS via Getty Images – By J. Eugene Clay, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, School of …