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Image: Scott Winton Where there are landfills there are seagulls. An estimated 1.4 million of these opportunistic feathered critters feed on these vast tracts of waste across North America. And as a new study from Duke University shows, the voluminous amounts of poop from these gulls is compromising the water-quality of nearby lakes and reservoirs.…

Recently hatched gull chick and eggs (Image: Mary Stoddard) Some of life’s simplest questions get swept under the rug for a long time—after all, the most widespread phenomena often require the most data to understand. Take the shape of the boring egg, for example. You probably thought eggs are was shaped the way they are…

Greater short-nosed fruit bat. (Image: Wikimedia) The vast majority of infectious human diseases come from animals, yet we know surprisingly little about which animals pose the greatest risk. A new study helps resolve this shortcoming, ranking the mammals that are most likely to spread infectious diseases to humans. Scientists call them zoonotic diseases—pathogens that can…

Last night in an interview with CNN, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a major overhaul to the largest social media company on earth, one that might finally fix many of the lingering issues its leadership has been hesitant to address. I’m kidding, it’s a new mission statement. “To give people the power to build community…

Diamond Reynolds, girlfriend of Philando Castile, speaks to a crowd outside of J. J. Hill Montessori School during a memorial on July 7, 2016 in St. Paul, Minnesota. Photo: Getty On July 7th, 2016, just one day after Diamond Reynolds streamed video of a police officer shooting and killing her boyfriend, Philando Castile, the Minnesota…

That’s the “X” in arXiv (Image: Ryan F. Mandelbaum/NASA/NSF) If you know science, you know it’s not perfect. Outside eyes review papers their peers wrote before those papers get published, results must be reproduced to establish truths, and even then, stuff can still contain mistakes. Physicists are now discussing a new paper published on the…

OTTAWA – A Canadian sniper during fighting in Iraq about a recordafstand touch shot. The military knew an islamist militant to turn off that 3450 feet from him. According to Canadian media was the bullet something less than ten seconds on the road before he the unfortunate extremist hit. The Canadian military used a rifle…

PARIS/MUNICH – UPDATE 16.07 hours – France and Germany will “speak with one voice and to work hand-in-hand.” That said the new French president, Emmanuel Macron on arrival for his first EU summit Thursday in Brussels, where the recovery of the German-French cooperation for a stronger Europe call of the day. Earlier he said in…

The Universe had a beginning. But what had started it? It was in the beginning? We know that it all started with a fairly quick expansion and ended with the emergence of a large number of galaxies, is made of small particles. But that was before that? What were the laws of physics, when it…

We already told you about that a couple months ago on sale smartphone OUKITEL K6000 Plus, who in their Autonomous work is comparable to a conventional push-button phones. If you hurry, you will have the opportunity to buy this device with a noticeable discount. The uniqueness of the device lies in the fact that the…