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Chimpanzees ‘self-medicate’ with healing plants
BBC News· 4 days agoWild chimpanzees eat plants that have pain-relieving and anti-bacterial properties to heal themselves, according to scientists. When an injured animal...
98th annual Cinderella Ball a magical evening for debutantes
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review· 6 days agoIt was a night Annalese Kimberly Bartolacci often dreamed about. Wearing a beautiful gown and...
Gene Editing Breakthrough: New Technique Boosts Crop Photosynthesis
SciTechDaily· 7 days agoResearchers from the Innovative Genomics Institute at the University of California, Berkeley (UCB)...
Beware of Jumping Leeches: Video Evidence Ends a Century of Skepticism
SciTechDaily· 4 days agoScientists publish footage of Madagascar Chtonobdella leeches jumping, rebutting previous doubts. A...
Dr. Wilma Wooten, San Diego County’s public health officer, retires Thursday
U-T San Diego· 6 days agoLess than two years after she was named San Diego County’s public health officer in 2007, the H1N1 pandemic hit, filling emergency departments nationwide and giving Dr. Wilma Wooten her first ...
First conclusive evidence that a terrestrial leech species can jump
Science Daily· 5 days ago"We believe this is the first convincing evidence that leeches can jump and do so with visible energy expenditure," said lead author Mai Fahmy, a visiting scientist at the Museum and a postdoctoral ...
Inside a Vertical Warehouse Farm Hiding in Plain Sight
The New York Observer· 6 days agoNestled between massive nondescript warehouses housing a concrete factory and a roofing plant in...
CIAA volleyball squad tabs assistant from rival HBCU as next HC
The State· 6 days agoAfter conducting a national search, Johnson C Smith University Director of Athletics Dr. Denisha Hendricks has named Da’Nesha Miller the new women’s volleyball head coach at the Charlotte HBCU ...
2024 All-Area Softball: Meet the first team
The News-Gazette, Champaign-Urbana, Ill. via Yahoo Sports· 2 days agoJun. 22—Congratulations to the first-team standouts on our 34th All-Area Softball team. Ka'Leah Bellik Danville junior shortstop Why she made the first team ... Bellik backed up her All-Area ...
Elephants use the tips of their trunks to grasp things with great precision – how this can help...
The Conversation· 5 days agoAn elephant uses its trunk for eating, drinking water, communicating, exploring the environment, social behaviour, and making and using tools. The trunk, which contains six muscle groups, is ...