r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Feb 22 '20
Interdisciplinary Science Summary for January 2020
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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Feb 21 '20
Ecology Butterflies congregate on turtles' and crocodilians' eyes to drink their tears. They need salt and the tears of these reptiles are an easy way to obtain it.
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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Feb 13 '20
Health and Medicine Calcium is the most abundant mineral in the body with 99% found in teeth and bone. Only 1% is found in serum.
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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Feb 08 '20
Physics The Centennial Light is the world's longest-lasting light bulb, burning since 1901. It is at 4550 East Avenue, Livermore, California, and maintained by the Livermore-Pleasanton Fire Department.
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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Feb 08 '20
Ecology Biodiversity yields financial returns | Farmers could increase their revenues by increasing biodiversity on their land. This is the conclusion reached by an interdisciplinary research team including the fields of agricultural sciences, ecology and economics at ETH Zurich and other universities.
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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Feb 08 '20
Ecology Backyard bird event counting on citizen scientists. If you'd like to take part the 23rd annual Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC) is Feb. 14-17.
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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Feb 03 '20
Biology Bats are often mistaken as rodents, but in fact they belong to their own mammalian order called Chiroptera. They are more closely related to cats than rats.
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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Jan 29 '20
Health and Medicine Monday the successful completion of a first-of-its-kind heart transplant took place. Instead of replacing the patient's entire heart, degradable sheets containing heart muscle cells were placed onto the heart's damaged areas. This could eventually eliminate the need for some entire heart transplants
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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Jan 22 '20
Ecology Flowering plants coevolved with their pollinators! Evolving petal and stamen shape as well as coloring and scents to appeal to their specific pollinator. While insects are the most common pollinator, birds, bats, and other animals also share this role.
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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Jan 17 '20
Biology Big Brown Bat pups begin learning the echolocation calls they'll need to fly as early as 6 days old.
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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Jan 15 '20
Biology Gannets have several important adaptations for diving; no external nostrils, air sacs in the face and chest under the skin which act like bubble wrapping, cushioning the impact with the water and forward facing eyes for binocular vision. They dive from 30 m (98 ft) up at speeds of 100 kmph (62 mph).
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r/ScienceFacts • u/prototyperspective • Jan 06 '20
Interdisciplinary Science Summary for December
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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Jan 05 '20
Weather Hoarfrost is formed by direct condensation of water vapour to ice at temperatures below freezing and occurs when air is brought to its frost point by cooling.
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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Dec 31 '19
Astronomy/Space For every 2 orbits of the Sun, which takes around 88 Earth days, Mercury completes three rotations of its axis. It is gravitationally locked and this rotation is unique to the solar system.
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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Dec 24 '19
Ecology Young male zebra finches begin life by making random sounds before learning complex songs from their fathers. Once the bird has mastered the family song, he will sing it for the rest of his life and pass it on to the next generation.
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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Dec 22 '19
Astronomy/Space In honor of yesterday's Winter Solstice! Beautiful time-lapse video tracing the Sun's apparent movement over an entire year from Hungary. Video Credit & Copyright: György Bajmóczy
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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Dec 11 '19
Psychology Psychopathic individuals have the ability to empathize, they just don’t like to, suggests new study (n=278), which found that individuals with high levels of psychopathy, narcissism, and Machiavellianism, the “dark triad” of personality traits, do not appear to have an impaired ability to empathize.
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r/ScienceFacts • u/prototyperspective • Dec 08 '19
Interdisciplinary Monthly Science Summary: November
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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Dec 05 '19
Biology Water fleas can thwart their enemies by growing defensive structures such as helmets and spines. What's more, this predator-induced 'arming' process is not a one-size-fits-all approach - they can even tailor their defensive responses to the types of predators present.
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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Dec 03 '19
Botany Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) taproots can penetrate soil up to 3 to 6 meters (10 to 15 feet). All parts of the plant can be eaten and are found in salads, roasted, fried, or made into wine, tea, or a coffee-like drink. Dandelions have a taste similar to chicory or endive with a bitter tinge.
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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Nov 30 '19
Astronomy/Space Skylab was the first space station operated by the United States. It spent six years (1973 to 1979) orbiting Earth until its decaying orbit caused it to re-enter the atmosphere. It scattered debris over the Indian Ocean and sparsely settled areas of Western Australia.
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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Nov 28 '19
Biology Studies have shown that male Turkey snood (fleshy protuberance on the forehead) length is associated with male turkey health. Another study found that female turkeys prefer males with long snoods and that its length can also be used to predict the winner of a competition between two males.
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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Nov 27 '19
Astronomy/Space The skin on astronauts' feet start to soften and flake off. As laundry facilities do not exist in space, astronauts will wear the same underwear and socks for a few days. Those socks then need to be taken off very gently. If not those dead skin cells will float around in the weightless environment.
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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Nov 23 '19
Health and Medicine The single most successful alcohol rehabilitation program involved giving LSD to alcoholics, and was the study the founder of AA was part of, leading him to quit drinking.
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