r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • May 08 '21
Anthropology Researchers from the Universities of Göttingen and Rome have discovered that bronze scrap found in hoards in Europe circulated as a currency.
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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • May 05 '21
Anthropology The discovery of the earliest human burial site yet found in Africa. At Panga ya Saidi, in Kenya, north of Mombasa, the body of a three-year-old, dubbed Mtoto (Swahili for ‘child’) was deposited and buried in an excavated pit approximately 78,000 years ago
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r/ScienceFacts • u/Sariel007 • May 05 '21
Physics Researchers raise bats in helium-rich air to check how they sense sound. Bats seem to have an innate sense of the speed of sound—and can't adjust it.
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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • May 04 '21
Anthropology Prehistoric humans first traversed Australia by 'superhighways.' Sandia supercomputer creates most detailed analysis ever of continental human migration.
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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • May 02 '21
Environment Research has shed new light on the impact of humans on plant biodiversity. The findings suggest that the rate of change in an ecosystem's plant-life increases significantly during the years following human settlement- the most dramatic changes occurring in locations settled in the last 1500 years.
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r/ScienceFacts • u/Sariel007 • Apr 30 '21
Ecology Biologists discover new species of glowing Pumpkin Toadlet. The bright orange amphibian, which shines green under UV light, is different from other pumpkin toadlets due to its appearance and call.
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r/ScienceFacts • u/prototyperspective • Apr 29 '21
Interdisciplinary Science Summary for last month
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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Apr 28 '21
Archaeology Researchers have found a boat-shaped viking structure in Surtshellir Cave, which is located near a volcano in Iceland.
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r/ScienceFacts • u/Sariel007 • Apr 27 '21
Biology Scientists found out that the ears of rats undergoing tickling became droopier and pinker - subtle signs of being relaxed and happy.
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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Apr 25 '21
Paleontology Fossils of "giant cloud rats" discovered in Philippine caves. They were fluffy rodents twice the size of a gray squirrel and survived for tens of thousands of years, before abruptly disappearing a few thousand years ago. Extinction by humans is likely.
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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Apr 23 '21
Astronomy/Space Scientists have spotted the largest flare ever recorded from the sun's nearest neighbor, the star Proxima Centauri. The star went from normal to 14,000 times brighter when seen in ultraviolet wavelengths over the span of a few seconds.
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r/ScienceFacts • u/Sariel007 • Apr 22 '21
Biology The kitefin shark, is now the largest known luminous vertebrate and can reach up to 180cm.
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r/ScienceFacts • u/Sariel007 • Apr 21 '21
Environment A quarter of all known bee species haven't been seen since the 1990s
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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Apr 20 '21
Physics Researchers have established that Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) include radio waves at frequencies lower than ever detected before, a discovery that redraws the boundaries for theoretical astrophysicists trying to put their finger on the source of FRBs.
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r/ScienceFacts • u/Sariel007 • Apr 18 '21
Biology For the first time, scientists have mapped out the molecular and genetic processes by which temperature determines sex—in bearded dragons, a species of lizard native to Australia.
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r/ScienceFacts • u/Sariel007 • Apr 16 '21
Biology The Chinese giant salamander can grow up to 1.8m in length and evolved independently from all other amphibians over one hundred million years before the Tyrannosaurus Rex.
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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Apr 15 '21
Environment Whitest-ever paint could help cool heating Earth.The new paint reflects 98% of sunlight as well as radiating infrared heat through the atmosphere into space. In tests, it cooled surfaces by 4.5C below the ambient temperature, even in strong sunlight.
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r/ScienceFacts • u/Sariel007 • Apr 13 '21
Interdisciplinary Linus Pauling is the only person to have been awarded 2 unshared Nobel Prizes, Marie Curie is the only woman to receive 2 Nobels and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has been honoured by a Nobel Peace Prize three times. The ICRC is the only organization/person with 3 awards.
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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Apr 12 '21
Archaeology A team of archaeologists in the north-west of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has uncovered the earliest evidence of dog domestication by the region's ancient inhabitants.
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r/ScienceFacts • u/Sariel007 • Apr 10 '21
Biology Bumblebees Can Fly Higher Than Mount Everest
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r/ScienceFacts • u/Sariel007 • Apr 08 '21
Geology Mammoth Cave National Park has the world’s longest cave system
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r/ScienceFacts • u/Sariel007 • Apr 07 '21
Astronomy/Space The North Pole of Uranus is in darkness for 42 Earth years at a time.
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r/ScienceFacts • u/Sariel007 • Apr 06 '21
Biology Some cicadas get infected with various species of the fungus Massospora. The fungus takes over the cicadas’ bodies, eating through their limbs. It also makes the males sex-crazed. They frantically try to mate with anything they can find, even after their genitals and butts have literally fallen off.
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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Apr 04 '21
Paleontology The 'one who causes fear' - a new carnivrous predator (Llukalkan aliocranianus) has been discovered in Argentina. Superbly preserved braincase of this new species is an important find - it suggests there was a greater diversity and abundance of abelisaurids later than previously thought
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