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100% Recycled Plastic Bridge Holds Strong In Ohio

100% Recycled Plastic Bridge Holds Strong In Ohio | Connective universe | Scoop.it
People often have this idea that recycled materials are weaker or less durable than their new counterparts. Neither are words you want associated with a vehicle bridge.
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How Pooches Can Replace Drugs

How Pooches Can Replace Drugs | Connective universe | Scoop.it
Dogs may help correct certain human mental health disorders by affecting brain chemistry and function.
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Oh brother, where art thou? Sticklebacks prefer to be with relatives

Oh brother, where art thou? Sticklebacks prefer to be with relatives | Connective universe | Scoop.it
Many animals are able to discriminate between related and unrelated individuals but how they do so has proven remarkably difficult to understand.
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Apes and Human Babies Use Similar Gestures

Apes and Human Babies Use Similar Gestures | Connective universe | Scoop.it
The similarity in development suggests gestures played an important role in language evolution.
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Tiger Moths: Mother Nature's Fortune Tellers

Tiger Moths: Mother Nature's Fortune Tellers | Connective universe | Scoop.it
A new study by researchers at Wake Forest University shows Bertholdia trigona, a species of tiger moth found in the Arizona desert, can tell if an echo-locating bat is going to attack it well before the predator swoops in for the kill - making the...
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Does Geography Predict Entrepreneurship?

Does Geography Predict Entrepreneurship? | Connective universe | Scoop.it
New research suggests business characteristics that promote innovation are geographically clustered, with state and/or country values stimulating or suppressing an entrepreneurial personality.
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A grassy trend in Human ancestors’ diets

A grassy trend in Human ancestors’ diets | Connective universe | Scoop.it
Most apes eat leaves and fruits from trees and shrubs.
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'Tracking in Caves': On the trail of pre-historic man

'Tracking in Caves': On the trail of pre-historic man | Connective universe | Scoop.it
In remote caves of the Pyrenees, lie precious remnants of the Ice Age undisturbed: foot and hand prints of prehistoric hunters. The tracks have remained untouched for millennia and are in excellent condition.
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Apes also get emotional over games of chance

Like some humans, chimpanzees and bonobos exhibit emotional responses to outcomes of their decisions by pouting or throwing angry tantrums when a risk-taking strategy fails to pay off, according to research published May 29 in the open access...
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Iraq to restore ancient arch to woo back tourists

Iraqi authorities have contracted a Czech firm to carry out a 10-month restoration of the ancient Arch of Ctesiphon as part of a plan to boost tourism to the once-popular site.
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New reading of Dead Sea Scroll fragment

New reading of Dead Sea Scroll fragment | Connective universe | Scoop.it
According to the book of Genesis, after the flood Ham − the son of Noah − “saw the nakedness of his father.” When Noah discovered this, he cursed Ham, Ham’s son, Canaan, and all their descendants: “Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he...
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Despite Mammoth Blood, Cloning Still Unlikely

Despite Mammoth Blood, Cloning Still Unlikely | Connective universe | Scoop.it
Tissue samples are almost always heavily degraded.
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Chimpanzees have five universal personality dimensions

Chimpanzees have five universal personality dimensions | Connective universe | Scoop.it
While psychologists have long debated the core personality dimensions that define humanity, primate researchers have been working to uncover the defining personality traits for humankind's closest living relative, the chimpanzee.
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Does altitude affect the way language is spoken?

Does altitude affect the way language is spoken? | Connective universe | Scoop.it
Language is formed by giving meaning to sounds and stringing together these meaningful expressions to communicate feelings and ideas.
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Large-scale biodiversity is vital to maintain ecosystem health

Large-scale biodiversity is vital to maintain ecosystem health | Connective universe | Scoop.it
(Phys.org) —Over the years ecologists have shown how biological diversity benefits the health of small, natural communities.
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A 120,000 Year Old Neandertal from Krapina who had Fibrous Dysplasia

A 120,000 Year Old Neandertal from Krapina who had Fibrous Dysplasia | Connective universe | Scoop.it
The internets are buzzing about the news of the earliest known bone tumor on record, predating others by more than 100,000 years. The tumor has been found on the left rib of a 120,000 year old Neandertal from Krapina, Croatia.
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Does Your Beer Glass Matter? | Anthropology in Practice, Scientific American Blog Network

Does Your Beer Glass Matter? | Anthropology in Practice, Scientific American Blog Network | Connective universe | Scoop.it
During a very packed trip through New England last week, I managed to squeeze in a late tour to the Sam Adams Brewery where I learned ...
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Anthropology: Most exhaustive isotope studies of early human diets to date

Anthropology: Most exhaustive isotope studies of early human diets to date | Connective universe | Scoop.it
The most comprehensive and exhaustive isotope studies of early human diets and the evolutionary parallels of changes in diet was presented by an international t (Anthropology: Most exhaustive isotope studies of early human diets to date…
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Roman camp, medieval cemetery unearthed in Wales

Roman camp, medieval cemetery unearthed in Wales | Connective universe | Scoop.it
A dig on a piece of land in Gwynedd destined for a new school has resulted in the first discovery in Wales of a Roman construction camp.
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New evidence for beginnings of viniculture in France

New evidence for beginnings of viniculture in France | Connective universe | Scoop.it
France is renowned the world over as a leader in the crafts of viticulture and winemaking -- but the beginnings of French viniculture have been largely unknown, until now.
Ancient pressing platform from Lattara, seen from above.
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Ancient Ball Player Statue Found in Mexico

Ancient Ball Player Statue Found in Mexico | Connective universe | Scoop.it
A thousand-year-old statue found in Guerrero depicts a ball player of a yet-to-be deciphered ancient game. Continue reading →
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Oldest exisiting scroll of Hebrew Pentateuch found

The University Library of Bologna has kept from times immemorial, and without knowing, the world’s oldest scroll of the Hebrew Pentateuch.
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Green light for new digs at ancient Sikyon

The Central Archaeological Council has given the green light for the excavations in Ancient Sikyon to begin. The excavational program will start in June and run for three years.
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Thousands rally against nuclear power in Tokyo

Thousands rally against nuclear power in Tokyo | Connective universe | Scoop.it
Thousands of anti-nuclear demonstrators rallied in the Japanese capital Tokyo on Sunday as conservative Prime Minister Shinzo Abe considers restarting reactors.
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Mother Has Third Set of Twins

Mother Has Third Set of Twins | Connective universe | Scoop.it
A Scottish woman has defied the odds of 500,000 to one of delivering a third set of twins. Continue reading →
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