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Scientists have determined the differences between the two types of killer whales that frequent the Salish Sea are so large, they ought to be designated separate species all together. The new species designations will be the first breakouts from the worldwide Orcinus orca since the species descriptions by Charles Scammon in 1874. Scientists used to think that it took physical separation, or an inability to breed together, to produce separate species, the scientists suggest.
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1 year ago Read more at Chilliwack Progress

Emperor Wu ruled China's Northern Zhou dynasty from A.D. 560 until his death in 578, at the age of 36, according to a new study. This new DNA analysis confirms that he likely died due to complications from a stroke.
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1 year ago Read more at Livescience.com

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Robert Enright is a faculty member at UW-Madison since 1978. In 2022, he was lauded by the American Psychological Foundation as a “game changer in modern psychology” in 2022.
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1 year ago Read more at University of Wisconsin–Madison

Spyder integrates popular Python scientific libraries such as NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib and SciPy. This allows users to quickly test pieces of code, verify results and experiment with new ideas without having to run the entire script.
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Michelle Nijhuis, author of Lost Women of Science Conversations, is a podcast. Catherine McNeur: It was so frustrating to see all these erasures and how they were eventually forgotten. She was a real entomologist, and she was an expert on wheat flies and other insects. Michelle McNeur says she stumbled on a book about the ferns that she had found.
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1 year ago Read more at Scientific American

A high repetition of words and lots of paragraphs starting with “however” have been identified as two tell-tale signs that an essay has been written using ChatGPT. That’s according to researchers from Cambridge University Press and Assessment who’ve called the AI chatbot’s writing style “bland” and “journalistic” Since its release to the public, there have been concerns about school pupils using it to do their work for them. The team compared essays written by three first-year university students, with the aid of Chat
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1 year ago Read more at Yahoo News Australia

The Spark Imagination and Science Center is located at the Mountaineer Mall in Morgantown, W.Va. It’s a group of parents and teachers that wanted to bring a children’s museum to this area. We’ve grown into doing a lot of the hands-on science programs and things like that.
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California reported 2,100 cases of active tuberculosis (TB) in 2023, a 15% jump from the previous year. Most of the cases involved people with 'latent' infections that became active, causing them to get sick and become infectious to others. The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) issued an advisory flagging this 'substantial increase' in active TB, although the department noted that the uptick represents a return to pre-pandemic numbers.
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1 year ago Read more at Livescience.com

Purdue University study assesses key bacteria that improve human health WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. A 2,000-calorie daily diet would call for 28 grams of fiber, the equivalent of a combination of cooked beans, two cups of brown rice, one cup of broccoli and one banana. The whole-food fibers it replaces naturally contain both soluble and insoluble fibers that promote Clostridia.
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