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A Bombshell Discovery
An atomic bomb kills three times. Prior to 1945, the first two deadly mechanisms — heat and pressure — were well known from previous bombings. However, the effects of radiation were not. It was only after the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6th and 9th of that year, that the grim details of acute radiation poisoning became clear. Doctors struggled to understand the… Read more Continue reading A Bombshell Discovery
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Make way for the InvestEGGator, the decoy egg shedding light on the illegal trade of wildlife
“The insatiable human appetite for wildlife products drives species to extinction, spreads disease and has negative consequences for the economies of source countries.” Thus opens the article, recently published in Current Biology, detailing a new method to investigate illegal trade in turtle eggs by using GPS-enabled decoy eggs. The team, led by researchers from the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology at the University of… Read more Continue reading Make way for the InvestEGGator, the decoy egg shedding light on the illegal trade of wildlife
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