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Scientists turn Martian sunrise into a piece of music

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Scientists turn Martian sunrise into a piece of music

Nov. 12 (UPI) -- You can now listen to the sun rise on Mars. Scientists in England have translated the Martian sunrise into a two-minute score.

Archaeologists can determine a person's sex by analyzing a single tooth

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Archaeologists can determine a person's sex by analyzing a single tooth

Planned flying fox cull will harm endangered species, scientists warn

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Planned flying fox cull will harm endangered species, scientists warn

Fruit, vegetable shapes controlled by newly discovered genetic mechanism

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Fruit, vegetable shapes controlled by newly discovered genetic mechanism

South Asian Monsoon affects more people than once thought

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South Asian Monsoon affects more people than once thought

Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Warming in the southern hemisphere of Asia has a stronger affect on monsoon strength than scientists previously thought.

Exposure to pesticides makes bees less social, reduces colony size

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Exposure to pesticides makes bees less social, reduces colony size

Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Exposure to pesticides can reduce the size of bee colonies and cause the insect to become less social.

Fossilized dinosaur proteins and burnt toast feature similar chemical compounds

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Fossilized dinosaur proteins and burnt toast feature similar chemical compounds

Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Under the right conditions, a dinosaur's soft tissue can be transformed and preserved, enabling fossilization.

MIT researchers develop window coating to deflect most of sun's heat

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MIT researchers develop window coating to deflect most of sun's heat

Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Scientists have developed a heat-deflecting film that could reject up to 70 percent of the sun's heat from a window.

The Amazon is evolving, but not adapting as fast the climate is changing

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The Amazon is evolving, but not adapting as fast the climate is changing

Nov. 8 (UPI) -- According to a new survey of the Amazon, the planet's largest forest is shifting its composition in response to climate change.

Illegal emissions threaten to undermine UN's optimistic ozone report

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Illegal emissions threaten to undermine UN's optimistic ozone report

Nov. 8 (UPI) -- Uncertainty over the impacts of illegal chlorofluorocarbon emissions threatens to undermine the longterm success of the Montreal Protocol.

Survey reveals 49 new bee species in Utah

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Survey reveals 49 new bee species in Utah

Nov. 8 (UPI) -- Utah is home to 660 bee species, according to a new study. One out of every four bee species endemic to the United States can be found in the Beehive State.

Ornithologists discover three-species hybrid warbler

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Ornithologists discover three-species hybrid warbler

Nov. 7 (UPI) -- Scientists have discovered a warbler in Pennsylvania that is the hybrid of three species, a rarity.

East Antarctic Ice Sheet has fewer lakes underneath it than scientists thought

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East Antarctic Ice Sheet has fewer lakes underneath it than scientists thought

Nov. 7 (UPI) -- The East Antarctic Ice Sheet has far fewer lakes beneath it than scientists once assumed.

Scientists design bioreactor to regrow amputated frog's legs

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Scientists design bioreactor to regrow amputated frog's legs

Nov. 7 (UPI) -- A team of scientists at Tufts University has developed a way to regenerate severed frog legs, which they say is effort to move one step closer to regrowing human limbs.

Modern slavery is fueling overfishing

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Modern slavery is fueling overfishing

Nov. 7 (UPI) -- Labor abuses, including modern slavery, underpin unsustainable commercial fishing practices, according to new research.

Scientists built an electricity-producing bionic mushroom

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Scientists built an electricity-producing bionic mushroom

Nov. 7 (UPI) -- Researchers have created an electricity-producing bionic mushroom by augmenting a white button mushroom from the grocery store with cyanobacteria and graphene.

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NASA scrubs launch of ICON satellite; may try again Thursday

Nov. 7 (UPI) -- Northrop Grumman will launch NASA's Ionospheric Connection Explorer satellite just after 3:00 a.m. EST on Wednesday aboard it's air-launched Pegasus XL rocket.

Sound-absorbing fur helps moths avoid bat predation

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Sound-absorbing fur helps moths avoid bat predation

Nov. 6 (UPI) -- The fur on the thorax of some moths absorbs the sound waves emitted by bats and their sonar systems, making them harder to detect, according to a new study.

Climate change has greater effect on species in tropical mountains

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Climate change has greater effect on species in tropical mountains

Nov. 6 (UPI) -- The traits that help create biodiversity in tropical mountain species also make them more susceptible to climate change, according to new research.

Natural climate variability explains almost half of Arctic sea ice loss

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Natural climate variability explains almost half of Arctic sea ice loss

Nov. 6 (UPI) -- According to new analysis, natural climate variability has accelerated Arctic sea ice loss over the last several decades.

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