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CITES agrees on near-total ban on sending wild elephants to zoos
The regulator of global wildlife trade will impose a near-total ban on sending African elephants captured…
Berlin expects: Zoo's panda pregnant, birth expected soon
Berlin’s zoo is hoping to hear the patter of tiny panda paws soon. Click…
Czech zoo hopes to spawn endangered South American frogs
A type of critically endangered frog that is the main ingredient in a smoothie-type health drink…
Greek temple ruins suggest lifting machines in use 1.5 centuries earlier than previously believed
As modern Greeks undertake to reconstruct the Parthenon, largely using stone material from the site’s ruins,…
Deforestation could worsen Amazon rainforest fires every year
It’s a giant air filter nearly as vast as the contiguous U.S. And it’s been burning…
WISE J0720−0846 hosts a massive T dwarf, observations confirm
By combining high-precision astrometry and adaptive optics-resolved imaging, astronomers have found that the binary system WISE…
Scientists harness bacteria to create 'living' liquid crystals
Liquid crystals are widely used in technologies such as displays, which manipulate their orientation to display…
Booking websites edged out travel agents, and that's a bad thing, tourism study says
The traditional travel agent is a thing of the past. Nowadays, the burden of planning a…
Laser scarecrows successful at keeping birds from eating sweetcorn
Farmers have had long-running battles trying to keep birds of many varieties from eating their sweetcorn.…