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Tiny built-in cracks stop teeth from shattering

Tags: Biology

Tiny micro-fractures built into teeth suppress larger cracks and helps prevent shattering.

Genetic Compatibility Drives Choice of Mates and Sex of Chicks in Gouldian Finches, Erythrura gouldiae

Tags: Biology

Female Gouldian finches have long been choosing the sex of their chick.

Enter Adam, the Robot Scientist

A robot makes its own scientific discoveries as it designs hypotheses and carries out experiments to confirm them, discovering which genes code for specific enzymes in a species of yeast.

Texas science standards wrapup: Yup. Doomed.

Tags: Biology

While the "strength and weaknesses" clause did not pass with a tied vote, the Texas State Board of Education has still decided to insert language into science textbooks that do not follow the scientific consensus but rather have a religiously motivation.

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