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3:14pm, 6th May, 2019

NOAA announces $94 million ocean exploration institute led by University of Rhode Island

(University of Rhode Island) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration selects University of Rhode Island to lead new $94 million consortium to support ocean exploration.

Island lizards are expert sunbathers, and researchers find it's slowing their evolution

2:37pm, 22nd April, 2019

Nature

Island lizards are expert sunbathers, and researchers find it's slowing their evolution

(Virginia Tech) If you've ever spent some time in the Caribbean, you might have noticed that humans are not the only organisms soaking up the sun. Anoles -- diminutive little tree lizards -- spend much of their day shuttling in and out of shade....

Love Island: Flamboyant males get the girls on Madagascar

5:43am, 2nd April, 2019

Nature

Love Island: Flamboyant males get the girls on Madagascar

(Frontiers) German scientists have discovered two new species of giant stick insect on Madagascar, whose males become dazzling blue or multicolored at sexual maturity.Writing in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, the researchers describe their rare...

Rocket Lab picks Virginia’s Wallops Island for U.S. launch site, adding to N.Z. pad

4:26pm, 17th October, 2018

Space

Rocket Lab picks Virginia’s Wallops Island for U.S. launch site, adding to N.Z. pad

Rocket Lab CEO Peter Beck and other dignitaries pose with their shovels for a groundbreaking ceremony on Virginia’s Wallops Island. (Rocket Lab Photo via Twitter) officially unveiled its plan to build a commercial launch site at the Mid-Atlantic Reg...

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NOAA announces $94 million ocean exploration institute led by University of Rhode Island

Island lizards are expert sunbathers, and researchers find it's slowing their evolution

Love Island: Flamboyant males get the girls on Madagascar

Rocket Lab picks Virginia’s Wallops Island for U.S. launch site, adding to N.Z. pad

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