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What are some of the questions your students following the story of numbers?

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What are some questions your students have after the story of writing

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Scientists discovered the bacterium – called Thiomargarita magnifica – in shallow tropical marine mangroves in Guadeloupe, Lesser Antilles, in the Caribbean. Guadeloupe is an archipelago and overseas department and region of France.

When researchers first found it in 2009, they didn’t realize it was a bacterium. Due to its large size, researchers thought it was possibly a species of eukaryote. Eukaryotes are single-celled or multicellular organisms whose cell contains a distinct, membrane-bound nucleus.

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EarthSky | Updates on your cosmos and world

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Wow! Giant bacterium is largest ever discovered

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What are some questions that come to your mind when you watch this video?

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Origami Robots? What are some questions that pop into your mind after watching this?

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What are some questions your students have after the Coming of Humans?

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What are some questions your students have after listening to the Coming of Life?

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Sound scape of Dynamic soundscapes from a coral reef site at 20 m depth off Sesoko Island from October 2018 to May 2021. (a) Biological choruses displayed marked diurnal and seasonal variations. Particularly in warm seasons, more nighttime fish choruses were recorded, and their intensities varied with tidal and lunar phases. (b) Noise events that regularly occurred between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. were associated with ferries. Other noise events were attributed to fishing vessels, tugboats, and freight ships. (c) Wind and wave noises were mainly produced during typhoon season (June–September) and northeastern monsoon season (December–March). Colors represent the relative strength of each sound source. The arrows indicate the dates corresponding to the long-term spectrograms of (d) the 2019 Golden Week holiday, (e) the first nationwide state of emergency in 2020, and (f) September 1, 2020, when Typhoon Maysak was closest to Okinawa Island. Dashed squares indicate the new type of fish chorus detected during the COVID-19 anthropause. Colors of the long-term spectrograms represent the median power spectral densities measured every 10 min.

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What are some questions that pop into your mind.

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What questions do you have regarding the Solar Eclipse?

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What questions do your students have regarding the Coming of the Universe?

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Click on the link to read the article. Have you seen or heard any Cicadas lately? Describe where the place you have seen or heard them.

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E.J. Challita and M.S. Bhamla. Unifying fluidic excretion across life from cicadas to elephants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Vol. 121, March 26, 2024. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2317878121.

J.R. Cooley and D.C. Marshall. Sexual signaling in periodical cicadas, Magicicada spp. (Hemiptera: Cicadidae). Behaviour. Vol. 138, July 2001, p. 827.

R. Karban, C.A. Black and S.A. Weinbaum. How 17-year cicadas keep track of time. Ecology Letters. Vol. 3, July 2000, p. 253. doi: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2000.00164.x.

C. Simon et al. Advances in the evolution and ecology of 13- and 17-year periodical cicadas. Annual Reviews in Entomology. Vol. 67, January 2022, p. 457. doi: 10.1146/annurev-ento-072121-061108.

Susan Milius is the life sciences writer, covering organismal biology and evolution, and has a special passion for plants, fungi and invertebrates. She studied biology and English literature.

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It's a big year for cicadas. Here's what to know about this year's emergence

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Periodical cicadas are an odd marvel of nature. This year, the biggest brood of all is coming out in the U.S. South while another emerges in the Midwest.

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Do elephants have names for each other?

In a recent article in National Geographic scientist have used AI to study elephant calls and after careful observation think that some of the animals' calls are specific to individuals, similar to a person's name. Elephants seem to use personalized calls to address members of their group, providing a rare example of naming in animals other than humans.

What do you think about this finding?

Which other animal sounds would you like to analyze?

If you were an elephant what name would you like to be called?