It's called "pinched fingers" and depending on where you are in the world, a new emoji announced by the Unicode Consortium, which approves standard emojis worldwide, could have a completely ...

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In 1905, while studying the gametes of the beetle Tenebrio molitor (Figure 2), Stevens noted an unusual-looking pair of chromosomes that separated to form sperm cells in the male beetles.

Text messages and chats online can include a combination of words, pictures and emoji to convey a message. Words and pictures can be easily understood, but deciphering emoji might feel like decodi ...

An emoji may not be worth a thousand words, but they can certainly summarize a few pretty effectively. One of the most commonly used is the heart emoji, which comes in a rainbow of colors.

Currency pairs are two national currencies joined for trading in the foreign exchange market. All trading within the foreign exchange (FX) market, whether selling, buying, or trading, is completed ...

It was an egg-cellent surprise. For the first time, a zoo in England saw two male Chilean flamingos hatch a chicklet together. Although proud parents Authur and Curtis didn’t biologically ...

What is Blackjack Perfect Pairs? Blackjack Perfect Pairs is a side bet that the first two cards the player is dealt make a pair, with three different types of pair paying out at different odds.

Simpson’s official job is to develop and direct creative concepts for the aquarium on Monterey’s Cannery Row. With a degree ...

A pairs trade involves two separate, yet related, option plays -- one bullish, and one bearish -- on two different underlying securities. While it can certainly be classified as a "hedged ...

Symbiotic relationships are the close associations formed between pairs of species. They come in a variety of forms, such as parasitism (where one species benefits and the other is harmed) and ...

(Image: Wikimedia Commons, CC SA 3.0) The most common type of base pairing is the Watson-Crick base pair, named after James Watson and Francis Crick, who first proposed the double helix structure of ...