Archive: 03/06/2007
Pollution From China And India Affecting World’s Weather
Severe pollution from the Far East is almost certainly affecting the weather near you, says a Texas A&M University researcher who has studied the problem and has published a landmark paper on the topic in the Proceedings of ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 06, 2007 |
3.8 / 5 (21) |
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Researchers Decipher The Buzzing Of Bees
Everyone has heard of the canary in the coal mine, which sways or drops dead in the presence of poisonous gas, alerting miners to get out. Now a University of Montana research team has learned to understand ...
Biology /
Mar 06, 2007 |
3.5 / 5 (17) |
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New Spin Source Could Offer Insight Into Gravity
“We have a situation in physics where we understand very well the quantum forces,” Clive Speake tells PhysOrg.com. “But gravity, as we understand it, is a problem.”
Mar 06, 2007 |
3.9 / 5 (96) |
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841-pound woman dies of heart attack
The woman who is believed to be the largest ever to have gastric bypass surgery, at 841 pounds, died of a massive heart attack in Houston, Texas.
Mar 06, 2007 |
3.6 / 5 (8) |
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The social life of honeybees coordinated by a single gene
Students of the evolution of social behavior got a big boost with the publication of the newly sequenced honeybee genome in October 2006. The honeybee (Apis mellifera) belongs to the rarified cadre of insects ...
Biology /
Mar 06, 2007 |
4.6 / 5 (12) |
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