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On the hunt for high-altitude microorganisms

The United States Rocket Academy has announced an open call for entries in its High Altitude Astrobiology Challenge, a citizen science project that will attempt to collect samples of microbes that may be lurking ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 21, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 2

Hawaiian monk seal sent to Waikiki to save species

The Hawaiian monk seal, the most endangered marine mammal in the United States, has a long list of threats - fishing nets, sharks and, particularly, humans. But for one group of seals, the biggest threat came ...

Biology / Ecology

created Feb 15, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Experts praise decisions to evacuate from Irene

(AP) -- They were life and death decisions made by politicians, bureaucrats and everyday people. Hurricane Irene was barreling toward the East Coast. It was big. It was scary. Flooding was certain. The choice: ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 30, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Ancient whale skulls and directional hearing: A twisted tale

Skewed skulls may have helped early whales discriminate the direction of sounds in water and are not solely, as previously thought, a later adaptation related to echolocation. University of Michigan researchers ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Aug 22, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Using Xbox Kinect, standard graphics chips, researchers achieve highest frame rate yet for streaming holographic video

The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January 2010 was abuzz about a slew of prototype 3-D TVs, but if new research from the MIT Media Lab is any indication, holographic TVs could be close behind. ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 24, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (14) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Searching for the perfect Christmas tree

At the Allen Hill Farm 50 miles east of Hartford, Conn., co-owner Charles Langevin sells hundreds of trees during the holiday season. The Fraser fir is one of the most popular species on the market and is ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 21, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Colossal fossil: Museum's new whale skeleton represents decades of research

There's a whale of a new display at the University of Michigan Exhibit Museum of Natural History, a leviathan that represents a scientific saga of equally grand proportions.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Dec 16, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Fossil find puts a face on early primates (w/ Video)

When paleontologist Iyad Zalmout went looking for fossil whales and dinosaurs in Saudi Arabia, he never expected to come face-to-face with a significant, early primate fossil.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jul 14, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

US agency goes after cadmium in children's jewelry

(AP) -- Federal and state watchdogs opened a new front Monday in the campaign to keep poisons out of Chinese imports, launching inquiries into high levels of cadmium in children's jewelry while Walmart pulled ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 12, 2010 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Evolution and ailments: Scientists suggest systemic changes are linked to rise in disorders

(PhysOrg.com) -- The pressures of human evolution could explain the apparent rise of disorders such as autoimmune diseases and autism, researchers say. Some adaptations may even help such ailments persist.

Biology / Evolution

created Jan 11, 2010 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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