News tagged with puerto ricans

Endangered Puerto Rican parrot on the rise

(AP) -- Deep amid the dense greenery of a rain forest, down an unmarked road, behind a barbed wire fence in a low-slung compound monitored by security cameras, government scientists are nursing a special ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jun 25, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Ancestry attracts, but love is blind

People preferentially marry those with similar ancestry, but their decisions are not necessarily based on hair, eye or skin colour. Research, published in BioMed Central's open access journal Genome Biology, shows that M ...

Biology / Other

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Moving to the US increases cancer risk for Hispanics

Results of a new study confirm trends that different Hispanic population groups have higher incidence rates of certain cancers and worse cancer outcomes if they live in the United States, than they do if they live in their ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Aug 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3




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Amazon CEO plans to raise sunken Apollo 11 engines

(AP) -- Long before Jeff Bezos became an Internet mogul, he was enthralled by the mysteries of space.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Soon for sale? Ethnic veggies like maxixe and shiso

Komatsuna. Shiso. Winged beans. Maxixe. They're not your garden-variety vegetables.

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

RNA editing responsible for colder water survival in octopus

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have discovered that when it comes to the survival of an octopus living in frigid waters, the reasoning is not a difference in the gene DNA but rather a difference in the RNA editing.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Listening to the stars

It is almost night on the island of Puerto Rico. Astronomer Joanna Rankin raises her head toward the sky. A few of the brightest stars shine through blue cracks in a ragged dome of gray clouds. To her back, ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Students building satellite that's seen as future of space research

Using needle-thin solder, tweezers and a very steady hand, Anna Espinal peers through a microscope and attaches capacitors the size of large grains of sand to boards no bigger than a credit card.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 04, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Tropical Storm Maria threatens eastern Caribbean

(AP) -- Tropical Storm Maria swirled toward the eastern Caribbean on Friday, threatening to unleash heavy rain and wind on islands still struggling to recover from a recent hurricane.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 10, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Tropical Storm Maria weakens near Caribbean

(AP) -- Tropical Storm Maria weakened slightly as it neared Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands on Saturday, but no further change in strength is expected, forecasters said.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 10, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Brainy lizards pass test for birds

Tropical lizards may be slow. But they aren't dumb. They can do problem-solving tasks just as well as birds and mammals, a new study shows.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

There's no magic number for saving endangered species

A new study offers hope for species such as the Siberian Tiger that might be considered 'too rare to save', so long as conservation efforts can target key threats.

Biology / Ecology

created May 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Americans 45 and older are new voting-age majority

(AP) -- For the first time, Americans 45 and older make up a majority of the voting-age population, giving older Americans wider influence in elections as the U.S. stands divided over curtailing Medicare and other benefits ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 04, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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