Norway may halt salmon fishing season
Norwegian wildlife management officials said stocks of wild salmon have dropped so low they may have to halt the salmon fishing season.
Environment
Apr 18, 2008
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Barbary monkeys going ape on Gibraltar
Veterinarians are trying to track down 25 Barbary monkeys that are allegedly terrorizing tourists on Gibraltar.
Apr 18, 2008
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Get mobile, get promoted
Without that five minutes chat by the watercooler, the open-ended lunch break, or a boss's beckoning door, homeworkers can often feel isolated from colleagues and the opportunities for informal networking and mentoring that ...
Telecom
Apr 18, 2008
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Black hole sheds light on a galaxy
A light echo occurs when interstellar gas is heated by radiation and reacts by emission of light. An international team led by Stefanie Komossa from the Max Planck Institute for extraterrestrial Physics in Garching, Germany, ...
Astronomy
Apr 18, 2008
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The next step in robot development is child’s play
Teaching robots to understand enough about the real world to allow them act independently has proved to be much more difficult than first thought.
Robotics
Apr 18, 2008
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Solar flares set the Sun quaking
Data from the ESA/NASA spacecraft SOHO shows clearly that powerful starquakes ripple around the Sun in the wake of mighty solar flares that explode above its surface. The observations give solar physicists new insight into ...
Space Exploration
Apr 18, 2008
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Female mice can identify inbred males by their scent
Scientists at the University of Liverpool have found that female mice avoid mating with inbred males by ‘sensing’ the diversity of a protein type in their urine.
Apr 18, 2008
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Green Gel: Hybrid material made from polymers and proteins fluoresces and respnods to pH value and temperature
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley have now developed a new strategy for the formation of hybrid materials from synthetic polymers and proteins. They have thus been able to fuse the specific biological ...
Apr 18, 2008
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Can three-photon absorption lead to better bio-imaging?
One of the more interesting concepts being looked at in terms of quantum chemistry is that of three-photon absorption (3PA). 3PA works when three photons are simultaneously absorbed in one event. Because three photon absorption ...
