Leopards lose habitat to humans in India
Residents of rural towns in India have killed two rare leopards after the cats left their mountain habitats presumably to search for food.
Jan 19, 2007
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Male fish turn to cannibalism when uncertain of paternity
A study from the February issue of the American Naturalist is the first to demonstrate that male fish are more likely to eat their offspring when they have been cuckolded during the act of spawning. Moreover, the more males ...
Jan 19, 2007
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Ultra-Dense Optical Storage -- on One Photon
Researchers at the University of Rochester have made an optics breakthrough that allows them to encode an entire image's worth of data into a photon, slow the image down for storage, and then retrieve the image intact.
General Physics
Jan 19, 2007
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Corals show Aussie drought link to Asian monsoon
Droughts of greater severity and length could be in store for Australia and Indonesia if the Asian monsoon system continues to strengthen, palaeoclimatologists have warned.
Earth Sciences
Jan 19, 2007
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Researchers discover new class of compounds with novel chemistry
Researchers have discovered a new class of aluminum-hydrogen complexes that exhibits unique chemistry and may one day be used as basic building blocks to create materials for use in alternative forms of energy and high energetic ...
Jan 19, 2007
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Comet McNaught - A First Light Present for STEREO
This image of Comet McNaught comes from the Heliospheric Imager on one of the STEREO spacecraft, taken Jan. 11, 2007. To the right is the comet nucleus, so bright it saturates the detector creating a bright vertical band ...
Astronomy
Jan 19, 2007
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MIT develops measures to predict performance of complex systems
Taking a cue from the financial world, MIT researchers along with experts in industry and government have developed a list of 13 measures that engineers can use to predict how well a system--or project--will perform before ...
Other
Jan 19, 2007
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The hitchhiker's guide to altruism -- Study explains how costly traits evolve
Darwin explained how beneficial traits accumulate in natural populations, but how do costly traits evolve? In the past, two theories have addressed this problem.
Jan 19, 2007
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Super honeycomb shows more potential for carbon nanotubes
The hexagonal network structure makes these nanotubes look a bit like a honeycomb—or, when stretched a bit, like a hammock or fish net. In fact, the stretchiness of these 20-nm-long carbon nanotubes enables them to do what ...
There is a dark side to the humble raindrop
A single drop is harmless, but when billions of raindrops fall from a cloudburst onto bare soil they strike like billions of tiny hammers, dislodging tons of soil per acre which is carried away by surface runoff.
General Physics
Jan 19, 2007
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