Honey bees are trapped in a Catch 22 where antibiotics used to protect them from bacterial illnesses ravaging hives are making them die from commonly used pesticides, some of which are used to ward-off bee-killing parasites.
Ecology
Nov 2, 2011
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How long has it been since you’ve taken a good look at Mercury? For the backyard astronomer, all we’ll ever see is the speedy little planet as a bright crescent a few times a year. But, for the MESSENGER spacecraft, ...
Space Exploration
Nov 2, 2011
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(AP) -- Comcast Corp., the nation's biggest cable television company, said Wednesday that its profit rose 5 percent in the third quarter as revenue climbed 51 percent.
Business
Nov 2, 2011
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He is one of history's most famous explorers, and his first-person account of a 19th-century massacre in Africa helped lead to the closure of one of the continent's most notorious slave markets.
Archaeology
Nov 2, 2011
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Yesterday afternoon the U.S. Senate approved H.R. 2112, a FY 2012 bill from Maryland Senator Barbara Mikulski that would fund the James Webb Space Telescope to launch in 2018. This is another step forward for the next-generation ...
Space Exploration
Nov 2, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Anomalies in the operation of the solid-state mass memory system on board Mars Express have caused science observations to be temporarily halted. A technical work-around is being investigated that will enable ...
Space Exploration
Nov 2, 2011
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Packaging extends the life of food products. It also generates extra waste. Researchers at Wageningen UR Food & Biobased Research are working with the branch organization NRK, affiliated companies and government to improve ...
Materials Science
Nov 2, 2011
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Native English speakers should give up their claim to be the guardians of the purest form of the language and accept that the ways it is used and changed by millions around the world are equally valid.
Social Sciences
Nov 2, 2011
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Next time you watch a TV program that cracks a crime using DNA evidence, tip your hat to the microbe that makes it all possible.
Biochemistry
Nov 2, 2011
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Microsoft's Holodesk video was a hit so here's another video from our Microsoft Research team in Cambridge of some similarly cool Kinect related work.
Hi Tech & Innovation
Nov 2, 2011
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