One of 25 dolphins being transferred to a Singapore oceanarium despite protests from activists died during its flight to the city-state on Thursday, the resort said.
Plants & Animals
Nov 22, 2012
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(Phys.org)—Craig Lusk's job takes on many shapes.
Engineering
Nov 22, 2012
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To families across America, Thanksgiving represents a day filled with togetherness and turkey. To American retailers, the holiday kicks off a shopping bonanza with Black Friday, Small Business Saturday ...
Business
Nov 22, 2012
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The first detailed analysis of a WA native carnivorous plant by a group of German scientists has confirmed the presence of a unique mechanism for trapping prey.
Plants & Animals
Nov 22, 2012
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(Phys.org)—A multinational team of researchers has found that trees worldwide are more sensitive to drought than scientists realized. By analyzing data on trees around the world, the teams has, as they write in their paper ...
(Phys.org)—People from China's Uyghur minority are struggling to get higher status, higher paying jobs, which in turn is leading to a forced divide between different ethnic groups, according to a new University of Melbourne ...
Social Sciences
Nov 22, 2012
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Optical microscopes, also known as light microscopes, provide detailed images of sample surfaces, but their use in looking below the surface is limited. A workaround is to look for signals given off by a sample of interest ...
Optics & Photonics
Nov 22, 2012
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Hairspray might one day serve as the sign that aliens have reshaped distant worlds, researchers say. Such research to find signs of alien technology is now open to funding from the public.
Astronomy
Nov 22, 2012
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(Medical Xpress)—UK government plans to amend the 1989 Children Act by introducing a presumption of shared parenting are well-intentioned but misguided, say the authors of new research into childhood experience of family ...
Social Sciences
Nov 22, 2012
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Having elder siblings decreases mortality risk in childhood, but same-sex elder siblings are associated with lower marriage rates and fewer children for their younger siblings in adulthood, according to the results of a long-term ...
Social Sciences
Nov 22, 2012
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