San Diego is one of the world's "hotspots" for biodiversity, home to a diverse collection of creatures found nowhere else in the world. But like many ecological hotspots around the globe, most of the unique species in our ...
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Jan 31, 2014
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Last spring, when Mary Harris started looking for particular pesticides in the pollen carried by honey bees in northwest Iowa, she didn't find any. But that changed the week tractors hit the fields to plant crops.
Plants & Animals
Jan 31, 2014
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This image from Envisat's radar shows the Zambezi River's floodplain in western Zambia.
Earth Sciences
Jan 31, 2014
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California consumer protection officials are threatening to close a group of computer coding boot camps that train people to work in the technology industry, saying they failed to get licensed as private schools before they ...
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Jan 31, 2014
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In the 1920s, an urgent call went out to the literati across the Middle East from Arab leaders in Jerusalem: Send us your books so that we may protect them for generations to come. Jerusalem was soon flushed with writings ...
Archaeology
Jan 31, 2014
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The Nairobi-based International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) announced today that a global consortium supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has been formed to develop a new vaccine against a disease that's ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 31, 2014
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In this month's issue of Physics World, Jon Cartwright explains how the revelation that the US National Security Agency (NSA) is developing quantum computers has renewed interest and sparked debate on just how far ahead they ...
Quantum Physics
Jan 31, 2014
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The strength of a lemur couple's bond is reflected by the similarity of their scents, finds a new study.
Plants & Animals
Jan 31, 2014
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Australia's Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority on Friday approved the dumping of up to three million cubic metres of dredge waste in park waters in a move blasted by environmentalists.
Environment
Jan 31, 2014
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A secret document leaked by U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden shows Canada's electronic spy agency used information gleaned from a free internet service at a Canadian airport to track the wireless devices of thousands of ...
Security
Jan 31, 2014
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