Archive: 07/27/2006
Archaeologists Hot on the Trail of Columbus' Sunken Ships
As luck would have it, time ran short, and the silt and mud in La Isabela Bay on the north coast of the Dominican Republic ran deep. Despite these setbacks, Indiana University archaeologists are confident they ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jul 27, 2006 |
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Male mantids try to avoid sex cannibalism
Female praying mantids are notorious for sexual cannibalism and U.S. researchers have determined male mantids try to avoid that fate.
Biology /
Jul 27, 2006 |
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Worker ants store fat for lean times
U.S. scientists found ants have the ability to store excess fat and pass it to colony members through lipid-rich oral secretions or unfertilized eggs.
Biology /
Jul 27, 2006 |
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Fingertip Device Helps Computers Read Hand Gestures
With the tap of a single finger, computer users soon may be drawn deeper into the virtual world using a new device developed in the University at Buffalo's Virtual Reality Lab.
Jul 27, 2006 |
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Honeybee brain picks up on right scent
A honeybee’s ability to smell scent appears to be linked to the right side of its brain, according to a new ANU study that could show how right and left ‘handedness’ evolved in other species.
Biology /
Jul 27, 2006 |
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Birthplace of Hurricanes
"Winds will grow soon to storms in Africa," laments Irish singer Enya in her song, Storms in Africa. She might have added "And hurricanes in the Americas."
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 27, 2006 |
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Honey helps problem wounds
A household remedy millennia old is being reinstated: honey helps the treatment of some wounds better than the most modern antibiotics. For several years now medical experts from the University of Bonn have been clocking ...
Jul 27, 2006 |
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Researchers watch brain in action
For the first time, scientists have been able to watch neurons within the brain of a living animal change in response to experience.
Jul 27, 2006 |
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Crash of Russian rocket destroys Montana's first satellite
The first satellite built in Montana was destroyed Wednesday (July 26) when the Soviet-era intercontinental ballistic missile it was riding on crashed shortly after liftoff in Kazakhstan.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 27, 2006 |
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Shoot up and cool down: fighting global warming
Injecting sulfur into the atmosphere to slow down global warming is worthy of serious consideration, according to Nobel laureate Paul Crutzen from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Germany and the Scripps Institution ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 27, 2006 |
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How the world watched Huygens
As Huygens parachuted to the surface of Titan in January 2005, a battery of telescopes around the world were watching or listening. The results of those observations are now being collected together and published ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 27, 2006 |
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Purdue creates new low-cost system to detect bacteria
Researchers at Purdue University have developed a new low-cost system that analyzes scattered laser light to quickly identify bacteria for applications in medicine, food processing and homeland security at ...
Jul 27, 2006 |
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Cosmic dust in terrestrial ice
For the last 30,000 years, our planet has been hit by a constant rain of cosmic dust particles. Scientists have reached this conclusion after investigating the amount of the helium isotope 3He in cosmic dust ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 27, 2006 |
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UV radiation causes 60,000 deaths a year
The World Health Organization based in Switzerland estimates 60,000 people die each year from spending too much time in the sun.
Jul 27, 2006 |
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Online travel sites' report released
While Travelocity had the highest sponsored click-through rate for April 2006 among the most-visited online travel agencies, according to a recent report from comScore Media Metrix, Orbitz received the highest percent of ...
Jul 27, 2006 |
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