Prof: English sounds like one language, but it's really not

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Americans need to realize that English as they know it is not what the rest of the world knows, says a Purdue University English language expert.

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Polls may underestimate Obama's support by 3 to 4 percent, researchers say

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Current polls of the presidential election may be underestimating Barack Obama's support by 3 to 4 percent nationally and possibly larger margins in the Southeast and some strongly Republican states, according ...

Unique fossils capture 'Cambrian migration'

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(PhysOrg.com) -- A unique set of fossils indicates that 525 million years ago marine animals congregated in Earth’s ancient oceans, most likely for migration, according to an international team of scientists.

Early planting lets farmers be both mean and green, study shows

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Farmers can be both mean and green when protecting their canola fields from a pesky insect that poses a chronic threat, says a University of Alberta researcher.

Can genetic information be controlled by light?

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Researchers at Kiel University have succeeded in showing that DNA strands differ in their light sensitivity depending on their base sequences. Their results are reported by Nina Schwalb and colleagues in the current issue ...

Transparency in politics can lead to greater corruption

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Why are some countries more prone to political corruption? Viviana Stechina from Uppsala University, Sweden, has investigated why corruption among the political elite was more extensive in Argentina than in Chile during ...

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