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Engineer: Head-first slide is quicker

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Sep 26, 2008 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (15) | comments 6

Base running and base stealing would seem to be arts driven solely by a runner's speed, but there's more than mere gristle, bone and lung power to this facet of baseball -- there are lots of mathematics and physics at play.


Moonship Photographed by Backyard Astronomers

Moonship Photographed by Backyard Astronomers

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 10, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 1

On June 29th, neighbors of Paul Mortfield in Ontario, Canada, heard "cheers of excitement" coming from the astronomer's house. What caused the commotion?


Gov't says brown pelicans are endangered no longer (AP)

Gov't says brown pelicans are endangered no longer

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Much like its death-defying dives for fish, the brown pelican has resurfaced after plummeting to the brink of extinction.


Clouded leopard cubs born at National Zoo

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

An endangered clouded leopard at the Smithsonian's National Zoo's Conservation & Research Center (CRC) in Front Royal, Va., gave birth to a genetically valuable litter of two cubs on Tuesday, March 24. The clouded leopard, ...


Rare albino ratfish has eerie, silvery sheen

Rare albino ratfish has eerie, silvery sheen

Biology /

created Sep 24, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 0

A ghostly, mutant ratfish caught off Whidbey Island in Washington state is the only completely albino fish ever seen by both the curator of the University of Washington's 7.2 million-specimen fish collection ...