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Rasberry crazy ant

Rapacious Rasberry ants march north

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 10

Poor Texas. First it was killer bees, then fire ants. Now, it's the Rasberry ants.


Less than 1 in 3 Toronto bystanders who witness a cardiac arrest try to help: Study

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers at St. Michael's Hospital working in conjunction with EMS services, paramedics and fire services across Ontario found that a bystander who attempts cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) can quadruple the survival ...


GE to sell security unit to United Technologies

Technology / Business

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

US conglomerate General Electric on Thursday announced it would sell its security unit to United Technologies Corp. for 1.82 billion dollars.


Review: A riff on robotics with self-tuning guitar (AP)

Review: A riff on robotics with self-tuning guitar

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (8) | comments 4

(AP) -- New cars have been tuning themselves for the better part of two decades now, so it should feel less impressive that Gibson has built a guitar that can smoothly do the same.


NASA Aircraft Flies Calif. Wildfire Post-Burn Mission

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's remotely piloted Predator B aircraft, named Ikhana, recently conducted post-burn assessments of two Southern California wildfire sites, the Piute Fire in Kern County and the Station Fire in the Angeles ...


Unseasonably hot and dry weather combined with strong winds to fan scores of blazes in the country's southeastern states

Australia issues 'catastrophic' alerts as fires rage

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 21, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Australia has issued "catastrophic" alerts after record-breaking temperatures and wild lightning storms sparked more than 100 fires across the country, officials said Saturday.


A biology whodunnit: are rodents helping protect trees from fire?

A biology whodunnit: are rodents helping protect trees from fire?

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Tom Parker has made an unusual find. In California forests and shrubland that burned in 2008, he has spotted Manzanita seedlings sprouting in tight clusters, suggesting that the young shrubs emerged from underground ...


Jumping on the bandwagon

Jumping on the bandwagon: Introducing the next generation multi-band radio to emergency responders

Technology / Telecom

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Tom Chirhart knows a lot about radios, but over the last year, he's gotten a real life lesson in supply and demand.


Indian engineer invents device to stop rampaging elephants

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

An Indian inventor has created a device to stop rampaging elephants in their tracks, amid concern about human injuries and deaths when they run amok, his company said Monday.


Brain maps help guide you through large-scale space, researchers find

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Lost? Not sure how to get home? Trying to find your way through the mall or an airport? Help is on the way, thanks to a stack of cells, or neurons, in your head. They're mostly on the left side of the brain in males, on the ...



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