News tagged with hills region
Birds in Flint Hills of Kansas, Oklahoma face population decline despite large habitat
The wide-open spaces of the Flint Hills may no longer provide a secure home on the range for several familiar grassland birds, according to research by a Kansas State University ecologist and her colleagues.
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Mexican experts excited to find ancient home ruins
(AP) -- The ruins aren't particularly impressive, just some stone and clay footings for houses that probably supported walls of wood or clay wattle. And it's that very ordinariness that has experts excited.
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Feb 09, 2012 |
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Older drivers can be trained to avoid car crashes
(Medical Xpress) -- Why are older drivers, especially those over 70, involved in crashes primarily at intersections? You may tend to attribute this to cognitive or physical decline, such as slower reaction time or poor sight. ...
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Feb 08, 2012 |
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Building mountains in a bottle
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists are preparing to launch a 10-year project to study water resources, gas exchange and carbon cycling in three man-made landscapes built in a half-acre laboratory at the University ...
Feb 08, 2012 |
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Mexico road project sets up fight over ruins
(AP) -- When neighbors in the hills east of Mexico City saw backhoes ripping up pre-Hispanic relics for a highway, they did something unexpected in a country where building projects often bulldoze through ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Feb 08, 2012 |
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The hills are evolving: New model predicts speed of spreading valleys
From high above the Florida Panhandle, the Apalachicola Bluffs -- a winding system of steep ravines -- look like the branching veins of a leaf.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 06, 2012 |
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Mars Express reveals wind-blown deposits on Mars
(PhysOrg.com) -- New images from ESA’s Mars Express show the Syrtis Major region on Mars. Once thought to be a sea of water, the region is now known to be a volcanic province dating back billions of years.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 06, 2012 |
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A mighty revealing mouse
Ten years ago, when Prof. Neville Pillay first started investigating the semi-desert-dwelling African striped mouse or Rhabdomys in the Goegap Nature Reserve near Springbok, Northern Cape, he never anticipated ...
Feb 01, 2012 |
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Tiger captured for first time using Northern India wildlife corridor
The New Year brought a new surprise for wildlife monitoring teams near Northern India’s Kaziranga Tiger Reserve, as a tiger was captured for the first time using one of the important wildlife corridors ...
Jan 26, 2012 |
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'Speed gene' in modern racehorses originated from British mare 300 years ago
Scientists have traced the origin of the 'speed gene' in Thoroughbred racehorses back to a single British mare that lived in the United Kingdom around 300 years ago, according to findings published in the scientific journal ...
Jan 24, 2012 |
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New research casts doubt on the late heavy bombardment
Was the early solar system bombarded with lots of big impacts? This is a question that has puzzled scientists for over 35 years. And it’s not just an academic one. We know from rocks on Earth that life ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 06, 2012 |
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