Size Matters: A Bird Uses Illusion to Wow a Mate
(LiveScience.com)
Thu, 9 Sep 2010, 2 hours agoLiveScience.com - To woo females, bowerbird males create optical illusions
that make themselves look larger than they are, much like the ones used in the "Lord
of the Rings" films to make actors look hobbit-size.
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Study: Flamboyant male dancing attracts women best
(AP)
Thu, 9 Sep 2010, 2 hours agoAP - John Travolta was onto something. Women are most attracted to male dancers who have big, flamboyant moves similar to the actor's trademark style, British scientists say in a new study.
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Feds plan more sea turtle releases in Gulf
(AP)
Thu, 9 Sep 2010, 2 hours agoAP - Federal officials say they're stepping up plans to release sea turtles that were stranded and rescued during the Gulf oil spill and study how they've been affected.
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Rural Pennsylvania town fights big gas
(Reuters)
Thu, 9 Sep 2010, 3 hours agoReuters - In the rush to develop America's biggest new source of domestic energy, one community is fighting to protect its rural way of life from the environmental strains that accompany shale gas drilling.
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Questions, worries, arguments preceded Gulf blast
(AP)
Thu, 9 Sep 2010, 4 hours agoAP - Something was wrong.
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Column of Molten Rock Found Under Yellowstone
(LiveScience.com)
Thu, 9 Sep 2010, 5 hours agoLiveScience.com - A plume of molten rock rising from deep beneath Yellowstone National
Park is probably what is fueling the region's volcanic activity, as
well as tectonic plate oddities across the Pacific Northwest, new
research suggests.
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To Find Alien Volcanic Eruptions, Look for Foul Gas
(SPACE.com)
Thu, 9 Sep 2010, 6 hours agoSPACE.com - Astronomers may be able to detect volcanic eruptions on Earth-like
alien planets, a new study suggests.
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B vitamins found to slow progression of dementia
(Reuters)
Thu, 9 Sep 2010, 7 hours agoReuters - Daily tablets of large doses of B vitamins can halve the rate of brain shrinkage in elderly people with memory problems and may slow their progression toward dementia, data from a British trial showed on Wednesday,
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Regret, apology not part of BP's oil spill report
(AP)
Thu, 9 Sep 2010, 8 hours agoAP - BP's long-awaited internal report on what it believes went wrong when a rig exploded and started the massive Gulf oil spill never mentions the words blame, regret, apology, mistake or pollution. The word fault shows up 20 times, but only once in the same sentence as the company's name.
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Pacific sockeye salmon return in record numbers
(AFP)
Thu, 9 Sep 2010, 10 hours agoAFP - After years of scarcity, the rivers of the US and Canadian Pacific Northwest are running red, literally, with a vast swarm of a salmon species considered to be in crisis.
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BP seeks to shift blame for oil spill
(AFP)
Thu, 9 Sep 2010, 11 hours agoAFP - BP sought to spread the blame for the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, setting off a battle of oil industry giants with tens of billions of dollars in potential fines and legal liabilities at stake.
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Going Deep: The Future of Technology in the NFL
(LiveScience.com)
Wed, 8 Sep 2010, 21 hours agoLiveScience.com - In the years ahead, the National Football League looks set to dial up
some new tech blitzes that will make the game fairer and safer.
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Jupiter Dazzles In the Night Sky
(SPACE.com)
Wed, 8 Sep 2010, 21 hours agoSPACE.com - The planet Jupiter is back in the night sky and has
something for every amateur astronomer to enjoy.
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Cockroach Brains Help Fight Deadly Human Superbugs
(LiveScience.com)
Wed, 8 Sep 2010, 22 hours agoLiveScience.com - In the battle against drug-resistant bacterial infections,
researchers have identified two possible, if unlikely, allies: cockroaches and
locusts.
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Brain Scientists Discover a Tiny Traffic Cop
(LiveScience.com)
Wed, 8 Sep 2010, 23 hours agoLiveScience.com - Scientists have discovered a protein that helps direct traffic within brain cells.
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Would you like 1 hump or 2 with your dinosaur?
(AP)
Wed, 8 Sep 2010, 23 hours agoAP - The weird world of dinosaurs has just gotten a tad more bizarre. Scientists found a nearly complete fossil of a new dinosaur that sports a noticeable hump, maybe as possible advertising.
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Quasimodo dino leaves experts grappling for a hunch
(AFP)
Wed, 8 Sep 2010, 23 hours agoAFP - Palaeontologists in Spain have discovered the remains of a strange dinosaur with a hump that they believe is the forerunner of flesh-eating leviathans which once ruled the planet.
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Two asteroids to pass close to Earth, but won't hit: NASA
(AFP)
Wed, 8 Sep 2010 06:22:07 PMAFP - Two asteroids were set to pass close to Earth on Wednesday but posed no risk, the US space agency NASA said.
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Big quake aftershocks plague New Zealand city
(AP)
Wed, 8 Sep 2010 11:35:09 AMAP - A strong aftershock rocked terrified residents of New Zealand's earthquake-stricken city of Christchurch on Wednesday, as officials doubled their estimate for repairing the damage following nearly 300 temblors in five days.
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2 Asteroids to Zoom Between Earth and the Moon's Orbit
(SPACE.com)
Wed, 8 Sep 2010 06:30:12 AMSPACE.com - Two
asteroids will zip close by the Earth Wednesday and may be visible in
telescopes as they zip between our planet and the orbit of the moon.
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