Archive for the ‘Science’ Category
This year's Perseid meteor shower—which got underway this week—will light up the night for about two weeks, with the event's peak happening late on Sunday, astronomers announced.
"It's going to be a great show," Bill Cooke, of NASA's Marshall Space Flight ...
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12 August 2007, 20:19
Yeah, twelve-headed jellyfish. Mari said it.
Jellyfish with up to a dozen heads have been created in the laboratory by carefully monkeying with a few genes.
The genetic experiments could shed light on how natural colonies of other multi-headed organisms first ...
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1 August 2007, 17:15
Forget apples, being happy is the new "keeps the doctor away" miracle. What? Yup. According to this Article on LiveScience.com:
People who are happy, lively, calm or exhibit other positive emotions are less likely to catch colds and ...
And it's not the work of supermarket pranksters. This National Geographic article explains that in 2048 there may be little to no available seafood to harvest, due to a languishing biodiversity in ecosystems. Apparently it really does take ...
Remember "Bill Nye the Science Guy" (what?)? In middle school science class (or on TV if you were dorky enough as a kid), you've probably watched the TV show. If you're a bit older than us whippersnappers, ...
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27 August 2006, 21:32