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Science & Tech News tagged with interesting

Scientists Zero in on Reason for Mammoths' Demise
Science & Tech  (tags: scientists, discovery, mammoths, demise, interesting, investigation, research )

Simone
- 5 hours ago - latimes.com
About 15,000 years ago, North America was home to an astonishing number of large plant-eating mammals -- giant sloths, mastodons, mammoths. A thousand years later, they were all gone, wiped from the face of the Earth with sudden finality. Scientists
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Effects of Judge's Katrina Ruling Could Be Huge
Science & Tech  (tags: design, levees, science, investigation, interesting, KATRINA, technology, tech, society, safety )

Cal
- 10 hours ago - latimes.com
The finding that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is liable for much of the New Orleans flooding could change how levees are designed nationwide.
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U. of C.'s Sereno Unveils Ancient Crocodile Fossils
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Lone
- 22 hours ago - chicagotribune.com
Crocodiles may have a nasty, nightmarish reputation among most people, but the leathery, snappish critters have been around so long that they probably gave most dinosaurs a fright, too
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NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory Investigates the Sun's Cycle of Highs and Lows
Science & Tech  (tags: astronomy, computer, concept, discovery, energy, interesting, nasa, NewTechnology, news, research, scientists, science, space, study, technology, world )

PinkMindy
- 1 day ago - astronomy.com
How intense will the next solar cycle be? Can we predict when a violent solar storm will blast Earth with energetic particles? Could a prolonged period of inactivity on the sun plunge Earth into a prolonged winter?
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Scientists Create Bacteria That Lights Up Around Landmines
Science & Tech  (tags: world, technology, tech, interesting, US, military stealth )

Katie
- 2 days ago - treehugger.com
A stunning 87 countries around the world are still littered with undetonated landmines, and their impact is devastating. Tens of thousands of people are killed or injured by mines every year, and they pose a grave threat to ecosystems and wildlife.
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One Night Only: Leonid Meteor Shower
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Lone
- 3 days ago - latimes.com
The annual Leonid meteor shower will make its one-night appearance over North America tonight. Viewing conditions should be excellent because the peak will occur after midnight, when the lights of metropolitan areas will be at
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South Pole Explorers to Drill for Sir Ernest Shackleton's Whisky
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Marty
- 4 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
Explorers are planning to recover a rare batch of whisky lost during explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton's ill-fated voyage to the South Pole a century ago.
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Glencoe Massacre Orders Displayed
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Marty
- 4 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
A 300-year-old document which led to one of the most infamous episodes in Scottish history is to go on display.
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Where To Watch Tomorrow's Leonid Meteor Showers
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Daphna
- 5 days ago - environmentalgraffiti.com
The Leonid Meteor shower is back once again! The Leonids are an easily observed and frequent meteor shower. On November 16th and 17th 2009, the display is predicted to be exceptional at many locations. The Leonid Meteors appear to radiate from the constel
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Film Fakery....The Movie "The Fourth Kind" Is Not Based on Fact.
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Wolfweeps
- 9 days ago - newsminer.com
But the publicity division of Universal Studios decided that the best way to get people to pay to see it is to spread false claims that the movie is a documentary with "archival footage" and "actual case studies" about alien abductions to back up every
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Asteroid Passes Just 8,700miles From Earth - With Only 15 Hours Warning
Science & Tech  (tags: asteriods, earth, space, study, interesting, discovery, technology, research )

Simone
- 10 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
Although no one noticed at the time, the Earth was almost hit by an asteroid last Friday. The previously undiscovered asteroid came within 8,700miles of Earth but astronomers noticed it only 15 hours before it made its closest approach. To put it
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How the Bushmen of Africa Can Save Us From the Global Water Crisis (Video)
Science & Tech  (tags: climate, environment, humans, interesting, history, research, science, technology, world, study )

Daphna
- 11 days ago - treehugger.com
I started in on a book about a month ago titled Heart of Dryness, which discusses how the bushmen of the Kalahari can teach us what we need to know about how to live in dry climates, something we're all increasingly finding ourselves in as we drill oursel
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Calf Walks Again on False Legs
Science & Tech  (tags: goodnews, environment, sadness, calf, animalwelfare, humans, protection, AnimalWelfare, technology, research, interesting )

Suzybell
- 11 days ago - metro.co.uk
A calf who lost her two back hooves to frostbite is back frolicking in the fields of New Mexico - thanks to a pair of prosthetic limbs. The calf, named Meadow, was found a few months ago by rancher Nancy Dickenson and her stepdaughter, Martha. She had lo
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Even Babies Have "Accents," Crying Study Finds
Science & Tech  (tags: children, babies, research, science, interesting, humans )

Daphna
- 12 days ago - news.nationalgeographic.com
Newborn babies start learning language in the womb--and are born with what you might call accents, a new study of crying babies says. That fetuses hear and become accustomed to language is nothing new. Several studies have shown that, when ex
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Giant Crack in Africa May Create a New Ocean
Science & Tech  (tags: scientists, research, volcano, eruption, interesting, discovery )

Lone
- 12 days ago - msnbc.msn.com
A 35-mile rift in the desert of Ethiopia will likely become a new ocean eventually, researchers now confirm
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