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America Ponders Pika Protection
Science & Tech  (tags: Earth, environment, ecology, science, pika, animals, endangered )

Scarlett
- 288 days ago - blogs.nature.com
A small, rabbit-like animal in US may soon have something in common with the polar bear. The US Fish and Wildlife Service is considering whether the American pika (Ochotona princeps) should be protected under the endangered species act.
Speedy Songbirds
Science & Tech  (tags: Earth, environment, ecology, birds, songbirds, science )

Scarlett
- 288 days ago - blogs.nature.com
Tiny geolocating "backpacks" have helped scientists discern that songbirds can migrate three times as fast as previously thought, as reported in Science.
Satellites Collide in Orbit
Science & Tech  (tags: space, science, technology, news )

Scarlett
- 291 days ago - spaceflightnow.com
Two satellites have collided in orbit, destroying both. This is the first time such a major collision has ever occurred.
NASA's SkyView Delivers The Multiwavelength Cosmos
Science & Tech  (tags: nasa, SkyView, cosmos, space, science )

Ingrid
- 297 days ago - skynightly.com
Some three million times a year, researchers, educators, and amateur astronomers all over the world ask NASA's SkyView virtual observatory to serve up images of some interesting corner of the cosmos.
Ancient Snake's Massive Size Points to Extra Hot Jungle
Science & Tech  (tags: discovery, snake, science, Titanoboa cerrejonensis, paleontology )

Scarlett
- 297 days ago - richarddawkins.net
Researchers have found the remains of what they are billing as the biggest snake the world has ever known -- an animal estimated to be longer than a city bus and heftier than a car.
The Face of Beauty
Science & Tech  (tags: astronomy, science, space, pretty pictures, NGC 4921, Hubble, Coma cluster of galaxies )

Scarlett
- 297 days ago - blogs.discovermagazine.com
That's NGC 4921, a face-on spiral galaxy in the Coma cluster of galaxies, over 300 million light years away. This Hubble image is a mosaic of 80 separate images, and has stunning clarity and depth.
Over 50 Percent of Americans and British Still Don't Believe in Evolution
Science & Tech  (tags: evolution, creationism, Darwin, science, Americans, British )

Scarlett
- 300 days ago - treehugger.com
This coming February 12th, 2009, will be the 200th Anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth, and subsequently the 150th Anniversary of his theory of evolution.
Malaysian Scientists Find Stone Tools 'Oldest in Southeast Asia'
Science & Tech  (tags: discovery, archaeology, world, interesting )

Scarlett
- 300 days ago - google.com
Malaysian archaeologists have announced the discovery of stone tools they believe are more than 1.8 million years old and the earliest evidence of human ancestors in Southeast Asia.
Ten New Amphibian Species Discovered in Colombia
Science & Tech  (tags: biology, science, amphibians, frogs, wildlife, discovery, Colombia )

Scarlett
- 300 days ago - sciam.com
Ten new species of amphibians -- including three kinds of poisonous frogs and three transparent-skinned glass frogs -- have been discovered in the mountains of Colombia.
Tropical Turtle Fossil Found in Arctic
Science & Tech  (tags: discovery, fossil, archaeology, turtles )

Scarlett
- 300 days ago - richarddawkins.net
The last place scientists expected to find the fossil of a freshwater, tropical turtle was in the Arctic. But they did.
 
 
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