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Honeybees Trained in Croatia to Find Land Mines
Science & Tech  (tags: Croatia, honeybees, land mines, mines, TNT, environment, discovery, habitat, interesting, news, NewTechnology, safety, science, study, technology, world, unusual, offbeat, odd )

Janet
- 11 hours ago - news.yahoo.com
Croatian researchers are training honeybees to find unexploded mines littering their country and the rest of the Balkans.
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NASA's Asteroid Sample Return Mission Moves Into Development
Science & Tech  (tags: astronomy, design, discovery, humans, interesting, investigation, nasa, research, science, society, space, study, technology, world )

James
- 22 hours ago - nasa.gov
The Origins-Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) passed a confirmation review Wednesday called Key Decision Point (KDP)-C.
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Starving Settlers in Jamestown Colony Resorted to Cannibalism
Science & Tech  (tags: ancient, archaeology, discovery, history )

Marty
- 12 hours ago - smithsonianmag.com
The harsh winter of 1609 in Virginia's Jamestown Colony forced residents to do the unthinkable. A recent excavation at the historic site discovered the carcasses of dogs, cats and horses consumed during the season commonly called the "Starving Time."
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The True-Life Horror That Inspired Moby-Dick
Science & Tech  (tags: history, interesting, discovery )

Marty
- 12 hours ago - blogs.smithsonianmag.com
In July of 1852, a 32-year-old novelist named Herman Melville had high hopes for his new novel, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, despite the book's mixed reviews and tepid sales. That month he took a steamer to Nantucket for his first visit to the Massachusetts
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El Mirador, the Lost City of the Maya
Science & Tech  (tags: ancient, archaeology, discovery )

Marty
- 12 hours ago - smithsonianmag.com
Had we been traveling overland, it would have taken two or three days to get from the end of the road at Carmelita to El Mirador: long hours of punishing heat and drenching rain, of mud and mosquitoes, and the possibility that the jungle novice in our
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Interpol Filter Scope Creep: Australia Ordering Unilateral Website Blocks
Science & Tech  (tags: technology, world, tech, safety, internet, investigation, discovery )

JL
- 3 hours ago - delimiter.com.au
Australia's financial regulator has started requiring ISPs to block websites suspected of providing fraudulent financial opportunities, opening the door for other agencies to unilaterally block sites they deem questionable.
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The Invisible Beauty of Flowers: Images of Petals, Leaves and Pollen Captured By Electron Microscope
Science & Tech  (tags: The invisible beauty of flowers: Images , leaves and pollen captured by electron m )

Agnes
- 1 hour ago - dailymail.co.uk
These cutting-edge images reveal the usually invisible beauty of flowers, zooming right in on their vibrant colours and quirky textures.
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Out of 11,944 Peer-Reviewed Climate Papers, 97.2% Agree on Man-Made Global Warming
Science & Tech  (tags: Out of 11, 944 peer-reviewed climate papers, 97.2% agree on man-made global warming )

Agnes
- 54 minutes ago - treehugger.com
Why do so many people still believe there's a scientific debate? A new meta-study by John Cook et al titled "Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific literature" tells us what a lot of us already knew; that there's a
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Deadly Fungus Brought Into US -- By Frogs
Science & Tech  (tags: Deadly fungus brought into US -- by frog )

Agnes
- 41 minutes ago - foxnews.com
African frogs once imported to laboratories and hospitals around the world may have carried with them a devastating fungal infection thought to be responsible for a rapid, global decline in amphibians, according to new research.
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