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Put the trees in the ground »
Posted by: okazakifragment3 1 year, 7 months ago in Science & Technology
Of the current global environmental problems, the excessive release of carbon dioxide from the combustion of fossil fuels and the related global warming is one ...
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Chatting with your car may be useful to you -- but also to corporations »
Posted by: okazakifragment3 1 year, 7 months ago in Science & Technology
Years ago, Stanford communication and sociology researcher Clifford Nass wondered why some people treated their computers as humans, instead of machines, a question that led ...
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Children better prepared for school if their parents read aloud to them »
Posted by: okazakifragment3 1 year, 7 months ago in Science & Technology
Young children whose parents read aloud to them have better language and literacy skills when they go to school, according to a review published online ...
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Study: Kids think eyeglasses make other kids look smart »
Posted by: okazakifragment3 1 year, 7 months ago in Style
Young children tend to think that other kids with glasses look smarter than kids who don't wear glasses, according to a new study.
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Fish diet to avoid fights »
Posted by: okazakifragment3 1 year, 7 months ago in Science & Technology
People diet to look more attractive. Fish diet to avoid being beaten up, thrown out of their social group - and getting eaten as a result.
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Microwave zapping kills invasive species before the invasion »
Posted by: okazakifragment3 1 year, 7 months ago in Science & Technology
Scientists in Louisiana are reporting development and successful testing of a new cost-effective system to kill unwanted plants and animals that hitch a ride to ...
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Dying bats in the Northeast remain a mystery »
Posted by: okazakifragment3 1 year, 8 months ago in Science & Technology
Investigations continue into the cause of a mysterious illness that has resulted in the deaths of thousands of bats since March 2008. At more than ...
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'Early birds' adapt to climate change »
Posted by: okazakifragment3 1 year, 8 months ago in Science & Technology
Individual birds can adjust their behaviour to take climate change in their stride, according to a study by scientists from the University of Oxford.
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Tropics are still cooling according to report »
Posted by: okazakifragment3 1 year, 8 months ago in Science & Technology
The La Nina Pacific Ocean cooling event continues to push temperatures in the tropics downward, with the tropical troposphere chilling for the second consecutive month ...
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Cannibalism drives locust outbreaks »
Posted by: okazakifragment3 1 year, 8 months ago in Science & Technology
Since ancient times, locust plagues have been viewed as one of the most spectacular events in nature. In seemingly spontaneous fashion, as many as 10 ...
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Amazon under threat from cleaner air »
Posted by: okazakifragment3 1 year, 8 months ago in Science & Technology
The Amazon rainforest, so crucial to the Earth's climate system, is coming under threat from cleaner air say prominent UK and Brazilian climate scientists ...
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Platypus genome explains animal's peculiar features »
Posted by: okazakifragment3 1 year, 8 months ago in Science & Technology
The duck-billed platypus: part bird, part reptile, part mammal -- and the genome to prove it.
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Iron 'snow' helps maintain Mercury's magnetic field, scientists say »
Posted by: okazakifragment3 1 year, 8 months ago in Science & Technology
New scientific evidence suggests that deep inside the planet Mercury, iron "snow" forms and falls toward the center of the planet, much like snowflakes form ...
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Why face symmetry is sexy across cultures and species »
Posted by: okazakifragment3 1 year, 8 months ago in Style
In humans, faces are an important source of social information. One property of faces that is rapidly noticed is attractiveness. Research has highlighted symmetry and ...
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Seed dispersal in mauritius -- dead as a dodo? »
Posted by: okazakifragment3 1 year, 8 months ago in Science & Technology
Walking through the last rainforests on the volcanic island of Mauritius, located some 800 km east of Madagascar, one is surrounded by ghosts. Since human ...
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