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Monkeys are adept at picking up social cues, research shows
Vervet monkeys relinquished their dislike of a colored corn when they changed location and saw other monkeys eating it. But it turns out people are...
Friday, 26 April 2013
Electric-taxi experiment asks if city’s cabbies can spare the time to plug in
The taxis are not entirely yellow. Their drivers are allowed to refuse certain fares. Even the smell is different, with no oil-rich odor greeting ride...
Tuesday, 23 April 2013
From Texas to China: When man-made problems make natural disasters worse
On any other week, the events would have dominated the news. On April 16, an out-of-control fire at a fertilizer plant in the town of West, Texas, led...
Tuesday, 23 April 2013
Edinburgh Zoo pandas: Artificial insemination carried out on Tian Tian
Artificial insemination has been carried out on Edinburgh Zoo's female giant panda Tian Tian. The zoo said panda specialists performed the proce...
Monday, 22 April 2013
Life on Mars to become a reality in 2023, Dutch firm claims
A few months before he died, Carl Sagan recorded a message of hope to would-be Mars explorers, telling them: Whatever the reason you're on Mars i...
Monday, 22 April 2013
Environment climate change pause exposes gaps in scientists' theories
A study by Dutch experts sought to explain why there is now more sea ice in winter. It concluded melted ice from Antarctica was refreezing on the ocea...
Sunday, 21 April 2013
Massive amounts of charcoal enter the worlds' oceans
Wild fires turn millions of hectares of vegetation into charcoal each year. An international team of researchers led by Thorsten Dittgar from the Max ...
Sunday, 21 April 2013
Earthquakes are East Coast's biggest tsunami threat
The U.S. East Coast's biggest tsunami threat lurks just offshore, according to research presented today (April 19) at the Seismological Society of...
Saturday, 20 April 2013
Could your town explode?
The fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas, on Wednesday (April 17) killed at least a dozen people and destroyed several blocks of the small town. ...
Saturday, 20 April 2013
Could life be older than Earth itself?
Applying a maxim from computer science to biology raises the intriguing possibility that life existed before Earth did and may have originated outside...
Friday, 19 April 2013
 
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