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Botanical Whales
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OK, OK, a plant canâ??t really look a person in the eye and share its thoughts. But after a strange couple of days, Iâ??m almost ready to commune with vegetable matter. A string of wet, pinkie-tipâ??sized
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DNA from Asian carp found 7 miles from Lake Michigan
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Sophisticated genetic testing in Chicago area waterways has found evidence of the dreaded Asian carp within seven miles of Lake Michigan, federal and state officials said in a cautious note of concern
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Experts: Ancient crocodile ate dinosaurs
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Chicago -- Two paleontologists said at least one species of crocodiles that existed nearly 100 million years ago in Africa actually fed on dinosaurs. University of Chicago paleontologist Paul Sereno and
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New fossils reveal a crocodile world
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GET OUT OF THE WAY: A flesh model of the head of BoarCroc discovered in the Sahara by a team led by paleontologist Paul Sereno. Relevant offers Obama turban billboard stirs debate Police officer killed
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Why bird flu has not become a pandemic
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Washington, Nov 19 : A new study by American and British scientists has tried to explain why bird flu has not become a pandemic disease. The report prepared by scientists from Imperial College London,
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Study examines how viruses attack bacteria
- 10 Hours ago
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Washington, Nov 19 : Scientists say they are investigating how some viruses, known for attacking humans and animals, instead attack bacteria. Texas A&M University researchers say information about
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Editorials on breast cancer recommendations
- 11 Hours ago
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The following editorial appeared in the Dallas Morning News on Friday, Nov. 20: VALUE OF MAMMOGRAPHY GUIDELINES There are many dangers inherent in the release of new recommendations against routine annual
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Kid's Astronomy: Celestial Birds Migrate West?
- 12 Hours ago
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Hello, Cosmic Kids! As the seasons change, not only do the Earthly birds migrate, but so do the celestial ones. In the Northern Hemisphere, it's not unusual to see large flocks of our feathered friends
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Origin of life: Generating RNA molecules in water
- 13 Hours ago
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A key question in the origin of biological molecules like RNA and DNA is how they first came together billions of years ago from simple precursors. Researchers in Italy have reconstructed one of the earliest
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Corn Genome Sequencing Complete
- 12 Hours ago
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Results of the Maize Genome Sequencing Projectâ?¦the first comprehensive gene map of North American Cornâ?¦ will be made available to the public today by the National Corn Growers Association. Publication
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'Hobbits' Were a Distinct Species, Study Concludes
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FRIDAY, Nov. 20 (HealthDay News) --The ancient dwarfs known as 'hobbits' weren't humans shrunk down by disease, scientists now say, but instead, they were a distinct human species. The researchers came
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Scientists find secrets from mapping corn genome
- 11/20/2009
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Corn seems to be a good answer. Now the scientific world has at hand the complete genome sequence of corn, announced by researchers who have collaborated over the past four years and published their results
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Sushi DNA Tests Reveal Fraud
- 17 Hours ago
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A biologist walks into a sushi bar and orders some tuna. What does he get? Escolar, a nasty fish with buttery flesh that can cause bizarre episodes of diarrhea, accompanied by a waxy intestinal discharge.
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Scientists zero in on reason for mammoths' demise
- 11/20/2009
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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
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Cigarettes Harbor Many Bacteria Harmful to Human Health
- 16 Hours ago
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Cigarettes are 'widely contaminated' with bacteria, including some known to cause disease in people, concludes a new international study conducted by a University of Maryland environmental health researcher
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Mammoth dung clue to changing landscape
- 21 Hours ago
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MADISON, Wis., Nov. 20 (UPI) -- A study of mammoth dung from a lake bed in Indiana suggests a crashing comet did not wipe out North America's largest ice age animals, scientists said.
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