This article is the sixth and probably last article in a minseries of six articles ( see the first , second , third , f ourth and fifth articles here) about civilization, fungus, and alcohol. Very little is known about the beginning of the story of humans and yeast.
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By Neal Ungerleider TASER, best known for their electric shock guns, has a new product: Tiny, sunglass-mounted cameras that upload live footage from a cop's P.O.V. [More]
Read More »Guest Post: End Oil Subsidies? The $4 Billion Question
By now, you have probably heard the call by democrats and environmentalists to end the $4 billion in subsidies for big oil.
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New research points to an ancient energy tradeoff that meant more fuel for brains, and less fuel for muscles. Human brain [More]
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Squid can save energy by flying rather than swimming, according to calculations based on high-speed photography. [More]
Read More »Mexico and U.S. Sign Cross-Border Deep Water Oil Deal
By Andrew Quinn LOS CABOS, Mexico (Reuters) - Mexico and the United States signed an agreement on Monday to help U.S.
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Image courtesy of iStockphoto/sjlocke The number of people who die from HIV-related causes each year in the U.S. is now down to about 12,700 from a peak of more than 50,000 in the mid-1990s thanks to condom education and distribution campaigns, increased testing and improved treatments.
Read More »Rains Let Loose Land Mines, Shut Peru-Chile Border
LIMA (Reuters) - Flooding rivers in Peru and Chile have ruined houses, displaced people, and turned up something more sinister: land mines, which closed the border between the two countries on Monday. Heavy summer rains, which meteorologists attribute to a series of low pressure systems that originated in the southern Atlantic Ocean this month, have wiped out crops in Peru and swollen rivers in northern Chile. Anti-personnel and anti-tank mines laid around Chile's Lluta river watershed in the 1970s, when tensions ran high between the two countries, have also surfaced, officials said
Read More »Warmer Planet Could Be Dominated by Mosquitoes, Tics, Rodents and Jellyfish
Imagine a planet where jellyfish rule the seas, giant rodents roam the mountains and swarms of insects blur everything in sight. It may sound far-fetched, but enough global warming is likely to change the distribution of wildlife on Earth. While species that are under threat, such as the polar bear , seem to get all the attention, others are beginning to thrive like never before.
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Fermilab Set to Reveal “Interesting” Higgs Boson Results [More]
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“This is Friendship 7 . Have beautiful view of the African Coast.” [More]
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Image courtesy of Shelby Temple Octopuses are purportedly colorblind, but they can discern one thing that we can’t: polarized light . This extra visual realm might give them a leg (er, arm) up on some of the competition. [More]
Read More »The History of the Universe: From Big Bang to Big Blah
After the furies of birth, the mature cosmos now evolves more slowly.
Read More »John Glenn: The Man Behind the Hero
On March 1, 1962, thousands of people lined New York City s Broadway.
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