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NestWatch

NestWatch aims to provide a unified nest-monitoring scheme to track reproductive success for all North American breeding birds [More]

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Amateur hour at British Open

Twenty-year-old Tom Lewis posted the lowest round ever by an amateur in golf's oldest major, pulling even with Thomas Bjorn at 5-under 65 to share the first-round lead at the British Open.

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Romo, Smoltz among stars at Tahoe celebrity golf

A rivalry between quarterbacks and pitchers resumes at Lake Tahoe on Friday when Tony Romo, Aaron Rodgers, John Smoltz and Rick Rhoden are among those set to tee off in the 22nd American Century Celebrity Golf Championship.

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Piece of Mind: Is the Internet Replacing Our Ability to Remember?

Has the Internet dumbed down society or simply become an external storage unit that enhances the human brain's memory capacity? With Google , Internet Movie Database and Wikipedia at our beck and call via smart phones, tablets and laptops, the once essential function of committing facts to memory has become little more than a flashback to flash cards. This shift is not necessarily a bad thing, nor is it irreversible, according to a team of researchers whose study on search engines and learning appears in the July 15 issue of Science

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Genetically Modified Salmon Will Kill Regular Salmon

Escaped GM salmon could breed and pass on their genes in the wild--and those genes could cause weak salmon that eventually die off. The GM salmon companies say they have a solution to keep their fish sterile, but remember: Nature finds a way

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The Civil War and Malaria

EDITOR’S NOTE: We now know that a single-celled sporozoan of the Plasmodium genus causes malaria. It was discovered to be a parasite in 1880, by Alphonse Laveran, a French army surgeon in Algeria, and its transmission by the mosquito was first demonstrated in 1897 by Ronald Ross, a British officer in the Indian Medical Service

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