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Read More »Spring allergies: Seven natural remedies
M.D. spotlights alternative treatments for itchy eyes, clogged noses, sneezing and other symptoms sufferers experience
Read More »Masters of Disguise: Animal Mimics Fool Their Foes (preview)
The year was 1848. a young British naturalist named Henry Walter Bates had gone to the Amazon with fellow countryman Alfred Russel Wallace to look for evidence of the origin of species. Over the course of his 11-year stay, he noticed that local relatives of a European butterfly known as the cabbage white--the pierids--were bedecked in the showy reds and yellows of rain forest butterflies called heliconids
Read More »Menagerie of Mimics: Animals Don a Variety of Disguises to Avoid Predation [Slide Show]
You might have learned about mimicry in high school biology class. [More]
Read More »PGT: Mickelson shoots 71, blasts Sawgrass setup
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Read More »Video: Major breakthrough in HIV prevention
A study claims treating HIV patients early on can dramatically lower the chances they'll transmit the virus to their sexual partners. Dr.
Read More »PGT: Watney bounces back, leads The Players
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Read More »Twitter Helped Doctors Tell Patients Where to Get Meds After Japan Earthquake
In the hours after the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and massive tsunami hit Japan in March, essential infrastructure and communication were cut off, leaving many of the disasters' survivors without access to phones, electricity or water.
Read More »HIV May Be Culprit in Spread of Measles
Measles has been all but eradicated in the developed world, but it still claims more than 160,000 lives in developing countries. Sub-Saharan Africa, in particular, has been hit hard in the past few years.
Read More »Fukushima reactor has a hole, leading to leakage
By Yoko Kubota and Scott DiSavino TOKYO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - One of the reactors at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant has a hole in its main vessel following a meltdown of fuel rods, leading to a leakage of radioactive water, its operator said on Thursday. [More]
Read More »Behind The Music: Google Bungles Music Beta Launch, Leaves PO’d Record Labels In An Uproar
Google's Music Beta system sounds like a great idea from a user point of view--you get almost instant access to your tunes, no matter where you are or which computing platform you're using (the only downside being its gobbling of bandwidth).
Read More »U.S. Investigates Safety of Natural Gas "Fracking"
By Nicola Jones of Nature magazine When audiences saw dramatic scenes of people setting their tap water on fire in the Oscar-nominated documentary Gasland, hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," was thrown into the spotlight. [More]
Read More »Taming Floods a Familiar Task for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
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Read More »GolfChannel: Video from Tiger’s first round
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