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By Ian Simpson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A flock of rare whooping cranes on its inaugural winter migration to Florida are grounded in Alabama while a government agency decides whether a plane guiding them will be allowed to proceed. [More]
Read More »Whooping Crane Migration Given Green Light by FAA
By Ian Simpson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A flock of rare whooping cranes has been given the go-ahead to complete its inaugural winter migration after a U.S. agency lifted restrictions on the pilots, who will guide them wearing bird costumes. [More]
Read More »How Brain Scans Can Help Astronomers Understand Stars
A false color image of Cassiopeia A using observations from both the Hubble and Spitzer telescopes, and Chandra X-ray Observatory. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech They may come from completely different fields of study, but brain scans and supernovae have more in common than you would think. [More]
Read More »PAIN Relief: India on Track to Be Declared Polio-Free Next Month
In the mid-2000s, when scientists questioned whether the campaign to rid the world of polio could succeed, skeptics pointed to a problem that some called PAIN . [More]
Read More »Plight of the Condors
The first California condors to enter the wild in five years took a few hesitant hops on a sandstone cliff, craned pinkish necks over the pre
Read More »Obama to Ban Uranium Mining around Grand Canyon
By Deborah Zabarenko WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration is set to ban new uranium mining claims around the Grand Canyon for the next 20 years, a move hailed by conservation groups as a key to the president's environmental legacy. [More]
Read More »Next Ice Age Not Likely before 1,500 Years
By Nina Chestney LONDON (Reuters) - High levels of carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphere mean the next ice age is unlikely to begin for at least 1,500 years, an article in the journal Nature Geoscience said on Monday. [More]
Read More »Pigs like video games too! Interspecies gaming to combat boredom, aggression in livestock.
I like video games (I will rip up some Assassin’s Creed whenever I get a long weekend, do NOT get me started). My cat likes video games too, even though she doesn’t understand that she’s playing them
Read More »A Crust of Dust: Degradation of Desert Topsoil by Human Activities May Wreak Havoc with the Environment
Desert soil has a living crust that is essential for fixing nitrogen, a critical plant nutrient, and for avoiding erosion that produces a swirl of itinerant dust.
Read More »Endangered Desert Microbes Protect Against Coughs, Sneezes and Red Eye (preview)
One fine afternoon last may, Jayne Belnap drove north out of Moab, Utah, in her beige Lexus SUV when the highway vanished.
Read More »Deep Brain Stimulation for Major Depression: Miracle therapy or just another treatment?
The idea of using deep brain stimulation for treatment of major depressive disorder is one that’s been brewing for a while. Every so often I see another followup or report of a long-term study on deep brain stimulation.
Read More »Hong Kong Air Pollution at Worst Levels Ever
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Air pollution levels in Hong Kong were the worst ever last year, the South China Morning Post reported on Monday, a finding that may further undermine the city's role as an Asian financial centre as business executives relocate because of health concerns. Worsening air quality in Hong Kong caused by vehicle emissions and industrial pollution from the neighboring Pearl River Delta is already forcing many in the financial community to move to Singapore
Read More »The Courage to Be Wrong: Reading the Biography of Stephen Hawking
In July 2010, the editorial department of Scientific American where at the time I was on staff received a review copy of a book was slated to come out in September. It was a slim, drab-looking, paperback-bound volume, still without a cover design or page numbers
Read More »Battles among Ants Resemble Human Warfare (preview)
The raging combatants form a blur on all sides.
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