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Pingers reduce whales caught in nets off Australia
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2009-10-29 08:51:18
Fumanda Marine is teaming up with Australian government organizations to do something about the accidental catching of migrating whales in nets made for sharks. The company’s “pingers” can also be extended to other marine animals needlessly killed in fishing nets and control devices.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2009-10-29 08:51:18
Fumanda Marine is teaming up with Australian government organizations to do something about the accidental catching of migrating whales in nets made for sharks. The company’s “pingers” can also be extended to other marine animals needlessly killed in fishing nets and control devices.
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Is your dog smarter than a two-year-old child?
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2009-08-09 08:46:49
According to a Canadian researcher, dogs are about as intelligent as a 2 to 2.5 year-old human child. However, not all dogs are equal in their IQs. Can you guess the smartest and dumbest dogs around? Yes, Professor Spot hangs around outside the library!
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2009-08-09 08:46:49
According to a Canadian researcher, dogs are about as intelligent as a 2 to 2.5 year-old human child. However, not all dogs are equal in their IQs. Can you guess the smartest and dumbest dogs around? Yes, Professor Spot hangs around outside the library!
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Dogs wagging tails over approval of their first cancer medicine
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Health
2009-06-07 08:36:21
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a skin-tumor cancer drug, Palladia, especially for dogs. Its use will greatly improve the health and well-being of our four-legged friends. Currently treated with human-related cancer drugs, this drug will more effectively treat skin tumor cancer within dogs.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Health
2009-06-07 08:36:21
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a skin-tumor cancer drug, Palladia, especially for dogs. Its use will greatly improve the health and well-being of our four-legged friends. Currently treated with human-related cancer drugs, this drug will more effectively treat skin tumor cancer within dogs.
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Where's the beef? In fewer places to fight climate change
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Climate
2009-02-10 16:27:57
According to a Dutch study, if all humans went on a low-meat diet, then the actions to counter global climate change would be easier and less expensive to accomplish over the next forty years. Are you willing to give up your Big Mac for a Big Veggie?
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Climate
2009-02-10 16:27:57
According to a Dutch study, if all humans went on a low-meat diet, then the actions to counter global climate change would be easier and less expensive to accomplish over the next forty years. Are you willing to give up your Big Mac for a Big Veggie?
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Dogs’ health at risk from human germs
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Health
2009-01-30 11:22:59
A Kansas State University study has learned that humans are much more likely to spread germs to dogs (primarily through poor hand-washing hygiene) than are dogs likely to share germs while licking their owners' faces and other dog bonding behaviors.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Health
2009-01-30 11:22:59
A Kansas State University study has learned that humans are much more likely to spread germs to dogs (primarily through poor hand-washing hygiene) than are dogs likely to share germs while licking their owners' faces and other dog bonding behaviors.
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Darwin developed evolution based on anti-slavery
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2009-01-23 10:11:19
According to the new book about Charles Darwin ("Darwin's Sacred Cause"), the main reason why he developed the controversial theory that all animals including humans evolved from a common ancestor was because of his hatred with the slavery of one group of humans by another group of humans.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2009-01-23 10:11:19
According to the new book about Charles Darwin ("Darwin's Sacred Cause"), the main reason why he developed the controversial theory that all animals including humans evolved from a common ancestor was because of his hatred with the slavery of one group of humans by another group of humans.
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Rare venom-biting mammal caught on video
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2009-01-09 12:21:32
The Hispaniolan Solenodon, also called the Agonta, is an oversized shrew-like creature that has only rarely been seen in the past. Now, the BBC reports that a unique video of the strange venomous mammal has been taken in the Dominican Republic.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2009-01-09 12:21:32
The Hispaniolan Solenodon, also called the Agonta, is an oversized shrew-like creature that has only rarely been seen in the past. Now, the BBC reports that a unique video of the strange venomous mammal has been taken in the Dominican Republic.
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Dogs don't like unfair rewards for doing tricks
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2009-01-08 09:24:07
An Austrian study has concluded that dogs do not like it when they perform tricks for humans and they are not rewarded fairly. Do you think they will form unions and hire lawyers to reverse this canine unfairness?
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2009-01-08 09:24:07
An Austrian study has concluded that dogs do not like it when they perform tricks for humans and they are not rewarded fairly. Do you think they will form unions and hire lawyers to reverse this canine unfairness?
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IUCN Red List: One-fourth of world’s mammals at risk
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2008-10-06 10:14:35
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) produces an annual Red List of species threatened with extinction. Experts estimate that between 21 and 36% of mammal species are threatened with extinction around the world.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2008-10-06 10:14:35
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) produces an annual Red List of species threatened with extinction. Experts estimate that between 21 and 36% of mammal species are threatened with extinction around the world.
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Direct evidence found of first stowaway house mouse
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2008-09-19 09:43:53
British archeologist Thomas Cucchi has discovered what is believed to be the earliest known rodent to stow away on a ship. The 3,500-year-old mouse jaw helps to directly prove for the first time how rodents spread around the world.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2008-09-19 09:43:53
British archeologist Thomas Cucchi has discovered what is believed to be the earliest known rodent to stow away on a ship. The 3,500-year-old mouse jaw helps to directly prove for the first time how rodents spread around the world.
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Unique “Ant from Mars” species discovered in Amazon rainforest
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2008-09-17 12:32:40
A new species of ant, so different from other living ants that it has been nicknamed the “Ant from Mars,” has been discovered in the Brazilian rainforest.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2008-09-17 12:32:40
A new species of ant, so different from other living ants that it has been nicknamed the “Ant from Mars,” has been discovered in the Brazilian rainforest.
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Cows and deer head north, literally
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2008-08-27 11:26:33
German and Czech researchers studied satellites images of thousands of cows and deer around the world and found most of them graze and rest in a north-south position. Could they be sensing the magnetic field of the Earth? Or, maybe they just happened to stand and sit that way? In any case, it’s a pretty mooooving study!
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2008-08-27 11:26:33
German and Czech researchers studied satellites images of thousands of cows and deer around the world and found most of them graze and rest in a north-south position. Could they be sensing the magnetic field of the Earth? Or, maybe they just happened to stand and sit that way? In any case, it’s a pretty mooooving study!
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August 20: First space pets come home and Voyager 2 launched
Written By: William Atkins
Section: UNI-verse
Category: The Science Blog
2008-08-20 11:55:47
Did you know? … That on August 20, 1960, the U.S.S.R. returned—for the first time—two live dogs from space and that, on August 20, 1977, the U.S. launched the NASA Voyager 2 spacecraft, which is still providing important data over thirty years later while racing toward the edge of the solar system.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: UNI-verse
Category: The Science Blog
2008-08-20 11:55:47
Did you know? … That on August 20, 1960, the U.S.S.R. returned—for the first time—two live dogs from space and that, on August 20, 1977, the U.S. launched the NASA Voyager 2 spacecraft, which is still providing important data over thirty years later while racing toward the edge of the solar system.
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Got Milk?: Apparently humans did 8,500 years ago
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2008-08-14 16:37:41
British biogeochemist Richard Evershed of the University of Bristol has discovered ceramic pottery fragments from Turkey that contain milk. These fragments date as far back as the middle part of the seventh millennia B.C.—a full one thousand years earlier than what scientists previously thought prehistoric humans first consumed milk.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2008-08-14 16:37:41
British biogeochemist Richard Evershed of the University of Bristol has discovered ceramic pottery fragments from Turkey that contain milk. These fragments date as far back as the middle part of the seventh millennia B.C.—a full one thousand years earlier than what scientists previously thought prehistoric humans first consumed milk.
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Unproductive grasslands resist climate change and help native species
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Climate
2008-08-04 09:56:59
According to a long-duration U.S./U.K. study of an English grassland, the least productive grasslands in the world are likely to be the most resistant to major changes to the climate while, at the time, provide a much needed “sanctuary” to native plants and animals.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Climate
2008-08-04 09:56:59
According to a long-duration U.S./U.K. study of an English grassland, the least productive grasslands in the world are likely to be the most resistant to major changes to the climate while, at the time, provide a much needed “sanctuary” to native plants and animals.
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Tree shrew chugs down lots of fermented nectar, then walks straight line
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2008-07-28 20:55:21
The pentailed tree shrew has been found by an international team of researchers to drink copious amounts of fermented floral nectar, yet appears to remain sober. The same relative amount of beer drunk by a human would make one feel really drunk.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2008-07-28 20:55:21
The pentailed tree shrew has been found by an international team of researchers to drink copious amounts of fermented floral nectar, yet appears to remain sober. The same relative amount of beer drunk by a human would make one feel really drunk.
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Drivers with road rage like bumper stickers
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2008-06-18 13:38:30
Colorado State University scientists have shown a direct relationship between the number of personalized items on and inside a car (like bumper stickers) and the amount of road rage by such dangerous drivers.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2008-06-18 13:38:30
Colorado State University scientists have shown a direct relationship between the number of personalized items on and inside a car (like bumper stickers) and the amount of road rage by such dangerous drivers.
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