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by William Atkins
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Monday, 09 March 2009 |
According to research by U.S. and Chinese researchers, the world’s hardest material is no longer diamond or nanomaterials. Lonsdaleite has taken over the top hardness spot here on Earth, and wertzite boron nitride is the second hardest material known on Earth. Even though both are very hard, they are also very hard to find in nature.
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by William Atkins
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Sunday, 08 March 2009 |
New evidence from an international team of researchers show that horses were first domesticated about 1,000 years earlier than previously thought. These people rode, milked, and sometimes ate their horses.
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by Davey Winder
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Saturday, 07 March 2009 |
You might think that the world's leading paleontologists had better things to do than reverse engineer a chicken, but you would be wrong.
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by Davey Winder
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Friday, 06 March 2009 |
Who gets to give trees their names, and why would anyone call a new species the No Parking tree?
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by William Atkins
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Friday, 06 March 2009 |
British researchers studied pre-teenage children and found that they excelled in school reading and writing tests and spelling bees even though they spell "what" as "wot" in text messages.
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