Feb 08 2012
Tiny Primate Communicates Secretly in Ultrasound
The tarsier's high pitch allows him to communicate within his own private channel.
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Feb 07 2012
NASA Puts Out Call for Space Taxis
The U.S. investment in commercial space taxis will soon double.
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Feb 07 2012
Concordia Not the First Sunk by Treacherous Reef
The razor-like rocks off the Tuscan island of Giglio have taken down more than a dozen ancient ships.
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Feb 07 2012
Our Planet, Tangled in Magnetic Spaghetti
OK, so it's not real spaghetti -- it's a computer visualization of the complex magnetic field that creates Earth's magnetosphere -- but it sure looks tangled.
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Feb 07 2012
Deforestation vs. Snow Problem on Kilimanjaro
Deforestation is not seen as a cause for snow loss on Kilimanjaro.
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Feb 07 2012
World’s First Animals Were Namibian Sponges
These animal fossils push back the date of the world's first animals another 100 million years.
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Feb 07 2012
Daredevil to Plunge From Outer Space
Daredevil adventurer Felix Baumgartner's plans to plunge 23 miles from the edge of space back to Earth.
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Feb 07 2012
Women Better at Parking Cars
A new study surveyed 2,500 drivers over the course of a month.
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Feb 07 2012
Gas Rig Burn Pollutes Niger Delta
A Chevron natural gas rig still blazes off the coast of Nigeria after two weeks.
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Feb 07 2012
Do Aliens Go Invisible by ‘Going Green’?
One solution to the Fermi Paradox is that there are "green aliens" that have reached a Utopian state of being in balance with nature by not generating waste products -- and are therefore undetectable.
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