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Science

Global Warming Pushes Tropical Insects Towards Extinction

Global Warming Pushes Tropical Insects Towards Extinction

Global warming caused by anthropogenic intervention could have a serious impact on...
» read full story May 06th, 2008 - 13:37
Oops!... 16 Million Bees Loose After Truck Flips On Highway

Oops!... 16 Million Bees Loose After Truck Flips On Highway

You think a bee sting hurts? Sacramento authorities have had to deal with millions of them after a...
» read full story March 18th, 2008 - 14:38
DEET Or How To Become Invisible To Bugs

DEET Or How To Become Invisible To Bugs

You probably would laugh at the perspective of an insect looking at you as its favorite meal of...
» read full story March 14th, 2008 - 14:43
Study: Primates Moved From Asia To North America 55 M Years Ago

Study: Primates Moved From Asia To North America 55 M Years Ago

The fossil of the earliest known primate to have inhabited the North American continent -...
» read full story March 04th, 2008 - 10:45
Scientists Discover New Species Of Elephant-Shrew

Scientists Discover New Species Of Elephant-Shrew

It seems like the Tanazian forests on the Udzungwa Mountains are the home of many mysteries and...
» read full story February 03rd, 2008 - 15:02
Giant Spider Web in Texas Baffles Experts

Giant Spider Web in Texas Baffles Experts

Remember the famous episode in the X-files series, when David Duchovny aka Agent Mulder was nearly...
» read full story August 31st, 2007 - 13:57
DOI Could Overturn MacDonald's Biased Environmental Decisions

DOI Could Overturn MacDonald's Biased Environmental Decisions

The Department of the Interior is expected to overturn politically-biased environmental decisions...
» read full story July 22nd, 2007 - 12:06
Old DNA Samples Reveal Greenland's Was Once Again Warmer

Old DNA Samples Reveal Greenland's Was Once Again Warmer

An international research team recovered the oldest DNA samples and used them to show that...
» read full story July 08th, 2007 - 16:02
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Health

California Heat Wave May Cause New West Nile Virus Outbreak

California Heat Wave May Cause New West Nile Virus Outbreak

The heat wave that brought California down this summer was accompanied, besides the hundreds of...
» read full story July 12th, 2008 - 14:28
Caffeine Protects from Brain Damage in Multiple Sclerosis

Caffeine Protects from Brain Damage in Multiple Sclerosis

Scientists with the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation have found that when consumed in large...
» read full story July 01st, 2008 - 20:49

Report: Tropical Diseases Common among US Poor

Tropical diseases usually common in Africa, Asia and Latin American appear to be also common among...
» read full story June 25th, 2008 - 12:34
Mosquito Wave Hits Cascade County

Mosquito Wave Hits Cascade County

Due to the unusually wet spring that it has experienced this year, Cascade County is now facing a...
» read full story June 21st, 2008 - 00:17
USDA: Irradiation Makes Vegetables Safer

USDA: Irradiation Makes Vegetables Safer

I am sure everybody knows that washing fruits and vegetables at home under the tap is the best way...
» read full story April 12th, 2008 - 21:02
Vaccines against Malaria to Be Tested on Volunteers

Vaccines against Malaria to Be Tested on Volunteers

The Seattle Biomedical Research Institute will pay volunteers as much as $4,000 to be bitten by...
» read full story March 06th, 2008 - 12:44
Screening To Detect Chagas Disease Could Save Lives

Screening To Detect Chagas Disease Could Save Lives

A new screening strategy devised by a team of U.S. researchers could make the detection and...
» read full story December 27th, 2007 - 17:18
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World

Australia Kangaroo Cull Couldn’t Be Stopped

Australia Kangaroo Cull Couldn’t Be Stopped

The killing of the kangaroos started on Monday, at a military base in Canberra and continued...
» read full story May 20th, 2008 - 15:59
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Movies

Rolling the Stone: Sex and the City Has London World Premiere

Rolling the Stone: Sex and the City Has London World Premiere

The much awaited, discussed and dissected “Sex and the City” movie premiered here on...
» read full story May 13th, 2008 - 16:42
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Specials

Pink Floyd's Roger Waters Playing Coachella 2008

Pink Floyd's Roger Waters Playing Coachella 2008

This year’s Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival will benefit from the participation of...
» read full story January 22nd, 2008 - 10:29
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