#Lemurs Snooze in Caves Like Early Humans Some of Madagascar's ring-tailed lemurs head to bed in caves every night new research finds.
What we are seeing is a consistent habitual use of caves as sleeping sites by these primates a wonderful behavioral adaptation we had known not about before.
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#Let's Not'Feed The World':'Moving Beyond an Unhelpful Phrase (Op-Ed) Margaret Mellon is a senior scientist for food and the environment at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS.
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#'Longhorn'Dinosaur Fossil Discovered in Utah The fossilized remains of a newly identified dinosaur with horns so long they would put Triceratops to shame has been discovered in the Utah desert.
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#'Lost'Medieval City Discovered Beneath Cambodian Jungle A lost city known only from inscriptions that existed some 1200 years ago near Angkor in
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#Making Maps In The Brain (ISNS)--Disorientation is often one of the first warnings of Alzheimer's disease.
In research reported in November in the journal Nature three Rhesus monkeys looked at images on a computer screen
what the female's ability is said Bob Montgomerie biologist at Queen's university in Kingston Ontario who was involved not in the research.
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There is no algorithm known to decide whether such an equation has finitely many or infinitely many solutions.
if known would give such an algorithm. He and his student proved that if you let a
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#Meet Your Mama: First Ancestor of All Placental mammals Revealed A tiny furry-tailed creature is the most complete picture yet as to
However for this new project the researchers generated a groundbreaking 4500 characters using a cloud-based and publicly accessible database called Morphobank.
This website allowed members of the team spread all over the globe to work simultaneously. Combining both DNA and morphological datasets led to an unprecedented amount of information for each of the 83 mammals they investigated.
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#Megadrought Took Long-lasting Toll on Amazon During the summer of 2005 a stretch of rainforest in the Amazon nearly double the size of California experienced a severe drought.
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#Megalodon Mystery: What Killed Earth's Largest Shark? LOS ANGELES Megalodon the most massive shark ever to prowl the oceans may have gotten so big that it was prone to extinction.
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#Melting Sea Ice Keeps Hungry Polar bears On land Polar bears the iconic victims of climate change are shifting their migration patterns because of changes in sea ice.
and off the ice is an important aspect of monitoring the risks to the population associated with climate change study leader Seth Cherry a graduate student in ecology at the University of Alberta Canada told Livescience in an email.
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#MERS Virus Found in Camels Camels are carriers of the new Middle east respiratory syndrome (MERS) virus according to a new study.
Their time at sites like Chaco Canyon to the south influenced them and they brought back a type of building
Another thing the people appear to have brought from their time outside Mesa verde was connections to a vast trade network. oethe presence of Chaco-style pottery vessels macaw-feather sashes
and copper bells at some sites indicates that the Pueblo people of the Mesa verde region were part of a vast trading network that included not only Chaco Canyon
Built near springs the naturally enclosed sites offered protection against both the elements and intruders. oemany of the cliff dwellings at Mesa verde are small only one
He notes that one of the largest cliff-dwelling sites is a place we call oecliff Palace.
Another population collapse occurred this time at the end of the 13th century leaving sites like Cliff Palace abandoned
The people appear to have migrated south again to sites in Arizona and New mexico. Why this second and very dramatic collapse in population occurred is a mystery.
With the population shrinking the site fell into ruin and oerefuse was being deposited in once-important civic
Make a hypothesis about the ph of the soil based on the type of plants observed at each collection site.
Spread a soil sample on a Teflon cookie sheet and place in a 350-degree oven for 15 minutes.
Make sure the cookie sheet is cleaned and dried for each new sample Performing the test There are several ways that you can test the ph of your soil samples:
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and satellite images to track the recent development of the Amazon road network. The team's report which was published this month in the journal Regional Environmental Change concluded that approximately 10000 miles (17000 km) of roads were built every year in Brazil between 2004 and 2007.
Not surprisingly road networks were found to spread the most quickly in newly settled areas as well as in areas experiencing renewed economic growth.
An understanding of road networks is the big missing gap in our ability to predict the future of this region.
Past research suggests that certain configurations of road networks in the Amazon are more sustainable than others.
Such a network allows roads to be built far enough away from one another that animals and connected ecosystems can continue to thrive despite the intrusion of human infrastructure.
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#Most Ancient Romans Ate Like Animals Ancient Romans are known for eating well with mosaics from the empire portraying sumptuous displays of fruits vegetables cakes and of course wine.
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and initially thought he was caught off-guard by a pop-up thunderstorm that wasn't in the forecast Matthew Havin data services manager at weather technology company Baron Services told Livescience in an email.
Dental implant Ends Up in Woman's Sinus</a p><p></p><p>A lead curse tablet dating back around 1700 years
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</p><p>Two of the five main databases that catalog exoplanet discoveries list 1010 confirmed alien worlds as of today (Oct 23.
or removes cookies and candies from our diets and replaces them with fruits and vegetables is going to feel better.
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#Most People Shouldn't Eat Gluten-Free Many Americans are considering cutting back on the amount of gluten in their diets
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#Mount etna: Facts About Volcano's Eruptions Mount etna is the largest active volcano in Italy. Located near the east coast of the island of Sicily it is 10900 feet (3329 meters) tall with a base circumference of about 93 miles (150 kilometers.
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#Mysterious Elk Deaths Plague New mexico Officials with the New mexico Department of Game and Fish are puzzling over the mysterious deaths of more than 100 elk apparently all within a 24-hour period in rural New mexico.
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and his colleague Nichole Barger from the University of Colorado at Boulder first measured the size density and landscape occupancy of fairy circle sites across Namibia using both Google earth and ground surveys.
Finally they plugged the information along with climate data such as seasonal precipitation and temperatures into their computer models.
The 10 Strangest Sights on Google earth We found that the size of the circle the density
It is unclear how peripheral grass resource-competition could induce such abrupt and synchronized plant mortality over an entire patch Naudã who has studied previously fairy circles told Livescience in an email.
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#Mysterious Shaman Stones Uncovered in Panama Archaeologists have unearthed nearly 5000-year-old shaman's stones in a rock shelter in Panama.
That suggests they had been carried there likely in a leather pouch that has disintegrated long since said study co-author Ruth Dickau an archaeologist at the University of Exeter in an email.
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#Mystery of Irish potato Famine Solved The irish potato famine that caused mass starvation and approximately 1 million deaths in the mid-19th century was triggered by a newly identified strain of potato blight that has been christened HERB-1 according to a new study.
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Monadnock State Park N h. The 1000 acres of New hampshire's Monadnock State Park include the 3165-foot-high (965 meters) Mount Monadnock a magnet for hikers (the park's website
Autumn's Best Colors The area is currently at 80 percent of its peak fall color according to New hampshire's tourism website with the best bets for amazing views in upland areas where sugar maples are a riot of yellow and orange.
The area is currently at 85 percent of its peak with the full peak expected in the third week of October according to Wisconsin's tourism site.
and its website suggests a weekday trip to avoid the crowds. Find out more: http://www. tpwd. state. tx. us/state-parks/lost-maples) King-Castle Trail Ore.
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#New Earth Explorer Satellite to Map Global Forests The European space agency hopes to launch a new Earth Explorer satellite in 2020 that will map the extent and composition of the world s forests.
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#New Kiln Advances Science of Thermally Modified Wood Products This Research in Action article was provided to Livescience in partnership with the National Science Foundation.
It is also more resistant to rot-inducing fungi. oeour goal is to see regional wood species being used to make a new class of high-performance engineered wood products that excel in demanding environmental conditions said Matt Aro NRRI
A site near Stonehenge has revealed archaeological evidence that hunters lived just a mile from Stonehenge roughly 5000 years prior to the construction of the first stones new research suggests.
What's more the site which was occupied continuously for 3000 years had evidence of burning thousands of flint tool fragments and bones ofâ wild aurochs a type of extinct giant cow.
That suggests the area near Stonehenge may have been an auroch migration route that became an ancient feasting site drawing people together from across different cultures in the region wrote lead researcher David Jacques of the Open University in the United kingdom in an email.
Researchers think the giant boulders came from a quarry near Marlborough Downs just 20 miles (32 kilometers) from the iconic site
when he spotted a site known as Vespasian's Camp just a mile from Stonehenge in nearby Amesbury.
That suggests the people from different regions were coming together at the site Jacques wrote. Ancient builders?
Excavations dating to 2008 at Stonehenge also confirm earlier use at the megalithic site Darvill wrote.
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By designating these remarkable sites as national natural landmarks we recognize two extraordinary examples of landscapes in America that were commonplace at one time
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#New world's Oldest Tomatillo Discovered A fossilized tomatillo still in its papery shell is the earliest fruit from the tomato family ever found in South america researchers reported Oct 30 at the Geological Society of America's annual
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#Oldest Known Wild Bird Hatches Healthy Chick The oldest known wild bird in the United states has hatched a chick for the sixth year in a row.
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#Oldest Royal Wine cellar Uncorked in Israel Archaeologists have uncovered the oldest known palatial wine cellar in the middle East at a site in Israel.
 Intoxicating discovery The wine storage room is at a site called Tel Kabri in northern Israel where archaeologists are unearthing the remains of a sprawling palace dating back to about 1700 B c. that was built
7 Amazing Archaeological Finds Wine chemistry At the excavation site Brandeis University researcher Andrew Koh who specializes in archaeological chemistry took shards of the pots
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#On Mozambique Coast, Food Grows Alongside Species Diversity (Op-Ed) Brendan Fisher is a research scientist for World Wildlife Fund (WWF.
This Op-Ed was adapted from a guest blog he wrote for Science Driven. Fisher contributed this article to Livescience's Expert Voices:
This article was adapted from Farming Fishing and Small Miracles in Mozambique for the WWF blog Science Driven.
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#One World trade center: A Look at the World's Tallest Things In a hotly anticipated decision a blue-ribbon panel of experts Tuesday (Nov 12) declared That one World trade center in New york city is the tallest building in the United states. The Height Committee of the Council on Tall Buildings
which stands at 1451 feet (442 m). The committee ruled that the needle is in fact a spire that's integral to the building and not an add-on like an antenna.
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#Optical Technique Sorts Grapes for Wine Quality (ISNS) A team of German scientists has developed an automated process that sorts grapes into different levels of quality for winemaking.
After the scan the system's software takes over. Based on its analysis of the colors of individual items on the belt it controls air jets that blow bad grapes and detritus off the belt and sorts the remaining berries into grades for production of various qualities
In effect the software takes over the role of categorizing individual grapes from human experts. It does so more cheaply and consistently.
Fraunhofer IOSB developed the imaging technology image processing and software. Two German companies Armbruster Kelterie-Technologie based in GÃ glingen-Frauenzimmern
while we are experts in imaging real-time data processing and developing sorting systems we lacked knowledge of grapes Vieth said.
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#Overshoot Day: Living Too large on a Finite Planet (Op-Ed) Jon Hoekstra is chief scientist for the World Wildlife Fund (WWF.
This article is adapted from one that first appeared on Hoekstra's WWF blog Science Driven.
According to the Global Footprint Network Earth Overshoot day became an issue around 1975. That's when humanity's ecological footprint first exceeded the biocapacity of the planet.
and steps you can take check out the Global Footprint Network's footprint calculator. Hoekstra's most recent Op-Ed was Conservation 3. 0:
Living Too large on a Finite Planeton Hoekstra's WWF blog Science Driven. The views expressed are those of the author
Versailles official website) Scholars have suggested a number of factors that led LOUIS XIV to build a great palace complex at Versailles and move The french government there.
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#Paleozoic era: Facts & Information The Paleozoic era which ran from about 542 million years ago to 251 million years ago was a time of great change On earth.
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Nevertheless she's at the front of the line asking the federal government for money to help victims of South dakota's early-October blizzard said former U s. Treasury economist Joann Weiner in a Washington post blog Post it appears that Noem is against federal
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#Person-to-person H7n9 Transmission: First Case Detailed in New Report The case of a father and daughter in China who both became infected with H7n9 bird flu provides the strongest evidence yet that the virus can transmit from person to person experts say.
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but for some reason they haven't really been on anybody's radar screen until recently said Smalling who is based at the USGS California Water Sciences Center in Sacramento.
Earlier studies by the USGS researchers found toxic pesticide concentrations in several frog species living in the national parks. In 2009 and 2010 the scientists resurveyed many of the same sites Smalling said.
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We hope to partner with local landowners to protect these cave sites as well as the forests that surround them
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#Planting the Seed of Sustainable Farming: Op-Ed Suzy Friedman sustainable agriculture director for the Environmental Defense Fundâ contributed this article to Livescience's Expert Voices:
It s the processors and brand-name companies like Kellogg s Coca-cola General mills Walmart and Mcdonald's.
Vanishing wisdom Many of the plants featured in Wild Medicine sit in a replica of Italy's Orto Botanico di Padova in Padua a UNESCO World Heritage site
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#Poop Sausage to Pee Drinks: 7 Gross'Human Foods'With food taste is highly subjective.</
reviews on Amazon com aims to change the fact that semen has been " neglected as a food. "
#Precision farming Gains Global Foothold (Op-Ed) Lloyd Treinish leads the environmental science team in the Industry Solutions Department at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research center.
A co-developer of IBM's Deep Thunder precision agriculture system he contributed this article to Livescience's Expert Voices:
At IBM we developed a precision agriculture weather-modeling service using Deep Thunder our Big data analytics technology for local customized high-resolution and rapid weather predictions.
The system then combines the field data with a diversity of public data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric administration the National aeronautics and space administration and the U s. Geological Survey and private data from companies like Earth Networks.
and predicting of weather effects on transportation networks can help farmers make better decisions about
The address will be webcast live on the university's website. According to top White house officials the president's climate strategy will focus on three key areas:
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This elephant Eden now a crown jewel in the three-nation Sangha Trinational World Heritage Site is under attack.
The dive shop owner confided that a local fisherman had found a site teeming with fish
and other sites the dive shop owner refused to disclose the location for many years Raines said.
In 2012 the owner finally revealed the site's location after swearing Raines to secrecy.
and together with geographer Kristine Delong of Louisiana State university set out to discover the site's secrets.
and analyzed two samples Raines took from trees Delong is planning her own dive at the site later this year.
The team which has published not yet their results in a peer-reviewed journal is currently applying for grants to explore the site more thoroughly.
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#Produce From Urban Gardens Could Contain Lead Urban food gardens offer a great source of affordable nutritious fruits
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#Protecting the Nation's Drinking water Means Protecting Forests (Op-Ed) Kathy Abusow is president and CEO of the Sustainable Forestry Initiative.
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#Puzzling Plumage: Fractals Reveal Birds'Health For birds fractals are a turn on. A new study found that the complexity of fractal patterns on a bird's chest communicates the animal's fitness to potential mates.
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#Quail Moms Customize Their Egg Camouflage Quail eggs are like fingerprints a new study suggests.
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and South america in March returning with images of volcanoes Amazon floods and archaeological sites. The small Gulfstream-III passenger plane carries a 10-foot-long (3 meters) radar pod the unmanned aerial vehicle synthetic aperture radar (UAVSAR.
The radar scans Earth's surface with radio waves to detect and measure changes of less than half an inch (1 centimeter).
In South america the sites ranged from Chilean wineries and shrinking tropical glaciers to Amazon cloud forests and Moche culture archaeological sites in Peru.
and understanding carbon processes said Zheng who is based at NASA's Jet propulsion laboratory in Pasadena Calif. The UAVSAR data is higher resolution with less interfering noise than most such data from satellites according to NASA.
Its GPS SYSTEM flies the plane in a line with real-time corrections via satellite phone providing global coverage.
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#Radar Plane Scans Volcanoes, Archaeological Sites NASA's globetrotting remote-sensing plane wrapped up a month-long trip to Central
and South america in March returning with images of volcanoes Amazon floods and archaeological sites. The small Gulfstream-III passenger plane carries a 10-foot-long (3 meters) radar pod the unmanned aerial vehicle synthetic aperture radar (UAVSAR.
The radar scans Earth's surface with radio waves to detect and measure changes of less than half an inch (1 centimeter).
In South america the sites ranged from Chilean wineries and shrinking tropical glaciers to Amazon cloud forests and Moche culture archaeological sites in Peru.
and understanding carbon processes said Zheng who is based at NASA's Jet propulsion laboratory in Pasadena Calif. The UAVSAR data is higher resolution with less interfering noise than most such data from satellites according to NASA.
Its GPS SYSTEM flies the plane in a line with real-time corrections via satellite phone providing global coverage.
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