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#Lime Shortage Sours Cinco de Mayo Fiestas As people make plans to celebrate Cinco de Mayo the day an ill-equipped Mexican army repelled a much-larger force of French invaders in 1862
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#Rabbits: Habits, Diet & Other Facts Rabbits are small mammals with fluffy short tails whiskers and distinctive long ears.
Differences in the type of plants found at both sites reveal how the prehistoric landscape recovered after a fire.
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#Watercress Named Top'Powerhouse'Veggie For a sure way to boost the health benefits of your next meal you may want to add watercress to the salad bowl.
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#'Gluten-Free'Food Labels Now Mean What They Say Any food with a gluten-free label in the United states now must meet a new set of standards outlined by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA.
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#Coyote Facts Coyotes are members of the Canidae family and share a lot of the same traits of their relatives:
There are 19 subspecies of coyote according to the Integrated Taxonomic Information system. They have narrow elongated snouts lean bodies covered in thick fur yellow or amber eyes and long bushy tails.
The taxonomy of coyotes according to the Integrated Taxonomic Information system (ITIS) is: Kingdom: Animaliaphylum: Chordataclass: Mammalia Order:
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#Coffee Genome Reveals Why Your Java Smells So Good Not all caffeine is created equal. Researchers recently sequenced the genome of the coffee plant
To identify gene families specific to C. canephora the researchers used comparative genomics software on proteins from a variety of plants that are genetically related to the species including tomato and grape.
Even though the caffeine genes in coffee tea and chocolate are all members of the same giant superfamily core eudicots the whole development of the caffeine genes in coffee is said independent Victor Albert
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What if unmanned arial vehicle (UAV) developers could imagine their inventions through the eyes of conservation field staff?
But what if UAV developers could imagine their inventions through the eyes of conservation field staff?
UAV developers might even conceive of a squadron of drones with heat-sensing cameras flying across the vast plains of Central asia's Ustyurt Plateau searching for signs of saiga-antelope poachers.
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#From Drip to Glide: How Plate tectonics Started A cold crusty shell of a planet that regularly kills off its occupants with violent earthquakes
and massive volcanic eruptions doesn't sound like ideal habitat. But Earth's grinding plates the source of its deadly tectonics are actually one of the key ingredients that make it only planet with life in the solar system (found so far.
These plates move around the planet on top of convection currents in the mantle the hotter rock layer between the crust and Earth's core.
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#Squee! See Newly Hatched Osprey Chicks on Live'Critter Cam'For all you bird lovers out there you can watch a set of newly hatched osprey chicks ruffle their tiny feathers on a live webcam.
Nearly 5 million people have tuned in to the explore. org critter cam located on Hog Island in Bremen Maine to watch some of the first chicks of the season hatch.
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#Ghoulish Photos: Creepy, Freaky Creatures That Are (Mostly) Harmless From snaggletoothed sharks to giant crabs nature is full of animals that frighten people often for no good reason.
and author of a bat blog called theinvertedperspective. com. They'd only come near people if they are hunting the insects that are congregating around lights.
Add in the fact that it's bigger than an NFL linebacker and the beast is enough to keep many beachgoers out of the water.
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#Why One Hectare of Rainforest Grows More Tree Species than US This article was published originally at The Conversation.
Now with advances in data analysis Phyllis Coley and Thomas Kursar of the University of Utah may have finally found an explanation.
This is where advances in data analysis prove handy. To understand these defences on an ecosystem scale requires the use of metabolomics
Previously the limitation was data analysis; now it is data collection. Researchers have no option but to go out in a tropical forest search for plants
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#Permian period: Climate, Animals & Plants The Permian period was the final period of the Paleozoic era. Lasting from 299 million to 251 million years ago it followed the Carboniferous period
Pangaea was shaped like a thickened letter C.#The top curve of the C# consisted of landmasses that would later become modern Europe and Asia.
North and South america formed the curved back of the C# with Africa inside the curve.
Inside the C# was the Tethys Ocean and most of the rest of Earth was the Panthalassic Ocean.
Some point to evidence of catastrophic volcanic activity in Siberia and China (areas in the northern part of the C# shaped Pangaea.
Other scientists point to indications of a massive asteroid impacting the southernmost tip of the C# in
Amazon Green-Up Actually Satellite Error Surprising dry season growth spurts spotted in the beleaguered Amazon rainforest are fake the result of misleading satellite data a new study finds.
Stunning Photos of the Amazon According to MODIS algorithms an area is covered likely in green vegetation
That makes it appear very green according to satellite vegetation algorithms though in reality the forest canopy hasn't actually greened the study found.
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#Which US State Has the Healthiest Habits? Healthy living appears to be common in Vermont:
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First unlike hardware or electronics food is a consumable which means that the settlers will need a continuous supply.
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Translation through University of Chicago Penelope website) Perhaps not coincidentally ancient sources also say that the Celts detested being had overweight
and there is a second life for the dead.#(#Translation by E. F Romer) Remarkably a number of scholars now believe that the ancient Celts did not live in Britain
Such practices are well known from Celtic sites in Europe and are documented now for Anatolian Celts as well.##
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#Eating Beans Helps Lower Bad Cholesterol That old childhood ditty about Beans beans the musical fruit#really does tell the truth in the verse about beans being good for the heart new research suggests.
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#Most Interesting Science News articles of the Week<p>This week we have zebra stripes on the Earth the most accurate timekeeper and even weird techni-quarks.</
</p><p>The tomb found at the site of Abydos dates back around 3300 years.
Archaeologists working at a Danish site might agree with the Bard after discovering barrels from a latrine that dates back to the 14th century.</
</p><p>However it will take the upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) the world's most powerful particle accelerator
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Our database was more than 10 times larger than all the previously published FACE data on nutrients in food crops combined#Myers said.
For example zinc iron and protein concentrations in wheat grains grown at the FACE sites were reduced by about 9 percent 5 percent
because it makes up part of the backbone of DNA you can t make DNA without phosphorus. We get our phosphorus by eating plants that have drawn up phosphorus through their roots or by eating animals that ate the plants (or from expensive tablets).
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Through our site you can tell the EPA you support strong limits on dangerous carbon pollution.
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They focused on the Amazon of northeastern Bolivia where they had sediment cores from two lakes nearby major earthworks sites.
These sediment cores hold ancient pollen grains and charcoal from long-ago fires and can hint at the climate
Ancient landscape An examination of the two cores one from the large lake Laguna Oricore and one from the smaller lake Laguna Granja revealed a surprise:
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#'Traitor's Blade'(US 2014: Book Excerpt Sebastien de Castell is the director of strategic program development at the Vancouver Film School
which after all was the core of my plan. A King can make all the laws he wants A Duke can rule all the land he wants A woman can rule my heart
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and a cursory Internet search turned up only three other premium burger chains featuring grass-fed beef:
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The tiled floor that I sat on the building where my next class was held the laptop that
I moved nutrition from being at the core of the problem to a symptom of my new one:
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and lax laws in many regions that have allowed a sometimes shady network of producers to clearcut vast swaths of tropical forests to make way for palm-oil plantations.
Without pressure from the public and the global marketplace the existing network of producers are unlikely to adopt sustainable practices on their own.
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The transition to an agricultural society was paralleled by a rise in technological innovation the production of complex metal goods and an expansion of trade networks.
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#Medicine Men, Machetes and Centuries of Healing (Op-Ed) Mark Plotkin is president of the Amazon Conservation Team
Learn more about the Amazon Conservation Team on their website. This article originally appeared as A Foot Injury?
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#What Did Ancient Egyptians Really Eat?(ISNS)--Did the ancient Egyptians eat like us? If you're a vegetarian tucking in along the Nile thousands of years ago would have felt just like home.
There is also a lot of archeological evidence for fish consumption from sites such as Gaza and Amama said Spence who added that some texts indicated that a few fish species were consumed not due to religious associations.
and a pint-sized tapir are the first mammals ever found at a fossil site in British columbia known for exquisitely preserved plants insects and fish.
These are the first two mammals ever found at the dig site in Driftwood Canyon Provincial Park
Greenwood and his colleagues found it in coal-rich rock beds in the park the site of a swampy spot in the Eocene
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#Facts About Bats Bats are the only mammals that can fly. They are also among the only mammals known to feed on blood.
Male and female bats meet in hibernation sites called hibernacula where they breed. Bats'swarm'around in huge numbers chasing each other
The taxonomy of bats according to the Integrated Taxonomic Information system ITIS) is: Many bat species around the world are threatened with extinction.
if the crash caused any damage to the site but an investigation into the matter is ongoing Amy Bartlett a park spokesperson told Live Science.
She also said that because of the spring's large algae mat the ground surrounding the site is soft making it impossible for park officials to assess the situation on foot.
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#In Photos: The World's Oldest Cave Art Archaeologists may have discovered Earth's oldest known cave art.
and dated from seven caves sites in Sulawesi an island of Indonesia. Read full story on the Indonesia cave art The paintings were found decades ago in Indonesia's Maros and Pangkep regions
In the early 1980s there were a lot of cave paintings on this site in the form of hand stencils (shown here) said Muhammad Ramli of the Preservation of Cultural Reserves Association in Indonesia as translated in a Nature video referring to the new finding.
or hunter-gatherers around 8000 years ago at the earliest Aubert told Live Science in an email.
But what is clear is that those who continue to try to place Europe at the center of the human story hold an untenable position Smith wrote in an email.
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#Lung cancer Rates in US Declining, CDC Finds The percentage of Americans developing lung cancer every year is dropping according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Our experimental results indicate that sulfur trioxide is expected to be the major sulfide component in the sulfur oxide gas released during the impact Ohno told Live Science in an email interview.
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#Kansas Grass Fires Seen from Space A new satellite image shows grass fires scattered like seeds across the Kansas prairie.
) The Flint Hills of eastern Kansas are the site of most of the remaining tallgrass prairie in the United states. These rippling grasslands represent only 4 percent of the 170 million acres (688000 square kilometers
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#America's Most Endangered River Is#As California's San Joaquin River meanders down from the Sierra nevada across the Central Valley toward the San francisco bay it loses water to farms and communities along the way.
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#Most Endangered Rivers in America: 2014<p>Most of the United States' drinking water (65 percent) comes from rivers
American Rivers is calling for upgrades to fix the dams and save the fish that taxpayers shell out cash to restore.</
whose fruitlets fuse together around a central core. Each pineapple scale is an individual fruitlet.
Eating a great deal of pineapple cores can also cause fiber balls to form in the digestive tract. a
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#NSF Research Helps UNESCO Preserve Subaks in Bali This Sciencelives article was provided to Live Science in partnership with the National Science Foundation.
With support from the National Science Foundation anthropologist Steve Lansing used computer simulations to show that the Balinese subaks are a real-world example of a complex adaptive system in
and computer simulations Lansing studied the emergence of the subak system which has rice paddies become active
and a growing tourism Trade in 2012 Lansing s research was used to win recognition for the subaks as a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Recognizing Complexity in Bali Priests and Programmers: Technologies of Power in the Engineered Landscape of Bali The Balinese and The Three Worlds of Bali.
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when I heard Apple had announced its new Health app which is designed to collect and organize health-related information from other apps on an iphone.
It's an easy-to-read dashboard of health and fitness data such as heart rate blood sugar and miles walked.
His current study in The American Journal of Preventive medicine conducted with colleagues at Penn State examined more than 150 of the most popular exercise apps.
Most of the apps Conroy studied demonstrate how to properly perform a workout which is great
I tried to imagine my former patient Linda using Apple's Health app. When I first met Linda in my residency clinic she was 62.
Understanding the 10 Most Destructive Human Behaviors But building a successful behavioral-change app is not easy.
An ideal exercise app for Linda would have to first assess her readiness to change and then offer several things:
Far too few exercise apps use those techniques. There are decades of research on how to change behavior it seems silly not to capitalize on it Conroy said.
Some will suggest that Apple's Health app could bring attention to poor health behaviors spurring Linda and others to act.
However current apps do not address common issues like denial and relapse that led to their health decline.
A valuable niche is open for talented developers and clinicians who can leverage scientifically verified behavior modification programs
and find a way to turn those techniques into apps that will motivate individuals like Linda to hurdle the obstacles between the couch and the gym.
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Apple Watch has a fitness app that monitors a person's movement throughout the day using the watch's accelerometer
A separate workout app in the Apple Watch will track your stats during a workout including how far you've gone how fast you're moving and the length of your workout.
Data from your Apple Watch can be stored on the iphone's Health app which can be accessed by third-party apps the company said.
The device gets to know you the way a personal trainer would and delivers personalized goals as well as reminders to be active according to a video shown during the announcement.
On the other hand most fitness trackers do not have the ability to run apps as the Apple Watch does.
along with information they want to appear on the home screen including an astronomy screen that will zoom in on that day's moon and even show the entire solar system.
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#China's Ivory Crush May be a Half Measure, But It's a Welcome One (Op-Ed) Joe Walston is executive director of the Asia Program for the Wildlife Conservation Society.
So much of what is written in foreign blogs and by us western conservationists fails to recognize the internal struggles in China on this issue.
which the western Sierra's trees grow the scientists showed that the plutons caused the starts and stops in the forest network.
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To determine that tree-ring data was an accurate representation of grassland productivity the researchers compared their tree-rings to satellite data of vegetation covering Mongolia between 1980 and 2010.
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#Hamster Facts: Diet, Habits & Types of Hamsters Hamsters are small rodents that are kept commonly as house pets.
Just as soon as the breeding sites were available then the population just skyrocketed Trucchi told Live Science.
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#Skipping Red Meat May Lower Breast cancer Risk Women who eat more poultry fish nuts and legumes and less red meat when they are young adults might have lower risk of developing breast cancer later in life according to a new study.
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as if it was wrote July officials on the fire-notification website. As of this morning (June 10) however the fire was contained largely
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However satellite data for past years is added sparse he. Satellite monitoring of methane emissions will get a much-needed boost next year with the planned launch in 2015 of the Tropospheric Monitoring Instrument aboard a Sentinel satellite operated by the European space agency.
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and reportedly identified the eggs as those belonging to the immense and deadly Brazilian wandering spider according to MSN New zealand.
Wandering spiders are named for their tendency to wander around looking for food instead of spinning a web.
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