Likewise their wary nature suggests that climbing leads to improved site surveillance of potential threats and prey.
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#Oldest Known Bird Hatches a New Chick The world's oldest known wild bird just became a mother again.
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#Stress Makes Antarctic Penguins Less-Attentive Parents Stress induced by changes in Antarctic sea ice may cause adult male Adã lie penguins to be less attentive to their chicks and may increase chick mortality according to a new study.
A certain degree of stress and the related release of hormones can benefit penguins and other animals by increasing alertness and reallocating energy reserves to react to stressors.
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#Warm, Wet Climate Likely Helped Genghis khan Conquer the World A generous stretch of warm wet weather may have fueled Genghis khan's wave of expansion through Asia
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#Ancient'Ritual Wand'Etched with Human faces Discovered in Syria Archaeologists have unearthed an ancient staff carved with two realistic human faces in southern Syria.
Ancient site Researchers first uncovered the wand during excavations in 2007 and 2009 at a site in southern Syria called Tell Qarassa where an artificial mound made from the debris of everyday human life gradually built up in layers
Though many stunning archaeological sites have been looted or bombed since the onset of the Syrian Civil war this site is in a fairly peaceful area
and has escaped so far damage.)Photos: 7 Stunning Archaeological Sites in Syria Other archaeological evidence from the site suggests the ancient inhabitants were amongst the world's first farmers consuming emmer (a type of wheat) barley chickpeas
and lentils and herding or hunting goats gazelles pigs and deer the authors write in the March issue of the journal Antiquity.
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#Corn snakes: Facts, Food & Bites Corn snakes are nonvenomous snakes found primarily in the southeastern United states. They are medium-size snakes brightly colored with individual patterns.
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#The 7 Weirdest Moms in the Animal kingdom<p>Moms we' ve all got them
s Web? For several species of the<em>Stegodyphus</em>spiders motherly love goes even further than watching over the nest.
Females attach their egg cocoons to their webs and watch over them until the babies hatch.
s web.</</p><p>When the babies are around a month old the mother spider rolls over on her back allowing the spiderlings to clamber over her kill her by injecting their venom
s web. Thanksgiving dinners are probably pretty awkward after that kind of upbringing.</</p><p>Talk about a painful pregnancy.
He developed a computer programme to simulate tree growth and the result was a fantastic reduction in stress concentration allowing for more slender components.
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#Origins of Hierarchy: How Egyptian Pharaohs Rose to Power The rulers of ancient Egypt lived in glorious opulence decorating themselves with gold and perfumes and taking their treasures with them to the grave.
How 13 Notorious Leaders Died To find out Powers created a computer model filled with individuals who had their own preferences for egalitarianism or hierarchy.
For example Peru was the site of multiple early states which evolved in long fertile agricultural valleys.
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#Apple Watch: What's So Great About Sapphire? From alerting you to an incoming call to monitoring your heart rate the newly unveiled Apple Watch is being promoted as the next great high-tech tool for gadget lovers and fitness fans.
But two of the smartwatch's most practical features its sapphire screen and lenses aren't all that technologically advanced.
8 Absolutely Must-Have Features Its crystal clear transparency makes sapphire ideal for display screens. The same can be said about its hardness which Tuller said is second only to diamond.
if the smartwatch's display were made of Gorilla Glass the material developed by New york-based manufacturer Corning that has been used in the display screens for most of Apple's other devices.
and as iphone users may have noticed it stands up fairly well to scratching and even hard knocks.
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The United states'Department of agriculture s website is a good source of advice for dealing with mold contamination on a wide variety of foods.
The Biggest Beasts On land Maisels and colleagues surveyed elephants at 80 sites throughout Cameroon the Central african republic the Republic of congo the Democratic Republic of congo and Gabon.
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#Food poisoning: Are Older Adults At Greater Risk? The Healthy Geezer answers questions about health and aging in his weekly column.
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In his 2005 book Last Child in the Woods which introduced the world to the term nature-deficit disorder journalist Richard Louv argued that children need to unplug from computers
and smartphones and reconnect with the original way of learning about the world: by wandering around outside.
I'm increasingly aware that it's not just the eco-minded who are calling for more mud pies and fewer Leapfrog computers for preschoolers.
I turn there's another reminder that our children need less time in front of screens and more time figuring things out for themselves.
I turn there's another reminder that our children need less time in front of screens and more time figuring things out for themselves.
Television plus ipads and iphones and the push to show early academic achievement by memorizing shapes
and possibly nesting sites in the case of bumblebees she adds. But exposure to toxins and to diseases also play a part based on numerous studies.
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#Digging into Probiotics: Experts Look at Foods'Bacteria & Health Claims The term probiotic is misused so often that a group of experts has taken a fresh look at what probiotics really are examined
When you look at findings from a variety of studies on different end points that look at some aspect of digestive health the combined evidence suggests that digestive health is a core benefit of many probiotic species said Mary Ellen Sanders
and immune-system effects are incredibly diverse the panel decided that an immune-system boost should not be considered a core benefit of probiotics Sanders said.
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The colorful chunk was collected on national forest land where it's legal to take petrified wood by permit according to Byers who has detailed the story on his blog.
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At its core is the homogenisation of global food systems which increasingly must deliver the same products to an expanding population (in all senses) across the world.
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We refer to gau ark (cow urine) as gau jal (cow water) as it has immense potential to cure various diseases Prakash told The Telegraph.
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#Mysterious Energy Ribbon at Solar system's Edge a'Cosmic Roadmap'A strange ribbon of energy and particles at the edge of the solar system first spotted by a NASA spacecraft appears to serve as a sort of roadmap in the sky for the interstellar
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Such debris might include the refined sugars found in cookies candy and other treats but can also come from healthy foods like whole grains vegetables and fruits.
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#Equipment Megaloads"on Roads Add Twist to Tar Sands Debate (Op-Ed)" Bobby Mcenaney is senior lands analyst at the Natural resources Defense Council (NRDC) and deputy director
This was such a common catchphrase even the Montana Department of transportation played off 93's reputation by highlighting the bumper sticker on its website the same agency now in charge of permitting megaload shipments.
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#Humanity's Journey, from the Big bang to the Present (Op-Ed) Roger Briggs is the author of Journey to Civilization:
Most of the characteristics of today's world now appeared including centralized government and power military forces and warfare institutionalized religion patriarchy monetary systems poverty large-scale agriculture trade networks and empire.
They analyzed samples from four sites two of which were grave sites in Sweden and Denmark.
The oldest of these sites dated back to 1500 B c. more than 3500 years ago. The oldest sample came from a large jar buried with a male warrior in Denmark.
The other three came from strainer cups used to serve wine found in Denmark and Sweden.
and traces of grape wine which was produced only in southern Europe suggest a robust trade network in this period Mcgovern said.
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#Google Goes Wild: How Off-road Tech Aids Conservation Google earth and Google street view have made it possible for anyone with an Internet connection to explore some of the world's most spectacular destinations right from their computer tablet or smartphone.
Now homebodies and wannabe globetrotters can dive into the Great Barrier reef uncover the history of the Roman Colosseum and even climb Mount everest for free and without the airport hassles.
But the search-engine giant's mapping and imaging technology has uses beyond navigation and armchair travel.
Wildlife conservation is also getting a boost thanks to several groups'efforts to use some of these Google tools to track invasive species map populations of endangered species
One such effort has taken Google street view into the Amazon. Working with conservation organization Amazonas Sustainable Foundation (FAS) Google street view and Google earth teams have collected ground-and river-level images of the Rio Negro Sustainable Development Reserve a protected
area in the Brazilian Amazon. Google usually uses camera-equipped cars to take images for its Street view
but because the Rio Negro region is inaccessible by car the researchers had to come up with an alternative method.
and they even mounted it onto a boat to collect images of a section of the Rio Negro the Amazon's largest tributary Google explained on one of its Outreach pages.
and analyze data gathered via mobile devices. By using ODK FAS can collect and transfer data photos
and analyzed using Google Fusion Tables Ribenboimsaid referring to Google's Web application for gathering visualizing and sharing data tables.
Both Google and FAS hope the project will raise awareness of conservation issues help protect Amazonian communities and even influence policymakers.
After the implementation of the community forest ODK monitoring program and the Street view for the Amazon FAS launched a new Web-based platform called Bolsa Floresta Platform to serve as an interactive tool where Bolsa Floresta
Program's beneficiaries the general public donors and government agencies are able to explore all kinds of informational map layers Ribenboim told Livescience.
Smartphones tablets and chimps On the other side of the world the Jane Goodall Institute an ape-conservation organization founded by renowned chimpanzee researcher Jane Goodall is leading a similar effort.
The organization equips local residents in Tanzania with smartphones tablets and cloud technology to help monitor African forests said Lilian Pintea JGI's vice president of conservation science.
or its tracks they take photos with their smartphones he said. The Jane Goodall Institute uses ODK to manage all of the information
and photos collected from the mobile devices and stores the data in Google Cloud Pintea told Livescience.
Then through Google earth Engine and Google maps Engine the institute's researchers can visualize the multiple layers of data to model the suitability of chimpanzee habitat
and to predict the potential distribution of chimpanzees. Whereas traditional maps are limited to two dimensions Google earth's 3d high-resolution imagery makes it easier for the villagers to recognize the topography
so they can monitor forests and habitats Pintea said. Through this data-collection process the JGI has identified previously unknown threats to chimpanzees.
Even in the first few weeks of a forest villager getting his smartphone he reported this trap designed to capture a live primate we think either a baboon
Concerned about the potential destruction of this tiger habitat WWF used Google earth to illustrate the effects of deforestation on the Bukit Tigapuluh region a critical tiger habitat.
along with a coalition of nongovernmental organizations called Eyes on the Forest worked with Google to build a catalog of maps detailing the changes in the region over time including shifts in the forest cover;
In addition the Google mapping project has helped WWF build public support to stop irresponsible logging companies that contribute to Sumatra's deforestation said Craig Kirkpatrick WWF's managing director for Borneo and Sumatra.
Although the long time between satellite images makes it difficult to actively search for threats to tigers he said Google technology has been helpful in illustrating the pace of deforestation in the region and its effects on tiger and elephant habitat.
Google maps Engine allows us to share the massive amounts of information we've collected over the years
and research is using Google technologies to help protect elephants from some of these dangers.
Save the Elephants then uses Google earth to visualize all of the data: By leveraging the application's satellite imagery researchers can zoom in on certain regions to follow the elephants in real time.
We've been using Google earth as a very easy way to find out what our elephants are up to
and where they are going Save the Elephants founder Iain Douglas-Hamilton said in a video hosted on Google's Outreach page.
and Android apps to researchers in the field or via Google earth to be viewed in more detail on a computer.
if a threat is detected Douglas-Hamilton said. 12 Strangest Sights on Google earth When an elephant stops moving we can then send a Google earth file indicating the place where the elephant is stopped he said.
Then the Kenyan Wildlife Service can send out a patrol to go out and investigate. We're at a crucial stage now where we can act
and displayed by Google earth. Several other organizations are also using Google technology for conservation purposes.
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#Fussy Children Won't Eat Their Greens? They Probably Got That From Your Genes This article was published originally at The Conversation.
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FDA officials cautioned that temporary tattoos can cause allergic reactions in a May 13 seminar on the agency's website.
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#Mini Longneck Dino Discovered in South america A long-neck relative of Apatosaurus and Diplodocus has been discovered in South america becoming the first of its kind ever found on that continent.
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#What Is Buttermilk? Today on National Buttermilk biscuit Day (May 14) people may be wondering what exactly is buttermilk?
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#Vampire Plant Sucks Victim's Genes While Feeding Like an herbivorous Count Dracula a snakelike vine coils around its leafy victim punctures its stem
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#Head Lice: Symptoms, Treatment and Prevention A sesame seed-size parasite that feeds on human blood the head louse (Pediculus humanus capitis) is known a nuisance around the world.
Although a less-frequent cause of spread lice can travel from one person to another via shared clothing and accessories such as hats brushes and hair accessories.
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#NY State Assembly to Hold Public Hearing on Illegal Ivory Trade NEW YORK Lawmakers will gather here in Manhattan tomorrow (Jan 16) to examine the effectiveness of New york state's restrictions on the sale of ivory.
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#Giant Surprise: Old Trees Grow Fastest Like a fairytale beanstalk a tree can grow and grow until it scrapes the sky.
Instead of slowing down as the centuries add up old trees speed up their growth according to a study published today (Jan 15) in the journal Nature.
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#Medieval Italian Skeleton's Surprising Diagnosis: Livestock Disease A sip of unpasteurized sheep or goat's milk may have spelled doom for a medieval Italian man.
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#'Plant That Ate the South'Boosting Carbon Pollution This article was published originally at The Conversation.
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and anyone strong enough to turn some of the worst land in Missouri into a building site for a home in the backwoods.
The latitude at the site was 37 5 degrees and some amateur astronomers suggested that the celestial pair in conjunction could not be seen from there as they would be too low on either horizon.
I set up my equipment at the eastern horizon site. It can be a bit scary. I hate to set up in the dark but
My site was waiting for me it was very dark and very cold and I went to work setting up polar aligning
It reminded me of how important the public is to projects like mine I relied on many friends to identify good collecting sites
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#NY State Lawmakers Weigh Ban on Sale of Ivory NEW YORK At a public hearing held today (Jan 16) here in Manhattan state lawmakers discussed the need to tighten restrictions on the sale of ivory in New york with some raising the possibility
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#New england's'Lost'Archaeological Sites Rediscovered Take a walk in the New england woods and you may stumble upon the overgrown remains of a building's foundation or the stacked stones of a wall.
Examinations of airborne scans of three New england towns revealed networks of old stone walls building foundations old roads dams and other features many of which long were forgotten.
See the Aerial Images of'Lost'Archaeological Sites in New england New englanders have known long about these relics of the agricultural past.
and Ouimet have been visiting sites. This new information is used best in combination with historical documents Johnson said.
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#Massive Antarctic Glacier Uncontrollably Retreating, Study Suggests The glacier that contributes more to sea level rise than any other glacier on Antarctica has hit a tipping point of uncontrollable retreat
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#Clever Goats Can Learn Quickly Goats might be smarter than once thought it turns out they can quickly learn
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#Tanned Girls, Tobacco-Chewing Dudes: Gender Norms Affect Teen Cancer Risk Teenage girls who see themselves as the most feminine and teenage boys who perceive themselves as the most masculine may be more likely to behave in ways that increase their risk of cancer
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#Does'Offsetting'Work to Make up for Habitat Lost to Mining?(Op-Ed) This article was published originally at The Conversation.
#Offsets are already an option of last resort in places where damage cannot be avoided minimised or repaired at the site.
Then there is the question of how to measure the impacts at a mine site and the gains at the offset site.
What if the two sites have different biodiversity? Is it possible to compare apples and oranges?
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It is possible that one day we might be able to save lives by replacing electronic hardware with an injection of genes.
The newly created node then takes over as a functional pacemaker bypassing the need for implanted electronics and hardware.
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