#Ruins of Bustling Port Unearthed at Egypt's Giza Pyramids TORONTO The remains of a bustling port
We could probably be correct imagining workers staying on the immense ramps on the unfinished pyramid as it rose said Lehner in an email to Livescience adding that they could also have been living in the quarries in simple dwellings akin to lean-to's. The remains of these workers can be found in ancient dumps near the pyramids.
In 2004 we helped the Giza inspectors salvage material from an immense dump off the northern side of the Great Pyramid said Lehner in the email.
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#Cheers! Video Reveals Bubbly Science Behind Brewing Beer A batch of Sierra nevada Bigfoot Barleywine bubbles
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#Mummies'Milk: World's Oldest Cheese Found in China Yellow chunks of the world's oldest cheese may have been discovered on the bodies of mummies buried in China's Taklamakan Desert.
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#British Storms Uncover WWII Bombs, Ancient Trees The unusually stormy weather in the United kingdom this winter has done more than caused flooding.
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#Pandas'Latest Threat: Horses? The 1600 pandas left living in the wild face a new threat:
Horses. Seeking a safe investment farmers in China's Sichuan Province have been increasingly buying up horses
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#Polar bear Caught on Camera with Eerie Musk ox Horn (Photo) In the blue light of the Russian Arctic scientists captured a rare photo of a polar bear approaching a musk ox carcass Thursday (March 27.
Science in an email. Musk oxen today are only native to Canada and Greenland but they were once more widespread across the Arctic.
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#3 Ways to Get More Probiotics Without Popping Another Pill When I was younger I remember thinking that bacteria was a bad word.
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#Animals Could Become Human Organ donors Some Day, Researchers Say Advances in transplant technologycould pave the way for the use of animal organs in people some day
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#Hunters to Herders: Ancient Civilization Made Rapid Switch Bones unearthed from an ancient mound in Turkey suggest that humans there shifted their diet from hunting to herding over just a few centuries findings that shed light on the dawn of agriculture scientists say.
To discover more about the initial conditions underlying the evolution of villages an international team of scientists investigated the site of AÅ Ä klä HÃ yã k the earliest known Neolithic mound in Cappadocia in central Turkey.
Stone-age Burials in Africa Layers of history The research team led by archaeologist Mihriban Ãbaå aran at Istanbul University discovered the people of the oldest levels of the site originally ate a broad diet of meat from creatures
These animals once made up less than half of all skeletal remains at the site but gradually increased to 85 to 90 percent of these bones with sheep bones outnumbering goat remains by a factor of three or more.
What kinds of structural modifications were made within the site to protect and constrain these animals?
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#'Mummy Lake'Used for Ancient Rituals, Not Water Storage In Colorado's Mesa verde national park a large 1000-year-old structure long thought to be an Ancestral Puebloan water reservoir may not have been built to store water after all a new study suggests.
They noted that the structure is similar in size to a great kiva found at a Pueblohistorical site near Zuni N m. It also resembles a ball court
but rather Chacoan ceremony roads with similar dimensions to Chacoan roads that exist at other sites in the San juan Basin the researchers argue.
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#Floating Islands of Rock Tracked in Pacific A computer model could help track rafts of floating rock in the ocean perhaps giving scientists a way to warn ship captains to stay away.
The rock in question is pumice which forms from rapidly cooled lava. The lava cools so quickly that gas bubbles are trapped inside creating a rock filled with spongelike holes.
if computers could predict where pumice will float. The researchers used moderate-resolution satellite imagery as well as reports from ship captains and airline pilots to track a pumice raft from the Havre Seamount a submarine volcano in the southwest Pacific near New zealand.
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#European Bison to Be released into Wild Bison went extinct in Europe nearly 100 years ago
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#Monkeys: Facts, Types & Pictures Monkeys live all over the world and come in various shapes sizes and colors.
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#Origins of Mysterious World trade center Ship Revealed In July 2010 amid the gargantuan rebuilding effort at the site of the World trade center in Lower Manhattan construction workers halted the backhoes
when they uncovered something unexpected just south of where the Twin Towers once stood. At 22 feet (6. 7 meters) below today's street level in a pit that would become an underground security
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#How Texas Man Survived 1, 000 Killer bees A municipal worker who got stung by an estimated 1000 bees
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#Rains Spurred by Climate Change Killing Penguin Chicks Penguin-chick mortality rates have increased in recent years off the coast of Argentina a trend scientists attribute to climate change
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#Hong kong to Destroy More than 30 Tons of Ivory Following in the footsteps of China and the United states conservation officials in Hong kong announced that they will destroy their stockpile of confiscated ivory.
network of criminals and corrupted officials. Earlier this month China burned some of its own confiscated ivory in a public ceremony.
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#What Is Kosher Food? Kosher food is not a style of cooking or a cultural menu (like Chinese or Italian food).
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#Avocados: Health Benefits, Risks & Nutrition Facts Rich creamy and flavorful avocados are a versatile fruit that add heft and health to many dishes.
and protected areas to reach the designated camera trap sites come rain or shine. In the farmland acquiring permission to gain access to private land was critical.
and mark their territory through latrines at road junctions making these ideal sites for placing camera traps.
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#7 Easy Ways to Save Water This Summer (Op-Ed) Peter Lehner is executive director of the Natural resources Defense Council (NRDC.
This Op-Ed is adapted from one that appeared on the NRDC blog Switchboard. Lehner contributed this article to Live Science's Expert Voices:
and incentives offered by many utilities for water-efficient upgrades like water-smart shower heads or even landscaping with drought-tolerant plants.
EPA Watersense Rebate Finder Upgrade: Remove your thirsty turf grass and replace it with a beautiful drought-tolerant garden that doesn't need precious drinking water
You'll save money on your water bill your water supplier might even pay you a rebate for every square foot of grass you remove. 2. Check for leaks with the toilet test Put a few drops of food coloring or a dye tablet into your toilet tank.
Classification/taxonomy According to the Integrated Taxonomic Information system ITIS) the taxonomy of pumas is: Conservation status Pumas once ranged from the Pacific to the Atlantic
Rare Glimpse of Remote Alaska The U s. Forest Service Inventory and Analysis program the largest network of forest inventory plots in the world does not include 450000 square kilometers (174000 square miles
NASA's Landsat satellites which have been snapping pictures of the Earth's surface for more than 40 years now have instruments that can produce images with 49-to 98-foot (15 to 30 m) resolutions.
But forests in Landsat images look like green paint strokes. G-Liht can produce photographs at a smaller and sharper resolution:
For comparison the clearest images on Google maps have a resolution of 3 feet (1 m). From the G-Liht images researchers can pick out individual trees rather than just a green smear.
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#Health check: What s Your Gut Feeling About Probiotics?(Op-Ed) This article was published originally at The Conversation.
These products include capsules tablets yogurt gummy lollies infant formula and beverages to name just a few.
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I read on the internet that coconut oil is great for your cholesterol and has other health benefits.
Why is coconut oil getting internet attention and a lot of buyers in health food stores? As Dr. Willett points out coconut oil seems especially effective in giving HDL a boost.
At 16 of the 20 sites gloomy scale populations were denser than they were on the original branches from the same locations.
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Scientists looked at the region's ice cores and tree rings which can act like prehistoric weather stations recording everything from precipitation to wind patterns to atmospheric pressure
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#As Plant virus Jumps to Bees, Does it Cause Colony Collapse? Jeff Nesbit was the director of public affairs for two prominent federal science agencies.
What the study indicated is that there may not be a single cause of CCD it could be a complex web of many chemicals that involves different types and classes of pesticides and fungicides.
#Methane Rising As Funding Cuts Threaten Monitoring Network Levels of methane a climate-changing greenhouse gas have been rising since 2007.
But U s. federal budget woes are shrinking the monitoring network that tracks greenhouse gases such as methane
In the past six years funding for part of the network the collection of air samples in flasks has kept not pace with cost increases said Ed Dlugokencky an atmospheric chemist with NOAA's Earth sciences Research Laboratory
We've had about a 25 percent decrease in the number of air samples measured from the global cooperative network Dlugokencky told Live Science.
While methane measurements on a global scale are now accurate down to a fraction of a percent adding more sampling sites to the network could help researchers better understand what's happening to emissions on a regional scale such as in Asia
but if we want to understand what's happening in different regions we really need to have a denser measurement network
and California and tall towers throughout the United states. The agency also tracks greenhouse gases by plane and other countries contribute to the network.
In 2012 NOAA's climate-monitoring budget woes prompted more than 50 scientists to publish a letter in Science warning that shrinking networks would harm long-term efforts to understand
The U s. monitoring network is the main player in measuring global methane Dlugokencky said. Yet the network's decline comes as methane is becoming a major climate concern.
Here are some examples: Fracking or hydraulic fracturing operations by the oil and gas industries can emit significant amounts of methane.
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#Facial recognition Tech Can Read Your Emotions If someone is described as smiling but not with their eyes that person is likely faking the smile.
New software by California-based company Emotient can do just that. Using a simple digital camera Emotient's software can analyze a human face
and determine whether that person is feeling joy sadness surprise anger fear disgust contempt or any combination of those seven emotions.
The company's software called Facet can reconnect those dots by accurately reading the emotions registering on a person's face in a single photograph or video frame.
because the software can track the fluctuations and strengths of emotion over time and even capture microexpressions or little flickers of emotion that pass over people's faces before they can control themselves
The software can also pick up on other subtle facial signs that a human might miss.
In these types of cases the software does need images clearer than 40 pixels but the required resolution is still within a common webcam's capabilities.
Medical applications So what are some uses for software that can identify human emotions based on facial expressions?
Facet's applications are incredibly far-reaching from treating children with autism to play-testing video games.
Recognizing other people's emotions based on their facial expressions is a challenge for many people who have an autism spectrum disorder particularly children.
As a research professor at the University of California San diego's Machine Perception Lab Bartlett has been studying the use of facial recognition software to help people with autism for several years. 5 Controversial Mental health Treatments
Using an earlier version of Facet's software for example Bartlett and her colleagues created a game in
which players are asked to mimic the facial expressions of a cartoonish character on the screen. Using Emotient's software the game assesses the player's success in recreating that expression and returns a score.
This game helps children with autism recognize other people's emotions through their facial expressions as well as teaches them how to make facial expressions that express their own feelings.
it's a network that feeds on itself. Building that facial muscle memory also helps players recognize their own emotions
It's easy to speculate on how software that can recognize the emotions behind human facial expressions
Instead Bartlett said Emotient is now working on among other things the software's potential for identifying
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I concluded that most moose restrained in wolf snares die either at the capture site or from frozen limbs or nose subsequent to release.
These creatures are more than just mistakes to be chalked up as regrettable tallies on some bureaucratic spreadsheet.
And it's why we'll continue to work toward reasonably reforming Wildlife Services particularly its program of predator control by banning the use of indiscriminate poisons requiring prioritization of nonlethal prevention measures
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#Human Muscle Rebuilt with Pig Bladder Tissue An experimental treatment using a pig bladder could help people who have lost a substantial portion of a muscle researchers say.
In the study the protein scaffold that holds the cells of a pig bladder in place worked by attracting stem cells to the site the injury
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#Sustainable Ranching: Where Cows and Capybara Roam (Op-Ed) Julie Kunen is executive director for WCS's Latin america and Caribbean Program.
It is unique enough to have been designated both a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve and it contains several globally important wetlands.
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#CO2 Monitoring Could Be based'Space'in Future The measurement of carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants
For CO2 emissions to be monitored accurately from space it would take a coordinated network of satellites similar to existing weather satellites he said.
That network isn t yet being built but some countries have greenhouse gas-detecting satellites being launched within the next five years.
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#Who Will Save Earth? The Ingenious Human Mind (Op-Ed) Raghu Murtugudde is executive director of the Chesapeake bay Forecasting System at the University of Maryland Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC) and a professor
and can weigh 7 to 12 ounces (198 to 340 g). The taxonomy of bears according to the Integrated Taxonomic Information system is:
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and photograph the pieces then post the images online in a publicly shared database. I think people will be researching this amber long after
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The taxonomy of gorillas according to the Integrated Taxonomic Information system (ITIS) is: Kingdom: Animaliasubkingdom: Bilateria Infrakingdom:
Browse the USDA's National Nutrient Database for nutrient content of thousands of different foods a
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#Snack Down: The Rise and Fall of Super bowl Snack foods Not so long ago avocado was a kitchen appliance color
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#Conservation Efforts Not Just for Tree Huggers This Sciencelives article was provided to Live Science in partnership with the National Science Foundation.
With collaborators in Italy France and elsewhere he developed software to help people plan the best preservation strategies especially
What inspires me is knowing that the work I do has many real-world applications. Please describe your current research.
I use computer simulations and the topics I study plant conservation. For the tools I have the opportunity to be at the cutting-edge of technology and mathematical methods such as improving the realism of population models and the efficiency of optimization techniques.
Researchers from computer science biology and economics are collaborating on these problems. As for the topic I've been enamored increasingly with plants over the years.
I think everyone would be surprised at the excitement of writing computer code! Coding involves great creativity
It is a great destress activity a way to use my hands be creative stop looking at screens
So I'm often trying new recipes and I blog about my successful ones. Editor's Note:
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#How Do Pineapples Grow? Contrary to what some people think pineapples don't grow on trees they grow out of the ground from a leafy plant.
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#Can Men Lactate? Unlike female nipples male nipples appear to be purely decorative. But can they also be functional
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#Sweet potatoes: Health Benefits, Risks & Nutrition Facts Soft and creamy enough to be put in pies
According to the Library of Congress website Everyday Mysteries sweet potato varieties are classified as either firm or soft.
What to Expect a pregnancy advice website suggests eating three servings of lean protein on a daily basis. This will help tissue develop.
What to Expect a pregnancy advice website suggests eating three servings of lean protein on a daily basis. This will help with tissue development.
But despite the image of Ebola as a virus that mysteriously and randomly emerges from the forest the sites of the cases are far from random said Daniel Bausch a tropical medicine researcher at Tulane University who just returned from Guinea
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#Rams: Facts About Male Bighorn sheep Rams are male bighorn sheep animals that live in the mountains and often settle arguments with fights that include ramming their heads into others.
Not to be confused with mountain goats rams can be identified by their long curved horns; long fur;
and split hooves. Some of the ram's relatives are goats bison buffalo antelopes and cattle according to the Integrated Taxonomic Information system (ITIS.
Rams are typically 5 to 6 feet tall (1. 5 to 1. 8 meters) from head to tail
and weigh 262 to 280 lbs. 119 to 127 kilograms. Rocky mountain bighorn rams have massive horns that weigh more than all of the bones in their bodies.
A set of horns can weigh 30 lbs. 14 kg. Bighorn sheep live in the Rocky mountain region of North america ranging from Mexico northward across the western United states and into Canada.
They can live on desert mountains as high as 4000 feet (1200 m). They get most of their water from eating plants to survive according to the Natural history Museum of Los angeles. Rams are herbivores.
Rams are social but herds are separated by gender. Male-only bachelor herds usually contain five to 50 rams at one time.
The females live in nursery herds with five to 100 members which include adult females and lambs of both genders.
Rams fight to decide who will be the dominant male in their group. During the fight the males will face each other rear up on their back legs and crash their huge horns into each other.
) Eventually one of the rams ends up submitting and the winner is the new leader.
Rams also fight for the right to mate with the females. The strongest rams of the herd will mate with the females.
Mating season called the rut is in the autumn. Males are not usually strong enough to mate until they are at least 3 years old.
The taxonomy of bighorn sheep according to the Integrated Taxonomic Information system (ITIS) is: Bighorn sheep are endangered not according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
He goes online to a site where he can easily find these animated characters in webisodes#and games.
Within a few minutes instead of being in front of the computer he s out in his yard phone in hand looking for signs of the change of seasons.
#oeplum Landing#an all-digital production created by WGBH in Boston uses animated webisodes online games a mobile app live-action videos and hands-on activities to increase children
As the program which is designed for children ages six to nine introduces core science concepts#particularly related to ecosystems it models key habits of mind scientists
Getting Kids Outside On the website children can click around and learn about the biodiversity of the ecosystems the animated characters are discovering.
and document their progress using the web game Nature Sketchpad or the mobile app Plum s Photo Hunt (iphone ipod Touch ipad) allowing children to draw scenes
or take photographs explain their findings and submit them to the website.##oeplum Landing#also provides parents and educators environmental science activities and curricula.
A flexible digital curriculum offers informal educators (those at after school programs clubs and camps) hands-on activities and media resources (live-action videos webisodes games the app
and sketchpad) organized by theme and supplemented with background information discussion questions and ideas for further exploration.
and sun. Since its debut last April the website has garnered more than 8 million page views via 1. 5 million separate website visits.
WGBH approves children s submissions before they are posted on the website and prevents personal information including photographs of children from being shared on the site.
Additionally the website does not collect trace data or any information identifying the child. The PBS login system also has no identifying information
when a child logs into the site.##oethe drawing submissions from the online Nature Sketchpad
and the photographic submissions from Plum s Photo Hunt app feed in an orderly way into a Django database for
which we have a user-friendly Cloud-based administration for review editing and posting#Wolsky said.
In other words we can review all submissions easily on a web page and mark them for publication.
The idea was to create a half-hour television series comprised of two shorter segments 11 minutes each accompanied by a robust website.
This fall Plum Landing#also plans to offer more games a new app and additional resources that encourage indoor-outdoor science exploration.#
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