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Cleveland zoo researchers find rare giant turtle in Vietnam
(AP) AP - Researchers from the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo have discovered a rare giant turtle in northern Vietnam — a find that carries great scientific and cultural significance. Swinhoe's soft-shell turtle was previously thought to be extinct in the wild. Three other turtles of the species are in ca Home > Rss Directory > General > Yahoo News |
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Researchers find rare photo of Helen Keller and her teacher Anne ... - KTVZ Boston GlobeResearchers find rare photo of Helen Keller and her teacher Anne ...KTVZÂ - 3 hours agoAP - March 5, 2008 6:23 PM ET BOSTON (AP) - Researchers have uncovered a rare photograph of a young Helen Keller with her teacher Anne Sullivan.1888 Photo Depic Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |
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Vietnam zoo sold tigers to traffickers A Vietnam zoo admits breaking international rules by auctioning dead tigers to animal trafficking gangs. Home > Rss Directory > General > BBC World |
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Zoo Atlanta to resume mating pandas
(AP) AP - Zoo Atlanta is hoping to hear the pitter-patter of little panda paws again. Now that giant panda cub Mei Lan is old enough to be weaned, zookeepers hope her mother, Lun Lun, is ready to mate again. If all goes as planned, Lun Lun will become pregnant this spring and deliver Zoo Atlanta's sec Home > Rss Directory > General > Yahoo News |
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San Francisco zoo reopens after tiger killing - Reuters KIDKSan Francisco zoo reopens after tiger killingReuters - 1 hour agoBy Amanda Beck SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 3 (Reuters) - The San Francisco Zoo reopened on Thursday, nine days after an escaped 250-pound (113-kg) Siberian tiger killed one visitor and mauled two others before Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |
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Diners find rare pearl in plate of clams
(AP) AP - A Florida man was about halfway through a plate of steamed clams when he chomped down on something hard — a rare, iridescent purple pearl. George Brock and his wife, Leslie, had been spending a day at the beach Friday in South Florida and stopped at Dave's Last Resort & Raw Bar for a bite. Home > Rss Directory > General > Yahoo News |
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Researchers find genetic link to lung cancer - Los Angeles Times Chatter ShmatterResearchers find genetic link to lung cancerLos Angeles Times - 3 hours agoPeople with a genetic variation are at increased risk of developing the disease, three studies find. By Denise Gellene, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer Three research groups anno Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |
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Video: Watch Fire Researchers Torch Homes, Offices and Warehouses : To model how flames turn buildings into ashes, the nation's leading fire researchers don't play with matches over the sink. Instead they burn down entire homes, cubicles and warehouses. At the National Institutes of Standards and Technologies, researchers set huge fires under a 40-foo Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Video: Watch Fire Researchers Torch Homes, Offices and Warehouses : To model how flames turn buildings into ashes, the nation's leading fire researchers don't play with matches over the sink. Instead they burn down entire homes, cubicles and warehouses. At the National Institutes of Standards and Technologies, researchers set huge fires under a 40-foo Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Ginkgo Biloba Ineffective Against Dementia, Researchers Find - New York Times ABC NewsGinkgo Biloba Ineffective Against Dementia, Researchers FindNew York Times - 13 hours agoBy RONI CARYN RABIN The largest and longest independent clinical trial to assess ginkgo biloba’s ability to prevent memory loss has found that the supplement does not prev Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |
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New Microsoft OS aimed at researchers Microsoft is unveiling a new operating system on Tuesday, but don't get too excited.Think of Singularity as "a concept-car OS," said Rick Rashid, general director of Microsoft Research. Microsoft is making the p Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Tenn. zoo breeds endangered frogs
(AP) AP - A new breeding program at the Memphis Zoo could nearly double the known population of an endangered frog species. Biologists estimate there are only about 100 adult Mississippi gopher frogs left in the wild, but zoo officials say they've successfully produced 94 tadpoles through in-vitro fertil Home > Rss Directory > General > Yahoo News |
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Turtle Leads to Marijuana Garden Montgomery man arrested after research turtle is found wandering near patch in Rock Creek Park. Home > Rss Directory > General > WashingtonPost |
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Satnav turtle locates cannabis stash Pot luck? A turtle with a GPS tracker attached to its shell has accidentally stumbled across a teenager’s secret horde of cannabis plants.… Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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Researchers Find a Bias Toward Upbeat Findings on Antidepressants - New York Times Dog Flu Diet and DiseasesResearchers Find a Bias Toward Upbeat Findings on AntidepressantsNew York Times - 4 hours agoBy BENEDICT CAREY The makers of antidepressants like Prozac and Paxil never published the results of about a third of the drug trials that they conduct Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |
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Airborne Bacteria Make It Rain, Researchers Find - Wired News Boston GlobeAirborne Bacteria Make It Rain, Researchers FindWired News - 5 hours agoBy Brandon Keim 02.29.08 | 4:45 PM The green dots indicate Pseudomonas syringae bacteria suspended in ice. Like other so-called biological ice nucleators, P. syringae gives water vapor Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |
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Forget Brain Age: Researchers Develop Software That Makes You Smarter Brain researchers for the first time claim to have found a method for improving the general problem-solving ability scientists call fluid intelligence, otherwise known as "smarts." Fluid intelligence was previously thought to be genetically hard-wired, but the finding suggests that wi Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Forget Brain Age: Researchers Develop Software That Makes You Smarter Brain researchers for the first time claim to have found a method for improving the general problem-solving ability scientists call fluid intelligence, otherwise known as "smarts." Fluid intelligence was previously thought to be genetically hard-wired, but the finding suggests that wi Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Researchers find state of matter that may extend Moore's Law Researchers at McGill University in Montreal have discovered a new state of matter that they say could greatly extend Moore's Law.Engineers at companies like Intel and AMD have long been cramming more and more t Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |