Mammoths were a diverse genus that roamed across Eurasia and North America during the Pleistocene era. In continental North America, at least two highly divergent species have long been recognized – woolly mammoths (Mammuthus ...
Plants & Animals
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In addition to its damaging effect on the environment and its illegal smuggling into developing countries, researchers have now linked e-waste to adverse effects on human health, such as inflammation and oxidative stress ...
Environment
May 30, 2011
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Amphibians may be more susceptible to disease in undisturbed natural habitats, a study in this week's issue of PNAS finds.
Ecology
May 30, 2011
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Researchers found a tunnel under the Temple of the Snake in the pre-Hispanic city of Teotihuacan, about 28 miles northeast of Mexico City.
Archaeology
May 30, 2011
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As the nation's electrical power grid becomes more interconnected through the Internet -- from the nuclear power plant in California to transmission lines in Texas to the microwave in your kitchen -- the chances of cyber ...
Computer Sciences
May 30, 2011
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For years we've had great efficiency labels for washing machines, for refrigerators, for dishwashers and more.
Energy & Green Tech
May 30, 2011
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European anti-trust regulators on Monday launched in-depth probes into proposed US takeovers of South Korean and Japanese businesses manufacturing computer hard disk drives (HDD).
Business
May 30, 2011
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(AP) -- PBS officials say hackers have cracked the network's website, posting a phony story claiming dead rapper Tupac Shakur was alive in New Zealand, and a group that claimed responsibility for the hacking complained about ...
Internet
May 30, 2011
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Researchers from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute have overturned conventional wisdom on how cell movement across all species is controlled, solving the structure of a protein that cuts power to the cell 'motor'. The protein ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 30, 2011
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The end of the Norse settlements on Greenland likely will remain shrouded in mystery. While there is scant written evidence of the colony's demise in the 14th and early 15th centuries, archaeological remains can fill some ...
Archaeology
May 30, 2011
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