Carbon Dioxide Threatening Koalas

The more that carbon dioxide pollutes the air, the more koalas are being threatened.  The rising levels offset the nutrients in eucalyptus plants, making them toxic to koalas."Koalas are threatened by the...

Man, 21, Charged in Eve Carson Murder

A second suspect has been arrested in the shooting murder of a UNC student body president."Authorities have charged a suspect in the slaying of University of North Carolina student body president Eve Carson...

Electron Cryomicroscopy Takes 3D Portrait of Virus

"Electron Cryomicroscopy Takes 3D Portrait of Virus"

Kids won't move out? Why not eat them

That's what some species of fish do anyway.Parental cannibalism in nature may be an attempt to hurry up the child-rearing process, according to new research.Perhaps children living at home into their twenties...

Sedentary life 'speeds up ageing'

"Leading a sedentary lifestyle may make us genetically old before our time, a study suggests. A study of twins found those who were physically active during their leisure time appeared biologically younger than their sedentary peers. The researchers found key pieces of DNA...

BREAKING NEWS: First Cars Run on Algae Biodiesel; Breakthrough Production Pos...

This is an amazing announcement if what they say is true. People have been trying to figure out algae biodiesel for years!"Just a few hours ago, the world’s first pair of cars to run on algae biodiesel were announced at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival [picture to be...

Sperm power "Future Fuel" for Robots

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorI want to know which Scientists come up with these Bizzaro ideas?  Is there anything under those labcoats? Cause there certainly doesn't seem to be anything...

Wild Salmon Face Extinction Due To Fish Farms

Another reason to eat organic wild salmon. "Parasitic sea lice found in salmon farms are driving nearby populations of wild salmon toward local extinction, according to a scientific paper published...

8 Foot Long Scorpion Found To Live In The Sea :: Oblate Spheroid

"BUGS, BUGS, BUGS! Ancient life here on the Oblate Spheroid was quite a different proposition. In a press release from The Royal Society, London, scientists excavating a site in Germany have uncovered a fossil...

ADB providing 1 mln textbooks to schools across Aceh and Nias

"The textbooks on biology, chemistry, physics, information and communication technology, English and mathematics will replace outdated editions and replenish chronic shortages of the new 2006 curriculum textbooks being introduced to the schools this year, the agency was...

Honey Bee Queens Need More Hugging Hunny

A single female bee, surrounded by 1000's of hard working bachelor....eunuchs.  That's the everyday life for honey bee colony queens, and to make things worse - sterile worker bees can excommunicate her for...

'Gay bomb' Receives Peace Prize

That's right!  This year's Ig Nobel Prizes, a play off the Nobel prizes, were handed out last night at Harvard University.  The awards are given out by the Annals of Improbable research - their goal: to...

The bugs that came in from the cold

Locked in ice for millions of years, Antarctic bacteria are thawing – and they're alive. So will a prehistoric plague be swimming in a sea near you?

3 Blue Whales Killed of California Coast

In the last week three Blue Whales have been killed by ships off the coast of California.  One washed ashore in Long Beach, another in Ventura, and a third is expected to come ashore in Santa Barbara. ...

Cut Out Dissection: Opt for Humane, Effective Alternatives

Every year, millions of frogs, cats, mice, rats, worms, dogs, rabbits, fetal pigs, and fishes are used in classroom dissections. With each animal they slice open; students learn to disrespect and devalue other sentient beings. Biology is the study of life and young people...

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