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Scientists Trace Evolutionary History of What Mammals EatWashington DC (SPX) Apr 23, 2012 The feeding habits of mammals haven't always been what they are today, particularly for omnivores. Some groups of mammals almost exclusively eat meat--take lions and tigers and other big cats as examples. Other mammals such as deer, cows and antelope are predominantly plant-eaters, living on a diet of leaves, shoots, fruits and bark. But particularly for omnivores that live on plant foods in addition to meat, the situation wasn't always that way, finds a new study by researchers working at the Nat ... read more |
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  Sunlight plus lime juice makes drinking water safer Looking for an inexpensive and effective way to quickly improve the quality of your drinking water? According to a team of researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and th ... more | .. |
  Orangutan nest building shows high degree of sophistication Orangutans may be smarter than previously thought if a new study into the sophisticated way they build nests is any indication. Scientists at The University of Manchester spent a year observin ... more | .. |
  Meat eating led to earlier weaning, helped humans spread across globe When early humans became carnivores, their higher-quality diet allowed mothers to wean babies earlier and have more children, with potentially profound effects on population dynamics and the course ... more | .. |
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 Cod has a key role in the whole Baltic Sea A new investigation put in evidence the key role of cod as regulator of the whole Baltic Sea ecosystem. The study shows that when the cod population in the central Baltic increases, it spreads into ... more | .. |
  Lockheed Martin Completes Key Milestone on GeoEye's New Commercial Earth-Imaging Satellite The Lockheed Martin team developing GeoEye's next-generation Earth-imaging satellite successfully initiated power-on testing for the GeoEye-2 spacecraft bus. This program milestone continues the tea ... more | .. |
  Use less water, producing energy and fertilizer at the same time Water is a valuable resource. New technologies are making it easier to handle drinking water responsibly, purify wastewater effectively and even recover biogas and fertilizer. Fraunhofer researchers ... more | .. |
  Advances in personalized medicine for lung cancer Several new studies that may help doctors tailor lung cancer treatment to the characteristics of individual patients and of their tumors are being presented at the 3rd European Lung Cancer Conferenc ... more |
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 Jellyfish on the rise Jellyfish are increasing in the majority of the world's coastal ecosystems, according to the first global study of jellyfish abundance by University of British Columbia researchers. In a study ... more | .. |
  Helicopter transport improves trauma patient survival compared to ground transport If you are severely injured, a helicopter flight to a top-level trauma center will boost your chance of survival over ground transport. That's the conclusion of a rigorous, national comparison of th ... more | .. |
  Green-glowing fish provides new insights into health impacts of pollution Understanding the damage that pollution causes to both wildlife and human health is set to become much easier thanks to a new green-glowing zebrafish. Created by a team from the University of Exeter ... more | .. |
 New purple crab species found in Philippines Four new species of freshwater crab, bright purple in colour, have been discovered in the biologically diverse but ecologically-threatened Philippines, the man who found them said Saturday. ... more |
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  Chinese PM wraps up Iceland visit Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao wrapped up a visit to Iceland on Saturday, the first stage in a four-nation European tour, after concluding an accord on cooperation in the oil-rich Arctic region. ... more | .. |
  Dalai Lama laments latest Tibetan self-immolations The Dalai Lama voiced sadness Friday at the reported self-immolation of two more Tibetans, the latest in a wave of such protests against Beijing's rule. ... more | .. |
 Africa said rich in underground water The continent of Africa is sitting on a vast reservoir of groundwater in underground aquifers holding 100 times the amount found on the surface, scientists say. ... more | .. |
  Euro troubles compounded by French polls Eurozone troubles are becoming compounded by the conservatives' fading fortunes in France and dim prospects for President Nicolas Sarkozy. ... more |
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Top U.S. defense contractor L3 Tech to pay $62M to settle claims of deceptive practices
North Korean warship has 'serious accident' at launch
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  AIDS experts launch 'CNN of virology' in Canada A new digital media service will foster the global collaboration of physicians and help them to share the latest advances in AIDS and other virus research, according to its Canadian promoters. ... more | .. |
 Angry villagers kill policeman in China riot Angry villagers protesting a local mining operation in southwest China attacked security forces with machetes and clubs, leaving one policeman dead and 15 injured, local authorities said Friday. ... more | .. |
  Mexico volcano roars, spews glowing rocks Mexico's Popocatepetl volcano, outside the capital, rumbled continuously and spewed gases and glowing rocks to almost one mile (one kilometer) beyond its crater, authorities said Friday. ... more | .. |
 Polar bears older than previously thought: study Polar bears diverged from their closest relatives 600,000 years ago, far earlier than previously thought, suggesting more challenges in the face of climate change, scientists said Thursday. ... more |
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 Bonn to house top UN panel on biodiversity The former West German capital of Bonn has been chosen for the secretariat of a UN expert panel on biodiversity, the organisation announced on Thursday. ... more | .. |
  Mexico's Senate passes climate change bill Mexico's Senate has unanimously passed a climate change bill aimed at reducing carbon emissions by 50 percent by 2050, following Britain in creating legally binding emissions goals. ... more | .. |
 New research puts focus on earthquake, tsunami hazard for southern California Scientists will convene in San Diego to present the latest seismological research at the annual conference of the Seismological Society of America (SSA), April 17-19. This year's meeting is expected ... more | .. |
 Southeast Asia's billion dollar cassava industry at high risk due to climate change Severe outbreaks of new, invasive pests triggered by rising temperatures could threaten Southeast Asia's multi-billion dollar cassava industry, as well as the livelihoods of the hundreds of thousand ... more |
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SpaceX mega-rocket Starship 9 cleared for launch following earlier mission failures
Rocky road geology reveals billion year story inside Martian crater
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 Genetic adaptation of fat metabolism key to development of human brain About 300 000 years ago humans adapted genetically to be able to produce larger amounts of Omega-3 and Omega-6 fatty acids. This adaptation may have been crucial to the development of the unique bra ... more | .. |
 Duck-billed dinosaurs endured long, dark polar winters Duck-billed dinosaurs that lived within Arctic latitudes approximately 70 million years ago likely endured long, dark polar winters instead of migrating to more southern latitudes, a recent study by ... more | .. |
 Coral Reef Winners and Losers in a Warmer World There are winners and losers among corals under the accumulating impacts of climate change, according to a new scientific study. In the world's first large-scale investigation of how climate a ... more | .. |
 Development of the glial cell revealed A vast majority of cells in the brain are glial, yet our understanding of how they are generated, a process called gliogenesis, has remained enigmatic. Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have ... more |
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 Nutrient and toxin all at once: How plants absorb the perfect quantity of minerals In order to survive, plants should take up neither too many nor too few minerals from the soil. New insights into how they operate this critical balance have now been published by biologists at the ... more | .. |
 Majority-biased learning The transmission of knowledge to the next generation is a key feature of human evolution. In particular, humans tend to copy behaviour that is demonstrated by many other individuals. Chimpanzees and ... more | .. |
 Iraq's Sadr calls for boycott of F1 race in Bahrain Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr called for a boycott of the upcoming Formula 1 race in Bahrain over the kingdom's continued crackdown on dissidents, in a statement released on Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Chimpanzee ground nests offer new insight into our ancestors descent from the trees The first study into rarely documented ground-nest building by wild chimpanzees offers new clues about the ancient transition of early hominins from sleeping in trees to sleeping on the ground. ... more |
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