Central U.S. Warned Of Larger Earthquakes To Come
All this taken into account, plus the much larger population in the danger zone now, suggests a magnitude 7 quake on the New Madrid fault today "could be far worse than those of the 1989 magnitude 7 Loma Prieta, California, earthquake," ... [... more]
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Mysterious Bee Deaths Linked To Pesticides
A colony of honeybees. An unknown pathogen is pushing the industrious honeybee to disaster as scientists scurry to figure out what the cause is. Early results of a key study by the USDA and Pennsylvania State University point towards some kind of ... [... more]
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Drivers On Cell Phones Kill Thousands, Snarl Traffic
The estimates are based largely on mathematical models, but they are not without basis. In 2001 in California, for example, "at least 4,699 reported accidents were blamed on drivers using cell phones, and those crashes killed 31 people and ... [... more]
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Exciting New Cancer Treatments Emerge Amid Persistent Myths
What's exciting about the findings published in Science and Nature are their novelty. In the first, doctors implanted a gene into human white blood cells that enabled the patients' own immune system to recognize and kill the cancer cells. While ... [... more]
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The Reality Of Recent Ufo Sightings Livescience
Any object seen in the sky, especially at night, can be very difficult to identify because of the limitations of human perception. Knowing how far away something is helps us determine its size and speed; that's why we know that moving cars seen ... [... more]
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Scientists Finally Figure Out How Bees Fly
"For many years, people tried to understand animal flight using the aerodynamics of airplanes and helicopters," said Douglas Altshuler, a researcher at California Institute of Technology. "In the last 10 years, flight biologists have ... [... more]
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Jesus Could Have Walked On Ice, Scientist Says
"We simply explain that unique freezing processes probably happened in that region only a handful of times during the last 12,000 years," said Doron Nof, a Florida State University Professor of Oceanography. "We leave to others the ... [... more]
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Inside Look: How Viruses Invade Us
"Since the discovery of the virus, we have learned a lot about the virus and how it gains access to cells and how it works," Romerio explained. "But I think we still do not have the key piece of the puzzle that would allow us to figure out ... [... more]
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The Most Dangerous Sports In America
"Athletes, youngsters and weekend warriors alike can wind up in hospital emergency rooms for injuries related to these sports," said Pietro Tonino, director of the division of sports medicine at Loyola University Health System. "So before ... [... more]
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You Can't Travel Back In Time, Scientists Say
"If you want to know what the Earth is like one million years from now, I'll tell you how to do that," said Greene, a consultant for "Deja Vu," a recent movie that dealt with time travel. "Build a spaceship. Go near the speed of ... [... more]
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Rare But Real: People Who Feel, Taste And Hear Color ...
Smilek and colleagues have identified two groups of synesthetes among those who associate letters and numbers with colors, he explained in a telephone interview. For individuals in one group, which Smilek calls "projector" synesthetes, the ... [... more]
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How Global Warming Is Changing The Wild Kingdom
A 2003 study led by Philip Gingerich, a geological sciences professor at the University of Michigan, looked at horse fossils from a warming period that occurred 55 million years ago. They found that as temperatures rose, the fossils shrank, from ... [... more]
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