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• Mystery behind human walking unravelled

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 730
  London, Dec 21 (IANS) Ever wondered why a human baby needs an year to start walking, while a newborn foal is up and about soon after birth?A team of researchers from Sweden’s Lund University compared 24 species and found that human babies actually start walking at the same stage in brain development as most other ...
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• ‘Screaming Roadrunner’ roamed among dinos 71 to 75 million years ago

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 730
  Washington, December 21 (ANI): Scientists have identified a new bird, nicknamed the ‘Screaming Roadrunner’, which roamed among dinosaurs 71 to 75 million years ago.According to a report in Discovery News, the fossils of the bird were originally found in the southern Gobi Desert in 1997.The new species, which lived ...
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• Global temperatures could rise more than expected

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 730
  Washington, December 21 (ANI): A new study led by Yale University geologists has suggested that the kinds of increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) taking place today could have a significantly larger effect on global temperatures than previously thought.The team demonstrated that only a relatively small rise ...
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• Prehistoric Oz koalas were as lazy as their modern counterparts

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 730
  Washington, Dec 20 (ANI): Prehistoric Australian koalas were as lazy as their modern counterparts and used the same loud bellowing calls to attract mates and provide warnings about predators, a new study shows.However, the findings suggest that the koalas from 5 million years ago did not have the same kind of ...
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• Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught?

  
  Pokemon Games To Play — Authority: 134
  The program is always ranked #1 in US News for its excellence in entrepreneurship. However, entrepreneurship isn t a science or an art for that matter. So, can it be taught? I just stumbled upon an interesting CNN Money article that tackles this very subject. At first glance, it doesn t look very promising. Here ...
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• Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught?

  
  Pokemon Games To Play — Authority: 134
  The program is always ranked #1 in US News for its excellence in entrepreneurship. However, entrepreneurship isn t a science or an art for that matter. So, can it be taught? I just stumbled upon an interesting CNN Money article that tackles this very subject. At first glance, it doesn t look very promising. Here ...
  3 days ago

• Is another mass extinction of mammals on the way?

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 730
  Washington, Dec 18 (IANS) Thanks to global warming and ecological degradation, the sixth mass extinction is already on the way, equal to the “big five” that occurred over the past 450 million years, the last of which killed off dinosaurs, warn scientists.Yet, estimates of how dire the current loss of species is ...
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• Mammals may be nearly half way towards mass extinction

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 730
  Washington, December 18 (ANI): A new analysis by scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, and Pennsylvania State University, has shown that North American mammals are one-fifth to one-half the way towards mass extinction.Many scientists warn that the perfect storm of global warming and environmental ...
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• New evidence supports North America as center of origin for all living marsupials

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 730
  Washington, December 16 (ANI): In a new research, a scientist from the University of Florida has traced the evolution of the modern opossum back to the extinction of the dinosaurs, and finding in the process evidence to support North America as the center of origin for all living marsupials.The study shows that ...
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• The Monkey’s Paw

  
  A Dude's Guide — Authority: 128
  by Richard In the classic tale of suspense and wishing gone wrong, “The Monkey’s Paw” by W.W. Jacobs, a man comes into the possession of a magical monkey’s paw on which he can make wishes. Unfortunately, these wishes, while correct, always come with an unexpected price. Sort of like dealing with the IRS ...
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• Low Life Expectancy in the United States (NOT because of the health care system)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the United States ranked 29th in the world in 2006 in life expectancy at age 50. That places it more than three years behind the worlds leader, Japan, and more than one and a half years behind Australia, Canada, France, Italy, Iceland, Spain, and Switzerland. About 4 ...
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• Movie of the Week: Quatermass and the Pit.

  
  Moe Lane — Authority: 623
  Says a lot about American culture that they hawked Quartermass and the Pit in this country as Five Million Years to Earth . Admittedly, back then almost nobody in the states had any idea of who Bernard Quatermass was, anyway. Shoot, this is the only one of that series that I’ve seen. So, it being Wednesday: ...
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• 650 Million Years in under 2 minutes

  
  2012. The big wobble — Authority: 143
  650 Million Years in under 2 minutes FORUM http://gazbom.blogspot.com
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• Just after the Big Bang: Hubbles deepest view of universe unvei...

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 155
  Astronomers have taken the deepest image yet of the Universe in near-infrared light. The faintest and reddest objects in the image are likely the oldest galaxies ever identified, having formed between only 600-900 million years after the Big Bang.
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• Spinosauras Shown On Monsters Resurrected

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 730
  By Ranjan BhaduriDec.07 (THAINDIAN NEWS) In the premiere show of “Monsters Resurrected”, the topic was a carnivore dinosaur species known as Spinosauras. It was twice bigger than T-Rex and had long powerful teeth and a tough exoskeleton. The meaning of its name is spine lizard. This species used to live in parts ...
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• Earth 30-50 percent more sensitive to CO2 than previously estimated

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 730
  Washington, December 7 (ANI): A new study has estimated that the Earth’s temperature may be 30-50 percent more sensitive to atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) than has previously been estimated.According to the results of the study, components of the Earth’s climate system that vary over long timescales - such as ...
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• Martian colony on display in Britain

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 730
  London, Dec 2 (ANI): A meteorite from Mars, with a sample of Martian colony, has been put on display at Natural History Museum.According to the Nasa scientists, snaps from a scanning electron microscope (SEM), shows a bumpy surface, which resembles a fossilised colony of microbacteria - a simple form of life.The ...
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• ‘Snowball’ Earth may have melted to a ‘mudball’

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 730
  London, November 30 (ANI): New evidence has emerged which indicates that the ’snowball’ Earth 700 million years ago thawed out of its frozen stage by melting to a ‘mudball’. Evidence for ’snowball’ Earth comes from the discovery of glacial rock formations around the world that date back to this time, ...
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• Dark galaxy may be crashing into Milky Way

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 730
  London, November 23 (ANI): New calculations by a team of astronomers have indicated that a dark galaxy may be crashing into our own Milky Way. In 2008, a cloud of hydrogen with a mass then estimated at about 1 million suns was found to be colliding with our galaxy. Now, according to a report in [...]
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• A Global Catastrophic Event Wiped Out Ancient Forests

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  Fungi are single or multi-celled organisms that break down organic materials, such as rotting wood, in order to absorb their nutrients. Neither plant nor animal, they range from mushrooms to single-celled yeast. Scientists were investigating organic chemicals trapped in an Italian sedimentary rock formation when they ...
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