Radioactive contaminants spewed from the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan have reached the open seas, according to a new report issued this week by U.S.-based researchers.
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Alex was a famous parrot not only able to talk rather fluently but, it now appears, also able to count objects and perform numerical calculations, according to an article published in Animal Cognition, by Irene Pepperberg.
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A team of Russian scientists have resurrected an entire plant that bloomed when sabre-toothed cats and wooly mammoths roamed the Earth.
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Brown, White or Fractal Music: What Are We Listening To?
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Scientists have successfully measured, what they claimed, the fastest wind yet discovered blowing off a stellar-mass black hole. The wind is moving at a record-breaking speed of about 20 million mph (32 million kph), or about 3 percent of the speed of light.
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Coral reef scientists got more than they bargained for during a fish survey off the Great Keppel Island off the east coast of Australia: A shark eating another shark.
While no one can know ahead of time just how much destruction a Category 3 Hurricane like Irene will do, specialty companies that specialize in catastrophic risk analysis are armed with historical data as well as links to national computer centers that track the storm in real time.
Do you want to wow your guests with a completely unique pet not seen outside the local aquarium? Why not try having your own jellyfish in a desktop tank.
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