WATCH: The Amazing Moment A Trapped Fox Approaches Men For Help

huffingtonpost.com 11 hours ago

Wild foxes aren't known to hang around humans too often, but that changed for one little fox that turned to two men for help after getting stuck in a jar.

 
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Creatively altered toys thrill kids with disabilities

ctvnews.ca 3 hours ago

After winning a global robot competition earlier this year, students at a Toronto school for Grades 3 to 12 have decided to put their tech talents to a new use: developing accessible games for kids...

 
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Colours of space - Visions of the Universe

bbc.co.uk 4 hours ago

The vivid hues astronomers use to bring the cosmos to life

 
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Laser scans flesh out the saga of Cambodia's 1,200-year-old lost city

cosmiclog.nbcnews.com 10 hours ago

Laser-scanning technology reveals that the Cambodian lost city of Mahendraparvata, dating back to a time before Angkor Wat, was much more extensive than previously thought...

 
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Governor Signs Tougher Fracking Regulations

huffingtonpost.com 8 hours ago

CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn on Monday signed into law the nation's strictest regulations for high-volume oil and gas drilling...

 
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Man Politely Asks Owl To Wake Up

huffingtonpost.com 11 hours ago

No, this poor owl did not have too much to drink, although that's pretty much how he's being addressed...

 
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Experts to analyse 'unusual' weather

bbc.co.uk 5 hours ago

Meteorologists and scientists will meet at the Met Office to try to understand the UK's strange weather patterns.

 
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LOOK: Her Brothers Are Intrigued

huffingtonpost.com 5 hours ago

The sibling relationship may be the most complicated, rewarding, sometimes fraught and impossibly cute bond on earth. Even when your brothers bark.

 
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Citizens Climate Lobby pushes for a carbon tax and dividend

guardian.co.uk 2 hours ago

Dana Nuccitelli: Citizens Climate Lobby aims to organize the public to create pressure behind a carbon fee and dividend system

 
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popsci.com 10 hours ago

Magnetic Graphene University of Manchester Toggling graphene's magnetic field on and off could lead to faster, smaller electronics...

 
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Heavy pollution linked to risk of autism, study shows

oregonlive.com 2 hours ago

Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health found that diesel, mercury, lead, manganese and methylene chloride in the air significantly increased the risk of having a child with autism.

 
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B for busted: Students changed grades by tampering with professors' keyboards - NBC News.com

nbcnews.com 11 hours ago

After four years of altering grades using credentials gained with keylogger equipment installed on professors' keyboards, three Purdue University students were finally busted when one of those...

 
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Blood tests could detect sexually-transmitted oral cancers

ca.news.yahoo.com 9 hours ago

By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - Antibodies to a high-risk type of a virus that causes mouth and throat cancers when transmitted via oral sex can be detected in blood tests many years before onset...

 
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Bloomberg’s ‘Final Recycling Frontier’: Food Waste

nytimes.com 16 June

The Bloomberg administration plans to announce shortly that it is hiring a composting plant to handle 100,000 tons of food scraps a year, or about 10 percent of the city’s residential food waste.

 
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LOOK: Montana School Children Comfort Shelter Animals By Reading To Them

huffingtonpost.com 16 June

A group of awesome school children from Hamilton, Mont., regularly pass up play time to bring a little comfort to animals at their local shelter.

 
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Cosmic Cartography: Here Is Your (Local) Universe | Life, Unbounded, Scientific American Blog...

blogs.scientificamerican.com 12 hours ago

A new video tours the nearby universe and makes it charmingly familiar. When I was a graduate student I spent a lot of time studying maps of ...

 
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Treating infection may have sting in the tail, parasite study shows

sciencedaily.com 3 hours ago

Using drugs to treat an infection could allow other co-existing conditions to flourish, a study in wild animals has shown.

 
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Ag Gag laws are growing threat to free speech and food safety

treehugger.com 11 hours ago

Ted Genoways at Mother Jones has an excellent cover story on the growing number of so-called "ag gag" laws that criminalize documenting animal abuse at factory farms.

 
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NASA names eight new astronaut trainees -- half of them women

science.nbcnews.com 5 hours ago

By Clara MoskowitzSpace.com NASA has picked eight Americans, a mix of scientists and military pilots, to begin training for future space missions that may one day launch them all the way to Mars...

 
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Scientists

wired.com 11 hours ago

The brain of a dragonfly has to do some serious calculations -- and fast -- if it hopes to nab a mosquito or midge in midair...

 
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NASA unveils its latest class of astronauts -- half of them women

science.nbcnews.com 5 hours ago

By Clara MoskowitzSpace.com NASA has picked eight Americans, a mix of scientists and military pilots, to begin training for future space missions that may one day launch them all the way to Mars...

 
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I've cracked it! Inventor creates fool-proof egg separator that sucks the yolk from the white...

dailymail.co.uk 16 hours ago

An entrepreneur from New Zealand has created the Yolkr - an egg separator that looks like a giant pipette and can hygienically suck the yolk from an egg white without any mess, and faster than any...

 
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45 years later, details of fatal Yuri Gagarin jet crash revealed

science.nbcnews.com 8 hours ago

By Robert Z. PearlmanSpace.com The circumstances surrounding the death of the first man in space, Yuri Gagarin, who was killed in a 1968 jet crash, have long been clouded in theories and rumors...

 
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New Poll: Voters Favor Protecting Public Lands Over Drilling Them

thinkprogress.org 9 hours ago

A poll released today by the Center for American Progress shows strong evidence that Americans believe energy development and land conservation are out of balance...

 
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Blocking overactive receptor in Alzheimer's recovers memory loss and more, mouse study suggests

sciencedaily.com 4 hours ago

A new study shows that memory pathology in older mice with Alzheimer's disease can be reversed with treatment.

 
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Sibling aggression linked to poor mental health

sciencedaily.com 13 hours ago

Fights between siblings are so common they’re often dismissed as simply part of growing up...

 
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Amelia Earhart's plane? New sonar imagery analysis raises hopes

science.nbcnews.com 9 hours ago

By Rossella LorenziDiscovery News A sonar anomaly that researchers suspect might possibly be the wreckage of Amelia Earhart's aircraft is a straight, unbroken feature uncannily consistent with the...

 
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Exceptional 2012 Greenland Ice Melt Caused By Jet Stream Changes That May Be Driven By Global...

thinkprogress.org 7 hours ago

New research finds that “unusual changes in atmospheric jet stream circulation caused the exceptional surface melt of the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) in summer 2012.” Prof...

 
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Bloomberg plans to get New Yorkers composting

treehugger.com 17 hours ago

New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg plans to announce a new composting plan that aims to divert 100,000 tons of food scraps from landfills each year and become mandatory city-wide by 2016.

 
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Albino gorilla was product of inbreeding, finds study

csmonitor.com 8 hours ago

Spanish researchers have sequenced the genome of Snowflake, an albino Western lowland gorilla that lived for 40 years at the Barcelona Zoo...

 
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Quality of waking hours determines ease of falling sleep

sciencedaily.com 5 hours ago

The quality of wakefulness affects how quickly a mammal falls asleep, researchers report in a study that identifies two proteins never before linked to alertness and sleep-wake balance.

 
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Stop hyperventilating, say energy efficiency researchers

eurekalert.org 2 hours ago

A single advanced building control now in development could slash 18 percent -- tens of thousands of dollars -- off the overall annual energy bill of the average large office building, with no loss of...

 
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Infections increase risk of mood disorders, study suggests

sciencedaily.com 4 hours ago

New research shows that every third person who is diagnosed for the first time with a mood disorder has been admitted to hospital with an infection prior to the diagnosis...

 
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New drug reverses loss of brain connections in Alzheimer's

sciencedaily.com 9 hours ago

The first experimental drug to boost brain synapses lost in Alzheimer's disease has been developed by researchers.

 
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