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POPSBee Disease Still A Mystery, Despite New Advances Entomologists are studying the reasons behind an enormous bee die off happening across the country. They call it Colony Collapse Disorder, and if they cannot find a solution the 80% of fruits and vegetables that require pollination may not make it to market.
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POPSTrans-Atlantic MagLev -- A Magnetically Levitated Vacuum Tube Train A Maglev train floats about 10mm above the guidway on a magnetic field and is propelled by the guidway itself rather than an onboard engine by changing magnetic fields. An exotic proposal based upon this principle is the Trans Atlantic vactrain: a Maglev train in a long near-vacuum tube with speeds that allow less than one hour travel times between New York and London.
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POPSChance discovery sheds light on S.I.D.S. Cot death, or Sudden Infant Death Syndrome has been a mystery, and a number of causes have studied. It has also been suggested that there may be more than one cause. While the study was on mice, they hope it will lead to more clues in the search for causes in humans, and help identify babies at risk
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POPSWorms Do Calculus To Find Meals In their paper, the researchers documented how two related, closely located chemosensory neurons, acting in tandem, regulate behavior. The left neuron controls an on switch, while the opposing right one an off switch. These sister neurons are situated much like the two nostrils or two eyes of mammals. Together these neurons are known as ASE for antagonistic sensory cues.
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POPS Test your eyes Try this interactive activity from Discovery Channel -- test your sight and learn how vision works at the same time.
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POPSJoint Venture Announced To Develop Natural Gas Acreage 
The Haynesville Shale leasehold could hold net unrisked unproved reserve potential of 23-44 trillion cubic feet of natural gas equivalent or bcfe provided drilling of up to 6,875 horizontal wells using 80 acre spacing and assuming per well estimated ultimate reserves or EUR to average between 4.5 and 8.5 billion bcfe. Chesapeake noted that its initial production rates on the eight completed horizontal wells have ranged from 5 to 15 million cubic feet of natural gas equivalent or mmcfe per day. Plains Exploration expects organic production growth of more than 20% and reserve growth in excess of 10%, both compounded annually, with the addition of the Haynesville Shale position. Plains Exploration also currently anticipates net proved reserves of 600 million barrels of oil equivalent or boe to reach about 1 billion boe by 2012. In Tuesday's after-hours trading, CHK further added $3.39 or 5.03% to close at $70.75, while PXP further added $2.06 or 2.81% to close at $75.30.
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POPSSomebody Should Do Something About All the Problems
DNA fingerprinting—that's what they're doing now. And still strawberries at Bergmann's are $2.99 a quart. It's ludicrous. It's as if we live in the Dark Ages. Cloned genes and fiber optics, but the cat still goes into heat and scratches up my new mahogany coffee table. I kicked that thing as hard as I could with my good leg and it still came back screeching and wagging its fanny like a Broadway showgirl. Isn't there something someone can do about that? I'm sure with all the vaccines and hybrid cells and carbon dating equipment we've got today someone can take a minute to whip up a pill I can force down Pumpkin's throat so I have one decent thing in this shoebox house that I worked like a dog at the phone company for 27 years in order to afford. These are the good years for me? Huh! I'm still watering my flowers and hosing off my driveway. Where is the fiber optics in that? How's superconductivity helping me when my new cotton housedress shrank up to nothing the first time I pu
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POPSChameleon Lives Fast, Dies Young Dies after a couple of months of old age. The species is doing well though, must work. Drastic way of getting out of child rearing. Maybe they read about teenagers.
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POPSChina Circumnavigated the World First I have just begun this really fascinating book, and highly recommend it! His meticulous research and insight into both the Chinese of the time, and sailing of the time, is amazing. Changes the way we understand world history.
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POPSOrion twins show not all are identical The fact that the twins are different means the study of their eclipses, can shed more light on the formation of stars, and they are one of the yardsticks astronomers can use to test their theories on star formation. The information gained can help revise some theories that exist at the moment, including the ages of star types.
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