Duck difficulties
Enlarge OPPOSITES ATTRACT?Mallard duck anatomy shows signs of an escalating battle of the sexes. The male has a long phallus (bottom), but the female genitals (top) corkscrew in the opposite direction.P. Brennan That kind of scenario might have ... [... more]
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Science News / The Dating Go Round
Speed dating offers scientists a peek at how romance actually blossoms Dating is hell. It's a tiptoe traipse on a high wire strung across the Grand Canyon . One wrong move and you're in free fall, tumbling crazily toward a final goodnight. It's ... [... more]
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Science News / The Solar System's Big Bang
Home / February 14th, 2009; Vol.175 #4 / Feature The Solar System's Big Bang Finding signs of a lost beginning By Ron Cowen February 14th, 2009; Vol.175 #4 (p. 26) Text Size Enlarge FULL MOONThe Clementine spacecraft took this portrait of the ... [... more]
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Science News / The First Sound Bites
The presidential campaign, 1908-style. Hear early phonograph recordings. Home / News / News item The first sound bites The presidential campaign, 1908-style. Hear early phonograph recordings. By Ron Cowen Web edition : Friday, September 26th, ... [... more]
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Science News / Time To Chill
New fossil finds from an ancient lake indicate when Antarctica dipped below freezing Well-preserved fossils deposited in the sediments of an Antarctic lake about 14 million years ago pin down when a large part of the now-icy continent most ... [... more]
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Science News / Obama's New Directive On Energy Efficiency
President Obama gave a brief lunch-time pep talk to Department of Energy staff today. It contained a lot of the bromides that he spouted during his campaign. Like the fact that we must end the tyranny of oil, spark the creation of a clean energy ... [... more]
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When did you first learn high-elevation glaciers were dying?
When we started our monitoring program in 1978, people typically described the movement of ice fields as slow - you know, glacial. But in the early '90s during repeated visits to Peru 's Quelccaya glacier, the largest tropical ice cap on Earth, ... [... more]
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Science News / When Art And Math Collide
An exhibit of mathematical art reveals the aesthetic side of math Mathematics is beautiful: intellectually elegant, exquisitely austere and pretty. Yes, pretty. Like, pretty to look at. That aesthetic beauty was easy to see at the 2009 Joint ... [... more]
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Environmental Science & Technology
Lead concentrations spiked in many children living in the nation's capital after the local water authority altered the treatment used to disinfect drinking water. About seven-and-a-half years ago, the District of Columbia's water authority ... [... more]
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Science News / Computing Evolution
Scientists sift through genetic data sets to better map twisting branches in the tree of life Home / Feature Computing Evolution Scientists sift through genetic data sets to better map twisting branches in the tree of life By Patrick Barry Web ... [... more]
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Mineral bit provides clues about when our cosmic companion formed its crust A small mineral tidbit in a rock brought back from the moon in 1972 is giving scientists a big clue that our satellite's surface was, for the most part, solidified by 4.4 ... [... more]
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Science News / 2008: Science News Of The Year
Home / January 3rd, 2009; Vol.175 #1 / Feature 2008: Science news of the year Science News editors and writers survey the top news from the world of science in 2008. The selected stories are featured in this year-end issue, with links to the ... [... more]
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