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Posted by Conservation groups applauded a decision today by the 27-nation European Union (EU) to support a ban on international commercial trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna, to be voted on at a wildlife trade convention starting this weekend. (175 governments weigh stricter controls over wildlife trade) The EU said it would vote to list Atlantic bluefin tuna…
Bluefin tuna are voracious predators, feasting constantly on fish and squid. But they have the misfortune to not be on the top of the food chain. Humans prey on tuna, and we seem to not be able to eat enough of this magnificent animal, especially when it is offered as sashimi in the finest restaurants.…
Japanese gardens appear to relieve stress and calm people who sit in them, according to researchers who observed the effects of Japanese gardens on Alzheimer’s patients. NGS stock photo by Sam Abell Seiko Goto, assistant professor of landscape architecture at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences at Rutgers University, and Karl Herrup, professor and…
Posted by —Picture courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech Yesterday NASA successfully hurtled another telescope into the heavens: the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. Judging from the plethora of news coverage, WISE has quite a few people pretty excited. After all, NASA has only a handful of operational space telescopes up there right now … roughly 15 by my count…
Alien cultures might be happy to know that if we humans ever do start colonizing the universe, we may have a few problems going forth and multiplying. A team of Japanese scientists has found that microgravity significantly lowers the birth rate in mammals, based on their study of mice embryos subjected to space-like conditions in…
Bang! Zoom! Straight to tha moon! That’s what officials at the Indian Space Research Organization hope will happen early tomorrow, when India sends up its first ever mission to the moon: Chandrayaan-1. Starting at 5:50 a.m. local Indian time, you can watch a live webcast of Chandrayaan-1 lifting off from Satish Dhawan Space Centre on…
When you ask a scientist why they chose their career, quite a few will cite some form of science fiction as an early inspiration. In turn, science fiction is often the source of some the most influential technologies now in use or being actively pursued in research labs. British novelist Arthur C. Clarke, for instance,…
