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National trends in recent decades reveal an “emerging mortality penalty” for people living outside of metropolitan areas, Mississippi State researchers are reporting in American Journal of Public Health. For the first time in recent years, university scientists have identified data showing that more than 40,000 more people living in rural counties die annually than...
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The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) announced the discovery of a huge population of rare dolphins in South Asia. Using rigorous scientific techniques, WCS researchers estimate that nearly 6,000 Irrawaddy dolphins, which are related to orcas or killer whales, were found living in freshwater regions of Bangladeshâ’s Sundarbans mangrove forest and adjacent waters of the...
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Sharks are among the most popular animals featured in television and cinema. And today among sharks, the undisputed king is the great white, a giant predator that can exceed 20 feet in length. Despite the popularity of great whites, relatively little is known about their biology, and even less is known about their evolutionary...
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Log onto YouTube and you can watch dozens of videos of planes crashing into the towers on 9/11 and victims leaping to their deaths. Browse Amazon for one of the 87 DVDs about Hurricane Katrina. Or tune into the Discovery Channelâ’s new show, â’Destroyed in Seconds.â’ â’Images of disaster haunt the American national consciousness...
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Want to show support for your favorite team? What if you could change the color of your car to black and gold (or red and white) in seconds? Scientists have developed a paramagnetic paint that can change color like a football fan changes a T-shirt. Itâ’s all part of the amazing world of materials...
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