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Sci-triv game: have fun learning about science!
May 1, 2009... Want to play a game of science triva?
See how many points you can win by correctly answering the questions below. To find your score, give yourself 10 points each time you get a first-row question right, 20 points for each second-row question, and so on. The red bonus square is worth...
Washington, D.C.--when a zookeeper heard whistling coming from the great ape house at the Smithsonian's National Zoo, he thought one of the visitors had climbed inside.(ANIMAL SPOTS)(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... WASHINGTON, D.C. -- When a zookeeper heard whistling coming from the great ape house at the Smithsonian's National Zoo, he thought one of the visitors had climbed inside. Tums out Bonnie, one of the resident orangutans, was making the sound. She had apparently copied the behavior from...
Ipswich, England--foxes are moving up in the world.(ANIMAL SPOTS)(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... IPSWICH, England -- Foxes are moving up in the world. Foxes normally live underground in burrows. But a family of foxes that lives in a garden in England has made its home in the branches of a bee, 9 meters (30 feet) off the ground. "I couldn't believe my eyes," Donna Martell, one of the...
Keeping the beat: looking for a good workout? Try drumming!(HEALTH)(Cover story)
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Touring for months on end, all night, sleeping all day--rock stars aren't known for healthy living. But some of them could be in better shape than you might suspect, says British researcher Christopher Potter. If you've ever worked up a sweat playing Rock Band or...
Coal case: another disastrous spill is prompting Americans to ask: how clean is coal?(EARTH)
May 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]
It was the nightmare before Christmas. At roughly 1 o'clock in the morning on Dec. 22, 2008, a retaining wall burst outside the city of Harriman in eastern Tennessee. A flood of gray sludge up to 2 meters (6 feet) thick blanketed 120 hectares (300 acres) of...