A Florida research team tracking the dispersal of hatchling loggerhead turtles has resorted to the nail salon to help fit tiny tags to the endangered creatures. The team tried several ideas to attach the technology to the animals, which measure less than 20 cm in length. This included making little harnesses, and using tough epoxy adhesives. But it was only when the turtle shells were prepared li…
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…mo Marconi more than a 100 years ago, who opened the world’s first telegraph in the same city. GPS (global positioning system) uses signals coming from satellites spinning around the Earth, some 20,000 km (12,427 miles) away. By the time these signals reach the surface of our planet, they are extremely weak and unable to be picked up by receivers, for instance, inside buildings. They may als…
…e pythons that have been caught in and around Everglades National Park since 2000. Among the largest so far was a 156-pound, 16.4-foot one captured earlier this month. For the study, researchers drove 39,000 miles along Everglades-area roads from 2003 through 2011, counting wildlife spotted along the way and comparing the results with surveys conducted on the same routes in 1996 and 1997. The Nat…
…ged. But today’s announcement that the Duchess of Cambridge is expecting the couple’s first child – third in line to the throne – has come after the deal was agreed. In October 2011, David Cameron announced that the 16 Commonwealth countries where the Queen is head of state had agreed to give female royals the same rights of succession as their brothers. “Put simply, if the…
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Churchill will feature on the new design of the £5 banknote which will enter circulation in 2016 The design includes a portrait of Winston Churchill, adapted from a photograph taken by Yousuf Karsh on 30 December 1941. The former prime minister is the only politician from the modern era to feature on a banknote. The artwork will also include: Winston Churchill’s declaration: “I have n…
…chnology blog TechCrunch said it confirmed the change by speaking with three separate manufacturers, although Apple has not commented on the plan. Current iPhones, and all previous models, have used a 30-pin connector for power and to plug in accessories. However, reports claim the next iPhone will use a smaller 19-pin version, rendering all current accessories useless. Leaked pictures claiming to…
…because they allow her “to transform my interests in physics, chemistry, and biology into solutions for current health problems.” She won the Intel International Science & Engineering Fair (ISEF) 2011 Grand Award and the ISEF 2010 Grand Award (both for medicine and health science), and a trip to attend the Taiwan International Science Fair awarded by the National Taiwan Science Education Cent…
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…silicon. The result was a series of neatly aligned nanotube devices, already wired up within the pattern, at a density of a billion per square centimetre. “That’s one nanotube every 150 or 200 (billionths of a metre) or so,” explained Dr. James Hannon. “That’s not good enough to make a microprocessor yet – it’s a factor of 10 away. “But it’s a…
…ding to Capricorn enterprise CEO Mary Carroll. “His dad actually said, <<Make it work>>, so this campaign is certainly a way for him (to) make it work,” Mary Carroll said. Now, 31-year-old Wayne Rumble was recently made director of Sojourn Properties, and told news.com.au that the plan will “support the local community by involving the region’s businesses in the…
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Former US President Bill Clinton made an insensitive racial remark about Barack Obama while his wife battled him for the Democratic nomination vote, it was claimed today. Bill Clinton, whose wife Hillary battled Barack Obama in the 2008 primary campaign, is said to have remarked of the current president: “A few years ago, this guy would have been carrying our bags.” He allegedly made the insensit…
The European Parliament has rejected the 27 EU governments’ position on next year’s EU budget, triggering hard bargaining to reach a deal. In a vote in Strasbourg the MEPs backed the European Commission’s call for a 6.8% budget rise for 2013. A MEPs’ report deplored a decision by the Council – the 27 governments – to cut that figure to 2.79%. The MEPs also adop…
unemployment figures from each state to predict a Republican win come November. Political science professors Kenneth Bickers and Michael Berry’s study predicts 218 electoral votes for Barack Obama and 320 for Mitt Romney with the Republican candidate winning every seat currently considered to be on the fence. The prediction model uses economic data from all 50 states and the District of Columbia,…
…y other people to install malware for them.” The operators of ZeroAccess were making so much money that they were paying high prices for each infection. Current rates ran at about $100 for every 1,000 infections, said Derek Manky. As well as mining bitcoins, PCs enrolled in ZeroAccess were also being used to poison search results – to cause users to unwittingly click on booby-trapped w…
…ly enforce the agreement, the EU will need to play a role if the treaty is to be effective in enforcing intellectual property protection across several countries. So far, the treaty has been signed by 22 EU member states. However, Germany has held off from backing the agreement, citing the need for “further discussion”. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said his country would wait for…
…0;low-lights” are: • air pollution indoors and outdoors is probably causing more than six million premature deaths each year • greenhouse gas emissions are on track to warm the world by at least 3C on average by 2100 • most river basins contain places where drinking water standards are below World Health Organization standards • only 1.6% of the world’s oceans are protected. A few hour…
ated regulator applying those risk-based capital standards and adjusting the capital requirements to the risks; and those risks include the ones you have outlined, the risks of interest rates going up 300 basis points or falling 300 basis points. That is what that sophisticated new regulator would be required to look at. We are saying, remove the current statutory restrictions on how you look…
…l gridlock – because parties opposed to the president dominate parliament. Mohamed Nasheed, a former human rights campaigner, beat long-time ruler Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, who had been in power for 30 years and was widely seen as autocratic, in the country’s first multiparty election. A one-time political prisoner, Mohamed Nasheed became a vocal figure in office on issues relating to the…
…e simply in the case of <<irreconcilable differences>>.” Princess Basma Bint Saud Bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia spoke out about the many changes she would like to see in her country 3. Overhaul of the education system “The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school. The content of the syllabus i…
At least 340 people have been injured in a commuter train crash at a station in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The train is reported to have slammed into the barrier at the end of the platform at the Once station in the west of the city. The injured driver and some passengers were taken away on stretchers, with the first carriage the worst affected. The ministry of transport said it could not rule out…
riage was in trouble from the start and the wild search on the mean streets of Las Vegas led to their eventual split 16 days later. The 45-year-old Irish singer insists she still loves Barry Herridge, 38, but says she ended their relationship on Christmas Eve because of the pain he was in. Sinead O’Connor and Barry Herridge met online four months ago after he responded to a plea by unlucky-in-love…
This is the shocking moment a 33-ton glass shark tank at the Shanghai Orient shopping centre in China suddenly burst leaving 15 people injured by flying shards of broken glass and a torrent of water. The tank was an attraction at the entrance to the Shanghai Orient shopping centre in China’s second city when it shattered without warning on December 19. Eight of those hurt were customers and…
Dec 27 2012 | Posted in
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US researchers have discovered that beluga whale vocalizations were remarkably close to human speech. While dolphins have been taught to mimic the pattern and durations of sounds in human speech, no animal has spontaneously tried such mimicry. But researchers heard a nine-year-old whale named NOC make sounds octaves below normal, in clipped bursts. The researchers outline in Current Biology just…
…resence of markers of HIV and prostate cancer could be detected. However, trials on a much larger scale will be needed before it could be used clinically. The researchers expect their design will cost 10 times less than current tests. They say this will be important in countries where the only optifons are unaffordable. Fellow researcher Dr. Roberto de la Rica said: “This test could be signi…
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…not believe that he has any comprehension of the words that he is saying. Instead, they think that the elephant took up talking as a way to bond with his human companions. Between the ages of five and 12, Koshik was the only elephant at Everland Zoo, and the researchers said that this was a crucial period for elephant development. Dr. Angela Stoeger explained: “Humans were his only social co…
