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The Apple Specialist Marketing Co-op, in short the ASMC, has confirmed Apple Specialist Snow Leopard launch sales events at multiple, independent Apple specialist resellers across the US and Canada. In-store specials are to be had, as well as Mac OS X 10.6 demonstrations. The ASMC has also announced an initiative to... |
27 August 2009
10:17 GMT |
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After their recent Kavoshgar-2 rocket mission proved to be a success, as reported by the state media, the Iranian space experts plan for the following similar missions, Kavoshgar-3 and Kavoshgar-4, to carry animals into space prior to switching to manned missions. What kind of animals they are thinking about has not ... |
5 December 2008
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A recent study added another member to the list of the creatures that prove self-awareness capabilities besides humans, dolphins, apes and magpies. It's the elephant, which has been proven to be able to recognize its own face in the mirror.Only seven years ago, everybody was absolutely convinced that the self-aw... |
30 September 2008
05:24 GMT |
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As of late, the levels of noise in the planet's oceans reached incredible levels and it doubles every decade, which affects marine mammals' breeding and feeding habits in a negative way. The relatively new sources of noise, such as ships, oil platforms (which generate seismic blasts), low-frequency son... |
24 September 2008
08:09 GMT |
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It wasn't long before Apple would show off Aperture's capabilities using (what else?) Snow Leopard - not the OS, though, but the actual feline. National Geographic photographer Steve Winter reviewed around 30,000 snow leopard images in Aperture, Apple Hot news reveals.The pictures were taken in Central Asia... |
24 June 2008
04:46 GMT |
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Life is ephemeral by definition but it does vary from one species to another. The lifespan of each organism is considered to be the actual time it takes said organism to complete its life cycle. Most bacteria live for 15-80 minutes and then they divide into two daughter cells. More complex organisms live much longer.... |
14 May 2008
15:46 GMT |
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Throughout the history of Earth, countless plant and animal species have appeared and disappeared, because not only individuals, but species too get old and become extinct. Best case scenario, they live on in related species, that may later evolve in new plant or animal groups. Very few species resisted throughout th... |
23 April 2008
03:56 GMT |
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Circus, in its modern meaning, has been employing both domestic and wild animals. The horse was the first animal used in circus shows, whose canons emerged during the 18th century. Since then, the circus animals have been gradually increasing in number and variety. At the beginning, the trainers used animals that wer... |
14 April 2008
10:59 GMT |
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The Earth has a magnetosphere that affects the life of most creatures on Earth. Earth's magnetism is very weak, from 0.3 gauss at the Equator to 0.7 gauss at the Poles. Researchers discovered magnetic bacteria living in the ponds and lakes, presenting a chain of magnetic crystals inside their cells. Those locate... |
24 March 2008
16:36 GMT |
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In nature, any species is sought after by other predator or prey species, which detect it through their senses (sight, hearing, smell). Victims can defend through venoms, unpleasant smells, run, or by deceiving the sensory input of their predators. One method is camouflage and mimicry. It is a balance between prey an... |
22 March 2008
08:44 GMT |
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It seems so human, still laugh is not specific to humans. Monkeys, rats and dogs have already been found to enjoy a good "laugh". But it is hard to penetrate into their mind to see what a rat or dog could think when "laughing". Perhaps they think we, humans, are ugly... Anyway, laughing seems to be connected to a hi... |
17 March 2008
09:34 GMT |
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Unlike the stuffed animals in the museums or the documentaries on wild life, a zoo gives you the opportunity to see wild animals alive with your own eyes, at close range. Today, as our knowledge about species' biology and behavior has increased, zoos come with conditions more similar to those required by the ani... |
9 January 2008
07:07 GMT |
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Since antiquity, people have built statues to the animals. This was done for various religious or cultural reasons. For example, the animal could have represented the image of a god or was linked to local myths and legends, like the famous Roman statue of the she-wolf feeding Romulus and Remus, the founders of Rome. ... |
27 October 2007
05:17 GMT |
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New week... New game and this time it's again... No... We do not have a puzzle this week... I was really not in the mood for one anyway...I was about to choose one, because I didn't find any other good game around, but then... I was saved... by the Supercow. Ha! No, this game has nothing to do with the Cart... |
12 October 2007
04:27 GMT |
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Dogs In Danger is a nonprofit organization which recently created a website in order to allow the dog lovers to adopt an animal with ease and save their lives faster than before. The page comes with a handy search function that contains the dog's breed, the zip code of the cities as well as a search radius which... |
27 September 2007
06:15 GMT |
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Scientists had a rare occasion to study one of the most impressive marine animals, which gave birth to so many legends among sailors throughout history, a large giant squid that washed up to shore on a remote Australian beach, reported Reuters.It was really a fine specimen, but unfortunately the tentacles had been b... |
11 July 2007
05:02 GMT |
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Within the species, individuals can fight one against the other for different reasons, from food or shelter to social hierarchy or mating rights inside a group. In the case of a conflict between different species, the fight is determined by the antagonism between those species, like competition in the case of hyenas ... |
26 May 2007
06:53 GMT |
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During 4 million years of evolution, people just gathered, hunted and fished what nature offered, living just like another intelligent mammal. But about 12,000 years ago, with the Neolithic ("new stone") era, people started to be producers, creating voluntarily their subsistence means and breaking their dependence on... |
24 May 2007
17:06 GMT |
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Faced with some natural phenomena it could not explain, the human mind went wild and through imagination, misidentification, speculation or outright deception, fantastical mythological creatures appeared in cultures all around the world. But a new exhibition opening at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) th... |
24 May 2007
05:36 GMT |
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Many observations on the animal behavior confirm that "animals just lack speech". In 1972, researchers witnessed an astonishing event involving wolves. A limping individual headed towards an abandoned den. His shoulder bore a deep wound. The next day, the researcher saw a big black male entering the den and regurgita... |
19 May 2007
07:32 GMT |
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We, people, depend on light. Over 80 % of the information we get is visual. That's why during the night we employ artificial light when we do not sleep, in order to prolong our activity. The dark is associated by human beings with fear, uncertainty and even dread. It's a legacy from the monkey stage: as diu... |
4 May 2007
19:21 GMT |
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