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Earlier this year, Acer, one of the leading makers of computer systems, introduced its cool-looking desktop gaming rig, also known as the “Predator.” With all that, it took the company this long, until now, to finally bring its high-performance “Predator” to the good Ol' US of A. In addit... |
2 October 2008
11:20 GMT |
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When they feel a life-threatening scent in the air, the tiny spider mites behave very oddly: they fall asleep. A recent study shows that this effect could be used against them, in order to save crops, their main food source.Martijn Egas and his team from the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands observed that wh... |
29 September 2008
07:27 GMT |
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About one month ago, Acer announced a 24-inch full-HD display, classified as being a "world's first". We have not seen that on the market yet, but Acer says it has another wild beast in development, the 24-inch Acer G24 LCD monitor with a 50,000:1 contrast ratio. No word on where it will be available or how much... |
5 July 2008
04:46 GMT |
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They are shot, trapped, poisoned by sheep and cattle farmers. No wonder that the Australian wild dog, the dingo, is menaced. Ecologists warn that pure breed animals may vanish in 40-100 years, due to the cross with the ordinary dogs. By now, the main issue is the proliferation of the hybrids. Dingoes mate once a year... |
15 April 2008
14:26 GMT |
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The biology books say that sharks and rays make the group of cartilaginous fish, less evolved than most of the other species, that make the group of the bonny fish. Still, sharks, with their highly developed senses and teeth, make the top predators of the seas. Paradoxically, the two largest species of shark, that m... |
22 March 2008
07:53 GMT |
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Biological rules say the male is the active sex in humans. They look for fertilizing as many females as possible for the maximum biological effectiveness, being real sexual predators, always ready for some hanky-panky, while women look for quality and a partner for a monogamous relationship, who is able to deliver an... |
19 March 2008
14:06 GMT |
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The framed image of the guy lurking in the shadow, deceiving his way into a date with an unsuspecting youngster and later raping him or her, was shattered to pieces by a study conducted in a report issued by the Crimes Against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire, in Durham. Janis Wolak of the ... |
19 February 2008
14:51 GMT |
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1. Martens differ from other animals in the weasel's family by being excellent climbers. They spend the day sleeping in the trees and have cats' ability, being able to make jumps through the branches of the trees as easy as the squirrels. Amongst the martens of the Old World, beech marten is the most widesp... |
23 January 2008
16:57 GMT |
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The grizzly bear is nothing more than the North American form of the Eurasian brown bear. Once, the terrible grizzly bear was in the whole western half of North America, from Alaska to northern Mexico. Today, it is still present in Alaska and Canada, while in the rest of the US it barely survives in Montana, Washing... |
21 December 2007
02:31 GMT |
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We usually detest insects, but this one is amongst our favorites. Ladybirds are beautiful, but for reputed gardeners they are also very useful. Why? Because their food is made almost entirely of plant lice, small soft bodied insects that invade garden plants and crops. Ladybirds eat plant lice both as adult and larva... |
6 December 2007
07:09 GMT |
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It is difficult to trigger the sympathy of the audience with a giant conical head, a set of huge razor sharp serrated teeth, a carnivorous appetite, a malicious grin and a reputation of "man-eater". The slightest encounter with people is enough to fill the headlines. 1.With a strong rocket-like body, up to 7.2 m (24 ... |
4 December 2007
14:06 GMT |
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When I look at this, I have to say that the fellows from Daily Mail.com were right. It is only the neck and shoulders that prove there is a human being in there somewhere.And this isn't any Star Trek or Final Fantasy kind of trick, but the next generation of RAF fighter pilots' look, which kinda makes you w... |
10 November 2007
10:56 GMT |
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This is a 290 million years old Russian doll, on a pattern shark-amphibian-fish. An extraordinary fossil preserved both the predator's last meal, and also the last meal of the prey, in a period long before the emergence of the dinosaurs, being the oldest snapshot of a vertebrate food chain, described in a new re... |
9 November 2007
04:01 GMT |
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1. The largest crocodile species is saltwater crocodile (Crocodylus porosus), encountered from India to northern Australia and Fiji. In can reach 7 m (23 ft) in length and 1 tonne in weight! At 5 m (17 ft) length, it already has 0.5 tonne!Even so, a crocodile egg is no larger than that of a goose!The smallest crocodi... |
3 November 2007
08:06 GMT |
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1. Today we say the tiger is the king of the jungle but the tiger originated in the Pleistocene of Asia, about 2 million years ago, in a clime of temperate forests. This nocturnal and solitary cat has a territory varying in the case of the male from 60 square kilometers in tropical forests and savannas to 4,000 squar... |
3 November 2007
05:01 GMT |
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Logic will always sustain that big fish eat small fish. But what a fisherman from Grand Cayman has found could be a world record contradicting the 'rule'. McPherson 'Dorson' Wright was fishing at about 1,400 feet (570 m) off the South Coast of Grand Cayman, when he observed an object floating on t... |
31 October 2007
12:13 GMT |
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When you think about something huge that has caused terror on earth, T-rex is perhaps the first thing that comes to your mind. It was popular before, and its image became extremely popular with the movie "Jurassic Park". Indeed, a huge beast: up to 12.8 (42 ft) in length and 7.2 tonnes in weight. Bigger than an eleph... |
24 October 2007
15:11 GMT |
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People are an easy prey for any large predator. And between death by hunger and death by shooting, perhaps a lion won't starve till dying. In Mozambique, the rainy season is the moment when the lions turn into man-eaters, because the too tall grass impedes them to approach to their normal preys. This happened in... |
20 October 2007
06:24 GMT |
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They may look like little living lanterns that bestow a fairytale atmosphere on rural landscape during summer months, but a new research made at Tufts University has found a dark side behind the magic show of the fireflies. The researchers found that even if fireflies waste little energy to produce the flash signals,... |
26 September 2007
04:11 GMT |
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When the cat's away/The Mice will play. Prey animals, like the moose, caribou, bison and elk can lose their fear of predators if they are not constantly hunted by them, as found by Joel Berger of the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) in New York. But they were also found to "relearn" their fears very quickly, ... |
21 June 2007
05:48 GMT |
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Just a few days ago, the Internet blew up in flames with news about modders being able to break into the Halo 3 Beta code and extract vital information on future new implemented features in the game. Today's news brings even more hot features and items, found by the same hackers, such as new armour types and sep... |
29 May 2007
03:35 GMT |
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Can it be that simple: no ice, no polar bears?In the International Polar Year (IPY), Norwegian researchers at the University of Tromso will start four projects investigating how climate change due to global warming affects Arctic's predators, like the the Arctic fox, now an endangered species. "We will collabora... |
28 May 2007
07:21 GMT |
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One of the most important technologies of the past 100 years, according to most historians, is the machine gun. it was probably what contributed most to the development of both World War I and World War II, and set the tone for future, local wars.It only took one soldier equipped with this machine gun to start firin... |
2 April 2007
10:28 GMT |
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