TOP 100 SCIENCE SITES
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| New Dinosaur Species Found in Mexico SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- A Mexican paleontologist was cleaning up after lunch with a group of schoolchildren she'd been teaching to dig for bones in northeastern Mexico when she found the dinosaur bone. "I was basically collecting trash," Martha Carolina Aguillon Martinez recalled at a news conference Tuesday.... hosted.ap.org |
Tracking the Rise and Decline of Dust in the Western U.S. The world is becoming even dustier, and changes in land use are at least partly responsible, but how long have land-use changes been having effects? nytimes.com |
Letters: Celebrating the Push-Up (1 Letter) To the Editor:. nytimes.com |
Rare Water Birds Recovering in Cambodia PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) -- The populations of seven species of rare water birds have recovered significantly in Cambodia's Tonle Sap lake due to a program that employs former hunters as park rangers, conservationists said Thursday.... hosted.ap.org |
Laser brings a bolt of discovery with lightning 'precursor' For the first time, a high-powered laser has been used to trigger electrical activity within a thunderstorm. "This was an important first step toward triggering lightning strikes with laser beams," says lead researcher Jrme Kasparian of the University of Lyon in France. Although the researchers weren't able to create a lightning strike, "it was the first time we generated lightning precursors in a thundercloud." rssfeeds.usatoday.com |