TOP 100 SCIENCE SITES
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| Smithsonian to Open Butterfly Exhibit WASHINGTON (AP) -- A tropical garden is opening in downtown Washington, brightly colored plants, warmth and humidity, and hundreds of butterflies fluttering around visitors. Best known for dinosaur bones and a giant stuffed elephant, the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History on Friday is opening a new, permanent, butterfly pavilion.... hosted.ap.org |
Coral Reefs and What Ruins Them Researchers who studied a string of Pacific Ocean atolls are painting the first detailed picture of pristine coral reefs. nytimes.com |
Chinook Salmon Vanish Without a Trace The Chinook salmon that swim upstream in the Sacramento River to spawn in the fall have disappeared, threatening the regional fishing industry. nytimes.com |
Sex and Financial Risk Linked in Brain WASHINGTON (AP) -- A new brain-scan study may help explain what's going on in the minds of financial titans when they take risky monetary gambles - sex. When young men were shown erotic pictures, they were more likely to make a larger financial gamble than if they were shown a picture of something scary, such a snake, or something neutral, such as a stapler, university researchers reported.... hosted.ap.org |
SKorea trains cloned drug-sniffing dogs INCHEON, South Korea (AP) -- The country that created the world's first cloned canine plans to put duplicated dogs on patrol to sniff out drugs and explosives.... hosted.ap.org |