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| Now, air guitarists can rock for real
Australian scientists say they have invented a T-shirt which allows wannabe rock star air guitarists to play real music — without a guitar. |
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| Quakes can make us oil-rich!
In addition to knocking down buildings, tremors do a great deal of good by increasing the permeability of rocks, scientists have discovered. |
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| Scientists link dinos to birds
Scientists say the fossil of a dinosaur fingernail found in Brazil provides new support for the theory of an evolutionary link between dinosaurs and birds. |
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| Snakes evolved on land
A fossil find in Argentina has revealed a two-legged creature that is the most primitive snake known, a discovery that promises to fire up a scientific debate. |
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| How fish got legs? This fossil has a clue
A fossil of a 375-million-year-old fish, which could prove how animals evolved out of fish, has been found in Canada providing scientists a tool to fill in a gap in understanding how it developed legs for land mobility. |
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| Jesus may have walked on ice
The New Testament says that Jesus walked on water, but a Florida university professor believes there could be a less miraculous explanation. |
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| Apples or oranges? Neurons tell you!
When you are in the supermarket pondering over piles of different kinds of fruits, a special group of nerve cells in the brain is at work, say researchers. |
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| The unsung soldiers of science
Thousands of tiny creatures are at work inside a sealed room at the Alaska Univ Museum of North in Fairbanks, largest US repository for high-latitude species. |
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| Kiss the frog, let mosquitoes hate you
Australian researchers have discovered a natural mosquito repellent in the smelly secretions of green tree frogs. |
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| Ancient irrigation canals found in Peru
In Peru's Andean foothills a group of archaeologists say they have found remnants of the oldest known irrigation canals in South America. |
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| A 'fishy' angle to why you are fair
A little striped fish has helped scientists begin to solve one of the biggest mysteries in biology -- which genes are responsible for differences in human skin, eye and hair color. |
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| Earth's North Pole drifting rapidly
Scientists say the magnetic pole is shifting from America at such a clip that it may end up in Siberia in next 50 yrs. |
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| Molecules that move objects
Scientists made a breakthrough in nanotechnology for development of molecular machines. |
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| Hurricane year rewrites record books
The Atlantic-Caribbean hurricane season that ends on Wednesday set a slew of records. Here are some of them, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center... |
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