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Photo Essay: Bees and Beekeepers In Crisis : TreeHuggerPhoto: Golden Millet, Beekeeper, St. George, Utah, July 2007 (Photo: Kate Kunath) The mystery of bees disappearing all over the world is continuing to baffle scientists and beekeepers alike: is it parasitic mites? Or Bayer's pesticides? Reports of bee colony
Stair of the Week: The Well of Chand Baori : TreeHugger
The stepwell at Chand Baori, India, is a hundred feet deep and has 3500 steps. Legend says that it has so many steps to make it impossible for someone to retrieve a coin if it is dropped into the
Square Feet - A Waterfront Revival in Columbus, Ohio - NYTimes.com
A former industrial wasteland becomes a neighborhood of housing, retailers and entertainment.
Square Feet - Available Office Space in Manhattan Has Doubled - NYTimes.com
Changes roiling the financial industry have contributed to a doubling of the listings of large office blocks.
Books of The Times - In ‘The Ascent of Money,’ Niall Ferguson Argues That Financial Systems Drive History - Review - NYTimes.com
Niall Ferguson’s latest book, “The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World,” went to press in May 2008, but it shrewdly anticipates many aspects of the current financial crisis.
No place like home: New theory for how salmon, sea turtles find their birthplace
PhysOrg.com: How marine animals find their way back to their birthplace to reproduce after migrating across thousands of miles of open ocean has mystified scientists for more than a century. But marine biologists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill think they might finally have unraveled the secret.
Exercise builds small blood vessels in brain, study says
PhysOrg.com: Exercise is known to help prevent cognitive decline and maintain the brain as people age, and now researchers think they know one reason why.
New approach eliminates software deadlocks using discrete control theory
PhysOrg.com: (PhysOrg.com) -- Software deadlocks are the Catch-22s of the computer world. These common bugs can freeze the machine when different parts of a program end up in an endless cycle of waiting for one another as they access shared data.
Do laser printers emit harmful particles?
PhysOrg.com: (PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have investigated the possibility that laser printers emit pathogenic toner particles into the air, which has been a subject of public controversy. Some reports have suggested that laser printers release tiny particles that could have negative health effects.
How a Rogue Geologist Discovered a Diamond Trove in the Canadian Arctic
Get the latest in science news, including space, physics, planet earth, discoveries, NASA, satellites, and space travel from Wired.com
Digging for Diamonds 24/7 Under Frozen Snap Lake
Get the latest in science news, including space, physics, planet earth, discoveries, NASA, satellites, and space travel from Wired.com
Panel says US has been in recession since Dec. '07
A New View of the Early Earth, Thanks to Australian Rocks - NYTimes.com
Geologists now think the planet soon became a cool place of land, seas and perhaps even life.
Hawaii Endorses Plan for Electric Cars - NYTimes.com
The plan, the brainchild of the former Silicon Valley software executive Shai Agassi, is an attempt to overcome the major hurdles to electric cars.
China’s Economy, in Need of Jump Start, Waits for Citizens’ Fists to Loosen - NYTimes.com
Tenacious thrift, once an admirable quality in China, has become a liability as the nation’s export-driven economy slows.
Even in Michigan, Not Everyone Wants a Lifeline - NYTimes.com
Many people in Michigan said in interviews that they could no longer see why the Big Three should be singled out for rescue.
Coal Mining Debris Rule Is Approved - NYTimes.com
The White House on Tuesday approved a final rule that will make it easier for coal companies to dump rock and dirt from mountaintop mining operations into nearby streams and valleys.
The Evidence Gap - British Balance Gain Against the Cost of the Latest Drugs - NYTimes.com
Skyrocketing health care prices have led other countries to follow Britain’s example by asking how much life is worth.
A Revival for the White Russian - NYTimes.com
The White Russian, a sweet cocktail made with vodka, Kahlúa and cream or milk, is seeing a renaissance thanks in large part to the cult following of “The Big Lebowski.”
2008 AR Awards Announced : TreeHugger
The Architectural Review awards for Emerging Architecture have been released and I like the winners a lot. This competition doesn't go after the big, highly visible projects but is 'Intended to bring wider international recognition to a talented new
Dogs chase efficiently, but cats skulk counterintuitively
PhysOrg.com: A Duke University study suggests that evolution can behave as differently as dogs and cats. While the dogs depend on an energy-efficient style of four-footed running over long distances to catch their prey, cats seem to have evolved a profoundly inefficient gait, tailor-made to creep up on a mouse or bird in slow motion.
Scientists ask: Is technology rewiring our brains?
PhysOrg.com: (AP) -- What does a teenage brain on Google look like? Do all those hours spent online rewire the circuitry? Could these kids even relate better to emoticons than to real people? These sound like concerns from worried parents. But they're coming from brain scientists.
Copper Thieves Threaten U.S. Infrastructure, FBI says | Threat Level from Wired.com
Copper thieves, sometimes acting as organized groups, are threatening what the FBI said is critical U.S. infrastructure, from electrical sub-stations, cellular towers, telephone land lines to railroads and crops, the
Feds Set to Eliminate Water Regulations for Neurotoxin | Wired Science from Wired.com
Among the Bush administration's final environmental legacies will be a decision to exempt perchlorate, a known neurotoxin found at unsafe levels in the drinking water of millions of Americans, from
Ancient city discovered in Amazonian rainforest linked to the legendary white-skinned Cloud People of Peru | Mail Online
A lost city discovered deep in the Amazon rainforest could unlock the secrets of a legendary tribe.
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