DNA test turns up shark mamma had ‘virgin birth’
Posted on November 16th, 2008 at 9:24 pm by admin
Richmond, Virginia Scientists have substantiated the second case of a “virgin birth” in a shark.
A blacktip shark in the wild patrols the huge expanse of the Indian Sea.
In a survey reported Fri in the Diary of Fish Biology, scientists said Deoxyribonucleic acid testing proven that a whelp carried by a female blacktip shark in a Old Dominion State aquarium contained no hereditary material from a male.
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World warming menaces tropics
Posted on November 16th, 2008 at 3:07 pm by admin
Capital of the If you can’t stand up global warming up, get out of the Torrid Zone.
“Many lowland tropic species could be in trouble,” a squad of research workers said.
Spell the most important harm from clime change so far has existed in the opposite regions, tropic plants and faunas may face an even great threat, say scientists who studied conditions in Rib Rica.
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U.S. air traffic network date, costly
Posted on November 16th, 2008 at 8:47 am by admin
Windy City A World War II-era air traffic network that oftentimes forces planes to use up longer, cranking routes is costinging U.S. air hoses billions of clams in squandered fuel spell an upgrade to a satellite-based scheme has pined away in the provision stages for more than a decennary.
Air-traffic accountants at Washington’s National Airdrome.
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Stephen Hawking: Our future is in space
Posted on November 16th, 2008 at 2:25 am by admin
Cambridge University, England Prof Stephen Stephen William Hawking, one of the world’s great scientists, is appearing to the mavins to relieve the human race — but pessimism is overthrowing his natural optimism.
Stephen Stephen Hawking, here presenting a talk in May, radius recently to CNN about his visual sensation of the future.
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