Sampling
of recent news articles
reported & written by Larry O’Hanlon
(listed nearly chronologically & posted Sept. 7, 2005)
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Deep-Sea
Crab Sees UV Light
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery News. Sept. 7, 2005
--Hurricane Katrina's rampage didn't stoop some deep-sea biologists in her path ...
Icy
Saturn Moon Has Hot Insides
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery News. Aug. 31, 2005 --
Saturn's bright moon Enceladus may look icy, but
inside the satellite beats ...
Core
Spins Faster than Rest of Earth
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery
News. Aug. 26, 2005 -- A new study that used identical earthquakes to look into
the Earth's core over ...
Study:
Arctic Sea Ice May Vanish
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery News. Aug. 25, 2005-- Along
with the vanishing snows of Kilimanjaro, summer sea ice over the North ...
Tsunami
Created World-Wide Surge
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery News. Aug. 25, 2005-- Tidal
gauges in every ocean on Earth detected the Dec. 26
Monster
Meteor Leaves Dusty Clues
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery News. Aug. 24, 2005 -- A
thousand-ton meteor exploded in the atmosphere a year ago, releasing the power ...
Star
Survey Tweaks Milky Way's Shape
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery
News. Aug. 19, 2005 -- A new telescopic survey of 30 million stars near the
center of the Milky Way ...
Space
Survey Confirms Ice-Lightning Link
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery News. Aug. 18, 2005 -- Where
there's lightning, there's ice -- even in the tropics, say meteorologists
...
River-Like
Deltas Boost Wet Mars Theory
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery
News. Aug. 17, 2005 -- Mars once had rain and craters that overflowed with
water, according to new ...
Oxygen:
Fueled Huge Ancient Insects?
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery
News. Aug. 15, 2005-- New research is beginning to reveal how and why
extra-high oxygen levels in Earth's ...
Teeth
Reveal Ice Age Diets
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery News. Aug. 10, 2005-- The
teeth of mega-mammals from a remarkable new fossil site in
Messenger
Takes an Earth Pitstop
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery News. Aug. 4, 2005-- A close
encounter with Earth is helping scientists test instruments and fine-tune ...
Researchers: Bad Dogs Hard to
Find By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery News
Researchers: Bad Dogs Hard to Find By Larry
O'Hanlon, Discovery News. Aug.
8 -- Spotting a bad dog may be a lot harder than most people think, ...
Saturn
Moon Has Watery Atmosphere
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery News. The latest data beamed
to Earth from the Cassini spacecraft now in orbit
around Saturn have revealed ...
Scientists
Tune In to Radio Saturn
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery News. July 28, 2005-- Saturn
is a weirdly noisy planet, say scientists who have been listening to the ...
Biggest
Telescope Mirror in Making
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery
News. July 27, 2005-- Astronomers have begun casting the first of seven giant
light-collecting mirrors ...
Rare Cape
Verde Raptor May Not Exist
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery News. July 26, 2005 -- A rare
bird-of-prey species, on the verge of becoming the focus of a last-ditch ...
Alarm
Raised over North Atlantic Whale Deaths
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery News. July 22, 2005 -- The
recent, unprecedented accidental deaths of eight
Oddly
Warm Dust Disk Found Around Star
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery
News. July 20, 2005-- Astronomers in
Alaska
Wildfires Rival Human Pollution
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery
News. July 19, 2005-- Last summer's wildfires in
Sound
of Indian Ocean Tsunami Captured
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery
News. July 19, 2005-- The Dec. 26 Sumatra-Andaman megaquake
did more in the
Gas
Giant Unhinges Planet Theory
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery News. July 14, 2005-- An
inexplicable Jupiter-like planet in a triple-star system 149 light- years ...
Meet
Saturn's 'Spongy' Anti-Moon
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery
News. July 15, 2005-- You've heard about Saturn's mammoth moon Titan; now meet
the anti-Titan: Hyperion. ...
Croc
Teeth Shake Dino Family Tree
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery News. Paleontologists have
announced the discovery of an approximately 210-million-year-old skull belonging ...
Secret Lights
Discovered in Deep Sea
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery
News. July 8, 2005 -- A sea creature that never sees the light of day has been
discovered luring prey ...
The outrageous hypothesis : Nature
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Remains
of a Prehistoric South American Horse
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery
News. July 5, 2005 -- A genetic glimpse at the genealogy of
Possible
Lake Spotted on Saturn's Titan
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery News. June 29, 2005 --
Saturn's moon Titan may be the outer solar system's land o' lakes after all,
researchers say. ...
Diamonds:
Long-Dead Sea Creatures?
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery
News. June 27, 2005-- Diamonds formed in the deepest earth may be the remains
of long-dead sea critters ...
Hubble:
Dust Ring Likely Hides Planets
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery News.
June 24, 2005 -- Astronomers looking at one the brightest stars in the southern
sky have made ...
Biggest
Full Moon Lights Sky
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery
News. June 22, 2005 -- The biggest full moon in almost two decades is now
underway -- thanks to dual ...
Thawing
Siberia Triggers Global Warming Alarm
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery News. June 21, 2005-- Global
warming could be about to give itself a big boost by freeing gigantic
...
Fastest
Shooting Machine Gets Faster
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery News. June 16, 2005-- The
fastest draw in the world just got faster. In
Tsunami
Results Still Surprise Scientists
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery News. June 14, 2005-- The
full scope of the Dec. 26
Giant
Mucus Balls Feed Ocean Depths
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery
News. June 13, 2005-- The long-standing and confounding mystery of where
deep-sea scavengers get enough ...
Ocean
Food Chain Flips as Cod Disappear
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery
News. June 9, 2005-- The classic picture of the ocean food chain -- littler
guys gulped by ever bigger ...
Animal
Planet News
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Animal Planet
News. June 10, 2005 -- The classic picture of the ocean food chain -- littler
guys gulped by ever ...
Space Telescopes
Capture Cosmic Wildfire
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery
News. June 8, 2005 -- Astronomers have combined images from several telescopes
to capture a "prairie ...
Study:
Humans Behind Ocean Warming
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery
News. June 7, 2005-- Human-caused global warming is measurably heating up the
oceans, say US and
Cave
Bear DNA Recovered
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery
News. June 3, 2005-- A portion of DNA from two 40,000-year-dead cave bears has
been recovered by an ...
First
Photo of Tsunami-Causing Rift Taken
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery
News. June 2, 2005-- The actual ruptured ground that helped launch the
deadliest tsunami in history ...
New
Dino Species Ate Like a Lawnmower
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery News. June 1, 2005-- Some
dinosaurs were like giraffes and others like lawnmowers, according to a new ...
Lake
Microbe Eats Arsenic for Breakfast
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery News. June 1, 2005-- A new
strain of "extremophile" microbe has been
discovered making a living off ...
New
Volcano Found with Strange Bedmates
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery News. May 31, 2005-- Ocean
researchers have discovered a new, fast-growing volcano near
Ancient
Fossil Fuels Caused Jurassic Warming
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery News. May 25, 2005-- There
may have been no Hummers rumbling around in the Jurassic period, but a rapid ...
Study:
Wind Could Meet Global Energy Needs
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By Larry O'Hanlon. May 24, 2005--
A new survey of wind power around the globe has found there's ample energy for
all humanity blowing around us. ...
Tsunami
Earthquake 'Unzipped' the Earth
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery News. May 19, 2005-- The
great Sumatra-Andaman earthquake of Dec. 26"unzipped" an 800-mile stretch ...
All-Female
Team Explores Mars on Earth
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery News. May 17, 2005--The first
person on Mars might be a grandmother. That's one unexpected possibility
...
North
Sea Fish Head for Cooler Waters
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery
News. May 12, 2005-- Almost two-thirds of the bottom-dwelling fish species
studied in the
Tsunamis
Lay Await in Lake Tahoe
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By Larry O'Hanlon. May 13, 2005-- Faults hidden beneath
the waves of one of the world's deepest lakes may occasionally trigger large ...
Fastest
Plant: Bunchberry Dogwood
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery
News. May 11, 2005-- The winner of the less-than-famous title "Fastest
Plant on Earth" now goes to ...
Earth:
Product of Sun Flares?
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery
News. May 10, 2005 -- Gigantic X-ray explosions from the sun in its rowdy youth
may be responsible ...
Acid-Loving
Life Found in Yellowstone
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery
News. May 9, 2005-- Extreme life just got more outrageous with the discovery of
a community of microbes ...
'Pleistocene
Park' Plan Underway
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery News. May 6, 2005--
UK
Earthquakes Explained
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery
News. May 5, 2005-- There's a piece of a Yellowstone-like hotspot trapped under
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New
Tech Reveals Mastodon Secrets
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery News. May 4, 2005-- For the
first time in thousands of years, mastodons are growing in
Study:
Water, Lava Can Create Bomb
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery News. May 2, 2005-- Lava and
water don't mix: They can explode like a giant bomb, said a pair of geologists ...
Monster
Wave Surfing Prize Awarded
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery News. April 26, 2005--
Imagine winning $68,000 for falling off the front of a seven-story building ...
Asteroid
Belt Found Around Alien Star
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery
News. April 21, 2005 --Alien asteroids are playing a life-threatening game of
bumper cars in a nearby ...
Earthquake
Detector Finds Solid Earth Core
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery News. April 20, 2005 -- For
the first time, the solid inner core of the Earth has been directly detected ...
Sea
Level Changes Faster Than Thought
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery News. April 19, 2005 --
Coastal residents beware: new evidence confirms that sea levels have risen ...
Butterfly
Boom Under Way
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery
News. April 13, 2005 -- If you missed the record desert wildflower blooms in
the American Southwest ...
World's
Oldest Life Confirmed
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery
News. April 11, 2005 -- A new study has confirmed that the brine and salt
crystals in which scientists ...
Study:
Hydrogen Saturated Early Earth
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery News. April 11, 2005 -- Early
Earth had a Hindenburg atmosphere: lots more hydrogen than expected, making ...
Study:
Reef Clamor Calls Fish Home
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery
News. April 7, 2005 -- Nemo can find his own way
home, say researchers who have discovered how young ...
Yellowstone
Depths Reveal Rock Plume
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery News. April 8, 2005 -- A
remarkable new view into the depths beneath
Extreme
Climate Preserves Fossil Trove
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery
News. April 4, 2005 -- Paleontologists have discovered that an extreme climate
pattern may be responsible ...
Volcano
Flow Prediction Nearing
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery
News. March 30, 2005 -- Some of a volcano's deadliest weapons -- the red-hot,
high-speed lava flows ...
Planets
Start as Sticky Ice?
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery
News. March 18, 2005 -- Planets may get their starts as sticky dust bunnies in
space, say researchers ...
Old
Supervolcanoes Give Yellowstone Clues
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery News. March 17, 2005 -- Clues
to past and future mega-eruptions of
Waves,
Geysers Give Up Seismic Data
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery News. March 14, 2005 -- Whispers
may soon replace earthquakes for extracting information about the ...
Deep-Sea
Bacteria Reveal Secrets
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery News. March 8, 2005 -- It
won't help you survive the pressures of the daily grind, but scientists have ...
Ozone
Loss Tied to Wind, Solar Storms
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery News. March 7, 2005 -- These
are tough times to be an ozone molecule in the Northern Hemisphere: not ...
Book:
Jupiter Moon May Harbor Life
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery
News. March 3, 2005 -- Jupiter's second-largest moon, Europa,
may have more than water under its fissured ...
March 01,
2005 Discovery News Brief expand A Ratbot in Action ...
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A Ratbot in Action Robots Reveal Rat Behavior By Larry
O'Hanlon, Discovery News
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Drilling
the Red Planet
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Earth's
Atmosphere Shoots Gamma Rays
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery
News. March 2, 2005 -- Earth's atmosphere may be letting loose with more than
50 mysterious and unusually ...
Study:
Saturn's Rings Evaporating
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery News. March 1, 2005 --
Saturn's rings are evaporating into a puff of oxygen, according to researchers ...
Robots
Reveal Rat Behavior
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery News. Feb. 24, 2005 -- Robots
are teaching researchers a thing or two about rats -- and rats about ...
Earth's
Dead Zones Growing
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery
News. Feb. 23, 2005 -- Earth's so-called dead zones are growing, say
researchers who have modeled the ...
Study:
Some Islands Can Handle Higher Seas
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery News. Feb. 17, 2005 -- Some coral
reef islands may not be as threatened by global warming and sea level ...
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Researchers: Bad Dogs Hard to Find By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery News. Aug.
8 -- Spotting a bad dog may be a lot harder than most people think, ...
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Ancient
Tsunami Jumbled Fossil Record?
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery
News. Flash flooding tsunami waters, following a massive meteor impact in the
Smallest
Exoplanet Found
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery News. Feb. 11, 2005 --
Astronomers have discovered the smallest "exoplanet"
yet in a solar system that ...
Ants
Skydive to Escape Predators
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery News. Jumping off limbs and
then gliding in a controlled fashion back to the same trees appears to be ...
Updated N. America Geologic Map Debuts
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery News. Feb. 3, 2005 -- The first definitive geologic map of
the whole of
Microbots Grow Own Muscles from Cells
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery
News. Feb. 4, 2005 -- Nanotech researchers have built tiny self-assembling
machines that even grow ...
Ancient
Clams Lived 120 Years
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery
News. Oct. 14, 2004 -- Researchers have found fossil clams from
Cosmic
Murder Mystery Unfolds
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery News. Oct. 15, 2004 -- The
unidentified corpse of what might have been a brown dwarf star has been ...
Study:
Mars Water Didn't Last Long
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery
News. Oct. 13, 2004 -- If water ever flowed over Mars' surface, it was a
one-night stand, say geochemists ...
Robot
Tongue Sounds Out Sweet, Sour
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery News. Oct. 11, 2004 --
British researchers have created an electronic tongue that could someday help ...
Missing
Link to Life Found?
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery
News. Oct. 8, 2004 --
Study: Big
Predators Don't Last Long
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery
News. Apparently, the same things that makes large, toothy predators so good at
hunting big game also ...
STUDY:
Weather Helped Lewis & Clark's Trip
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery News. Sept. 27, 2004 — Climate was a friend
to the Lewis and
SUGAR
Found in Frigid Space Cloud
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery News. Sept. 23, 2004
— Astronomers have found a sweet spot in a sublimely cold and vast
interstellar cloud. ...
MASSIVE
Die-Off Date Pinpointed
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery News. Sept. 16, 2004
— Geologists may be closer to discovering the precise date and cause of
the largest ...
MARS
Valleys Reflect Dry Climate
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery News. Sept. 14, 2004 — Mars' river valleys
are anything but, say researchers who have made the first ...
WATER Paints
Multicolored Desert Cliffs
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By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery News. Sept. 9, 2004 — Some of America's most
scenic and colorful desert cliffs are painted by nature's ...
BOILING
Boiling-Water Worm - Hosts Bizarre Bugs By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery News Recommended reading by
Naturalist, Angie Lallas Tue. 20
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