Science & Technology

You stand at the bus stop, waiting to go to Sacramento. A woman stands beside you holding a baby. You take another look at the mother and her child. You look at the baby and suddenly have an odd, creepy feeling you can’t quite explain. The child is a little too still, the infantile cooing a little off …

Music discovery websites like Pandora and Last FM are great when you already have an artist in mind, but what about when you want to find something truly specific to how you are feeling at that moment? That’s where Musicovery comes in.

You fire a bullet that kills a wild pig while out hunting. That’s the last of that bullet, right? Wrong. The lead in the bullet has lingering effects on carrion-eating birds. This exposure means that birds like turkey vultures and golden eagles can suffer from neurological problems such as blindness if they eat lead-contaminated meat.

I spent last Saturday at the 91st annual California Ram Sale. In the dusty valley town of Tulare, I stood surrounded by bales of hay, pens of rams and dozens of old cowboys with bristly mustaches and nicknames like “Lucky.”

Consider yourself lucky that you aren’t an oak tree.

Vomiting, abdominal pain and bloody diarrhea: the symptoms of an E. coli O157:H7 infection.

For hundreds of years, the core method of archaeology has been the process of excavation – sifting through tons of dirt, silt and mud to find lost artifacts of the past. However, sometimes the discovery goes wrong. Artifacts can break from rough handling or disintegrate on contact with air.

“Everybody calls me Dr. Hammerhead,” said Peter Klimley.

A virus that normally only infects humans has caused the deaths of wild mountain gorillas in Africa, reported a team of researchers from the U.S. and several African countries.

From the Roomba to the Mars Rover, robots are an important part of our modern society. They are used to facilitate efficient mass production, they assist our soldiers in combat situations and they explore parts of our planet and cosmos that are impossible for humans to reach. Though these machines perform their specific tasks very well, they have very little room for variation. There is another branch of robotics that focuses on robots that perform multiple tasks in many environments: modular robots.

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When Homo sapiens first gazed to the stars, we began to study, learn and catalogue the universe visible from Earth. That drive to investigate the cosmos left a gap in what we know of our own planet. We have mapped a higher percentage of the moon’s surface than Earth’s. Only seven percent of the ocean floor has been mapped to any useful degree.