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Costly Plant Tumors Are Found By Cornell Microbiologist To Be Result O
A common soil bacteria can 'smell' a wound on plants like roses and wine grapevines, which triggers the microbes to copy their DNA many times over and insert them into plant cells, causing tumors associated with crown gall disease, according to new research by a Cornell microbiologist Steve Winans. Crop Circles Gain Perspective
The latest wheat-field artwork displays a complex, 3-D design and reignites the age-old debate about the origin of the farmland phenomenon: crafty humans or little green men? By Nigel Watson. International Network of Street Papers (INSP)
INSP "unites street papers sold by homeless and people living in poverty from all over the world."The INSP website features interviews with editors of street newspapers in various countries, news from INSP member newspapers, a section that shares perspectives from people who sell street newspapers, and links to street newspaper and related websites. Some content only available to members. Vigorously Active Adolescents Are Leaner, Fitter
Adolescents who get daily vigorous physical activity tend to be leaner and fitter than their less active peers, researchers have shown. That Old Tropical Europe
An international research team has reconstructed the climate of Europe over the past 45 million years using the palaeobotanical record of well-dated fossil leaves, fruits, and seeds, and showed how it evolved from tropical to seasonal... Software Pirate Gets 7 Years
A federal judge sentences one of the largest U.S. software pirates to pay $5.4 million and forfeit homes, cars and a boat that he bought with proceeds from his scheme -- and spend 87 months in the hoosegow. Secrets of the Sexes
Companion to a 2005 BBC television series about gender differences that considered the question, "Are men and women's brains wired differently?"Features the "Sex ID test, a series of visual challenges and questions used by psychologists"in the television series, and articles on topics such as empathizing, handedness, and facial attractiveness. From the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). "War of the Worlds": Behind the 1938 Radio Show Panic
Article from 2005 about the October 1938 radio "adaptation, by Orson Welles's Mercury Theater group, of a science fiction novel written 40 years earlier: 'The War of the Worlds,' by H.G. Wells."The radio play, "narrated by Orson Welles, had been written and performed to sound like a real news broadcast about an invasion from Mars,"and caused some listeners to panic. From National Geographic News. ESA's Earth Explorer Gravity Satellite On Show
GOCE, ESA's first satellite dedicated to measuring the Earth's gravity field, has been just presented in Turin, Italy, before being shipped to ESTEC -- the space agency's research and technology centre in the Netherlands -- for final testing. Resurgence And Spread Of Syphilis In China Is A Rapidly Increasing Epi
The resurgence and spread in China of syphilis, an infection eliminated there from 1960 to 1980, represents a rapidly increasing epidemic calling for urgent intervention, according to authors of a new report documenting rising infection rates.
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