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While we still wait for someone to toss up cyborg men who’ll force their way over the extraterrestrial natives, scientists have managed to give us revived thoughts, stuffing insects with electronics. We’ve seen DARPA-backed R/C cyborg flying...
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Costa Rica is the greenest and happiest country in the world, according to a new list that ranks nations by combining measures of their ecological footprint with the...
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Parents were banned from attending an inter-school sports day to protect pupils from kidnappers and paedophiles.
The host school said they could not prevent...
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Human Rights Watch said Friday that Zimbabwe’s armed forces have taken over diamond fields in the east and killed more than 200 people, forcing children to search...
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The candidacy of Mario Anguiano, running for governor in a state election here Sunday, says a lot about Mexican politics amid the rise of the drug cartels.
A brother...
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Max Blumental reports on The Daily Beast that Sarah Palin may have quit her job today because she was trying to avert a major, yet-to-be-disclosed corruption scandal....
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The latest two-yearly study of the Australian Government’s Productivity Commission damningly reveals that indigenous children are six times more likely to suffer...
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From Angela Merkel to Barack Obama, few have emerged unscathed from his peculiar brand of music hall humour, adolescent japes and sexist quips.
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The crown of the famed New York Statue of Liberty will reopen tomorrow for the first time since September 11th, 2001, and what better day than the celebration of...
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American nuns could be said to have their habits in a twist in the face of two investigations by the Vatican into whether they have come to espouse lifestyles and views...
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The Jackson family has decided to hold a memorial for their late son at Los Angeles’ Staple Center. Jackson died last week from what was probably a strong...
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Days before a historic visit of the US President to Russia gambling was narrowed just to four geographical areas of a country, far away from capitals and significant...
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In Penitents Compete (Tovbekarlar Yarisiyor in Turkish), religious leaders will seek to convert at least one of the 10 atheists in each episode to their faith. Those...
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Besides blocking access to food and construction to Palestinians in the Gaza Stripe - and even to a lesser degree in the West Bank - Israel also prevents Palestinians...
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Several species of ladybugs have been reported vanishing over the years in the United States. The nine spotted ladybug beetle is New York’s state symbol. An...
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Dear reader, if you’ve read some text of mine, you know that I have a pessimistic view of reality, know that I do not see only one side of things because my...
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The discovery of a vast and thickening web with million of spiders found in the North Texas, Lake Tawakoni State park has sparked a debate amongst scientists and...
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Here is something really bizarre and scary. Thanks to the macabre tattoos inked all over his body, this ‘zombie boy’ is earning quite a good bit of...
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Never one to pass up free food and booze, I showed up at my friends apartment , said hello to everyone, grabbed a cocktail and headed for the snacks. The table was...
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So do you have the habit of collecting some of the creepy crawlers and providing a home for them? Then this solar powered home for the night crawlers is the perfect...
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David Gracer lifts a giant water bug, places his thumbs in a pre-sliced slit in its underside, and flips off its head. “Smell the meat,” he says, sniffing the...
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Antique mechanical watches command huge premiums in the collectors market and here we have Mike Libby taking watch movements apart and putting them on insects. Weird is...
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Dutch ecologist Roxina Soler and her colleagues have discovered that
subterranean and aboveground herbivorous insects can communicate with each other by using plants as...
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Though not necessarily the most prolifically deadly animal on earth, insects certainly hold their fair share of the unfortunate demises. Throughout history, the insect...
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Just like us even the insects manage to stay indoors during the winters but no sooner that temperature rises, they also are out for ruining our summer alfresco jaunts....
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Here is a valiant effort by a very patriotic insect lover who thought it would be a clever idea to recreate the Russian national emblem using dead insects. Neat job...
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Artist Mike Libby finds interest in dissolving natural insects with man made function. The Insect lab is now displaying some of his new artistic designs, which this...
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Where have all the giant-creatures’ of the world disappear that existed around 300 million years ago? Though many theories have come to the rescue of the logics...
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Scientists have drilled through two kilometers of ice in southern Greenland and have come out with a startling revelation. They used the DNA taken from ice buried deep...
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Northern Illinois and parts of Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Indiana could see an invasion this week. The billions of periodical cicadas of Brood XIII are expected to...
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We all know that helicopters were inspired from dragonflies and humming birds.
But these machines have to be controlled by humans as they lack brain.
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Odd but practical is the electronic fly catcher, yes you are guessing that right it is an electronic fly-swatting device designed on the lines of Venus fly trap (the...
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If you think that pests only destroy gardens then you are wrong. Parasitic and predatory insects in a garden can help to control pest insects and also reduce the use...
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Non-biting midges swarm a railing as a wedding couple poses for photos by the scenic East Lake in Wuhan in central China’s Hubei province Friday, Nov. 21, 2008. Swarms of the insects have been annoying local residents but experts say they will disappear..
