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  • Leatherback turtles are right flippered when it comes to laying eggs 12 Nov 2009 11:56 GMT
    ... November 12 (ANI): In a new research, scientists have found out that leatherback turtles prefer ... one side. But, a team of US-based researchers led by Annette Sieg of Drexel University ... rookery on the northern Pacific Coast of Costa Rica. Over five years, they watched as these ...

  • AIAA Houston Section Lecture: Dr. Franklin Chang Díaz Developing VASIMR 12 Nov 2009 03:14 GMT
    ... is now being prepared for its first test in space in late 2013 on board ... portion of the ISS as a national laboratory. Franklin Chang Diaz (born in San Jose, Costa Rica on April 5, 1950 and a dual ...

  • Fact or Fiction: Generic Drugs Are Bad for You 12 Nov 2009 15:58 GMT
    ... Aaron Kesselheim, a physician and drug policy researcher at Harvard's Brigham and Women's Hospital. Kesselheim ... new brand-name drug," Kesselheim says. Despite convincing scientific evidence that generic drugs are largely equivalent ... in India, not to mention others in Costa Rica and Belgium. Hubbard further suggests that in ...

  • High Profile and Obscure Teams Have College Football Betting and College Basketball Odds Value 12 Nov 2009 05:54 GMT
    ... Asks any bookmaker, be they in Vegas, Costa Rica or Big Ernie driving around in his van ... it out is much higher in marquee contests. When a sportsbook will take $190,000 in ... his colleagues. "Bookmaking is not a perfect science. It's having the math work for you. ...

  • UW business school launches global real estate program 12 Nov 2009 21:53 GMT
    ... is expected to attract some of the brightest real estate students from the top business ... schools: HEC Paris, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and INCAE Business School in Costa Rica. The second phase of the program involves ...

  • Pot is dangerous for young brains: study 12 Nov 2009 04:32 GMT
    ... Subject: 10 Things Every Parent, Teenager & Teacher Should ... smoke marijuana also, the National Academy of Science reports that “Legal drugs for adults, such ... Young, Sept., 1988 (Docket # 88-22). 11. Costa Rican Study, 1980; Jamaican Study, 1975; Shafer Coman, ...

  • Chinchilla is Clear Frontrunner in Costa Rica 9 Nov 2009 07:31 GMT
    ... Chinchilla is Clear Frontrunner in Costa Rica (Angus Reid Global Monitor) - Former vice-president ... was able to run again after the Costa Rican Legislative Assembly opted to bring back presidential ... to represent "continuity." Last month, Chinchilla named scientist Alfio Piva and businessman Luis Liberman as ...

  • Insect Science Club's honey sales create buzz 11 Nov 2009 05:52 GMT
    ... – or stickier – than the Insect Science Club’s annual honey sale. Each year, the ... had the opportunity to study abroad in Costa Rica last year during spring break. “It was definitely ...

  • Experts gather to outline the latest creative applications of DNA barcoding 7 Nov 2009 07:54 GMT
    ... Scientists to seal historic agreement on plant barcodes; ... says Scott Miller, Acting Under Secretary for Science at the Smithsonian Institution and Chair of ... leopard frogs in the Yucat-n Peninsula and Costa Rica. Others being barcoded in Mexico are nematode ...

  • Creative New Uses For DNA Barcodes Span Health, Fraud, Smuggling, History, More 9 Nov 2009 09:12 GMT
    ... by analyzing the DNA of gut contents, scientists have started unravelling secrets of what eats ... says Scott Miller, Acting Under Secretary for Science at the Smithsonian Institution and Chair of ... leopard frogs in the Yucatán Peninsula and Costa Rica. Others being barcoded in Mexico are nematode ...

  • Bonny Doon writer and speaker Bruce H. Lipton awarded the Goi Peace Award 8 Nov 2009 09:54 GMT
    ... the date if needed. Lipton, a research scientist who has become an internationally known writer ... and bridge two sciences, such as medical science and quantum physics, that becomes harder. ... ... Nobel Prize winner and former president of Costa Rica Oscar Arias Sanchez, and Bill Gates, chairman of ...

  • Caught In The Act: Butterfly Mate Preference Shows How One Species Can Become Two 8 Nov 2009 04:34 GMT
    ... related species usually sporting different colors. In Costa Rica, for example, the two most closely related ... studying the Ecuadorian population in captivity, the scientists found the two colors do not mate ... Their work was funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. ...

  • A hissy fit about pythons? 10 Nov 2009 05:54 GMT
    ... Mr. Wasilewski thinks that there isn't enough science to support any estimate you hear. "I know ... just say there's a lot. It's not scientific, but I know it's true." For most ... the tropics, including researching crocodile populations in Costa Rica since 2005. Mr. Wasilewski also participated in the ...

  • Following the Adventurous Ant Trail 10 Nov 2009 14:36 GMT
    ... During a 2008 field expedition to Chiapas, Mexico, a litter ... Behind the Scenes article was provided to LiveScience in partnership with the National Science Foundation. ... in samples of leaf litter at one Costa Rican research station. The researchers gather ants from ...

  • Butterfly Shows Speciation Signs 9 Nov 2009 15:51 GMT
    ... and sometimes we can watch it happening. Researchers in the November 6th edition of the ... species is color variation. For instance, in Costa Rica, the two most closely related species are ... freely. But that situation might be changing. Scientists studied the butterflies in captivity. The two ...


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