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— McDonald's recalls Shrek glasses due to potential cadmium risk — The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) just announced…
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News | Archive (8 August 2007)

Archived news stories published on 8 August 2007 [chronologically, reverse order]
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A rare alignment between two spiral galaxies
A rare alignment between two spiral galaxies — NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a rare alignment between two spiral galaxies. The outer rim of a small, foreground…
Certain fish are capable of glowing red
Certain fish are capable of glowing red — Scientists have discovered that certain fish are capable of glowing red. Research published today in BMC Ecology includes…
New study will make criminals sweat
New study will make criminals sweat — The inventor of a revolutionary new forensic fingerprinting technique claims criminals who eat processed foods are more likely…
Our Sun could be far from where it started in Milky Way
Our Sun could be far from where it started in Milky Way — A long-standing scientific belief holds that stars tend to hang out in the same general part of a galaxy where they originally…

Scientists show differing patterns of rainforest biodiversity

— 18:30 GMT | Environment

Rainforests are the world's treasure houses of biodiversity, but all rainforests are not the same. Biodiversity may be more evenly distributed in some forests than in others and, therefore, may require different management and preservation strategies. That is one of the conclusions of a large-scale Smithsonian study of a lowland rainforest in New Guinea, published in the current issue of the journal Nature…

Martian skies brighten slightly

— 16:58 GMT | Astronomy

Slight clearing of still-dusty Martian skies has improved the energy situation for both Spirit and Opportunity, allowing controllers to increase the rovers' science observations. Spirit is even being commanded to move its arm for the first time in nearly three weeks. It will position the arm's microscopic imager to take a series of photographs of two soil targets and one rock target. Opportunity's planned science observations are for studies of the atmosphere…

Indo-Pacific coral reefs disappearing more rapidly than expected

— 11:38 GMT | Environment

Corals in the central and western Pacific ocean are dying faster than previously thought, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers have found. Nearly 600 square miles of reef have disappeared per year since the late 1960s, twice the rate of rainforest loss. The reefs are disappearing at a rate of one percent per year, a decline that began decades earlier than expected, the researchers discovered. Historically, coral cover, a measure of reef health, hovered around 50 percent. Today, only about 2 percent of reefs in the Indo-Pacific have coral cover close to the historical baseline…

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