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McDonald's recalls Shrek glasses due to potential cadmium risk — The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) just announced…
Hogchoker - the new Internet star — A small flatfish living along the coast of North America is the…
Cancer deaths are projected to double by 2030 — Cancer deaths are projected to double in the next two decades.…

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Wasps clock faces like humans — Face recognition in golden paper wasps may be an adaptation to…
Entangled diamonds vibrate together — Objects big enough for the eye to see have been placed in a weirdly…
How animals predict earthquakes — Animals may sense chemical changes in groundwater that occur…
New Icelandic volcano eruption could have global impact — Hundreds of metres under one of Iceland's largest glaciers there…

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News | Archive (22 March 2007)

Archived news stories published on 22 March 2007 [chronologically, reverse order]
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An extreme stellar machine found
An extreme stellar machine found — Astronomers have uncovered an extreme stellar machine - a galaxy in the very remote universe pumping out stars at a surprising…
Mystery star cluster has 3 different birthdays
Mystery star cluster has 3 different birthdays — Imagine having three clocks in your house, each chiming at a different time. Astronomers have found the equivalent of three…
NASA and ESA complete comparative exploration architecture study
NASA and ESA complete comparative exploration architecture study — Over the last 6 months, representatives from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the European Space…
Flatfish fossils fill in evolutionary missing link
Flatfish fossils fill in evolutionary missing link — Hidden away in museums for more that 100 years, some recently rediscovered flatfish fossils have filled a puzzling gap in…

Fossil discovery marks earliest record of limbloss in ancient lizard

— 20:22 GMT | Geology and palaeontology

A University of Alberta palaeontologist has helped discover the existence of a 95 million-year-old snakelike marine animal, a finding that provides not only the earliest example of limbloss in lizards but the first example of limbloss in an aquatic lizard…

New system developed by Scripps researchers

— 12:15 GMT | Biology

Tracing the origins of marine animals can be extremely difficult, especially in the free-flowing, soup-like conditions of the ocean, but obtaining this information is vital not only for understanding these organisms but for managing and conserving them as well. Scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have developed a novel approach for tracing the life roots of marine larvae, some of the most difficult organisms to track due to their microscopic sizes…

Twenty of world's 162 grouper species threatened with extinction

— 12:15 GMT | Biology

The first comprehensive assessment of the worlds 162 species of grouper, a culinary favorite and important commercial fish, found that 20 are threatened with extinction unless proper management or conservation measures are introduced. Eight species previously were listed by the World Conservation Union (IUCN) as under extinction threat, and the new assessment proposes adding 12 more…

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