Tropical Depression 15-E formed on Oct. 12 at 11 p.m. EDT and strengthened into Tropical Storm Octave. Four days later NASA's Terra satellite saw the weakened storm headed for landfall in western Mexico.
Earth Sciences
Oct 17, 2013
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Virginia Tech College of Engineering researchers are part of a national study that has cracked how jellyfish move with the lowest cost of transport of any animal. The findings will be used as researchers continue to design ...
Engineering
Oct 17, 2013
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Almost a year after Hurricane Sandy, parts of New York and New Jersey are still recovering from billions of dollars in flood damage. Tufts University geologist Andrew Kemp sees the possibility of damage from storms smaller ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 17, 2013
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Gucci on Thursday welcomed a US court's decision to award the global fashion empire $144.2 million in damages from online sellers of counterfeit merchandise.
Business
Oct 17, 2013
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In the mountains of southern Bosnia, a narrow canal carved through dense vegetation leads to a vast lake of crystal blue.
Environment
Oct 17, 2013
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The discovery of a 1.8-million-year-old skull of a human ancestor buried under a medieval Georgian village provides a vivid picture of early evolution and indicates our family tree may have fewer branches than some believe, ...
Archaeology
Oct 17, 2013
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Supermassive black holes: every large galaxy's got one. But here's a real conundrum: how did they grow so big?
Astronomy
Oct 17, 2013
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University of Toronto research has found that purple loosestrife – an invasive species that competes with native plants for light and nutrients and can degrade habitats for wildlife – has evolved extremely rapidly, flowering ...
Ecology
Oct 17, 2013
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In two parallel projects, researchers have created new genomes inside the bacterium E. coli in ways that test the limits of genetic reprogramming and open new possibilities for increasing flexibility, productivity and safety ...
Biotechnology
Oct 17, 2013
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Changes in gene regulation have been used to study the evolutionary chasm that exists between humans and chimpanzees despite their largely identical DNA. However, scientists from the University of Chicago have discovered ...
Biotechnology
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