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First reported 13 hours ago - Updated 13 hours ago - 1 reports

10 of the top U.S. cities for nature lovers

Want to experience the best of what a city has to offer without straying too far from Mother Nature? NerdWallet analyzed 53 of the largest U.S. metropolitan areas to find the best urban destinations for nature lovers. The personal finance website ... [Published Mother Nature Network - 13 hours ago]

Entities: United States, NerdWallet, Precipitation

First reported 15 hours ago - Updated 15 hours ago - 1 reports

Can you grow vegetables in the shade?

If you think your yard has too much shade to grow vegetables, think again. There are plenty of vegetables and herbs that can be grown in constant dappled shade or in as little as three to six hours of sun. ... [Published Mother Nature Network - 15 hours ago]

Entities: Vegetables

First reported 23 hours ago - Updated 18 hours ago - 1 reports

'Crazy ants' invade southeastern U.S.

You know things are bad when people complain that fire ants have disappeared from their neighborhoods. Fire ants may be nasty and capable of painful attacks, but at least they are predictable and don't venture far from their home mounds. ... [Published Mother Nature Network - 23 hours ago]

Entities: United States

First reported 21 hours ago - Updated 21 hours ago - 1 reports

How criminology can fight poaching

NEWARK, N.J. — With no shortage of human-on-human misdeeds, criminologists haven't typically concerned themselves with crimes against wildlife and the environment. But with poaching raging out of control in several areas of the world, that may be changing. ... [Published Mother Nature Network - 21 hours ago]

Entities: poaching, Criminologist, Crime, Environment

First reported 23 hours ago - Updated 23 hours ago - 1 reports

University of California Berkeley

Why the blues are blue

When you listen to a lively Mozart piece in a major key, what colors do you see? If bright yellows and oranges swirled in your mind, it wouldn't surprise a group of scientists at the University of California, Berkeley. Their new study found that people ... [Published Mother Nature Network - 23 hours ago]

Entities: University of California Berkeley, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Melting glaciers responsible for one-third of sea-level rise

The world's glaciers lost 260 gigatons of water each year between 2003 and 2009, making these rivers of ice responsible for almost a third of sea-level rise in that time, new research finds. The study, to appear on May 17 in the journal Science, used ... [Published Mother Nature Network - May 16 2013]

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

NASA

Google and NASA to share quantum computer

Two of the biggest names in technology have teamed up to solve the world's problems using artificial intelligence. Google and NASA announced on May 16 their joint purchase of a quantum computer that can perform complex calculations thousands of times ... [Published Mother Nature Network - May 16 2013]

Entities: Quantum Computer, NASA, Google Inc

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Would you buy a T-shirt from this guy?

Chris Yura is every bit the millennial entrepreneur. He’s a Notre Dame football player turned fashion model. He has met with President Obama, and talks about the ethos of the American job market with the ease of someone chatting about what he had for ... [Published Mother Nature Network - May 17 2013]

Entities: Homunculus, Entrepreneur, Barack Obama

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

The tricky art of saving wild species

Some estimates put the planet on a pace to lose half of all species by the end of the century, and accordingly, conservation efforts in the United States have moved far beyond not shooting animals. ... [Published Mother Nature Network - May 16 2013]

Entities: Species, United States

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

5 healthy juicing recipes to refresh your routine

Healthy Eating, RecipesThere's lots of reasons to drink fresh juice, from the flavor (of course) and the blast of vitamins easily absorbed by the body, to the more esoteric concepts of detoxifying and cleansing. Since there is no fresher juice than the ... [Published Mother Nature Network - May 16 2013]

Entities: Cantaloupe, Organic, Watermelon, Refrigeration

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Robots could destroy humanity to satisfy their own pleasures

Complex robots are like animals: They learn by doing. Future robots may even respond to reward systems: complete a task with aplomb, and a gain a "feeling" of satisfaction for a job well done. While this technology could create more efficient, goal-oriented ... [Published Mother Nature Network - May 16 2013]

Entities: Robotics

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Did 'Star Trek' give rise to NASA's 'space shuttle'?

NASA's first space shuttle, the test orbiter Enterprise, was named after the fictional starship on "Star Trek" in response to fans staging a write-in campaign. But did the agency's use of the term "space shuttle" also stem from the television series? ... [Published Mother Nature Network - May 16 2013]

Entities: Space shuttle, Star Trek, NASA

Quotes

"There is a growing sense of urgency about what's going on in the environment" Todd Clear, dean of Rutgers University's School of Criminal Justice, said here at a symposium Tuesday (May 14) on wildlife crime

How criminology can fight poaching [Published Mother Nature Network - 21 hours ago]

"There is a modest amount of data and reason to state that pet ownership may have some causal role in decreasing cardiovascular risk " said Dr. Glenn Levine, professor at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, and chairman of the committee that wrote the statement

Pets may curb heart disease risk [Published Mother Nature Network - May 10 2013]

"This is the animal with the highest frequency sensitivity yet recorded, there's no other animal that can hear such a high frequency" said study co-author James Windmill, a bioacoustician at the University of Strathclyde in Scotland

Nondescript moth boasts ultrasonic ears [Published Mother Nature Network - May 08 2013]

"UN retracts report of Syrian chemical weapon use: Lab tests confirm it is Jihadi body odor" , read one of the least offensive tweets posted on The Onion's feed

The Onion's Twitter feed hijacked by Syrian Electronic Army [Published Mother Nature Network - May 07 2013]

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Why the blues are blue [Published Mother Nature Network - 23 hours ago]
'Crazy ants' invade southeastern U.S. [Published Mother Nature Network - 23 hours ago]
Would you buy a T-shirt from this guy? [Published Mother Nature Network - May 17 2013]
Melting glaciers responsible for one-third of s... [Published Mother Nature Network - May 16 2013]
The tricky art of saving wild species [Published Mother Nature Network - May 16 2013]
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