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Entries from April 23rd, 2008

Birds Learn to Work Together

April 23rd, 2008 · 3 Comments · Biology

We all have heard of monkeys solving problems for food, learing simple sign language, and working together to solve problems, but now rooks have, too. In this article, researchers found that with simple training, birds could work together to get a reward of food. After making one bird wait for the other one, they did [...]

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New Earthquake Faults Revealed

April 23rd, 2008 · 3 Comments · Physics

A new U.S. earthquake hazard map was recently developed. This map shows that new earthquake faults were discovered in California, Utah, the Midwest, South Carolina, and the Pacific Northwest, while the Central and Eastern part of the U.S. now has a better percentage of not being affected by earthquakes. This new map is now very [...]

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Tomatos: Big, Round and Colorful

April 23rd, 2008 · 2 Comments · Biology

This artical was very diffrent becasue it was talking about how they change the colors of the tamoatos. They also talked about how they changed the size of the tomatos and also the shapes of the tomatos. It seems to me that it is ok for they to change the colors of them to becasue [...]

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