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A firefly photo. Fireflies produce a "cold light" with no infrared or ultraviolet frequencies (Luciole means firefly in French)

Posted by kluciole at 9/6/2010 10:34 PM | Add Comment

Cute lizards! "Scientists discover lizards on verge of leap from egg-laying to live births"

Posted by kluciole at 9/6/2010 10:20 PM | Add Comment

10,000-year-old boy's bones found in an underwater Mexican cave 'could rewrite the history of the Americas'

Posted by kluciole at 8/29/2010 5:57 PM | Add Comment

My mom loved everything to do with the Titanic long before a movie came out. New article made me think of her: "Titanic expedition shows off some crisp new images"

Posted by kluciole at 8/29/2010 5:52 PM | Add Comment

Found underneath the A1, the home of Rome's legendary lost Ninth Legion

Posted by kluciole at 8/28/2010 5:22 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Goodbye, Mommy. Happy journey to you! Photo: a Japanese space agency picture of the Earth as it rises from behind the Moon

Posted by kluciole at 8/26/2010 2:00 AM | Add Comment

New microbe discovered eating oil spill in Gulf

Posted by kluciole at 8/26/2010 1:43 AM | Add Comment

Love is universal: this brave monkey ran into traffic to save her baby, then fought off a hungry dog to protect her little one

Posted by kluciole at 8/20/2010 8:48 PM | Add Comment

Photo: carbon dioxide gas from deep underground fissures bubbles up through geothermal mudpots, over the San Andreas fault

Posted by kluciole at 8/20/2010 8:31 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a park ranger carries orphaned female mountain gorillas in Virunga National Park, Congo

Posted by kluciole at 8/20/2010 12:36 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Viruses May Cause More Cancer than Previously Thought

Posted by kluciole at 8/20/2010 12:27 AM | Add Comment

Experts finally solve puzzle of Roman ruins at Lullingstone

Posted by kluciole at 8/18/2010 9:47 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Study shows value of quality-of-life cancer care

Posted by kluciole at 8/18/2010 8:43 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Striking new image of Tarantula Nebula at the heart of one of our closest galaxies

Posted by kluciole at 8/15/2010 7:15 PM | Add Comment

It's official, men and women ARE from the same planet

Posted by kluciole at 8/15/2010 7:12 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

A complete surprise to me, I apparently have a case of whooping cough. Here is an article about the California outbreak

Posted by kluciole at 8/15/2010 7:03 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

'Desert dust' days may worsen kids' asthma

Posted by kluciole at 8/15/2010 6:54 PM | Add Comment

They have really big frogs in Chernigov, Ukraine

Posted by kluciole at 8/13/2010 9:43 AM | Add Comment

TIME article: Is Tainted Milk to Blame for China's Infant Puberty Cases?

Posted by kluciole at 8/13/2010 9:40 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Spectacular photo: the Milky Way seen above wind generators in Minnesota

Posted by kluciole at 8/11/2010 11:54 AM | Add Comment

New superbugs spreading from South Asia

Posted by kluciole at 8/11/2010 11:36 AM | Add Comment

Stunning new image of two galaxies as they slowly crash into one another over millions of years

Posted by kluciole at 8/9/2010 7:48 PM | Add Comment

What the heck? "The 100 million-year-old 'catodile': Scientists unearth ancient feline crocodile"

Posted by kluciole at 8/9/2010 7:30 PM | Add Comment

Very thought-provoking article: "Cloning, cruelty and how science sold out to greed"

Posted by kluciole at 8/5/2010 8:55 PM | Add Comment

Judge orders protections reinstated for gray wolf

Posted by kluciole at 8/5/2010 8:50 PM | Add Comment

Myanmar 'has created world's largest tiger reserve'

Posted by kluciole at 8/5/2010 8:43 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Really unusual: photo of a Pygmy Marmoset

Posted by kluciole at 8/5/2010 8:36 PM | Add Comment

New marine study finds thousands of amazing new species

Posted by kluciole at 8/3/2010 6:04 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Sun storms may bring northern lights farther south

Posted by kluciole at 8/3/2010 6:00 AM | Add Comment

Patient who endured heart, liver, kidney and lung transplants has now become as a doctor

Posted by kluciole at 8/3/2010 5:55 AM | Add Comment

Photo: the shadow of planet Earth as a dark blue arch rising in the sky behind Ayers Rock (Uluru) in Australia

Posted by kluciole at 7/31/2010 11:27 AM | Add Comment

Antarctica Experiment Discovers Puzzling Space Ray Pattern

Posted by kluciole at 7/31/2010 11:17 AM | Add Comment

Flying giants: Incredibly rare display as manta rays leap 9 feet out of water into the air

Posted by kluciole at 7/29/2010 3:16 AM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

EPA: 1 million gallons of oil may be in Michigan river after pipeline spills into the Kalamazoo

Posted by kluciole at 7/29/2010 2:56 AM | Add Comment

Zedonk hybrid born at Ga. wildlife preserve

Posted by kluciole at 7/28/2010 12:59 AM | Add Comment

My mom has been suffering from bad falls. Here is some info if you are dealing with the same situation: "Falls Among Older Adults: An Overview"

Posted by kluciole at 7/28/2010 12:53 AM | Add Comment

Painting at center of Caravaggio mystery unveiled; the "Martyrdom of St. Lawrence" will now be subjected to tests

Posted by kluciole at 7/28/2010 12:43 AM | Add Comment

Go baby turtles! Photo of hatchlings making their way to water

Posted by kluciole at 7/26/2010 1:34 AM | Add Comment

Photo: two 8-week-old Sumatran tigers cubs hide under their mother, Jaya, at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium

Posted by kluciole at 7/25/2010 5:52 AM | Add Comment

Just what is a buckyball? "Football-shaped carbon 'buckyballs' found floating in space for first time"

Posted by kluciole at 7/25/2010 5:49 AM | Add Comment

Gadget makers forced to look at links to Congo war

Posted by kluciole at 7/25/2010 5:42 AM | Add Comment

La Mujer de las Palmas: reconstruction of 10,000-year-old skeleton found in Tulum, Mexico shows ancient population more diverse than thought

Posted by kluciole at 7/24/2010 4:44 AM | Add Comment

Sister monument to Stonehenge may have been found

Posted by kluciole at 7/22/2010 7:35 PM | Add Comment

CDC: 15 US deaths tied to rare tropical fungus now found in Pacific Northwest

Posted by kluciole at 7/22/2010 7:21 PM | Add Comment

Computers to translate world's 'lost' languages after program deciphers ancient Ugaritic text

Posted by kluciole at 7/21/2010 8:33 PM | Add Comment

Petition seeks to have wolves howl across US

Posted by kluciole at 7/21/2010 8:23 PM | Add Comment

Suicide tied to air pollution and asthma

Posted by kluciole at 7/21/2010 7:58 PM | Add Comment

'Monster' star 10 million times brighter than the Sun discovered by astronomers at center of Tarantula Nebula

Posted by kluciole at 7/21/2010 4:34 AM | Add Comment

I could stare at this photo for hours: the bright stars and dark dust of our spiral Milky Way Galaxy above Pulpit Rock in Australia

Posted by kluciole at 7/19/2010 9:44 PM | Add Comment

Hundreds of dead penguins wash up on Brazil's shores

Posted by kluciole at 7/19/2010 9:25 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a flame struggles for existence right before it is snuffed out by a blast of cold air

Posted by kluciole at 7/18/2010 5:25 AM | Add Comment

What is Uveitis or Iritis? I just found out!

Posted by kluciole at 7/18/2010 5:15 AM | Add Comment

A gorgeous recent image of the Pleiades, courtesy of NASA

Posted by kluciole at 7/18/2010 5:12 AM | Add Comment

Discovery News article: Tigers Facing Global Extinction

Posted by kluciole at 7/18/2010 5:06 AM | Add Comment

World simmers during hottest year on record

Posted by kluciole at 7/18/2010 5:00 AM | Add Comment

Tiny shard bears oldest script found in Jerusalem (14th century BCE)

Posted by kluciole at 7/14/2010 11:16 AM | Add Comment

Scientists say Gulf spill altering food web

Posted by kluciole at 7/14/2010 11:06 AM | Add Comment

TIME article -- Animal Rights: New Laws Take Movement to the Mainstream

Posted by kluciole at 7/14/2010 11:02 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a star-forming region in new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC

Posted by kluciole at 7/13/2010 1:22 AM | Add Comment

Many people suffer from an allergy to the sun... (this is a lot how lupus feels/acts too, only it nevers improves if you have a slight tan, as it does in actinic prurigo)

Posted by kluciole at 7/13/2010 1:08 AM | Add Comment

Stargazers in awe as total eclipse arcs across Pacific

Posted by kluciole at 7/13/2010 1:02 AM | Add Comment

Baby animals in oil spill face uncertain future

Posted by kluciole at 7/13/2010 12:56 AM | Add Comment

Archaeologists unearth 4,300-year-old Egyptian tomb of father and son at the Saqqara necropolis

Posted by kluciole at 7/10/2010 12:22 AM | Add Comment

Male fireflies flash in unison 'so females don't get confused'

Posted by kluciole at 7/10/2010 12:17 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a bolt of lightning cracks beneath a rainbow as the setting sun turns the sky salmon pink in Kuala Lumpur

Posted by kluciole at 7/8/2010 9:51 AM | Add Comment

UK treasure hunter finds 52,000 Roman coins. Circa 286 CE, they were buried in a jar and weighed 350 pounds

Posted by kluciole at 7/8/2010 9:26 AM | Add Comment

Early humans ventured farther north than thought

Posted by kluciole at 7/7/2010 3:53 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a cloud of baby stars surrounds the star R Coronae Australis

Posted by kluciole at 7/6/2010 5:51 PM | Add Comment

Earliest illustrated Christian bible discovered at Ethiopian monastery

Posted by kluciole at 7/6/2010 5:39 PM | Add Comment

EPA: the Clean Air Interstate Rule would overturn Bush-era plan; "measure requires 31 states from Massachusetts to Texas to reduce smog and soot-producing emissions"

Posted by kluciole at 7/6/2010 5:31 PM | Add Comment

Our current North Star is Polaris. During much of the time of the ancient Egyptians, it was Thuban (info and photos here)

Posted by kluciole at 7/6/2010 1:19 AM | Add Comment

Cool photo: a sun halo appears behind a streetlight in Calcutta, India

Posted by kluciole at 7/5/2010 5:26 PM | Add Comment

Tiny, rare African Crowned Crane chick now has happy feet - thanks to a new pair of green slippers that straighten its toes

Posted by kluciole at 7/5/2010 5:15 PM | Add Comment

Giant predatory whale named for 'Moby-Dick' author

Posted by kluciole at 7/5/2010 5:11 PM | Add Comment

Explorer David Livingstone's letter deciphered at last, "nearly 140 years after he wrote of his despair at ever leaving Africa alive"

Posted by kluciole at 7/3/2010 6:03 PM | Add Comment

U.S. chicken McNuggets 'contain SILLY PUTTY chemical

Posted by kluciole at 7/3/2010 6:00 PM | Add Comment

Run crabs! Photo: Blue crabs disrupted by public works emerge in Cancun and have to be rescued

Posted by kluciole at 7/1/2010 11:55 PM | Add Comment

Americans are treated, and overtreated, to death

Posted by kluciole at 6/29/2010 2:52 PM | Add Comment

Dinosaurs developed elaborate crests and sails 'to attract the best mates'

Posted by kluciole at 6/28/2010 3:07 PM | Add Comment

The graceful, winding arms of the majestic spiral galaxy M51 (The Whirlpool Galaxy)

Posted by kluciole at 6/27/2010 4:04 PM | Add Comment

Documents show vast cleanup of Plum Island, New York "since 2000 to remove vast amounts of waste and contaminants at site of top-secret Army germ warfare research"

Posted by kluciole at 6/27/2010 3:56 PM | Add Comment

Scientists simulate the sound of the 'God Particle'

Posted by kluciole at 6/26/2010 10:06 PM | Add Comment

Galápagos giant tortoise saved from extinction

Posted by kluciole at 6/26/2010 9:57 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a heavily oiled bird is rescued from the waters of Barataria Bay

Posted by kluciole at 6/26/2010 9:45 PM | Add Comment

Romans killed dozens of unwanted babies at English 'brothel'

Posted by kluciole at 6/25/2010 7:07 PM | Add Comment

Oscar the bionic cat: Pioneering surgery gives him two false back legs

Posted by kluciole at 6/24/2010 6:08 PM | Add Comment

Skin condition atopic dermatitis linked to cancer risk

Posted by kluciole at 6/24/2010 5:28 PM | Add Comment

NASA spots 'crack' in the universe in the middle of the Milky Way

Posted by kluciole at 6/23/2010 5:41 PM | Add Comment

Photo: the solar powered house of the University of Applied Sciences of Rosenheim, Germany

Posted by kluciole at 6/23/2010 5:26 PM | Add Comment

International Energy Agency director general Nobuo Tanaka says BP oil spill was avoidable

Posted by kluciole at 6/23/2010 5:22 PM | Add Comment

4th century icons of Peter and Paul found in Rome

Posted by kluciole at 6/22/2010 6:58 PM | Add Comment

Cystic Fibrosis: More patients not diagnosed until adulthood, "proving CF more complicated than thought"

Posted by kluciole at 6/22/2010 6:53 PM | Add Comment

The Aurora Australis (Southern Lights) as observed from the International Space Station

Posted by kluciole at 6/22/2010 12:27 AM | Add Comment

Next stop France for oldest baby mammoth

Posted by kluciole at 6/22/2010 12:08 AM | Add Comment

7th-Graders Discover Mysterious Cave on Mars

Posted by kluciole at 6/22/2010 12:04 AM | Add Comment

Why Skin Cancer Is on the Rise

Posted by kluciole at 6/20/2010 12:57 PM | Add Comment

VA quietly giving benefits to Marines exposed to toxic water on Camp Lejeune

Posted by kluciole at 6/20/2010 12:52 PM | Add Comment

Amelia Earhart's Watch Reaches Space Station 82 Years After Historic Flight

Posted by kluciole at 6/19/2010 1:21 AM | Add Comment

Human race "will be extinct within 100 years" -- claims leading scientist who helped eradicate smallpox

Posted by kluciole at 6/19/2010 1:17 AM | Add Comment

Tiny owl chick falls into lion den and survives for three days before it is finally able to fly away

Posted by kluciole at 6/17/2010 4:58 PM | Add Comment
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