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Last weekend we spend time in Encinitas, CA where on Saturday we had went down to South Ponto beach during low tide and the ocean had pulled back away from the jetties.  It was during this walk that we discovered dozens of various star fish clinging to the rocks eating the black mussels covering the [...]

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Gamers are helping scientists solve problems through foldit and other programs.

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1.     They are a relatively new arrival in this country Although most insects, such as roaches, have a long history of being annoying pests that get into our homes, stink bugs only arrived on our shores in the late 1990’s. More precisely, they were first found in a field in Altoona Pennsylvania in the spring [...]

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Read a really cool story last week on ibitimes about researchers potentially discovering a planet so dense they believe it is entirely made from carbon and therefore must be crystalline and quite possible a complete diamond. This pulsar exists about 4,000 lightyears away so there won’t be any expeditions to mine it anytime soon, but [...]

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Whether it’s for mating or to find a new habitat, animal explorers can cross continents. Here are some of the best-travelled explorers from the animal kingdom.

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