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...in the northern Puget Sound. Hundreds of the animals were slaughtered, said Cascadia Research Collective's baleen whale researcher John Calambokidis."It hasn't quite returned to the numbers from the 1800s," Calambokidis said. He added that humpback...
...cases, the preservation issue can be skirted by allowing researchers to see a scanned reproduction of a document instead of the...he's interested in making things even easier for artists and researchers in the new facility.For example, he said, some of the...
...water or the mud exposed by an outgoing tide for tiny pink clams, marine worms and other tasty tidbits. In recent years, researchers discovered that many shorebirds, especially the smaller species such as western sandpipers, also engage in "snot-feeding...
...outduel other universities in areas like Arctic research, energy and climate change. She said the system can also tout its researchers as "masters of disaster," with expertise in earthquakes, volcanoes and tsunamis."What do we have at the university...
...compared with 18 percent of whites (www.cnn.com/2006/US/12/12/racism.poll). In commenting on the poll, researcher Jack Dovidio, Professor of Psychology at Yale University, said "We've reached a point that racism is like a virus that...
...strategy."Without a clear budgetary plan, this strategy becomes nothing more than a lengthy wish list," said institute researcher Mihaela David. "Despite a good faith effort at articulating policy priorities and formulating mutually reinforcing objectives...
...learn quickly, so many calypsos are visited only once, and pollen may be removed but not deposited on another flower. Some researchers suggest that the slight variations in color and aroma that calypsos exhibit might facilitate fooling the bees into visiting...
...proximity to campus will make it "even easier" for UAS to set up internships with the Forest Service and for Forest Service researchers to lecture at the university."They get some real benefit by being on a university campus where we can share scientists...
...the number of firearm homicides increased from 10,828 to 12,791 in 2006 before declining to 11,101 in 2011.Though researchers differ over all the reasons why gun violence has declined, many attribute it to the aging of the baby boomers. The crime...
...practices such as the extraction of sand for construction and ferocious storm surges made worse by climate change, according to researchers with the U.S.-based Nature Conservancy, who have helped locals map the extent of coastal erosion.Dozens of families...