May 20, 2012
Millennia-old Microbes Found Alive in Deep Ocean Muck
The microbes live long lives thanks to an extreme lifestyle of eating, breathing and building new cells only every few hundred years or more
Preoccupied Brains Produce Pain-Killing Compounds
Spinal scans reveal a candidate mechanism for the brain's inhibition of the pain response, a mechanism that can be further studied, eventually leading to clinical applications
Traveling Salesman Problem Reveals Limits of Computation
We may not be able to knock off every example of the TSP, but new ideas can push the frontiers of solvability
Annular Solar Eclipse Will Be Viewable in U.S. Sunday
The moon will reduce the sun to what resembles a thin ring late Sunday along a path from Oregon to Texas
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Learn more about the nesting preferences, diversity and distribution of indigenous solitary bees and wasps, share this information, and provide a forum for others interested in native beekeeping
Record and share your photos and observations about wildlife
Help ornithologists make historical bird migration records available to the public via the Web
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