AP – Investigators from Toyota and the U.S. government inspected a crashed 2005 Prius in a suburb of New York City on Wednesday to see if a black box-like device or its wreckage could point to problems with the brakes or accelerator.
AP – Workers at a Nevada research lab were checking on a primate room when they came across a ghastly sight: Thirty dead monkeys were essentially cooked alive after someone left the heater on. Two others were near death and had to be euthanized.
AP – Complaints of dogs and cats injured and sometimes even killed by flea treatments have increased significantly, the Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday as it outlined plans to make the products safer.
AP – A new report says the overall number of animals in the Arctic has increased over the past 40 years ago. But critters who live closest to the North Pole are disappearing substantially.
LiveScience.com – A cushioning device originally intended for space vehicles is now being
tested by NASA on helicopters that have to make crash landings.
Researchers believe this so-called deployable energy absorber (DEA)
could save lives and helicopters in the near future.
AFP – A skinny little fish called the pipefish is high on the list of wildlife oddities, for the male of the species is the one which gets pregnant.
SPACE.com – A pair of primordial black holes have been spotted so far away
that they likely formed relatively soon after the Big Bang, scientists announced
Wednesday.
AFP – Marking a further step in the hunt for worlds orbiting other stars, astronomers on Wednesday said they had found a cool planet the size of Jupiter that encircles a sun at searing proximity.
LiveScience.com – A shark attack that took place 4 million years ago has just been
reconstructed from the extinct hunter’s fossilized victim – a dolphin.
LiveScience.com – The leaves of clover plants are said to hold the luck o’ the
Irish when they sport four leaves. This myth likely arose because four-leaf
clovers are rare finds – the result of an equally rare genetic
mutation in the clover plant.
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