Land Ahoy! The Floating Islands of The Sargasso Sea

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This was man’s first reported contact with the Sargasso Sea, a unique, weed-covered, oval-shaped area in the North Atlantic. It was so named by Portuguese sailors, who thought the weeds looked like the grapes they called salgazo. The phenomenon of a sea covered by weeds was so strange that it soon gave birth to legends of hidden monsters that preyed on ships and of weeds so dangerous that ships passing through them would be dragged to a watery grave many fathoms below.


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Building a New Life: Creating Green Fields in Space

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Biologists and botanists are particularly excited by the project; they believe that close study of the flora and fauna in this artificial environment will improve our understanding of the delicately balanced ecological systems of the earth. But the many applications of Biosphere two are not just earth-bound; lessons learned from the project could have profound implications by paving the way for the creation of future colonies in space.


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Trunk Call: The Unspoken Language of Elephants

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In particular they have wondered how apparently random group of elephants, sometimes separated by miles, can manage to move in a cohesive, coordinated manner toward the same destination…Today researchers have discovered that the elephants are communicating- by using sounds at such a low frequency that the human ear is incapable of detecting them.


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Why Wolves Howl

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Why Wolves Howl.


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Why Chimpanzees Smile

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Why Chimpanzees Smile.


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Searching for the Missing Links: Ida

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Is Man’s search for his roots really reaching its conclusion?


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The Large Hadron Collider: Rewriting History

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With an endeavour to recreate the very moment that exploded everything into existence, Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider fired a beam of protons on Wednesday, 10th September within a six meter circumference circle tunnel of 17miles or 27kilometers 100 meters below the French-Swiss border, on the outskirts of Geneva.


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