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The truth about the polygraph
 I’ll quote George Washington: I cannot tell a lie.
Two hollow tubes wrapped around my chest and abdomen are measuring my breathing, a blood-pressure cuff is tightly encircling my left arm, and moisture-detecting electrodes are secured ...more.
Mystery of oak leaves keeps hanging on
 Check out your window, or drive around Vancouver, and you may notice a curious sight for the middle of February:
Oak trees boast some seriously tenacious leaves.
They’ve withstood windstorms, frigid temperatures, snow, even a tornado. ...more.
Time, season, location of tornado uncommon
How frequent are tornadoes here?
According to the National Climatic Data Center, Clark County has been hit by eight tornadoes since 1972, the year a twister killed six. They were in 1972, 1984, 1989, 1997 (twice), 2000, 2004 and again in 2004. Ove ...more.
That extra weight's neither easy come nor easy go
If it seems like you woke up five pounds heavier the day after Thanksgiving and repeated that feat Dec. 26, take a closer look. Unless you ate the entire buffet, there's probably more to your weight gain than a couple of feasts."You have to eat an ex ...more.
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Researcher says Gulf dead zone bigger than ever
HOUSTON (AP) -- A "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico off the Texas-Louisiana coast this year is likely to be the biggest ever and last longer than ever before, with marine life affected for hundreds of miles, a scientist warned. "It's definitely the worst we've seen... |
Scholars plan to reunite ancient Bible _ online
LONDON (AP) -- The oldest surviving copy of the New Testament, a 4th century version that had its Gospels and epistles spread across the world, is being made whole again - online. The British Library says the full text of the Codex Sinaiticus will be available to Web use... |
Ancient Egyptian boat to be excavated, reassembled
 CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- Archaeologists will excavate hundreds of fragments of an ancient Egyptian wooden boat entombed in an underground chamber next to Giza's Great Pyramid and try to reassemble the craft, Egyptologists announced Saturday. The 4,500-year-old vessel is... |
Hundreds of baby penguins found dead in Brazil
 RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) -- Hundreds of baby penguins swept from the icy shores of Antarctica and Patagonia are washing up dead on Rio de Janeiro's tropical beaches, rescuers and penguin experts said Friday. More than 400 penguins, most of them young, have been f... |
Judge restores protection for Rockies wolves
 BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- A federal judge has restored endangered species protections for gray wolves in the Northern Rockies, derailing plans by three states to hold public wolf hunts this fall. U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy in Missoula granted a preliminary inju... |
Judge: Water delivery system harms Calif. salmon
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) -- A federal judge ruled Friday that California's water systems threaten to push native, wild salmon into extinction but stopped short of ordering any immediate water cutbacks farmers said would have cost them millions in lost crops. The ruling i... |
Purdue panel finds misconduct by fusion scientist
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- A Purdue University panel has found two instances of misconduct by a researcher who claims he produced nuclear fusion in tabletop experiments. Rusi Taleyarkhan made headlines in 2002 when he published a paper in the journal Science claiming that... |
Tiny bug threatens California citrus industry
 FRESNO, Calif. (AP) -- Border agents have stepped up searches and hundreds of traps have been placed on the California-Mexico line in an aggressive campaign to stop a tiny bug from bringing in a disease farmers say could wipe out the $1.3 billion citrus industry her... |
Park tests hybrid buses in McKinley's shadow
 ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- For years, visitors wanting to see Denali National Park's grizzly bears, moose, sheep and caribou have had to ride school buses that polluted the air and spoiled the tranquillity with their noisy, carbon dioxide-spewing diesel engines. Now... |
Researchers report toadfish sing to attract mates
 WASHINGTON (AP) -- It's not exactly Tony serenading Maria in "West Side Story," but for all their homeliness toadfish also sing to attract mates. OK, singing may be a stretch; it's more of a hum. But it turns out to be useful, for science as well as the fish. Explor... |
Smithsonian dishes the dirt on, well, dirt
 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Dishing the dirt has a long history in Washington, but the Smithsonian Institution is taking it to new depths. The National Museum of Natural History opens a new exhibit on Saturday - "Dig It" - exploring the mysterious and complex world of soil.... |
Should we move species to save them?
WASHINGTON (AP) -- With climate change increasingly threatening the survival of plants and animals, scientists say it may become necessary to move some species to save them. Dubbed assisted colonization or assisted migration, the idea is to decide how severe the thr... |
Veterinarian saves shark that swallowed hook
 SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- A veterinarian in Australia plunged his arm up to his shoulder into the throat of a rare shark to save the animal after it swallowed a grappling hook. David Blyde reached between the jaws of the 10-foot gray nurse shark to dislodge the hook... |
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