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Biruté Galdikas
Sweat pours down her face. She feels thirsty. Swatting at mosquitoes, Biruté Galdikas balances on a slippery log. The logs are always slippery. “I don’t know why, but they always are,” she thinks. Then she slips. She tries to avoid touching a thorn vine and a tree with toxic bark as she regains her balance. She stands waist-deep in tea-coloured swamp water in the dark, dank Indonesian... |
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Q: Are there any planned future deep space explorations planned say in the next 5 or so years. Surely with all the advancements in propulsion and computers, NASA could develop a probe that could easily overtake voyager 1 in a matter of 5 or so years.
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February 9, 2010Just because you don't swallow the worm at the bottom of a bottle of mescal doesn't mean you have avoided the essential worminess of the potent Mexican liquor, according to Mehrdad Hajibabaei at the University of Guelph. The study is part of the technology development phase of the International Barcode of Life Project. Based in Canada at the University of Guelph, it's the largest biodiversity genomics project ever undertaken. More than 200 scientists from 25 countries are creating a DNA barcode reference library for all life on Earth.
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