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This is too funny. It’s been reported that the Science Museum of Minnesota will be closed for the Republican National Convention in September. But here’s the kicker……the Republican Party will rent the museum and party delegates will be offered complimentary tours of the museum’s exhibits.
PZ Myers, science blogger and associate professor of biology at [...]

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By Belinda Goldsmith
Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters) - It’s not just people who find it hard to get going in the morning. Cockroaches don’t like mornings either, according to U.S. researchers.
A study by biologists at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, found dramatic variations in a cockroach’s learning ability throughout the day. In the morning, the insects [...]

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By Monte Hayes
The Associated Press
LIMA, Peru - A fiery meteorite crashed into southern Peru over the weekend, experts confirmed on Wednesday. But they were still puzzling over claims that it gave off fumes that sickened 200 people.
Local residents told reporters that a fiery ball fell from the sky and smashed into the desolate Andean [...]

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By Michael Kahn
Reuters
YORK (Reuters) - When we read our eyes lock on to different letters in the same word instead of scanning a page smoothly from left to right as previously thought, researchers said on Monday.
Using sophisticated eye tracking equipment, the team looked at letters within a word and found that people combined parts [...]

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The New York Times
We at “Blue Herald” have been following this story since we interviewed Dr. Dewey Caron on the June 25th edition of “Blue Herald Radio” If you’d like to hear the original interview with Dr. Caron, click the radio link above and head for the archives. - JS
Last week, scientists reported having found [...]

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Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A giant hole in the Universe is devoid of galaxies, stars and even lacks dark matter, astronomers said on Thursday.
The team at the University of Minnesota said the void is nearly a billion light-years across and they have no idea why it is there.
“Not only has no one ever found a [...]

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Archaeologists have found an 8-million-year old forest of cypresses, well preserved and not fossilized, in Bukkabrany in northeastern Hungary.
“The discovery is exceptional as the trees kept their wooden structure, they neither turned into coal nor were petrified,” Tamas Pusztai, the deputy director and head of the archaeological department at the local Otto Herman museum, [...]

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By ALICIA CHANG
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES - Summer’s annual meteor shower promises to put on a dazzling show when it peaks this weekend - provided you’re far from city lights. With no moon in sight to interfere with the Perseid meteor shower, skygazers can expect to spot streaking fireballs late Sunday into dawn Monday [...]

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By ROBIN McDOWELL
Associated Press
JAKARTA, Indonesia - A powerful earthquake under the Java Sea rattled Indonesia’s capital early Thursday, violently shaking tall buildings and sending panicked residents into the streets.
There were no immediate reports of damage, and geophysicists said there was little risk of a tsunami.
The quake, which struck at 12:04 a.m. (1:04 p.m. EDT [...]

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