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All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/1689 Most Emailed - Science en-us Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:31:31 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/1689 http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedsc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20091102/sc_livescience/giantcrackinafricawillcreateanewocean livescience/20091102/giantcrackinafricawillcreateanewocean LiveScience.com science Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:43:34 GMT LiveScience.com - A 35-mile rift in the desert of Ethiopia will likely become a new ocean eventually, researchers now confirm. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedsc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091102/ap_on_sc/us_sci_snows_of_kilimanjaro ap/20091102/us_sci_snows_of_kilimanjaro AP science Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:49:46 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedsc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091102/ap_on_sc/us_sci_snows_of_kilimanjaro"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091102/capt.photo_1257193184513-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=W4bgYh3mfbi1SO5pL.2sPw--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="This Ohio State University handout image shows one of a growing number of isolated remnants of ice spires that were once full glaciers in the crater of Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa.The snows capping Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's tallest peak, are shrinking rapidly and could vanish altogether in 20 years, most likely due to global warming, a US study said.(AFP/HO/Lonnie Thompson)" border="0" /></a>AP - The snows of Kilimanjaro may soon be gone. The African mountain's white peak &mdash; made famous by writer Ernest Hemingway &mdash; is rapidly melting, researchers report.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedsc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091102/ap_on_sc/us_sci_snows_of_kilimanjaro"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091102/capt.photo_1257193184513-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=W4bgYh3mfbi1SO5pL.2sPw--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="photo" title="This Ohio State University handout image shows one of a growing number of isolated remnants of ice spires that were once full glaciers in the crater of Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa.The snows capping Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's tallest peak, are shrinking rapidly and could vanish altogether in 20 years, most likely due to global warming, a US study said.(AFP/HO/Lonnie Thompson)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedsc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20091103/sc_space/hugegalaxyclusterhintsatuniversesskeleton space/20091103/hugegalaxyclusterhintsatuniversesskeleton SPACE.com science Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:19:10 GMT SPACE.com - A gigantic, previously unknown set of galaxies has been found in the distant universe, shedding light on the underlying skeleton of the cosmos. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedsc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20091102/sc_space/strongleonidmeteorshowerexpectednov17 space/20091102/strongleonidmeteorshowerexpectednov17 SPACE.com science Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:01:53 GMT SPACE.com - Circle Nov. 17 on your calendar, for early that morning a moderate to possibly very strong showing of annual Leonid meteor shower is likely. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedsc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20091102/sc_livescience/ancientcivilizationcutpathtodemise livescience/20091102/ancientcivilizationcutpathtodemise LiveScience.com science Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:33:54 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedsc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20091102/sc_livescience/ancientcivilizationcutpathtodemise"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091102/i/r3933928908.jpg?x=130&y=90&q=85&sig=sOT1lndCiDyu_Z_HrZMh9Q--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="The figure of a spider is seen in a desert plain in this undated file photo of an aerial view of the Nazca lines south of Lima, Peru. REUTERS/file" border="0" /></a>LiveScience.com - The ancient South American Nasca civilization may have caused its own demise by clear-cutting huge swaths of forest, a new study has found.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedsc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20091102/sc_livescience/ancientcivilizationcutpathtodemise"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091102/i/r3933928908.jpg?x=130&y=90&q=85&sig=sOT1lndCiDyu_Z_HrZMh9Q--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="photo" title="The figure of a spider is seen in a desert plain in this undated file photo of an aerial view of the Nazca lines south of Lima, Peru. REUTERS/file" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (LiveScience.com) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedsc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091102/ap_on_sc/us_man_eating_lions ap/20091102/us_man_eating_lions AP science Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:48:21 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedsc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091102/ap_on_sc/us_man_eating_lions"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091102/capt.63975651cfd14b3ca1e7bb49fb38e1de.man_eating_lions_cx107.jpg?x=130&y=103&q=85&sig=l10EJ4LEJ8ogkppj4xxMsA--" align="left" height="103" width="130" alt="Two world renowned man-eating Tsavo lions are seen stuffed and on display at Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History Monday, Nov. 2, 2009. Scientists have determined that the two lions probably ate about 35 Kenyans over a nine month period in 1898 and not the 135 they've long been credited with devouring. Their killing spree inspired the 1996 movie 'The Ghost and the Darkness.' (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)" border="0" /></a>AP - The nightly attacks by two man-eating lions terrified railway workers and brought construction to a halt in one of east Africa's most notorious onslaughts more than a hundred years ago. But the death toll, scientists now say, wasn't as high as previously thought.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedsc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091102/ap_on_sc/us_man_eating_lions"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091102/capt.63975651cfd14b3ca1e7bb49fb38e1de.man_eating_lions_cx107.jpg?x=130&y=103&q=85&sig=l10EJ4LEJ8ogkppj4xxMsA--" align="left" height="103" width="130" alt="photo" title="Two world renowned man-eating Tsavo lions are seen stuffed and on display at Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History Monday, Nov. 2, 2009. Scientists have determined that the two lions probably ate about 35 Kenyans over a nine month period in 1898 and not the 135 they've long been credited with devouring. Their killing spree inspired the 1996 movie 'The Ghost and the Darkness.' (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedsc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091103/sc_afp/environmentbiodiversityspeciesiucn afp/20091103/environmentbiodiversityspeciesiucn AFP science Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:39:09 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedsc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091103/sc_afp/environmentbiodiversityspeciesiucn"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091103/capt.photo_1257224151682-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=120&q=85&sig=zve5PZKEueDdmT5vZReXzg--" align="left" height="120" width="130" alt="A International Union for Conservation of Nature photo of a Kihansi Spray Toad (Nectophrynoides asperginis) which once numbered at least 17,000 at the Kihansi Falls in Tanzania, and has now joined the list of creatures which are extinct in the wild.(AFP/IUCN/Tim Herman)" border="0" /></a>AFP - More than 1,000 freshwater fish species are threatened with extinction, reflecting the strain on global water resources, an updated global "Red List" of endangered species showed Tuesday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedsc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091103/sc_afp/environmentbiodiversityspeciesiucn"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091103/capt.photo_1257224151682-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=120&q=85&sig=zve5PZKEueDdmT5vZReXzg--" align="left" height="120" width="130" alt="photo" title="A International Union for Conservation of Nature photo of a Kihansi Spray Toad (Nectophrynoides asperginis) which once numbered at least 17,000 at the Kihansi Falls in Tanzania, and has now joined the list of creatures which are extinct in the wild.(AFP/IUCN/Tim Herman)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedsc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091102/sc_nm/us_forests_nasca nm/20091102/us_forests_nasca Reuters science Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:57:06 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedsc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091102/sc_nm/us_forests_nasca"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091102/i/r3933928908.jpg?x=130&y=90&q=85&sig=sOT1lndCiDyu_Z_HrZMh9Q--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="The figure of a spider is seen in a desert plain in this undated file photo of an aerial view of the Nazca lines south of Lima, Peru. REUTERS/file" border="0" /></a>Reuters - The mysterious people who etched the "Nasca Lines" across deserts in Peru hastened their own demise by clearing forests 1,500 years ago, according to a study on Monday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedsc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091102/sc_nm/us_forests_nasca"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091102/i/r3933928908.jpg?x=130&y=90&q=85&sig=sOT1lndCiDyu_Z_HrZMh9Q--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="photo" title="The figure of a spider is seen in a desert plain in this undated file photo of an aerial view of the Nazca lines south of Lima, Peru. REUTERS/file" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedsc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20091031/sc_livescience/surprisingsexbehaviorfoundinbats livescience/20091031/surprisingsexbehaviorfoundinbats LiveScience.com science Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:21:59 GMT LiveScience.com - When they do their thing, female Chinese fruit bats add oral sex to get the males to prolong the act, scientists now find, suggesting the behavior confers evolutionary benefits. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedsc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091102/ap_on_bi_ge/us_med_flu_vaccine_safety ap/20091102/us_med_flu_vaccine_safety AP business Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:31:12 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedsc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091102/ap_on_bi_ge/us_med_flu_vaccine_safety"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091030/capt.00e915452b144a5c8bda127aadc0d95e.swine_flu_vaccination_dbc109.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=gEDNCntwA2GeKHIFYO5dVg--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="Prepared syringes of swine flu vaccine are shown at a health clinic in Toronto, Canada on Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Darren Calabrese)" border="0" /></a>AP - Independent health advisers begin monitoring safety of the swine flu vaccine on Monday, an extra step the government promised in this year's unprecedented program to watch for possible side effects.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedsc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091102/ap_on_bi_ge/us_med_flu_vaccine_safety"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091030/capt.00e915452b144a5c8bda127aadc0d95e.swine_flu_vaccination_dbc109.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=gEDNCntwA2GeKHIFYO5dVg--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="photo" title="Prepared syringes of swine flu vaccine are shown at a health clinic in Toronto, Canada on Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Darren Calabrese)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedsc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091102/ap_on_sc/us_sci_pig_dna ap/20091102/us_sci_pig_dna AP science Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:19:25 GMT AP - An international group of scientists has decoded the DNA of the domestic pig, research that may one day prove useful in finding new treatments for both pigs and people, and perhaps aid in efforts for a new swine flu vaccine for pigs. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedsc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091103/sc_nm/us_lions nm/20091103/us_lions Reuters science Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:39:08 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedsc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091103/sc_nm/us_lions"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091103/i/r1699307042.jpg?x=130&y=82&q=85&sig=fS2EjRpQlExe2ZgAZOHCgQ--" align="left" height="82" width="130" alt="A male African lion stalks through the bush in the Addo Elephant Park January 3, 2008. REUTERS/Alex Grimm" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Two man-eating lions terrorized Kenya during the building of a railroad bridge over the Tsavo River in the late 19th century, but only one was making regular meals of human prey, researchers said on Monday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedsc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091103/sc_nm/us_lions"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091103/i/r1699307042.jpg?x=130&y=82&q=85&sig=fS2EjRpQlExe2ZgAZOHCgQ--" align="left" height="82" width="130" alt="photo" title="A male African lion stalks through the bush in the Addo Elephant Park January 3, 2008. REUTERS/Alex Grimm" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedsc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091102/wl_africa_afp/scienceanthropologyhistoryanimalsuskenyalions afp/20091102/scienceanthropologyhistoryanimalsuskenyalions AFP world Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:14:26 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedsc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091102/wl_africa_afp/scienceanthropologyhistoryanimalsuskenyalions"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091102/capt.photo_1257192831203-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=Co0O6eUhMDZO9k40aJ4jJQ--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="This 1898 file photo Courtesy of The Field Museum shows British Lt. Colonel John Patterson seated beside one of the lions he shot and killed in Kenya. The man-eating lions of Tsavo which terrorized a railroad camp in Kenya and have inspired three Hollywood films may not have been as deadly as legend would have it, a study published on Monday.(AFP/HO)" border="0" /></a>AFP - The two man-eating lions of Tsavo which terrorized a railroad camp in Kenya and have inspired three Hollywood films may not have been as deadly as legend would have it, a study published Monday has found.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedsc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091102/wl_africa_afp/scienceanthropologyhistoryanimalsuskenyalions"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091102/capt.photo_1257192831203-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=Co0O6eUhMDZO9k40aJ4jJQ--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="photo" title="This 1898 file photo Courtesy of The Field Museum shows British Lt. Colonel John Patterson seated beside one of the lions he shot and killed in Kenya. The man-eating lions of Tsavo which terrorized a railroad camp in Kenya and have inspired three Hollywood films may not have been as deadly as legend would have it, a study published on Monday.(AFP/HO)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedsc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20091030/sc_livescience/newdinosaurbuiltlikeashermantank livescience/20091030/newdinosaurbuiltlikeashermantank LiveScience.com science Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:35:05 GMT LiveScience.com - A husband and wife team of paleontologists has discovered a newfound species of armored dinosaur that lived 112 million years ago in what is now Montana. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedsc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091102/sc_afp/japanclimatewarmingtechnology afp/20091102/japanclimatewarmingtechnology AFP science Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:50:59 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedsc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091102/sc_afp/japanclimatewarmingtechnology"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091102/capt.photo_1257115245908-1-0.jpg?x=100&y=130&q=85&sig=3i86wWRdBwJQCAALRPZ4pg--" align="left" height="130" width="100" alt="Kensuke Suzuki, an engineer for Japan's high-tech giant Toshiba, displaying the pilot site of a coal plant with carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology at the Mikawa power station at Omuta, Fukuoka prefecture, on Japan's southern island of Kyushu, in September 2009. Swathes of dirty clouds brood over a coal plant in rural Japan, but scientists are now hoping to send pollutants the other way.(AFP/File/Kimiko de Freytas-Tamura)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Swathes of dirty clouds brood over a coal plant in rural Japan, but scientists are now hoping to send the pollutants the other way, deep into the bowels of Mother Earth.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedsc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091102/sc_afp/japanclimatewarmingtechnology"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091102/capt.photo_1257115245908-1-0.jpg?x=100&y=130&q=85&sig=3i86wWRdBwJQCAALRPZ4pg--" align="left" height="130" width="100" alt="photo" title="Kensuke Suzuki, an engineer for Japan's high-tech giant Toshiba, displaying the pilot site of a coal plant with carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology at the Mikawa power station at Omuta, Fukuoka prefecture, on Japan's southern island of Kyushu, in September 2009. Swathes of dirty clouds brood over a coal plant in rural Japan, but scientists are now hoping to send pollutants the other way.(AFP/File/Kimiko de Freytas-Tamura)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedsc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20091103/sc_livescience/wirelessdevicesoverwhelmnaturessignals livescience/20091103/wirelessdevicesoverwhelmnaturessignals LiveScience.com science Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:20:32 GMT LiveScience.com - A crowd of consumer gadgets such as cell phones and wireless devices may overwhelm the small band of scientists straining to detect faint radio emissions from offbeat sources ranging from hurricanes here to galaxies in the distant cosmos. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedsc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20091102/sc_livescience/sneakyspiderskipslongsexdance livescience/20091102/sneakyspiderskipslongsexdance LiveScience.com science Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:42:53 GMT LiveScience.com - In the arachnid version of trying to get some, male suitors of a female cannibalistic spider must perform a 100-minute-long dance on the gal's web lest they be eaten before copulation is complete. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedsc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20091104/sc_livescience/trexsoldestrelativediscovered livescience/20091104/trexsoldestrelativediscovered LiveScience.com science Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:00:36 GMT LiveScience.com - Spanning just 10 feet in length and sporting a tiny horn on its nose, a newly identified dinosaur has become the oldest known relative of the fierce meat-eater, Tyrannosaurus rex. The discovery suggests such tyrannosaurs were quite petite before they evolved into giant killing machines just before their demise. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedsc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20091031/sc_space/marsroverspirithasamnesiaagain space/20091031/marsroverspirithasamnesiaagain SPACE.com science Sat, 31 Oct 2009 04:42:31 GMT SPACE.com - NASA's Mars rover Spirit is suffering a new bout of amnesia, one that comes after months of being stuck in deep Martian sand. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedsc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20091028/sc_livescience/studybaddrivingisgenetic livescience/20091028/studybaddrivingisgenetic LiveScience.com science Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:20:55 GMT LiveScience.com - Some people really are just bad drivers. That's according to new research suggesting individuals born with a certain variant of a gene don't stay on the road as well as their counterparts.