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Friday, July 1, 2005

Research team receives $7.5 million to study cassava. Ohio State University will lead an interdisciplinary team of scientists in a multi-million dollar project to help improve one of the most important food crops in Africa, cassava. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation selected the BioCassava Plus project as a recipient of one of the foundation's "Grand Challenges in [Biology News Net]
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Costly breeding programs for endangered species pay off. Comparative studies of captive breeding strategies conducted at Rice University bolster the case for costly and sometimes troublesome breeding programs that preserve maximum genetic variability in small populations of endangered species. [Biology News Net]
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Stone Age toolmakers were hi-tech. A tool manufacturing site in East Africa may have been the Stone Age centre for high tech, say French archaeologists who studied more than 2600 artefacts excavated there. [Archaeology - Topix.net]
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History Unearthed. Brushing away clumped dirt from a prehistoric spear point, anthropology student Auricia Tama-Sweet uncovered one clue about American Indian activity four or five millennia ago in the Rogue River uplands. [Archaeology - Topix.net]
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How Ice Melts: Longstanding Mystery Solved. Until now, scientists could not explain why ice cubes in your drink melt. They've known the basics, but the details remained elusive. A breakthrough new study, announced today, supports a leading theory that melting starts when the fundamental structure of matter begins to crack. [digg]
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