The Tennessee Valley Authority says it is installing 24 more monitoring wells at a coal-fired power…
Month: August 2017
Philips to build health technology center in Tennessee
Dutch giant Royal Philips plans to build a health technology center in Tennessee.
Duke University receives two endangered lemurs from Madagascar
A pair of endangered lemurs has been imported to the U.S. from Madagascar for the first…
Amazon to cut prices on Whole Foods staples like eggs, beef
Amazon is moving swiftly to make big changes at Whole Foods, saying it plans to cut…
Peru discovers in pre-Incan site tomb of 16 Chinese migrants
Peruvian archeologists have discovered in a sacred pre-Incan site the bodies of 16 men from China…
Tracking down the jumping genes of maize
The "jumping genes" of maize have finally been mapped by an international team led by researchers…
3-D scanning methods allow an inside look into fossilized feces
Coprolites are fossilized feces that give evidence of an organism's behavior and often contain food residues,…
New dinosaur discovery suggests new species roosted together like modern birds
The Mongolian Desert has been known for decades for its amazing array of dinosaurs, immaculately preserved…
Shopping by voice on Amazon or Google device could cost you
NEW YORK (AP) -- In the name of convenience, Amazon and Walmart are pushing people to…
Variation in the recovery of tetrapods
The end-Permian mass extinction (EPME) occurred about 250 million years ago and represents the Earth's most…