London Zoo Mountain Chicken Frogs Making A Comeback, Produce Offspring
London Zoo Mountain Chicken Frogs Making A Comeback, Produce Offspring (via redOrbit) redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports – Your Universe Online Critically endangered frogs rescued from possible extinction at the hands of a deadly fungus have successfully bred for the first time at the London Zoo, various media outlets reported Sunday. According to Telegraph Science [...]
Frogs Make Horses Faster — Say What?
Frogs Make Horses Faster — Say What? (via redOrbit) Michael Harper for redOrbit.com Here’s one for the “weird” column… Horse trainers have been allegedly juicing up their horses with a performance-enhancing drug with an interesting origin: a frog’s back. As for how the connection was made between horse racing and frog jumping, the world may…
U.S. Prepares To Fight For Control Of ITU, Internet
U.S. Prepares To Fight For Control Of ITU, Internet (via redOrbit) Enid Burns for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Ahead of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU)’s World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) in Dubai this December, the U.S. is bracing for a call to revise internet treaties to spread control to nations other than the…
Sustainable Fish Makes For Healthier Seafood
Sustainable Fish Makes For Healthier Seafood (via redOrbit) redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports – Your Universe Online Is your fish healthy, safe, harvested responsibly? These are all things you need to think about when you order seafood. While there are many services and rankings offered to help you decide – there’s even an iPhone app [...]
Improve Your Child’s Sleep With Age-Appropriate Viewing Habits
Improve Your Child’s Sleep With Age-Appropriate Viewing Habits (via redOrbit) John Neumann for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Results of a randomized trial, published in the journal Pediatrics on Monday, suggest that children who were exposed to age-appropriate video were about 20 percent less likely to have a sleep problem than kids whose parents didn’t [...]