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Honeybees Form “Bee Ball” To Kill Predator

Japanese honeybees use heat and carbon dioxide to kill their natural predator, the giant hornet.

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Climate Officials Address Differences Prior To G8 Summit
In a fervent attempt to resolve differences on issues of the world’s carbon emissions, officials from a 17-member, majority comprised body are coming

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Selling Virtual Currency For Real Money
The manager of a virtual bank used to store credits for a popular online video game has admitting to stealing digital points from players and selling them






Technology

Selling Virtual Currency For Real Money
The manager of a virtual bank used to store credits for a popular online video game has admitting to stealing digital points from players and selling them


General

Surgeons: Leave fireworks to professionals
The United States' Independence Day celebrations bring an annual warning from doctors -- leave the fireworks to professionals.






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LRO's First Moon Images
The image below shows a raw image of the region photographed by one of the LROC cameras.

LRO's First Moon Images
These images show cratered regions near the moon's Mare Nubium region, as photographed by the Lunar ...


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Sci-Fi & Gaming

'Transformers' rolls toward global record
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is headed for a global five-day box-office record but not a five-day US record, box-office analysts said.


Oddities

Legoland abandons Jackson tribute plans
Officials at the Legoland theme park in Carlsbad, Calif., said plans for a Michael Jackson tribute have been put on permanent hold due to legal issues. Legoland



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Laser stands for 'Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation'. A laser beam is produced when light bounces back and forth between two mirrors with a special medium (gas, liquid, or solid) between them. As it bounces, the light triggers energized atoms in the medium to release more light, some of which leaks out through one of the mirrors to produce the laser beam.