Sunday, April 17, 2016

Beekeeping a sweet deal for southern Indiana monk and other top stories.

  • Beekeeping a sweet deal for southern Indiana monk

    Beekeeping a sweet deal for southern Indiana monk
    ST. MEINRAD, Ind. (AP) - Some monks brew beer or cobble shoes. Brother Simon Herrmann keeps bees.The 28-year-old monk took over the St. Meinrad Archabbey’s hive last year when he began his three years as a junior monk at the monastery in Spencer County. Each monk has his own job to do to help support the community, and generally the superiors - leaders of the monks - want the brothers to come up with their own work. That way, Herrmann said, they know the monks will be interested in what they’re ..
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  • Watch a meteor streak across the skies of St. Louis

    Watch a meteor streak across the skies of St. Louis
    Please enable Javascript to watch this video ST. LOUIS, MO (KTVI) - A meteor streaked across the St. Louis area on Friday at about 10:16pm. We received many reports from viewers about the shooting star.  Sightings of the streak of greenish-blue light were reported in four states, Wisconsin, Illinois, Missouri, and Tennessee. Two of our web cameras caught a great view of the meteor,  Eckert's in Belleville, IL, and Mattress Direct in South St. Louis County .  In the Belleville view, you'..
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  • Physicists Have Built A Single Atom Engine And It Works -- Will It Unlock Secrets Of The Quantum World?

    Physicists Have Built A Single Atom Engine And It Works -- Will It Unlock Secrets Of The Quantum World?
    There’s just one small atom in this engine, but it’s one giant leap for mankind. Physicists have finally built the single-atom engine — a working engine that is made up of only one atom. Previously, the best physicists could manage was an engine made up of 10,000 particles, according to Popular Mechanics. The single-atom engine works in a similar way to a car engine, transforming thermal energy into mechanical energy. It is similar to a classic four-stroke car engine, which works by: 1. taking ..
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  • Night parrot: In search of one of the world's most elusive birds

    Night parrot: In search of one of the world's most elusive birds
    Video will begin in 5 seconds. Saving the Night Parrot Ecologists from Bush Heritage Australia are working to create a safe place for the one-of-a-kind parrot found in Queensland. PT2M23S 620 349 The sun is setting in a remote corner of outback Queensland. As light fades, the drone of determined flies will soon be replaced by the hum of mosquitoes. Ecologist Steve Murphy is standing among the spinifex clumps, sage-green blobs so healthy that they are reminiscent of oversized b..
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  • New WA Museum centre honours Harry Butler

    New WA Museum centre honours Harry Butler
    New WA Museum centre honours Harry ButlerAAPApril 17, 2016 2:32PMSavePrint New WA Museum centre honours Harry ButlerA research facility that will house millions of specimens while the new $428 million Western Australian museum is built has been named after the late Harry Butler.Culture and Arts Minister John Day said it was not well known that the naturalist had decades of association with the museum, including fieldwork collecting and providing financial support.The new $17.6 million research ..
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  • Trees Exchange Carbon Via Tiny Intimately-Bound Creature

    Trees Exchange Carbon Via Tiny Intimately-Bound Creature
    Trees Exchange Carbon Via Tiny Intimately-Bound Creature Article by Hibz Y.D. Published on April 16 2016. Categorized under Science and Health News, Sync Forest trees exchange carbon with each other using a creature intimately connected to them. The surprising new findings are published in Science. Nature is not selfish; rather, generosity and giving are among its core values. A new study shows how forest trees do not use carbon for themselves only: they will exchange great amounts ther..
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