Monthly Archives: October 2003

a titanic discovery

Saturn’s moon, Titan, has always been rather mysterious: Its thick nitrogen atmosphere and methane clouds have made observations of its surface difficult. But now Donald Campbell of Cornell University and his colleagues report in the Oct. 2 Science online that … Continue reading

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lions and tigers and bears, goodbye?

Fugitive gorillas like Little Joe may be getting all the headlines, but zoos may have a more long-term problem on their hands: Stressing out their captive carnivores. A new study by British zoologists in the Oct. 2 Nature says that … Continue reading

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