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- Inventory lists 19,232 newly discovered species during latest count
- Most distant dwarf galaxy detected
- Saving dogs with spinal cord injuries
- Ancient popcorn discovered in Peru
| Inventory lists 19,232 newly discovered species during latest count Posted: 18 Jan 2012 02:32 PM PST More than half of the 19,232 species newly known to science in 2009, the most recent calendar year of compilation, were insects – 9,738 or 50.6 percent – according to the 2011 State of Observed Species.  |
| Most distant dwarf galaxy detected Posted: 18 Jan 2012 01:51 PM PST Scientists have long struggled to detect the dim dwarf galaxies that orbit our own galaxy. So it came as a surprise on Jan. 18 when a team of astronomers using Keck II telescope's adaptive optics has announced the discovery of a dwarf galaxy halfway across the universe.  |
| Saving dogs with spinal cord injuries Posted: 18 Jan 2012 12:53 PM PST Dogs with spinal cord injuries may soon benefit from an experimental drug currently being tested by researchers — work that they hope will one day help people with similar injuries.  |
| Ancient popcorn discovered in Peru Posted: 18 Jan 2012 11:36 AM PST People living along the coast of Peru were eating popcorn 1,000 years earlier than previously reported and before ceramic pottery was used there, according to a new article.  |
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