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Solution to deer overpopulation unfavorable
Valley Forge National Historic Park is known for its preservation of a major part of America’s history: the Revolutionary War. The park is also well-known for its great hiking trails and educational Trolley tours. But what few people know is that Valley Forge National Historic Park also serves as a home to over 300 different species of animals.
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Physics Nobel awarded
Last Tuesday, Oct. 6, The Nobel Foundation awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics to three scientists. The prize will be shared among Charles K. Kao, Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith. Kao, a scientist at Standard Telecommunication Laboratories in England and Chinese University of Hong Kong in China was awarded half of the prize for his “groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication.” The other half of the prize will be split between Boyle and Smith, both scientists at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J., for the “invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit — the CCD sensor.”
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New fossil reveals link in human evolution
An international team of scientists reported its findings on Ardipithecus ramidus, nicknamed “Ardi,” in a recent publication of 11 detailed papers in Science. Ardipithecus, which lived about 4.4 million years ago in what is now Ethiopia, represents a newly discovered ancient species of hominids that predates the famous skeleton of an Australopithecus afarensis female hominid, or “Lucy,” as it is popularly known, by over one million years.
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