A 4 min read Sea otters in Kedrick Bay feed on sea urchins and thus keep the local sea urchin population from growing large enough to destroy the kelp beds on which the urchins feed. Therefore, any oil spill that destroyed the...

A 4 min read The Acme Accounting firm has laid off 20 percent of its corporate staff due to declining profits in the prior fiscal year. These layoffs substantially reduced operating expenses, which had been higher than those of...

A 4 min read Lyme disease is caused by a bacterium transmitted to humans by deer ticks. Generally deer ticks pick up the bacterium while in the larval stage from feeding on infected whitefooted mice. However, certain other...

A 4 min read Delta Products Inc. has recently switched at least partly from older technologies using fossil fuels to new technologies powered by electricity. The question has been raised whether it can be concluded...

A 3 min read For a trade embargo against a particular country to succeed, a high degree of both international accord and ability to prevent goods from entering or leaving that country must be sustained. A total blockade of...

A 4 min read This year, each film submitted to the Barbizon Film Festival was submitted in one of ten categories. For each category, there was a panel that decided which submitted films to accept.  Fact I : Within each...

A 4 min read A recent poll found that over 80 percent of the residents of Nalmed Province favored a massive expansion of the commuter rail system as a means of significantly reducing congestion on the province’s highways...

A 3 min read The violent crime rate (number of violent crimes per 1,000 residents) in Meadowbrook is 60 percent higher now than it was four years ago. The corresponding increase for Parkdale is only 10 percent. These figures...

A 4 min read Physicist: A kilogram of antimatter mixed with a kilogram of matter would, through their mutual annihilation, release half as much energy as all the gasoline burned in the United States in 2005. But this process...

A 4 min read Melanosomes are granules that produce melanin (a type of pigment) in animals and can be found in bird feathers. An ancient fossilized feather contains dark stripes made from preserved carbon structures similar in...