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Posted on February 28, 2012 by Paul Weiland As Dean Kuipers reported in the Los Angeles Times, on February 27, four environmental groups petitioned the California Fish and Game Commission to list the gray wolf (Canis lupis) as endangered under the California Endangered Species Act. The petition is available here (pdf).

For decades, psychologists and other researchers assumed that the mother-child bond was the most important one in a kid's life. They focused on studying those relationships, and however a child turned out, mom often got the credit - or blame. Within the last several decades, though, scientists are increasingly realizing just how much dads matter.

This is a credible site because it is global site. They attribute a local scientistso its sort of like a BBC report.

Michael Shermer says the human tendency to believe strange things -- from alien abductions to dowsing rods -- boils down to two of the brain's most basic, hard-wired survival skills. He explains what they are, and how they get us into trouble.

This article discusses the jump in hacking via cloud computing. As cybersecurity moves toward the cloud, so will hacking says professional hacker Moxie Marlinspike.

Some soldiers serving in the Middle East who develop difficulty breathing - but whose chest X-rays show nothing out of the ordinary - have constrictive bronchiolitis, a kind of lung damage virtually unknown in young adults, a study shows.

Fact sheet; October 2009 EPA is determining that Missouri needs new or revised recreation designated uses, i.e. whole body contact recreation, for a 28.6-mile portion of an existing 190.5-mile segment of the Mississippi River that flows from Dam 27 to the confluence with the Ohio River.

It happens to the best of us: you slog through the summer heat on your morning commute and wind up a messy ball of sweat by the time you make it to the sweet comfort of your air-conditioned office. Now a team of MIT grads is trying to solve that problem by borrowing temperature-control technology from NASA.

The National Geographic's Ocean Education Program aims to engage and collaborate with the marine recreation community with a shared goal of raising public awareness about ocean conservation and inspiring people to help protect the vital natural resources that the ocean provides.

Charles Q. Choi Sea level rise on the U.S. East Coast has accelerated much faster than in other parts of the world-roughly three to four times the global average, a new study says. Calling the heavily populated region a sea level rise hot spot, researchers warn that cities such as Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore could face a more flood-prone future.

Mideast violence goes way back Head wounds common in region throughout last 6,000 years Web edition : Wednesday, July 18th, 2012 Head-bashing hostilities haunted the Middle East long before the region's current conflicts arose. Skulls of people from what are now Israel and the West Bank, dating to different times during the last 6,000 years, display a consistently high rate of serious injuries.

Throughout history there have been midwives and there have been physicians. Midwifery is and always has been separate and distinct from the practice of medicine. It should not be included in the definition of the practice of medicine in Missouri law. The word midwife means "with woman."

For the next month, Liedtke and her research team will be using a fine net to catch

In this article it talks about how a Nuclear Bombs could Save the Earth from Asteroids. It also talks about how how large they are and how they could effect the earth

This is a credible site because it properly states the difference between colleges and universities

I Really don't know yet !! but i will get to know if you tell me what it is we learned about it in class but i don't really know yet !!

Juan Diego says "This websites answers the question but i'm not really sure if it's credible or not"

This link is used to inform the reader of how chest injuries occur in the human body and to sell a product. Do not use this tag to find reliable information.