U.S. cities have lost more than 20% of their trees in the past 10 years, due to urban sprawl and highway construction. This has contributed to environmental and health problems that have cost an estimated $234 billion, according to the group American Forests. Gary Moll says, “America’s cities are developing a huge tree deficit.”
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While some people still insist that homo- (and hetero-) sexuality is a “choice,” scientists disagree?according to the latest research, we’re born with our sexuality hardwired into our genes.
“Our findings may help answer an important question?why do we feel male or female?” says geneticist Eric Vilain. “Sexual identity is rooted in every person’s biology before birth and springs from a variation in our individual genome.”
Scientists used to think that the female and male hormones estrogen and testosterone were responsible for our sexual orientation, but Vilain says hormones don’t explain everything. His team identified 54 genes in mice that explain why male and female brains look and function differently.
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An archeologist who spotted what looked like faces carved into a rock in Italy has discovered the world’s oldest art?made not just by a different culture, but by a different species, 200,000 years ago.
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Ohio UFOs are in the unknowncountry.com news lately, but this is nothing new: thirty years ago, on Oct. 18, 1973, a Army Reserve helicopter almost collided with a UFO near Cleveland.
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