Mosquitoes make sweet love music

Sexy songs sung by mosquitoes in courtship could be key to curbing the spread of dengue fever, say scientists.

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China alert over bird flu death

Chinese authorities shut down and clean poultry markets in Hebei province, after the first human death in nearly a year.

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First flight of algae-fuelled jet

Continental Airlines is the latest to test fly a jet biofuel, this time with a product derived partially from algae.

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Heat may spark world food crisis

Half the world's population could face food crisis by 2100 as soaring temperatures cripple staple crops, scientists warn.

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Tech fair offers greener vision

Analysts at the Consumer Electronics Show say green credentials of tech products will become critical to success.

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Everest trip helps critically ill

Blood oxygen levels recorded on a trip by medics to Everest could help the treatment of critically ill patients.

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Poetry or science?

Is romantic love just a chemical cocktail?

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Mummy of female pharaoh uncovered

Egyptologists find remains of a mummy thought to belong to a queen who ruled 4,300 years ago, Egypt's antiquities chief announced.

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Holes give edge to new armour

Scientists from the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) have devised ultra-hard vehicle armour to protect military personnel.

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Baby Jupiter's huge weight gain

The planet Jupiter must have gained mass fast during its infancy, according to astronomers.

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Animal matters

Scotland's debate over tests on primates

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Venomous mammal caught on camera

Rare footage of one of the world's most strange and elusive mammals is captured by scientists.

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Body repair 'could be ramped up'

A combination of drugs could trick the body into sending its repair mechanisms into overdrive, say scientists.

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Zimbabwe troops 'eat elephants'

A Zimbabwean wildlife campaigner tells the BBC that soldiers are being given elephant meat to eat, as the economic crisis deepens.

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Panda bites his third tourist in two years at Beijing zoo

A panda at Beijing zoo bites a man for the third time in two years.

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A deep-sea fish caught in the Pacific has mirrors for eyes

A deep-sea fish caught in the Pacific has eyes which use mirrors as well as lenses, scientists discover.

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Canadians claim South Pole record

A trio of Canadians claim a new record for the fastest trek across Antarctica to the South Pole.

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US vows 'huge' marine protection

The US is to establish "the largest area of protected sea in the world", banning fishing and mining, around its Pacific islands.

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Earth Watch

Why it is hard to predict sudden environmental crises

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'Wolfman' returns

Explorer Jim McNeill tracks down Arctic wolves

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Black holes 'preceded galaxies'

Astronomers believe they have solved a cosmic chicken-and-egg question: what came first - black holes or galaxies?

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Our writers talk back

Some of the previous contributors to the Green Room respond to readers' questions and comments.

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Beagle hunter

On a mission to find the most famous ship of science

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Feilden's blog

Ground-breaking new technique in stem cell science

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Eat it or lose it - why centuries of crop diversity are at risk

Centuries of crop diversity are at risk of being lost forever as farmers turn to just a few modern, high yielding varieties.

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Semantics:

Approaching Natural Language Via Mediaeval Logic

Article by Gyula Klima.

http://www.fordham.edu/gsas/phil/klima/NLN.htm

Comparison of inflection and derivation

Compares and contrasts the similarities and differences between inflection and derivation.

http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/ComparisonOfInflectionAndDeriv.htm

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Concepts in the Lexicon

Report by John F. Sowa, discussing the role of the lexicon in conceptual knowledge.

http://users.bestweb.net/~sowa/ontology/lexicon.htm

The Formal Approach to Meaning

Short survey of semantics of natural language by Barbara Abbott, at University of Michigan. Focusses upon Montague semantics, and tries to give a feel for the main open problems in the field.

http://www.msu.edu/user/abbottb/formal.htm

The Four Basic Ontologies of Semantic Interpretation

Article by Roland Hausser comparing approaches to semantics between linguistics, philosophy and computer science, and classifying them into four kinds depending upon whether or not they are realist, and whether or not they make a sense/reference distinction.

http://www.linguistik.uni-erlangen.de/~rrh/papers/ontologies/dublin.html

Gesellschaft fuer Semantik

English homepage of the young academic organisation concered with the semantics of natural languages. Organises the Sinn und Bedeutung workshop and the SEMANTIK mailing list.

http://www.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/asw/gfs/english/navi.html

Logical Form in Linguistics

Entry in the MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Sciences, by Robert May.

http://kleene.ss.uci.edu/~rmay/LogicalForm.html

Pichler24: buzzwords and other things

This page is mainly dedicated to the so called buzzwords. It allows the reader to investigate, ask questions, and discuss their meaning.

http://buzzword.pichler24.de/

Research Group Communicative Understanding

Explains pragmatic implication based on Grice's theory of implicit communication and presupposition.

http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~fkv/projekte/p2e.html

Semantics

Scholarly research paper exchange for language semanticists. Browseable by author or date; submission and update forms, users guide.

http://www.semanticsarchive.net/

A Semantics for Durative Adverbials

Article by Cristopher Piñón.

http://www.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/asw/SuB99/abstracts/Pinon.html

SEMANTIK mailing list

Majordomo based mailing list for semantics organised by the Gesellschaft fuer Semantik.

http://www.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/asw/gfs/english/semantik.html