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Feature Article #1

Beetles 148 Million Years Ago - You Thought We Have Bugs!

For years paleontologists have been puzzled by dinosaur bone specimens that are incomplete for no apparent reason. From sets of teeth without jawbones to pitted and grove bone sections, scientists have until now only theorized the reason for these missing pieces of the fossil record. A recent Brigham Young University study may have revealed the [...]

Phil | July 18th, 2008 | Continued

Feature Article #2

Study on Crickets Shows that Men and Women Need Different Diets

Who said that men and women are equal? Well, sure they are, at least in theory, when we talk about “rights,” but not when it comes to what they eat. Recent studies show that men and women need different diets.
Starting from the premise that diets strongly influence lifespan and reproduction, scientists from the University of [...]

Mihaela Lica | July 17th, 2008 | Continued

Feature Article #3

Reef-Building Corals Facing Extinction

A study published by Science Express identifies more than one third of the world’s reef-building coral species as endangered.
The news released by Conservation International is disconcerting not only for the environmentalists and scientists involved in the study, but also for tourists, marine enthusiasts and local populations.
Corals are used in different industries, including pharmaceutic (to extract [...]

Mihaela Lica | July 14th, 2008 | Continued

Feature Article #4

Zaha Hadid - the Design Sorceress

She’s the first woman to ever receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize – architecture’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize. In 2008 Zaha Hadid is the most famous woman architect in the world, the first who made her way to the top alone in what many still consider to be a “men’s world.”
Zaha’s story is amazing and [...]

Mihaela Lica | July 4th, 2008 | Continued

Feature Article #5

Stonehenge Cursus Is Older than Stonehenge

The Cursus is a long rectangular area, with widths varying from 100 to 150 meters that runs about500 meters north of Stonehenge.
Previous researches showed that the Cursus was built around 3100BC, but recent discoveries date in at about 3500BC. This makes the Cursus 500 years older than the Stonehenge itself.
The discovery was made by a [...]

Mihaela Lica | June 27th, 2008 | Continued

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Terra (Earth) Hermes (Greek god of boundaries and those who cross them) is a publication aimed at just this, the boundaries we cross that change our lives forever. From beauty in art to innovation in science and technology, our goal is to bring to the reader all that can positively effect our lives for the [...]