Zumba: The New Fitness Craze
Zumba is a hot fusion of Latin dance and floor aerobics, and it's hitting fitness clubs and YMCAs and recreation centers across the country. It's not quite a dance class, not quite aerobics, but something very fast-paced.What is the redOrbit Knowledge Network?
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WWF Says Global Species Are Dying Out Fast
The World Wide Fund for Nature said habitat loss and the wildlife trade have caused world biodiversity to decline by almost one third in the past 35 years....
The World Wide Fund for Nature said habitat loss and the wildlife trade have caused world biodiversity to decline by almost one third in the past 35 years....
Images of the Day
Fires in Mexico and Guatemala.
Scores of fires (locations marked in red) were burning in Mexico and northern Central America on May 11, 2008, when the MODIS on the Terra satellite passed overhead and captured this image. Fires a...
Crater in Martian Valley Mamers Valles.
The High-Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) onboard the ESA spacecraft Mars Express obtained images of a region at the end of Mamers Valles, a long, winding valley. The focus is on a circular depressi...
Supernova Remnant G1.9+0.3.
The expanding remains of a supernova explosion in the Milky Way are shown in this composite image, on the left, of the supernova remnant G1.9+0.3. NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory image obtained in...
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Fact of the Day
Phobos, one of the moons of Mars, is so close to its parent planet that it could not be seen by an observer standing at either of Mars poles. Phobos make three complete orbits around Mars every day.Sponsored links
Discovery of the Day
Quote of the Day
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I've found it!), but 'That's funny...' - Isaac Asimov
Word of the Day
filch
Pronunciation: /fillch/
v : to steal something small or of little value
"To filch from friends and relatives is the mark of a coward."
Today in History
May 16, 1960
A research study reported this day that TV commercials "in living color" were over three times more effective than black and white commercials.
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