Hawk wallpaper, Hearing found to rely on bounce, Forests are natures air conditioners

Hawk landing wallpaper 1600×1200. At this size I figure no matter what your monitor dimensions are you can crop or resize to fit.
Mystery of mammalian ears solved 
Protein motor in cochlea hair cells dominates the process of sound amplification in the mammalian ear, while movement of the cilia atop those cells dominates the response in non-mammals
A [...]

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Bent Light wallpaper, Readymechs paper projects, Recycled inner tubes

Bent Light wallpaper 1280×1024. Since monitors vary some of these wallpapers might be too dark or light for some. You might first try opening them in your photo editor and playing with the curves command under edit.
Readymechs
Readymechs are free, flatpack toys for you to print and build. They are designed to fit on an [...]

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Summer Kitty wallpaper, Eco-housing doesn’t have to be expensive

Summer Kitty wallpaper 1280×1024. They are cute and lovable, which is the major reason for the picture, but every year the ones allowed to roam around kill more birds then wind farms.
Your Ecological House
Long before incorporating a high-tech mechanical system into the design of an energy efficient house, we should ensure that the building is:
1.no [...]

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Forest reflections wallpaper, Attenborough’s echidna may not be extinct, Pollution and heart disease linked

Summer Forest Reflections wallpaper 1280×1024 
New hope over ‘extinct’ echidna
The creature had not been recorded since a Dutch botanist collected the only known specimen in the cloud forest of the Cyclops Mountains in 1961.
As a result, it was widely assumed that the shoe box-sized species (Zaglossus attenboroughi) was extinct.
But while the Edge team were in the [...]

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Wagon wheel garden, Gardening helps you and the planet, Hybrids past the Green test

Wagon Wheel Garden 1280×1024 
Going organic could help threatened bees and butterflies 
The fate of many major food crops hangs in the balance of what biologists are calling the “sixth extinction.”
Humans are currently living during a time of species loss as great as the meteor-caused disaster that exterminated the dinosaurs, according to organic gardener Manuela McCusker, of [...]

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