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I saw this paper going around the internet early last week, and I was immediately very interested. [More]
Read More »NASA Hopes Hard Sci-Fi Will Inspire Future Space Force
"I'm into hard sci-fi." [More]
Read More »Total Arctic Sea Ice at Record Low in 2010: Study
By Gerard Wynn 500 MILES FROM THE NORTH POLE (Reuters) - The minimum summertime volume of Arctic sea ice fell to a record low last year, researchers said in a study to be published shortly, suggesting that thinning of the ice had outweighed a recovery in area. [More]
Read More »Electrified Bacterial Filaments Remove Uranium from Groundwater
From Nature magazine. Hair-like filaments called pili enable some bacteria to remove uranium from contaminated groundwater
Read More »Human Ancestors Interbred with Related Species
From Nature magazine. Our ancestors bred with other species in the Homo genus, according to a study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Read More »Climate Change Provokes Worries in World’s Breadbasket
By Christine Stebbins CHICAGO (Reuters) - It can't happen here, can it? [More]
Read More »Could Stem Cells Rescue an Endangered Species?
From Nature magazine Fatu, a female northern white rhinoceros who lives in a Kenyan conservation park, is one of just seven of her kind left in the world. But millions of her stem cells, stored in a freezer in California, might one day help boost her population's ranks.
Read More »Hurricane Katia Seen Missing U.S. East Coast
By Pascal Fletcher MIAMI (Reuters) - Hurricane Katia may power up to a major Category 3 storm on Monday, but is expected to veer away from the East Coast later this week, avoiding a direct hit on a seaboard already battered by earlier Hurricane Irene. [More]
Read More »Hurricane Katia Seen Missing U.S. East Coast
By Pascal Fletcher MIAMI (Reuters) - Hurricane Katia may power up to a major Category 3 storm on Monday, but is expected to veer away from the East Coast later this week, avoiding a direct hit on a seaboard already battered by earlier Hurricane Irene. [More]
Read More »City View: Paddle Surfers Enjoy New York’s Waterways
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Read More »Mindful Medicine
Meditation can relieve pain, and it does so by activating multiple brain areas, according to an April study in the Journal of Neuroscience . [More]
Read More »Cigarette butts to the left, fishing rope to the right, plastic everywhere: what I found on the beach over a year.
Most people now know of the Great Garbage Patch, the plastic soup swirling in the deep Pacific. [More]
Read More »Cigarette butts to the left, fishing rope to the right, plastic everywhere: what I found on the beach over a year.
Most people now know of the Great Garbage Patch, the plastic soup swirling in the deep Pacific.
Read More »Need Rain? Try Lasers
Desperate people have tried everything from firing cannons into the sky to lacing clouds with silver iodide .
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