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By Heidi Ledford of Nature magazine Two weeks after receiving an experimental treatment for his cancer, David Porter's 65-year-old leukemia patient seemed to take a turn for the worse. [More]
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Sugary soda and other sweet treats are likely not the only foods to blame for the surge in diabetes across the U.S.
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Read More »U.S. lays out plan for texting 9-1-1 messages
* FCC to take on next generation of 9-1-1 at next meeting * New service to support emergency texts, photos, videos [More]
Read More »Cod Genome Could Lead to New Vaccines and Healthier Farmed Fish
By George Wigmore of Nature magazine The sequencing of the Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) genome has revealed an immune system never seen before in jawed vertebrates. [More]
Read More »Is There a Silver Lining for the Environment in Cloud Computing?
Compared to familiar climate-saving programs that aim to stuff greenhouse gases into the ground or harness the power of the wind, ideas like "cloud computing" are hard to penetrate. Still, the practice is gaining attention as the information technology (IT) industry promotes it as a tool to save both energy and money. [More]
Read More »Londoners vow to defend themselves against rioters
By Adrian Croft and Michael Holden LONDON, Aug 10 (Reuters) - From shopkeepers and middle-class [More]
Read More »Get Your Iceberg Water, Here
There’s something about the idea of towing an iceberg from sea to sea that appeals to one’s inner mad scientist (or rather, mad engineer). [More]
Read More »The City That Became Safe: What New York Teaches About Urban Crime And Its Control
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Read More »NASA Rover Nears Rim of Giant Crater on Mars
NASA's Mars rover Opportunity is just days away from arriving at the edge of a huge crater after a years-long trek on the Red Planet. Opportunity has been driving for nearly three years toward the crater Endeavour , an immense scar in the Martian surface about 14 miles (22 kilometers) wide. Now the rover is less than 31 feet (50 meters) from the rim and is due to pull up to it later this week, mission scientists said Monday (Aug
Read More »How 5 Recent Social Uprisings Were Wired
BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) and other instant communication platforms have helped to fuel riots and find missing persons this week in some major UK cities. [More]
Read More »Global Garlic Mustard Field Survey
Citizen scientists have an opportunity to contribute to biological research and learn more about the impact of invasive species [More]
Read More »U.S. Debt Deal Could Dramatically Slash Science Funding in 2013
By Eric Hand of Nature magazine Scalpel or guillotine? Those are the possible fates in store for US science funding after Congress and the White House reached a deal to cut federal spending and raise the nation's self-imposed debt limit before a 2 August deadline. The product of tumultuous negotiations, the deal largely spares science in the short term but puts a day of reckoning on the horizon: 2 January 2013.
Read More »U.S. Launches Nationwide Environmental Monitoring Network
By Jeff Tollefson of Nature magazine Ready or not, the era of big data is coming to ecology. [More]
Read More »Why Is Swimming the Most Deadly Leg of a Triathlon?
Sunday's New York City Triathlon resulted in two deaths, both from cardiac events that arose during the event's initial swimming leg. A 64-year-old man and a 40-year-old woman were pulled from the Hudson River before they could complete the 1.5-kilometer swim from a wharf near Manhattan's 96th Street down to the 79th Street boat basin
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