Sunday, March 1, 2009

Study Finds Sunny Side of Eggs

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From Live Science: When it comes to public consumption of nutrition studies, an old adage applies: Everything in moderation. The latest stud...

Is the Press Misreporting the Environment Story?

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Melted water runs over the Greenlandic Icecap. Uriel Sinai / Getty From Time Magazine: When I tell other journalists that I cover the enviro...

Fragments of Ancient Egyptian Papyrus Found

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3,000-Year-Old Document. For 100 years, archaeologists have been trying to piece together fragments to this 3,000-year-old document, written...

Bye, Tech: Dealing With Data Rot

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Image : Audio recordings of 40-year-old interviews with rock stars were transferred to new tape to preserve them, but the newer tapes are di...

Lower Increases In Global Temperatures Could Lead To Greater Impacts Than Previously Thought, Study Finds

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The "burning embers diagram": Risks from climate change by reason for concern, 2001 (left) compared with 2007. (Credit: Smith et a...

Complexity of Spit Revealed

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From Live Science: Saliva tells a lot about a person these days, ranging from ancestry to criminal connections. But drool still holds many m...
Saturday, February 28, 2009

Spacecraft Sees Spectacular Solar Eclipse on Moon

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A still of the Kaguya/Selene probe's high-definition video of the solar eclipse seen from the moon. Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency F...

The Big Melt

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From Popular Science: A two-year polar survey finds ice sheets melting faster than expected, and more grim news. Less than two weeks before ...

Do These Mysterious Stones Mark The Site Of The Garden Of Eden?

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The site has been described as 'extraordinary' and 'the most important' site in the world From The Daily Mail: For the old K...

Mega-Laser To Probe Secrets Of Exoplanets

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Artist's impression of a gas giant planet circling the star Gliese 436. The new laser will investigate the internal chemistry of these v...

HIV Is Evolving To Evade Human Immune Responses

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Rendering of HIV infecting a cell. (Credit: iStockphoto/Sebastian Kaulitzki) From Science Daily: ScienceDaily (Feb. 28, 2009) — HIV is evolv...

Writing Math On The Web

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From American Scientist: The Web would make a dandy blackboard if only we could scribble an equation. The world wide web was invented at a p...

The Shoe Fits! 1.5 Million-Year-Old Human Footprints Found

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A photograph of the footprint's upper footprint surface showing good definition of the toe pads; the second toe is partially obscured by...

Are You Out There, ET? Searches For Habitable Planets Are About To Get A Boost

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UP, UP AND AWAY: The Kepler satellite, scheduled to take flight March 6, is lifted for attachment to its launch rocket at Cape Canaveral Air...
Friday, February 27, 2009

'Eye of God': The nebula that watches our tiny world from 700 light years away

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The 'eye of god' - also known as the Helix nebula - is so huge, it would take a beam of light two-and-a-half years to cross it From ...

Humans Facing Huge Population Cull If Global Temperatures Rise 4C In Next 100 Years

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Survival ... Experts say that humans won't be able to handle the heat if temperatures rise a predicted 4C / AFP From News.com: ALLIGATO...

Happy Birthday, Doomsday Seed Vault!

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The Entrance to the Vault: Mari Tefre/Global Crop Diversity Trust From Popsci.com: The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, designed to preserve the...

Planet Hidden In Hubble Archives

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A new image processing technique reveals something not before seen in this Hubble Space Telescope image taken 11 years ago: A faint planet (...

Lifestyle Changes Could Prevent A Third Of Cancers: Report

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From The CBC News: An ounce of prevention is worth more than a pound of cure when it comes to cancer, according to an exhaustive internation...

Fungus Threatens Prehistoric Cave Drawings

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Photo: Part of Lascaux famed cave drawings in southwest France, shown last summer. (AP Photo/Pierre Andrieu, Pool) From CBS News: Scientis...
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