Sunday, May 10, 2009

5 Scientific Reasons Mom Deserves Mother's Day

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From Live Science: If you haven't yet planned the brunch or picked out the flowers or at least mailed the card, then consider what follo...

NASA Clears Atlantis For Monday Launch To Hubble

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STS-125 Commander Scott Altman waves to photographers before boarding one of the Shuttle Training Aircraft early Saturday May 9, 2009 at the...

Volcanic Shutdown May Have Led To 'Snowball Earth'

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Photo: Early in our planet's history, volcanoes stopped spewing out lava for around 250 million years (Image: Denis Hallinan / Alamy) Fr...

Climate Change: The Elements Conspire Against The Warmists

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From The Telegraph: An international team of scientists has used the latest electro-magnetic induction equipment to discover that the Arctic...
Saturday, May 9, 2009

Dwarf Galaxies 'Not Ruled By Dark Side'

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From Ninemsm: Some basic principles of physics and astronomy have been cast into doubt by new research involving scientists in Australia and...

Looking For The Beginning Of Time

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Replacing the Instrument: Astronauts carefully remove the Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement (COSTAR) to make room for the ...

The Inspiring Boom in "Super-Earths"

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Workers at Astrotech's Hazardous Processing Facility in Titusville, Florida, mount the Kepler spacecraft on a stand for fueling. Image c...

Green 'i-house' Is Giant Leap From Trailer Park

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In this Oct. 28, 2008 image released by Clayton Homes Inc., the new "i-house" is shown. The solar-powered, energy efficient prefab...

African Tribe Populated Rest Of The World

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From The Telegraph: The entire human race outside Africa owes its existence to the survival of a single tribe of around 200 people who cross...

Major Breakthroughs Towards Cellulostic Biofuel

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From The Next Big Future: Mascoma Corporation today announced that the company has made major research advances in consolidated bioprocessin...

Pre-Exercise Heart Rate Spike Predicts Heart Attack Risk

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From Live Science: Many people exercise to improve the health of their hearts. Now, researchers have found a link between your heart rate ju...

'Star Trek' Warp Speed? Physicists Have New Idea That Could Make It So

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Could traveling at warp speed to distant star systems ever become a reality? (Credit: iStockphoto/Heidi Kristensen) From Science Daily: Sci...
Friday, May 8, 2009

Warm Weather May Not Halt Swine Flu

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Cases of severe pneumonia in April 2009 compared to the previous three years, and February of this year. The disproportionate numbers in the...

Little Search Engines That Could

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From Christian Science Monitor: Four alternatives to Google for finding answers online. All hail Google, the undisputed king of search. It’s...

Secret To Bumblebee Flight Revealed: Insects Defy gravity through brute force

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Photo: Bumblebees stay aloft using brute force unlike the elegant flight of other insects From The Daily Mail: For almost a century, baffle...

When Comets Attack: Solving the Mystery of the Biggest Natural Explosion in Modern History

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(Photograph by Pete Turner/Getty Images) From Popular Mechanics: On the morning of June 30, 1908, the sky exploded over a remote region of c...

Hawaii's "Gentle" Volcano More Dangerous Than Thought

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Visitors watch lava from Hawaii's Kilauea volcano roll downhill toward the ocean in 2004. A May 2009 study says the famously gentle, tho...

'Star Trek' Tricorder Scans For Life On Space Station

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Astronaut Suni Williams, Expedition 14/15 flight engineer, works with the Lab-on-a-Chip Application Development-Portable Test System (LOCAD-...

Rise Of Oxygen Caused Earth's Earliest Ice Age

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The evolution of organic photosynthesis ca.2.5 billion years ago would have had a profound effect on Earth's surface environments, and p...

The Final Frontier: The Science of Star Trek

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Image : "STAR" SHIP: A glimpse of the newly built Enterprise from the latest Star Trek film, opening in theaters this week. PARAMO...