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MSNBC
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The Oregon announcement is very welcome news if you suffer from diabetes, nerve damage, paralysis or heart failure. Cloning human embryos using the Oregon technique should jump-start embryonic stem cell research using your own cells to get the process goi..
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Slate
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Say goodbye to another curse of nature. Menstruation just became optional.
We've been tampering with periods for years. But on Tuesday, we made it official. The Food and Drug Administration approved Lybrel, the first birth-control pill explicitly desig..
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Popular Science
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In a wooden shed in the Vermont foothills, 66-year-old architect Leonard Duffy has reinvented Velcro. No one has offered a viable alternative to the ubiquitous hook-and-loop closure in 50 years. But Duffy's "slidingly engaging fasteners" link up easily an..
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BusinessWeek
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FIRST's Robotics Competition helps inspire middle and high school students to pursue careers in math and science
It's 6 p.m. on a chilly February night in New York City, and the Harlem Knights are racing to meet a deadline. The Knights are a group of a..
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CNN
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Some climates may disappear from Earth entirely, not just from their current locations, while new climates could develop if the planet continues to warm, a study says.
Such changes would endanger some plants and animals while providing new opportunitie..
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NPR
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Scientists are trying to figure out how to get carbon dioxide — the greenhouse gas that's warming the planet — out of the smokestacks of coal-burning power plants before it gets into the atmosphere.
At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's la..
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New York Times
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Hollywood has a thing for Al Gore and his three-alarm film on global warming, “An Inconvenient Truth,” which won an Academy Award for best documentary. So do many environmentalists, who praise him as a visionary, and many scientists, who laud him for..
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Mecanical Engineering Magazine
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Some design problems are so obvious, they hit you right between the eyes. But in 2003, when engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge and the University of Cambridge in England were looking for a project they could collaborate on..
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Guardian Unlimited
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Each year less light reaches the surface of the Earth. No one is sure what's causing 'global dimming' - or what it means for the future. In fact most scientists have never heard of it.
In 1985, a geography researcher called Atsumu Ohmura at the Swiss F..
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Scientific American
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For the next two to three months, passengers randomly selected for additional screening at Phoenix's Sky Harbor International Airport will have the option of a typical pat down by security personnel or a one-minute, full body scan from a new type of x-ray..
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Telegraph
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Attempts to save mankind by smashing asteroids as they head towards Earth may do more harm than good, scientists believe.
Rather than Hollywood's preferred option, engineers are trying to develop unmanned rockets that can land on space rocks and use th..
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PsychCentral.com
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Researchers have an answer to the question wives have been asking their husbands since their first day of marriage, “Why do you always seem to disagree with me or want to do the opposite of what I want?” The answer is: reactance, otherwise known as a..
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Scientific American
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When Charles Darwin introduced the theory of evolution through natural selection 143 years ago, the scientists of the day argued over it fiercely, but the massing evidence from paleontology, genetics, zoology, molecular biology and other fields gradually..
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Space.com
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You, dear reader, are one in a thousand. The fact that you’re confronting this column on a web site devoted to space science and astronomy makes you roughly as rare as technetium. Despite the fact that astronomy is one of the two most popular scienc..
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Los Angeles Times
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IN the fall of 2005, psychiatrist J. Anderson Thomson Jr. was treating an 18-year-old college freshman whom he describes as "intensely depressed, feeling suicidal and doing self-cutting." A few years before, Thomson says, he would have interpreted her..
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www.canadafreepress.com
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Global Warming, as we think we know it, doesn't exist. And I am not the only one trying to make people open up their eyes and see the truth...
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Time
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The debate on global warming is over. That's the ultimate message from the report released in Paris today by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the U.N. body of leading researchers charged with analyzing climate science and producing t..
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Salon
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Anthropologist Barbara J. King explains what our distant cousins can tell us about religion and why it's OK for scientists to believe in God...
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New York Times
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Sixty ago years, a group of physicists concerned about nuclear weapons created the Doomsday Clock and set its hands at seven minutes to midnight. Now, the clock’s keepers, alarmed by new dangers like climate change, have moved the hands up to 11:55 p.m...
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USA Today
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Brian Emmett's childhood fantasy came true when he won a free trip to outer space. He was crushed when he had to cancel his reservation because of Uncle Sam...
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