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Mystery insect pesters experts at London museum

Science – The experts at London's Natural History Museum pride themselves on being able to identify species from around the globe, from birds and mammals to insects and snakes. Yet they can't figure out a tiny red-and-black…

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A New Way to Measure Stress

Science – Developers are discovering a new way to measure the muscle tension and stress encompassing our bodies. By wearing a sensor riddled vest, tiny electrodes record how much strain our bodies are currently experiencing.…

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Male Bias or Female Choice?

Science – I want to discuss a volatile topic: the relatively low numbers of women in some fields of science and engineering.

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Sunny News for Solar Power

Science – Engineers develop more efficient, cheaper "solar concentrator"

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Ulcers Discovered in Mummies - Yahoo! News

Science – Two Mexican mummies had ulcers when they were alive. Remnants of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori were discovered in gastric tissue from the mummies, human remains believed to predate Columbus' discovery of…

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Full medicinal pot uses explored

Science – Scottish and Swedish researchers say they are researching how to get full medicinal uses of marijuana without the side-effects.

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Gas and Dust of the Lagoon Nebula

Science – This beautiful cosmic cloud is a popular stop on telescopic tours of the constellation Sagittarius

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Moonlighting NASA Engineers Say They've Created a Rocket…

Science – These dissenting scientists and their backers insist they have created an alternative rocket that would be safer, cheaper and easier to build than the two Ares spacecraft that will replace the space shuttle.

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Study discovers genetic link to delinquency

Science – Three genes may play a strong role in determining why some young men raised in rough neighborhoods or deprived families become violent criminals, while others do not, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.

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Particles Retain Weight for Billions of Years

Science – Unlike most of us, subatomic particles don't gain weight as they get older. The mass of these tiny bits of matter has remained constant over the last 6 billion years, recent astronomical observations indicate.

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Observing an Evaporating Extrasolar Planet

Science – Observations of planets orbiting other stars are becoming increasingly common as astronomical techniques become more and more sophisticated. But some extrasolar planets have a stronger than normal spectroscopic…

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Newest Dwarf Planet (and Plutoid): Makemake

Science – A Kuiper Belt Object discovered three years ago finally has a real name. It's also officially been classified as a dwarf planet, and plutoid as well, by the International Astronomical Union (IAU).

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July 15, 1783: Marquis Invents Steamboat, Misses Esteem…

Science – An artist rendered this impression of the fashionable crowds watching the Marquis d'Abbans' steamboat demo in 1783. 1783: A young French nobleman demonstrates the first successful steamboat on the River SaÃ;´ne…

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A New Clue in Predicting Earthquakes

Science – An accidental discovery has brought seismologists one step closer to being able to predict earthquakes. As part of an unrelated effort to measure underground changes caused by shifts in barometric pressure

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Hubble Sees Atmosphere Blowing Off a Planet

Science – The well-known extrasolar planet HD 209458b, provisionally nicknamed Osiris, has surprised astronomers again. Oxygen and carbon have been found in its atmosphere, evaporating at such an immense rate that the existence…

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Echus Chasma From Mars Express

Science – Do these valleys on Mars come from gushes of water from past rainfall, or groundwater springs, or could they have possibly been formed from magma flows on Mars surface? That's the debate surrounding the many valleys,…

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Large Cargo Ships Emit Double Amount of Soot Previously…

Science – Tugboats puff out more soot for the amount of fuel used than other commercial vessels, and large cargo ships emit more than twice as much soot as previously estimated, according to the first extensive study of commercial…

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Record Land Grab Predicted As Demand Soars For New Sources…

Science – Escalating global demand for fuel, food and wood fibre will destroy the world's forests, if efforts to address climate change and poverty fail to empower the billion-plus forest-dependent poor

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Improved Tsunami Early Warning With New Software System

Science – the team for tsunami modelling of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association has presented the currently leading software system for tsunami events with the potential…

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Projected California Warming Promises Cycle Of More Heat…

Science – As the 21st century progresses, major cities in heavily air-conditioned California can expect more frequent extreme-heat events because of climate change.

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Greatest Value Of Forests Is Sustainable Water Supply

Science – The forests of the future may need to be managed as much for a sustainable supply of clean water as any other goal, researchers say in a new federal report -- but even so, forest resources will offer no "quick fix"…

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Promising New Method To Fabricate Ultra-thin Silicon Solar…

Science – IMEC is developing a new method to produce ~50Ã;â;;Ã;µm thin crystalline silicon wafers for use in solar cells.

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Solar Cooling Becomes A New Air-conditioning System

Science – Scientists from the Universidad Carlos III of Madrid (UC3M) and the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientÃ;Æ;Ã;­ficas (CSIC) have developed an environmentally friendly cooling technology that does not…

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Outlook For Air Quality In Beijing For Olympics Is Borderline

Science – The outlook for air quality in Beijing during the Olympics is borderline, and there's little that the Chinese government can do to improve it.

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Cruise-liner Sewage Adds To Baltic Decline

Science – Most international cruise ship companies operating in the Baltic Sea have refused to co-operate with a plea from WWF to stop dumping their sewage straight into the water.

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