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Rajendra K. Pachauri and the U.N. panel he leads face accusations of scientific sloppiness and conflicts of interest.
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TEHRAN (Reuters) - The Pentagon said on Tuesday that the United States wanted a U.N. Security Council resolution "within weeks" to tackle Iran's nuclear program as Iran said it had begun making higher-grade nuclear fuel.
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KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko launched action on Tuesday to call rival Viktor Yanukovich's election into question, ignoring international endorsement of the poll and threatening a lengthy legal battle.
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Welcome to this week’s installment of the From Eternity to Here book club. This week we’re tackling two chapters at once: Chapter Four, “Time is Personal,” and Chapter Five, “Time is Flexible.” That’s just because these chapters are relatively short; next time we’ll return to one chapter per week.
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With job losses rising and belts being tightened across the country, now is the perfect time to look once again at the benefits of using open source software aside from the reported $60 billion a year savings on offer.
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LONDON (Reuters) - An ice-related technical fault which caused a Boeing 777 to crash-land on the perimeter of Heathrow Airport two years ago was "unrecognised" by aircraft safety procedures at the time, an accident report said on Tuesday.
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Matt_dk writes "Scientists working on the Cassini space mission have found negatively charged water ions in the ice plume of Enceladus. Their findings, based on analysis from data taken in plume fly-throughs in 2008 and reported in the journal Icarus, provide evidence for the presence of liquid water, which suggests the ingredients for life ...
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Signs of liquid water in Saturnian moon
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(STFC) – Scientists working on the Cassini space mission have found negatively charged water ions in the ice plume of Enceladus. Their findings, based on analysis from data taken in plume fly-throughs in 2008 and reported in the journal Icarus, provide evidence for the presence of liquid water, which suggests the ingredients for life inside ...
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An unexpected potential use for embryonic stem (ES) cells : "One of the most auspicious, yet challenging, avenues for combating malignancies is to enlist the immune system to come to the defense of the patient. However, myriad components of the immune system interact in extraordinarily complex ways with active or dormant neoplastic cells , an ...
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Testing time for stem cells
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A deal between Roche and two academic institutions will focus on stem-cell-based drug screening.Roche The drug industry is keener on stem-cell technologies than ever before — and not just as a source of new treatments. A wave of new partnerships aims to use stem cells as a way to screen other potential drug candidates.
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Stanford Scientists Make Stem Cells Pluripotent Using Virus-Free Technique
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Tiny circles of DNA are the key to a new and easier way to transform stem cells from human fat into induced pluripotent stem cells for use in regenerative medicine, say scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Unlike other commonly used techniques, the method, which is based on standard molecular biology practices, does not use ...
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GoG writes "A Chinese-born engineer was sentenced Monday to more than 15 years in prison for hoarding sensitive information about the US space shuttle with the intent of giving it to China. US District Judge Cormac Carney called Chung's crimes a matter of national security, saying he had committed a breach against the trust Boeing and the country ...
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Shuttle Endeavour Blasts Off For Space Station
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Gwmaw writes "The space shuttle Endeavour bolted off its seaside launch pad on Monday on a voyage to install the last two main pieces of the International Space Station. The 4:14 a.m. EST (0914 GMT) blastoff from the Kennedy Space Center shattered the predawn tranquility with a deafening roar and a brilliant tower of flames that momentarily ...
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Michael Hickerson
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Slice of SciFi
G-mail is going social. In an attempt to challenge Facebook’s social network dominance, Google announced that it will offer a new version of g-mail that incorporates more social networking functions. Included in the upgrade will be the incorporation of photos and videos as well as the ability to update your status. Google will hold a ...
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*Correspondence to Charles W Bamforth, Department of Food Science & Technology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616-8598, USA.
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Useful Chemistry
Funding Agencies and Open Science
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I've been invited to participate in a panel discussion on " New tools in research, teaching, and publishing " on May 24, 2010 at the annual PI meeting for the Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship ( IGERT ) program at NSF. After speaking with program manager Vikram Jaswal , I feel encouraged that funding agencies are interested ...
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Daily dose of science on the Web
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'Nova' on PBS: 'Extreme Cave Diving' Science News: Studying how things fall apart National Geographic: A Traveler's Guide to the Planets Universe Today: Will NASA send a Robonaut to the moon? Popular Mechanics: Why the new NASA is a WIN, not a FAIL ...( read more )
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala.- -- New research from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) says low potassium levels produce an increased risk of death or hospitalization in patients with heart failure and...
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Tonight, PBS Frontline airs " Flying Cheap ," a co-production with American University's Investigative Reporting Workshop . Above is an excerpt from the Frontline report and below is a description. The production has also received strong advance reviews from the New York Times and Washington Post . One year after the deadly airline crash of ...
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'Flying Cheap': Buckle up, indeed
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Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or other inappropriate comments or material will be removed from the site. Additionally, entries that are unsigned or contain "signatures" by someone other than the actual author will be removed. Finally, we will take steps to block users who violate any of our posting standards, terms of use or ...
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Faces of America - PBS Series
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Faces of America premieres nationally Wednesdays, February 10 - March 3, 2010 on PBS: "What made America? What makes us? These two questions are at the heart of the new PBS series Faces of America with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. who turns to the latest tools of genealogy and genetics to explore the family histories of 12 renowned Americans." Posted ...
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BUFFALO, N.Y.-- In the wake of the earthquake in Haiti, University at Buffalo geography students are participating in a global effort to enhance the international response and recovery effort by...
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Rewiring Haiti: Patience Wears Thin in Port-au-Prince
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI — With the disaster-relief phase ending, the streets of Port-au-Prince are now crowded with the white SUVs of international aid and development agencies shuttling purposefully around town. But while the focus may have shifted to rebuilding Haiti, rising unrest over aid and food distribution could sideline efforts to begin ...
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Apple released on Tuesday the next generation of its professional photography workflow software, Aperture 3. Among more than 200 new features is the addition of face recognition and GPS location for photos.
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Wired Top Stories
Apple Store Is Back Online. Little To See Here.
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The Apple Store was down this morning. And since this is Apple, one of the high-tech universe's favorite parlor games began: What's really going on?! As it turns out, not much, unless you're in the market for some new photo editing and organization software.
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PhysOrg.com
Subtle head motions are amplified by inner-ear hair cells before the signal is reported to the brain, report Marine Biological Laboratory scientists and colleagues. In both the auditory and the vestibular systems, hair cell response is nonlinear: the lower the strength of the stimulus, the more the hair cell amplifies the signal.
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Researchers in Chicago and London have developed a method for controlling the properties of magnets that could be used to improve the storage capacity of next-generation computer hard drives.
Watch Green Police Audi Super Bowl Ad in Autos & Vehicles | View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.com Let's see if you can get the song out of your head the rest of the day.
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Spaced-Out Super Bowl Ads 2010
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The Super Bowl is over, the Saints won, but most importantly, were the commercials any good? (Is it me, or is Danica Patrick wearing less and less clothing every year?) On Friday I gave a brief rundown of some of ...
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Does Audi's 'Green Police' Superbowl Ad Reveal a Shifting Paradigm?
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Photo via World Sports Tribune Much has been made of this year's generally crappy Super Bowl ads. But in the green community, one ad has been showing up repeatedly on just about every enviro blog out there: the Audi "Green Police" ad. We even covered it here before the game , where it was already causing a stir. And that stir isn't over the ...
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The burning of fossil fuels is changing the carbon isotope ratios of the atmosphere, and the difference is showing up in maple syrup, confusing our ability to determine if it contains additives. Read More: Nature News story , The paper.
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Fossil Fools Day 2010: Pull a prank that packs a punch April 1
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The fossil fools ain’t no joke – but that doesn’t mean we can’t fight them with one! The Fossil Fuel Empire is real and it’s here. The stakes couldn’t be higher: destabilization of the global climate, communities from Alaska to Appalachia being destroyed by dirty energy extraction and combustion, devastating super hurricanes, droughts,
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tags: NASA , Endeavour , International Space Station , spaceship launch , STS-130 , Kennedy Space Center , space exploration , physics , astronomy , engineering , streaming video Space shuttle Endeavour, carrying Commander George Zamka, pilot Terry Virts, and Mission Specialists Nicholas Patrick, Bob Behnken, Steve Robinson and Kay Hire, ...
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Sky on Fire as Endeavour Blasts to Space
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(Editor's Note: Ken Kremer is in Florida for Universe Today covering the launch of Endeavour.) Night literally turned to day as shuttle Endeavour roared off the pad early this morning Feb.8 at 4:14 AM beginning a 2 day chase to link up with the International Space Station and commence the STS 130 mission. It was [...]
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One Last Night Departure
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The Last Shuttle To Leave Earth at Night , SpaceRef "An hour after the orange glow of Endeavour's liftoff lit the Kennedy Space Center press site on Feb. 8, NASA officials beamed at the bit of bright news illuminating an otherwise tough couple of weeks. The smooth countdown for STS-130 and the relatively few technical problems -- a bit of foam ...
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NASA STS-130 Report #03 6 a.m. CST Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010
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Endeavour astronauts inspected the space shuttle's thermal protection system, checked out spacesuits and prepared to dock with the International Space Station during their first full work day in space.
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The Last Shuttle To Leave Earth at Night
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An hour after the orange glow of Endeavour's liftoff lit the Kennedy Space Center press site on Feb. 8, NASA officials beamed at the bit of bright news illuminating an otherwise tough couple of weeks.
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Endeavour Launched on ISS Mission
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The final scheduled night launch of one of NASA’s space shuttles, Endeavour, was successfully completed at 4.14am EST today. The shuttle is carrying the final two main pieces of the International Space Station, which will finally be completed after almost 12 years under construction. Barack Obama last week withdrew funding from the program ...
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Slice of SciFi
Endeavour Launches
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In what could be the final night launch for the soon to be retired fleet, the space shuttle Endeavour blasted off last night. The six astronaut crew is taking a a new room and observation deck to the International Space Station.
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