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Bitter cold sets in as US digs out from epic stormChicago (AFP) Feb 3, 2011 Bitterly cold temperatures set in Thursday as millions of Americans dug out from a massive storm which dumped snow, ice and sleet over a 3,000 kilometers (2,000 miles) stretch from Texas to Maine. The storm - one of the largest since the 1950s - had ground travel nearly to a halt Tuesday and Wednesday, and authorities warned that road conditions remained treacherous even though the storm had dissipated. "Motorists should still not travel if it can be avoided," said Colonel Ron Replogle of the ... read more |
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  'Red Mud' Disaster's Main Threat To Crops Is Not Toxic Metals As farmers in Hungary ponder spring planting on hundreds of acres of farmland affected by last October's red mud disaster, scientists are reporting that high alkalinity is the main threat to a bount ... more | .. |
  Australia reels from once-in-a-century cyclone Australia's biggest cyclone in a century shattered entire towns, pummelling the coast and churning across the country Thursday, terrifying locals but causing no confirmed fatalities. ... more | .. |
  Island-Scale Study Reveals Climate-Change Effects A large-scale UC Davis experiment with ants, lizards and seaweed on a dozen Caribbean islands shows that predicting the effects of environmental change on complex natural ecosystems requires a large ... more | .. |
  Ocean Fertilization: Summary For Policymakers Failure to tackle rising greenhouse gas emissions effectively has led to intensifying debate on geoengineering - deliberate large-scale schemes to slow the rate at which Earth is heating up. T ... more |
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  Secret Life Of Bees Now A Little Less Secret Many plants produce toxic chemicals to protect themselves against plant-eating animals, and many flowering plants have evolved flower structures that prevent pollinators such as bees from taking too ... more | .. |
  GOES-13 Satellite Sees Groundhog's Day On Ice Punxsutawney Phil predicted that spring will come on time, and NASA satellite data suggests that residents in more than one-third of the U.S. are now anxious for the prediction to come true. A ... more | .. |
  Sugar prices fall back from 30-year peak Sugar prices fell back Thursday from a 30-year peak reached a day earlier as cyclone Yasi prepared to strike Australia, the dollar weakened and oil prices extended gains above $100, analysts said. ... more | .. |
  Road May Disrupt Migration And Ruin Serengeti Building a highway through Serengeti National Park may devastate one of the world's last large-scale herd migrations and the region's ecosystem, according to new research by an international team of ... more |
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Collaborative Agreement to Advance Solar Arrays for Satellite Power Systems
Diraq progresses to new stage in DARPA drive for practical quantum computers
FSU physicists discover new state of matter in electrons, platform to study quantum phenomena | .. |
 Drought threatens 2 million people in Somalia: UN Drought in Somalia is threatening two million people, the vast majority living in zones controlled by radical Islamist insurgents where it is impossible to send aid, a UN official said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Strange floating 'blob' found off Florida Scientists say an underwater blob of goo off the Florida Panhandle coast isn't oil, but rather a mass of dead plankton, algae and bacteria. ... more | .. |
 Amazon's double dry spell worries scientists A pair of unusually severe droughts have parched the Amazon in recent years, raising concern about the rainforest's future as a major absorber of carbon emissions, said a study on Thursday. ... more | .. |
  New Age Researchers Highlight How Man Is Changing The World Human influence on the landscape, global warming, sea level rise, ocean acidification and biodiversity are highlighted in a new set of studies led by University of Leicester researchers. How t ... more |
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  Egypt sends troops to guard key oil line Egypt's military has deployed troops to protect an oil pipeline linking the Red Sea and the Mediterranean amid growing concerns the political upheaval sweeping the country could threaten the vital oil artery and other key economic installations. ... more | .. |
 UAE criticises states 'exploiting' Egypt protest UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahayan on Thursday criticised countries he said were exploiting protests in Egypt against President Hosni Mubarak, in an apparent reference to Iran. ... more | .. |
 Egypt: EU leaders want transition 'now' European leaders Thursday stepped up pressure on Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to immediately launch a political transition in Egypt and protect demonstrators. ... more | .. |
 Earliest Middle East cemetery discovered Canadian anthropologists say they have discovered the oldest cemetery in the Middle East at a site in northern Jordan, dating to 16,500 years ago. ... more |
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Arrival of US aircraft carrier fuels Venezuelan fears of attack
Russia offers US nuclear talks in bid to ease tensions
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  Scientists study winter 'inversion' smog Scientists say a two-month study of winter atmospheric inversions that often choke Salt Lake City in smog will yield valuable data on worldwide air pollution. ... more | .. |
  Fireworks, lion dances greet Year of the Rabbit Asia rang in the Year of the Rabbit on Thursday with bursts of fireworks, colourful lion dances and prayers that the bunny will live up to its reputation for happiness and good fortune in 2011. ... more | .. |
How the Chinese rabbit became a cat in Vietnam While much of Asia celebrates the Year of the Rabbit, Vietnam is striking a note of independence from the dominance of Chinese culture and marking the beginning of the Year of the Cat. ... more | .. |
 Technique pulls fingerprints from fabric Scottish researchers and police say a new technique has improved the ability to recover fingerprints from fabric. ... more |
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 Narrow escapes from Australia cyclone horror As Cyclone Yasi's roaring winds and lashing rains closed in, Red Cross worker Noelene Byrne made a fortuitous last-minute decision to abandon her makeshift evacuation centre. ... more | .. |
 India says developed world must lead on climate change Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday stressed that emerging economies were in no position to tackle climate change compared with developed countries which had caused the problem. ... more | .. |
 Death toll from Philippine rains rises to eight The death toll from heavy rains in the southern Philippines over the past week has risen to eight, authorities said Thursday. ... more | .. |
Oysters disappearing worldwide: study A survey of oyster habitats around the world released Thursday found that the succulent mollusks are disappearing fast and 85 percent of their reefs have been lost due to disease and over-harvesting. ... more |
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Advanced air filter could enable building vents to capture carbon and reduce energy use
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  'Worst-case' plan saved Australians: officials A "worst-case" evacuation plan that herded tens of thousands of Australians from the path of a monster cyclone and its final shift south were credited Thursday for the miraculous lack of casualties. ... more | .. |
US keeps in close contact with Egypt's military US Defense Secretary Robert Gates conferred with his Egyptian counterpart on Wednesday, his third conversation in a week with Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi amid a wave of unrest shaking Egypt. ... more | .. |
 Could The Humble Sea Cucumber Save Our Seas It may look like an over-grown slug, but scientists at Newcastle University believe the sea cucumber could play a vital role in the fight to save our seas - and become an unusual addition to British ... more | .. |
 Innovation Of The Week: Giving Farmers A Reason To Stay While the coast of The Gambia is a popular-and economically thriving- tourist destination for European vacationers, the inland portion of the country provides little means for young men to make a li ... more |
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 Nigerian army warns troops in volatile central region Nigeria's army chief on Wednesday warned soldiers against abuses after a new deployment arrived in the country's volatile central region, where troops have been accused of firing on civilians. ... more | .. |
 Lampreys Give Clues To Evolution Of Immune System Biologists have discovered that primitive, predatory lampreys have structures within their gills that play the same role as the thymus, the organ where immune cells called T cells develop in mammals ... more | .. |
 Plants Can Adapt Genetically To Survive Harsh Environments A Purdue University scientist has found genetic evidence of how some plants adapt to live in unfavorable conditions, a finding he believes could one day be used to help food crops survive in new or ... more | .. |
 New Approach Needed To Prevent Major 'Systemic Failures' A Purdue University researcher is proposing development of a new cross-disciplinary approach for analyzing and preventing systemic failures in complex systems that play a role in calamities ranging ... more |
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