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Weird world of water gets a little weirderWashington DC (SPX) Nov 11, 2011 Strange, stranger, strangest! To the weird nature of one of the simplest chemical compounds - the stuff so familiar that even non-scientists know its chemical formula - add another odd twist. Scientists are reporting that good old H2O, when chilled below the freezing point, can shift into a new type of liquid. The report appears in ACS' Journal of Physical Chemistry B. Pradeep Kumar and H. Eugene Stanley explain that water is one weird substance, exhibiting more than 80 unusual properties, by one ... read more |
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  International Team to Drill Beneath Massive Antarctic Ice Shelf An international team of researchers funded by NASA and the National Science Foundation (NSF) will travel next month to one of Antarctica's most active, remote and harsh spots to determine how chang ... more | .. |
  Northrop Grumman CERES Instrument Launched on NPOESS Preparatory Project A key Northrop Grumman-built instrument launched Oct. 28 at 2:48 a.m. (PDT) on the NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP) spacecraft. The Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) instrum ... more | .. |
  Bigger birds are harder hit by human noise A growing body of evidence shows that man-made noise is bad for birds, but some species are harder hit than others - particularly bigger birds with low-frequency songs, finds a new study. "Big ... more | .. |
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 Preparing for a thaw: How Arctic microbes respond to a warming world From the North Pole to the Arctic Ocean, the frozen soils within this region keep an estimated 1,672 billion metric tons of carbon out of the Earth's atmosphere. This sequestered carbon is more than ... more | .. |
  How parasites modify plants to attract insects Pathogens can alter their hosts, for example malaria parasites can make humans more attractive to mosquitoes, but how they do it has remained a mystery. Scientists from the John Innes Centre on Norw ... more | .. |
  Castles in the desert - satellites reveal lost cities of Libya Satellite imagery has uncovered new evidence of a lost civilization of the Sahara in Libya's south-western desert wastes that will help re-write the history of the country. The fall of Gaddafi has o ... more | .. |
 Storm chasers of Utah A truck-mounted radar dish often used to chase Midwest tornadoes is getting a workout in Utah this month as University of Utah meteorologists use it to get an unprecedented look inside snow and rain ... more |
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'No doubt' Canadian firm will be first to extract deep sea minerals: CEO
Tabletop particle blaster: How tiny nozzles and lasers could replace giant accelerators
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  UC Aerial Robot System Can Save Firefighter Lives Wildfires kill and, too often, fatalities are caused by a lack of situational awareness, said Kelly Cohen. Timely information can prevent wildfire deaths, especially among first responders, said Coh ... more | .. |
 Brazil stirs up furor over giant dam, slum Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff is stirring up more political trouble over violent police action to push through a face-lift in the run-up to the 2014 FIFA World Cup and 2016 Summer Olympics and over a giant dam project that defies a growing body of critics. ... more | .. |
  Sudan beefing up border air strike capacity: monitors Sudan's army is beefing up its bombing capability in the border state of Blue Nile, a US monitoring group said on Friday, after Khartoum was accused of deadly air strikes on a refugee camp in South Sudan. ... more | .. |
  Asian couples rush to wed on auspicious date Thousands of couples across Asia swamped marriage registries and held mass weddings on Friday, believing that the quirk of the calendar makes 11/11/11 the most auspicious date in a century. ... more |
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  Chinese artist Ai Weiwei vows to fight tax bill Chinese artist Ai Weiwei said Friday he will challenge a huge tax bill the government has ordered him to pay, and will use money collected from supporters to lodge an appeal. ... more | .. |
 Water dispute threatens last Iraq commercial farm The grass is yellowing, the cows are emaciated and milk production is a fraction of what it once was - Iraq's last major commercial farm is dying a slow death due to a dispute over water. ... more | .. |
 Ocean Temperatures Can Predict Amazon Fire Season Severity11.10.11 By analyzing nearly a decade of satellite data, a team of scientists led by researchers from the University of California, Irvine and funded by NASA has created a model that can successfully predict ... more | .. |
  Flood-ravaged Thailand prays to water goddess Each year as the monsoon draws to an end, Thais thank the water goddess for sustaining life. But with deadly floods now plaguing the kingdom, many feel she has been a little too generous of late. ... more |
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Iran FM warns Europe against 'strategic mistake' at IAEA; Iran obtained 'sensitive' Israeli intel
DOD is investigating Hegseth's staffers over Houthi-strikes chats
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 Rescuers hunt for survivors in fresh Turkey quake Rescue teams searched Thursday for survivors of an earthquake that killed at least 12 people, toppled buildings and sowed panic less than three weeks after a massive deadly quake in the same area. ... more | .. |
 Thai floods expected to hit PC shipments into 2012 Thai flooding will significantly slow the global production of personal computers well into 2012, analysts said Thursday, as the country's huge hard disk drive industry struggles to its feet. ... more | .. |
 Clinton offers flood help to Thailand Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Thursday that she would offer US assistance to flood-hit Thailand on a visit next week but wanted to see what the kingdom's leaders needed. ... more | .. |
 Clinton presses China on Tibet, blind lawyer US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton voiced alarm over Beijing's treatment of Tibetans and a blind rights activist as tensions between the superpowers threatened to intrude on Pacific Rim talks. ... more |
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 S.Sudan accuses Khartoum of deadly air strike on camp Sudan carried out a deadly air strike on a refugee camp in neighbouring South Sudan on Thursday, hours after the south's president accused Khartoum of seeking a pretext for war, officials said. ... more | .. |
 More than 1,000 die in Southeast Asia floods At least one thousand people have died in massive floods across Southeast Asia in recent months, according to an AFP tally on Thursday, and millions of homes and livelihoods have been destroyed. ... more | .. |
 Rescuers hunt for survivors in fresh Turkey quake Rescue teams worked into the night Thursday, seeking survivors of an earthquake killed at least ten people, toppled buildings and sowed panic less than three weeks after a massive deadly quake in the same area. ... more | .. |
 Chinese tycoon one step closer to Icelandic land purchase A Chinese property tycoon is one step closer to getting Icelandic approval for his plans to buy a large swathe of land for a tourist resort, an economic affairs ministry memo released Thursday showed. ... more |
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Trump-Musk showdown threatens US space plans
Japanese company aborts Moon mission after assumed crash-landing
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  Nepal defends China snub for climate summit Nepal was forced Thursday to defend a climate summit for Himalayan nations next week after it emerged China had not been invited and no leader had so far agreed to attend. ... more | .. |
 Canada bolsters protection of polar bears Canada's environment minister on Thursday listed the polar bear as a species of "special concern," requiring a new strategy to protect the iconic animal to be unveiled within three years. ... more | .. |
 Turkey quake kills seven, topples buildings An earthquake rocked eastern Turkey late Wednesday, killing seven people and toppling buildings less than three weeks after a massive quake killed more than 600 people in the same area. ... more | .. |
 Tibet protester sets himself alight in Nepal: police A Tibetan exile chanting anti-China slogans briefly set himself on fire in Nepal on Thursday before his companions put out the flames, police said. ... more |
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  Japan lower house approves $156bn recovery budget Japan's lower house on Thursday approved a 12.1 trillion-yen ($156 billion) draft budget to finance post quake reconstruction and boost an economy hit by slow global growth and a strong yen. ... more | .. |
 Two rhino species bite the dust: Red List Several species of rhino have been poached into extinction or to the point of no return, according to an update of the Red List of Threatened Species, the gold standard for animal and plant conservation. ... more | .. |
  'Father of Mangroves' fights for Pakistan's forests It was a brutal kidnap that turned him into an eco-warrior, and 27 years later Pakistan's "Father of the Mangroves" still lets nothing get in the way of fighting against timber "mafia" and deforestation. ... more | .. |
Brazil court refuses to stop work on Amazon dam A federal court on Wednesday rejected an appeal for suspending construction of Brazil's controversial $11 billion Belo Monte hydroelectric dam in the heart of the Amazon until after indigenous people have been consulted. ... more |
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