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"Warming hole" delayed climate change over eastern United StatesBoston MA (SPX) Apr 30, 2012 Climate scientists at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have discovered that particulate pollution in the late 20th century created a "warming hole" over the eastern United States-that is, a cold patch where the effects of global warming were temporarily obscured. While greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane warm the Earth's surface, tiny particles in the air can have the reverse effect on regional scales. "What we've shown is that particulate pollution ... read more |
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  Mysterious 'Monster' Discovered By Amateur Paleontologist Around 450 million years ago, shallow seas covered the Cincinnati region and harbored one very large and now very mysterious organism. Despite its size, no one has ever found a fossil of this "monst ... more | .. |
  Warm ocean currents cause majority of ice loss from Antarctica Reporting in the journal Nature, an international team of scientists led by British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has established that warm ocean currents are the dominant cause of recent ice loss from Ant ... more | .. |
  Moscow swelters in record heat Moscow sweltered in unseasonable heat on Sunday, with temperatures of nearly 29 degrees Celsius (84.2 Fahrenheit), a record for April since data collection began 130 years ago, authorities said. ... more | .. |
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  Just a few cell clones can make heart muscle Just a handful of cells in the embryo are all that's needed to form the outer layer of pumping heart muscle in an adult zebrafish. Researchers at Duke University Medical Center used zebrafish embryo ... more | .. |
  How stem cell therapy can keep the immune system under control A new study, appearing in Cell Stem Cell and led by researchers at the University of Southern California, outlines the specifics of how autoimmune disorders can be controlled by infusions of mesench ... more | .. |
  Learning mechanism of the adult brain revealed They say you can't teach an old dog new tricks. Fortunately, this is not always true. Researchers at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN-KNAW) have now discovered how the adult brain can ... more | .. |
  Risat-1 catapults India into a select group of nations On an early on Thursday morning, an Indian rocket successfully launched into orbit a microwave Radar Imaging Satellite (Risat-1) from the spaceport here in Andhra Pradesh, some 80 km from Chennai. W ... more |
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Only a Tiny Fraction of Deep Seafloor Mapped Over Seven Decades
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  Tiny 'spherules' reveal details about Earth's asteroid impacts Researchers are learning details about asteroid impacts going back to the Earth's early history by using a new method for extracting precise information from tiny "spherules" embedded in layers of r ... more | .. |
 NASA's Landsat Satellites See Texas Crop Circles A water-rich polka dot pattern takes over the traditional rectangular patchwork of fields in this time series animation of 40 years of Landsat images. In the dry Texas panhandle near the town of Dal ... more | .. |
 Discovery of earliest life forms' operation promises new therapies for key diseases Bacteria provide a well-known playground for scientists and the evolution of these earliest life forms has shed important perspective on potential therapies for some of the most common, deadly disea ... more | .. |
 Scripps Research Institute scientists solve a mystery of bacterial growth and resistance Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have unraveled a complex chemical pathway that enables bacteria to form clusters called biofilms. Such improved understanding might eventually aid the de ... more |
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 New study chronicles the rise of agriculture in Europe An analysis of 5,000-year-old DNA taken from the Stone Age remains of four humans excavated in Sweden is helping researchers understand how agriculture spread throughout Europe long ago. According t ... more | .. |
 Lighting up to take down bacteria Whilst some bacteria can provide health benefits there are others that can do annoying things - like kill you. So in order to save ourselves we should probably kill them first. So, stand aside bacte ... more | .. |
  China raises profile as Tonga rebuilds after riots Jason Ng wasn't living in Tonga in 2006 when riots, which had Chinese-owned small businesses among their targets, left eight people dead and the centre of the capital Nuku'alofa a smouldering ruin. ... more | .. |
  Disbelief in village over China activist's daring escape As the daring escape from house arrest of Chinese rights activist Chen Guangcheng makes world headlines, locals in his village expressed disbelief that "the blind man" could flee the intense security surrounding him. ... more |
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Top U.S. defense contractor L3 Tech to pay $62M to settle claims of deceptive practices
North Korean warship has 'serious accident' at launch
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 Chinese activist latest held after Chen escape Outspoken Chinese government critic Hu Jia has been detained in the latest move by security forces against people linked to activist Chen Guangcheng, who is reportedly under US "protection". ... more | .. |
 Regulators eye Google in Argentina, South Korea Google's online search and advertising services are under scrutiny by regulators in Argentina and South Korea, the company has confirmed. ... more | .. |
  Bolivian natives begin new march in road protest Some 500 indigenous people began a mammoth march Friday from the Amazon region to the capital La Paz to protest government plans to build a highway through their ancestral homeland. ... more | .. |
  China's economic growth has pollution cost China's stunning economic growth will continue to be energy-intensive and highly polluting for the foreseeable future, a study says. ... more |
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  Dutch okays mutant bird flu study's publication The Dutch government on Friday gave a top scientist the green light to publish a research paper in the United States on a mutant killer flu virus, following approval by a US panel of experts. ... more | .. |
  Brazilian farming association to open office in China Brazil's main farming association will open an office in Beijing next year to attract investment and boost exports to the Chinese market, the group said Friday. ... more | .. |
 Outside View: Optimistic on biosimilars The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is charged with making new treatments available to patients across the country while also maintaining the highest standards for safety and efficacy. Because of the FDA, Americans can take comfort knowing that innovative treatments and drug therapies have undergone safe and scientifically based drug testing. ... more | .. |
  Outside View: A search for mediocrity Mitt Romney has thrilled us with his most recent recollections of his fun-filled trip to Paris. Most of his audience have never been to Paris and will probably never be; they can't afford it. ... more |
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SpaceX mega-rocket Starship 9 cleared for launch following earlier mission failures
Rocky road geology reveals billion year story inside Martian crater
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 IEA warns of doubled CO2 emissions Global greenhouse gas emissions will nearly double by 2050 under current policies unless urgent action is taken, the International Energy Agency has warned. ... more | .. |
 New Yorkers bring fish farms to urban jungle So you recycle, drive a small car, and try to eat organic. But what about running an eco-sustainable fish farm combined with a naturally fertilized vegetable patch in your kitchen? ... more | .. |
 Chinese blind lawyer escapes house arrest Chen Guangcheng, a blind Chinese lawyer who uncovered scores of rights abuses, has escaped from house arrest and appealed to Premier Wen Jiabao to keep his family safe in a video posted online Friday. ... more | .. |
 Drought-resistant Argentine soy raises hopes, concerns Researchers in Argentina have isolated a drought-resistant sunflower gene and spliced it into soy, bolstering hopes for improved yields as the South American agricultural powerhouse grapples with global warming. ... more |
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  S. Korea nuclear safety agency probes two plants South Korea's nuclear safety watchdog said Friday it has launched an investigation at two power plants after a corruption scandal involving locally-made copies of foreign components. ... more | .. |
  Australian jailed for bushfire that killed 10 A former volunteer firefighter who started a blaze that killed 10 people and destroyed more than 150 homes on the day of Australia's "Black Saturday" bushfires was Friday jailed for at least 14 years. ... more | .. |
 Australia drought-free for first time in a decade Australia Friday said it would be officially drought-free next week for the first time in more than a decade, providing relief for struggling farmers. ... more | .. |
 Autumn advantage for invasive plants in eastern United States Much like the fabled tortoise and the hare, the competition between native and invasive plants growing in deciduous forests in the Eastern United States is all about how the plants cross the finish ... more |
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