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Plant research funding crucial for the futureStanford, CA (SPX) Jun 12, 2012 The scientific community needs to make a 10-year, $100 billion investment in food and energy security, says Carnegie's Wolf Frommer and Tom Brutnell of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in an opinion piece published in the June issue of The Scientist. They say the importance of addressing these concerns in light of a rapidly growing global population is on par with President John Kennedy's promise to put man on the moon-a project that took a decade and cost $24 billion. "Today, we fac ... read more |
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  Teaching tree-thinking through touch A pair of new studies by computer scientists, biologists, and cognitive psychologists at Harvard, Northwestern, Wellesley, and Tufts suggest that collaborative touch-screen games have value beyond j ... more | .. |
  Reign of the giant insects ended with the evolution of birds Giant insects ruled the prehistoric skies during periods when Earth's atmosphere was rich in oxygen. Then came the birds. After the evolution of birds about 150 million years ago, insects got smalle ... more | .. |
  UH research team uses airborne LiDAR to unveil Honduran archaeological ruins A field team from the University of Houston and the National Science Foundation (NSF) National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM) has mapped a remote region of Honduras that may contain the l ... more | .. |
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 Low-carbon farming takes root in Brazil's Amazon Manoel Jose Leite, a small-scale organic farmer, is set to pioneer low-carbon agriculture in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, which for decades has been destroyed by expanding agribusiness. ... more | .. |
 EO consortium to help fight global deforestation UK satellite imaging company DMCii has successfully led a multi-disciplinary consortium to win a place on the Department for International Development (DfID) Forest Governance Markets and Climate (F ... more | .. |
 Dinosaurs lighter than previously thought Scientists have developed a new technique to accurately measure the weight and size of dinosaurs and discovered they are not as heavy as previously thought. University of Manchester biologists used ... more | .. |
  Stealth behavior allows cockroaches to seemingly vanish New cockroach behavior discovered by University of California, Berkeley, biologists secures the insect's reputation as one of nature's top escape artists, able to skitter away and disappear from sig ... more |
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Iraq signs mega-energy deal with Chinese oil firm
Do photons wear out? An astrophysicist explains light's ability to travel vast cosmic distances without losing energy
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  NASA Discovers Unprecedented Blooms of Ocean Plant Life Scientists have made a biological discovery in Arctic Ocean waters as dramatic and unexpected as finding a rainforest in the middle of a desert. A NASA-sponsored expedition punched through three-foo ... more | .. |
  Wildfire and an example of its important link to the ecosystem Traveling the western U.S. state of Nevada in the 1860s, a young American writer named Mark Twain heard a "world of talk" about the beauty of Lake Tahoe and so set out one August day to see the lake ... more | .. |
  US pair lost in New Zealand blizzard for a week Two US students survived a week lost in a blizzard-hit New Zealand mountain range by taking regular dips in hot thermal springs they had stumbled across, rescuers said Monday. ... more | .. |
 Apple unveils maps program, challenging Google Apple unveiled its own mapping program Monday, challenging Google for the popular software application and opening up a new front in the war with the maker of the Android operating system. ... more |
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  Online freedom: an app for that is coming For people living in countries where the the government monitors and censors the Internet, help is on the way. ... more | .. |
  Mama Portia dishes out help for AIDS orphans With woollen hats covering their heads from early morning chills, dozens of children troop into a courtyard for a bowl of hot cereal in South Africa's impoverished Alexandra township. ... more | .. |
  Afghan quakes kill at least three: officials Two earthquakes destroyed dozens of mud homes in Afghanistan's mountainous Hindu Kush region on Monday, killing at least three people and trapping others under rubble, officials said. ... more | .. |
  Iraq 'green belt' front line in anti-desertification fight Trees as far as the eye can see are the weapons one Iraqi province is using in the fight against desertification in a country where decades of conflict have exacted a terrible environmental toll. ... more |
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Trump's 'Golden Dome' US missile defense plan faces major challenges
Iran-US nuclear talks set for Rome this week
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  'Long Hair' Leung: Hong Kong's rebel with a cause A hero to some and a pest to others, maverick Hong Kong lawmaker "Long Hair" Leung Kwok-hung is universally recognised as the most outspoken critic of the city's ruling business elite. ... more | .. |
 Many questions as Rio Summit seeks to help sick planet Twenty years ago, a burst of sunny optimism radiated from Rio de Janeiro as world leaders staged a meeting that would prove pivotal. ... more | .. |
  'Mysterious' haze blankets Chinese metropolis Young and old residents of the Chinese metropolis of Wuhan were advised to stay indoors on Monday after a thick haze blanketed the city of nine million people, official media said. ... more | .. |
 Forests could be global warming factor Fertile soils in U.S. forests could release vast amounts of carbon dioxide due to global warming, creating a "vicious cycle" of heat increases, scientists say. ... more |
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  China submersible to plumb new ocean depths A Chinese submersible is poised to attempt the country's deepest-ever manned dive, state media said Monday, as Beijing seeks to reach another technological milestone. ... more | .. |
 Scientists uncover evidence of impending tipping point for Earth A prestigious group of scientists from around the world is warning that population growth, widespread destruction of natural ecosystems, and climate change may be driving Earth toward an irreversibl ... more | .. |
 Today's Climate More Sensitive to Carbon Dioxide Than in Past 12 Million Years Until now, studies of Earth's climate have documented a strong correlation between global climate and atmospheric carbon dioxide; that is, during warm periods, high concentrations of CO2 persist, wh ... more | .. |
 Will The Ice Age Strike Back The dramatic melt-off of Arctic sea ice due to climate change is hitting closer to home than millions of Americans might think. That's because melting Arctic sea ice can trigger a domino effect lead ... more |
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Reusable debris collector promises leap forward in sustainable space cleanup
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 Geoengineering could disrupt rainfall patterns A geoengineering solution to climate change could lead to significant rainfall reduction in Europe and North America, a team of European scientists concludes. The researchers studied how models of t ... more | .. |
  Homo heidelbergensis was only slightly taller than the Neanderthal The reconstruction of 27 complete human limb bones found in Atapuerca (Burgos, Spain) has helped to determine the height of various species of the Pleistocene era. Homo heilderbergensis, like Neande ... more | .. |
  Study predicts imminent irreversible planetary collapse Using scientific theories, toy ecosystem modeling and paleontological evidence as a crystal ball, 18 scientists, including one from Simon Fraser University, predict we're on a much worse collision c ... more | .. |
 Sea temperatures less sensitive to CO2 13 million years ago In the modern global climate, higher levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere are associated with rising ocean temperatures. But the seas were not always so sensitive to this CO2 "forcing," ... more |
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 Ecologists Call for Preservation of Planet's Remaining Biological Diversity Twenty years after the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, 17 ecologists are calling for renewed international efforts to curb the loss of Earth's biological diversity. The loss is compromising nature's ... more | .. |
 How infectious disease may have shaped human origins Roughly 100,000 years ago, human evolution reached a mysterious bottleneck: Our ancestors had been reduced to perhaps five to ten thousand individuals living in Africa. In time, "behaviorally modern ... more | .. |
 Nepal 'Himalayan Viagra' harvest droops to record low Every summer, Himalayan villages empty as locals rush to the mountains of northern Nepal to harvest yarchagumba, a high-altitude wild fungus that is prized for its aphrodisiac qualities. ... more | .. |
 Sri Lanka holds mass baby elephant christening Sri Lanka's main elephant orphanage staged its biggest mass christening Sunday by naming 15 baby elephants born in captivity, an official said. ... more |
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