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Jonathon D. Colman is the senior manager of digital marketing for The Nature Conservancy at their worldwide office in Arlington, Virginia, where he manages the strategic development and promotion of the Conservancy's web site at http://www.nature.org/
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Gadgets & Tech – ASUS has released the ASUS EcoBook, a notebook that features laptop cases made of bamboo and manufactured using ecologically friendly manufacturing techniques. ASUS also offers a leather covered notebook line.
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Voted for on June 29, 2007 10:38am
Science – Giant penguins roamed what is now Peru more than 40 million years ago, much earlier than scientists thought the flightless birds had spread to warmer climates.
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Voted for on June 29, 2007 09:11am
Science – NASA's Mars rover Opportunity is scheduled to begin a descent down a rock-paved slope into the Red Planet's massive Victoria Crater.
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Voted for on June 29, 2007 05:15am
Science – Many of Alaska's roads, runways, railroads and water and sewer systems will wear out more quickly and cost more to repair or replace because of climate change, according to a study released yesterday.
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Voted for on June 29, 2007 05:15am
Science – A new paper published in Journal of the American Ceramic Society proposes a new method of producing hydrogen for portable fuel cells.
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Voted for on June 29, 2007 05:15am
Science – A fossil tour doesn't have to mean an aging rock band's reunion concerts. The State Department gave final approval Wednesday for one of the world's most famous fossils -- the 3.2 million-year-old Lucy skeleton unearthed in Ethiopia in 1974 -- to tour the U.S. on exhibit for the first time.
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Voted for on June 29, 2007 05:15am
Science – NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has revealed an X-ray jet blasting away from a neutron star in a binary system. This discovery may help astronomers understand how neutron stars as well as black holes can generate powerful beams of relativistic particles.
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Voted for on June 29, 2007 05:15am
Science – Humans are changing the Earth at an incredible pace, launching the planet into the biggest mass extinction period since the disappearance of the dinosaurs. Sometimes, the magnitude of the problem seems overwhelming. However, new ecological research strategies hold almost unlimited potential to provide big picture solutions to these problems.
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Voted for on June 29, 2007 05:15am
Science – Talk about identity theft: Scientists changed one species of bacteria into another by performing a complete gene swap. It's a step in the quest to one day create artificial organisms, part of a bigger project to custom-design microbes that could produce cleaner fuels.
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Voted for on June 29, 2007 05:15am
Science – On Saturday night, step outside at sunset and look around. You'll see a giant moon rising in the east. It looks like Earth's moon with the usual craters and seas, but something's wrong. This full moon is strangely inflated. This weekend's full moon hangs lower in the sky than any other full moon of 2007, so the Moon Illusion is going to be strong.
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Voted for on June 29, 2007 05:15am
Science – A new NASA satellite has recorded the first detailed images from space of a mysterious type of cloud called "night-shining" or "noctilucent." The clouds are on the move, brightening and creeping out of polar regions, and researchers don't know why.
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Voted for on June 29, 2007 05:15am
Science – NASA is planning a $12 million study of tropical storm emissions this summer in Costa Rica. The Composition, Cloud and Climate Coupling field campaign will investigate how chemical compounds in the air are transported vertically into the stratosphere and how that transport affects cloud formation and climate
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Voted for on June 29, 2007 05:15am
Science – Covering thousands of miles, it is blocking sunlight and keeping NASA vigil
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Voted for on June 29, 2007 05:14am
Science – The American bald eagle marked a four-decade fight for survival Thursday as the government declared the bird - a national symbol - no longer requires the protection of the federal Endangered Species Act.
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Voted for on June 29, 2007 05:14am
Science – The first cells appeared on Earth about 3.5 billion years ago. These early cells were very similar to the simplest cells we find on Earth today, called bacteria (sometimes called germs). Later bacteria evolved a long twisted whip-like tail called a flagellum. However, a single cell could not keep growing bigger forever and this led to cell division
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Voted for on June 29, 2007 05:14am