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Mysterious Clouds Creeping Out of the Arctic

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 o

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The Only Cure for Global Warming
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The Only Cure for Global Warming

Science – There are some who, lacking the ecstatic thrill of any other faith-based religion, wish to believe that the earth is in the early stages of an unprecedented climatic change which will see temperatures soar, the…

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Saturday's Full Moon Offers Strange Illusion

Science – This weekend's full moon hangs lower in the sky than any other full moon of 2007, according to NASA, and it's a good time to be fooled. When low on the horizon, the Moon can appear to be larger than when it's…

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'Blue Moon' appeared in Indian Sky

Science – A bright moon appeared in India just after sun set. Although most people in the US woke up to be greeted by a bright Sun, Indians were cheerful and joyous to see the 'blue moon' at the same time. People in Australia…

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Shipping Lane Shift to Save Rare Whales

Science – The busy shipping lanes in and out of Boston Harbor will be narrowed and shifted northward Sunday in a bid to lower the risk of rare right whales being killed by ships. It's the first time in U.S. history shipping…

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Human Evolution: Facts Only Please!

Science – Distinctive bones of the oldest species of the human genus, Homo, date back to rock strata about 2.4 million years old. Physical anthropologists agree that Homo evolved from one of the species of Australopithecus.…

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Million-year-old human tooth found in Spain.

Science – Spanish researchers on Friday said they had unearthed a human tooth more than one million years old, which they estimated to be the oldest human fossil remain ever discovered in western Europe.

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Inexpensive Bio-Inspired Materials That Could Make Hydrogen…

Science – Scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will receive $1.98 million from the U.S. Department of Energy over the next three years to emulate nature's use of enzymes to convert chemicals to energy.

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Enzyme Removes HIV from Cells

Science – German research shows promise for fighting HIV on a new front.

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Urine grows better fish food

Science – Human urine could nourish the plankton used as food on fish farms. Plankton grown in diluted urine do better than those given other nitrogen-rich materials, ecological engineers have found.

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Coral Reef Fish Starve Themselves to Maintain Social Order

Science – Some coral reef fish starve themselves to avoid getting into fights with their larger, dominant neighbors, researchers have found.

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Deathbed confession revives Roswell alien theory

Science – Lieutenant Walter Haut was the public relations officer at the base in 1947. Haut died last year but left a sworn affidavit to be opened only after his death. He described seeing not just the craft, but alien bodies.…

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India's hidden greenhouse gas source

Science – Methane from India's dams could boost the country's official greenhouse emissions by 40%.

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Mysteries of Rain and Snow

Science – People have lived with rain and snow for millennia, and scientists have studied weather for more than a century. You might think that, after all that time, we would have precipitation pretty much figured out. And…

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Mars Rover Sets Out on Risky Crater Mission

Science – NASA's Mars rover Opportunity, which has operated for more than 12 times its intended 90-day life span, will descend into the planet's enormous Victoria Crater late next week, mission scientists announced yesterday.

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Society 'needs the right chemistry'

Science – Carbon offsetting schemes are all well and good, but do little to change the way people live day-to-day, argues Stefaan Simons. In this week's Green Room, he says instead of wasting money on short-term solutions,…

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Pocket-Sized Powerhouse

Science – Astronomers have found a neutron star emitting an enormous jet of x-rays, an ability they once thought was limited to black holes. The discovery could shed new light on both types of heavenly bodies and on the mysterious…

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The Drake Equation is obsolete

Science – Frank Drake's equation, which he developed back in 1961, leaves much to be desired in terms of what it's supposed to tell us about both the nature and predominance of extraterrestrial life in our Galaxy.

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Scientists transplant DNA in bacteria

Science – WASHINGTON, U.S. researchers have successfully transplanted the entire genome of one species of bacteria into another species. The work by researchers at the J. Craig Venter Institute was published online in…

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Chronicling the Ice

Science – Long before global warming became a cause celebre, Lonnie Thompson was extracting climate secrets from ancient glaciers. He finds the problem is even more profound than you might have thought

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Sunita Williams to visit India this year

Science – Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams, who returned to earth last week after spending a record 194 days in space, said Friday she now plans to visit India. Williams, whose stay in space is the longest for…

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The Amateur Future of Space Travel

Science – How NASA turned to America's basement brainstormers, workbench concocters and garage tinkerers to revive the space program.

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Biofuel - saviour of the planet or a green con?

Science – The question has come into sharper focus in the UK as BP, Du Pont and the ABF subsidiary British Sugar announce a Ã;£200m ($401m) bioethanol plant. The investment, in which BP and British Sugar would each hold…

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DNA could help Scottish wildcats

Science – A genetic discovery could help save the Scottish wildcat from extinction, scientists have suggested.

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Study finds bats help control plant pests

Science – Scientists tracking bats in Texas have discovered the flying mammals play a significant role in keeping agricultural pests at bay.

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The water down under

Science – You might not think it, but in a country as dry as Australia many people are literally walking on water.

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