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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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Earth: What Would Happen If Humans Vanished?
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Earth: What Would Happen If Humans Vanished?

Science – Environmentalists have their own eschatologyâ;;a vision of a world not consumed by holy fire but returned to ecological balance by the removal of the most disruptive species in history. That, of course, would be…

Mexican volcano is test bed for trees on Mars
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Mexican volcano is test bed for trees on Mars

Science – Scientists are using the pine-forested slopes of a Mexican volcano as a test bed to see if trees could grow on a heated-up Mars, part of a vision of making the chilly and barren red planet habitable for humans…

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Global Warming: How Do Scientists Know They're Not Wrong?

Science – From catastrophic sea level rise to jarring changes in local weather, humanity faces a potentially dangerous threat from the changes our own pollution has wrought on Earth's climate. But since nothing in science…

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Clues to Rising Seas Are Hidden in Polar Ice

Science – Few consequences of global warming pose as severe a threat to human society as sea-level rise. But scientists have yet to figure out how to predict it. And not knowing what to expect, policymakers and others…

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Rare fish mysteriously enter man-made pond

Science – Scientists in Southern California have discovered a mysterious booming population of endangered desert pupfish in man-made research ponds designed for an entirely different purpose.

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Loopy logic: Moebius strip riddle is solved at last

Science – Scientists say they have cracked a nearly eight-decade-old riddle involving the Moebius strip, a mathematical phenomenon that has also become an icon of art.

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How are species classed as extinct?

Science – David Attenborough's long-beaked echidna has been found to be alive and well, despite fears it had become extinct. So how are species classified as dying out?

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Elephants "Learn" to Avoid Land Mines in War

Science – Elephants moving into war-ravaged southern Angola from neighboring countries appear to have developed the ability to avoid the land mines that litter the region, scientists report.

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Gold mask found in Thracian king's tomb

Science – A 2,400-year-old golden mask that once belonged to a Thracian king was unearthed in a timber-lined tomb in southeastern Bulgaria, archaeologists said Monday.

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Logitech Gets Air Time With New Mouse

Science – Logitech fused the old with the new on Thursday, launching a wireless laser mouse that doesn't need a surface to sit on, combining features of the traditional mouse and remote control.

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Emotion-Recognition Software Knows What Makes You Smile

Science – A computer program that reads human expressions may bring an about-face in marketing. Dutch researchers using the software recently for a consumer test project seconded what wise men have always known: Sweets are…

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Top 100 Largest Cities of the World

Science – Top 100 Largest Cities of the World--- By Population 1. Tokyo, Japan - 28,025,000 2. Mexico City, Mexico - 18,131,000 3. Mumbai, India - 18,042,000 4. SÃ;¡o Paulo, Brazil - 17, 711,000 5. New York City, USA…

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Dog Takes in Panther Cub After Mother Attempts to Kill It

Science – Man's best friend helped save this tiny cat. A 15-day-old female panther named Milica has been adopted by a Rhodesian Ridgeback after her mother refused to feed her and tried to kill her in the Belgrade zoo.

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MIT IDs mechanism behind fear

Science – Researchers from MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory have uncovered a molecular mechanism that governs the formation of fears stemming from traumatic events. The work could lead to the first drug to…

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Kauai Creeper Nears Extinction in Hawaii

Science – The tiny Kauai creeper, a rare four-inch tall bird, is still trying to get on the endangered species list as its numbers have dwindled to 1,500 worldwide. The Kauai creeper, also called the akikiki, is threatened…

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Study: Humans started walking upright to save energy

Science – Why did humans evolve to walk upright? Perhaps because it is just plain easier. Make that "energetically less costly," in science-speak, and you have the conclusion of researchers who are proposing a likely reason…

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Benchmark Survey Shows that Giant Outer Extrasolar Planets…

Science – Astronomers who used powerful telescopes in Arizona and Chile in a survey for planets around nearby stars have discovered that extrasolar planets more massive than Jupiter are extremely rare in other outer solar…

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Giant telescope starts scouring space

Science – TENERIFE, Canary Islands (AP) ââ;¬" One of the world's largest and most powerful telescopes opened its shutters turned its 34-foot wide mirror toward the skies and captured its first light at a mountaintop on one…

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Planetary pollution points to new theory

Science – Debris spots found on stars reveal planets that went splat like bugs on a windshield. The result: metal smears on the surface of parent stars, said European Southern Observatory astronomer Luca Pasquini, who offered…

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Crazy Productive: What Is Industrial Psychology?

Science – Companies use industrial psychologists to "measure job knowledge and skills, determine hiring and to evaluate training and employee motivation and attitude," Nershi said.

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For early man, two legs better than four: study

Science – Walking upright required considerably less effort of early man than "knucklewalking," according to research to be released this week explaining why humans today, unlike most other primates, walk on two legs.

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Major Breakthrough In Understanding How Hiv Interferes With…

Science – Dr. Ã;â;°ric A. Cohen and his team will publish on Friday, July 13, in PLoS Pathogens a discovery that could lead to the development of a new class of drugs to combat HIV.

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One Man's Junk May be a Genomic Treasure

Science – Scientists have only recently begun to speculate that what's referred to as "junk" DNA ââ;¬" the 96 percent of the human genome that doesn't encode for proteins and previously seemed to have no useful purpose ââ;¬"…

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Carbon Nanotubes Endure Heavy Wear and Tear Like Soft Tissue

Science – The ability of carbon nanotubes to withstand repeated stress yet retain their structural and mechanical integrity is similar to the behavior of soft tissue, according to a new study from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

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Study Provides New Data About The Laws Governing Embryo…

Science – Research aimed at understanding the mechanisms underlying embryo development has taken a step forward thanks to collaborative work between biologists specialized in the study of the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster)…

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