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The clean energy technology sector will grow into a 1.6 trillion-euro (2.4 trillion-dollar) industry by 2020, becoming the third largest industrial sector after automobiles and electronics, WWF said Friday. http://www.physorg.com/news179696100.html Space & Earth Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:10:02 EST news179696100 (AP) -- The founder of the online classifieds site Craigslist says he began having concerns with eBay shortly after the online auction site took a minority stake in his company. http://www.physorg.com/news179696054.html Technology Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:00:01 EST news179696054 (AP) -- A market researcher says Americans spent 8 percent less on video games in November than in the same month last year. http://www.physorg.com/news179696012.html Technology Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:33:56 EST news179696012 The first phase of a groundbreaking national assessment estimates that U.S. forests and soils could remove additional quantities of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere as a means to mitigate climate change. http://www.physorg.com/news179690590.html Space & Earth Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:00:01 EST news179690590 An international team of scientists has observed four super-massive black holes at the center of galaxies, which may provide new information on how these central black hole systems operate. Their findings are published in December's first issue of the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics. http://www.physorg.com/news179690529.html Space & Earth Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:40:01 EST news179690529 Physicians should be comfortable referring some patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) for effective stroke prevention surgery, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN). The findings indicate that CKD patients gain a significant benefit from the procedures without an increased risk of dying from surgical complications. http://www.physorg.com/news179690417.html Medicine & Health Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:30:02 EST news179690417 The US consumer protection agency warned parents Thursday that children can easily bypass age requirements in virtual worlds and access violent or sexually explicit content. http://www.physorg.com/news179691621.html Technology Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:21:07 EST news179691621 (AP) -- On a mountaintop clearing in the Sierra Nevada stands a tall metal platform holding a crude furnace and a box of silver iodide solution that some scientists believe could help offer relief from searing droughts. http://www.physorg.com/news179691518.html Space & Earth Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:19:33 EST news179691518 Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) coupled with mammography detects almost all cancers at an early stage, thereby reducing the incidence of advanced stage breast cancer in high-risk women. http://www.physorg.com/news179690420.html Medicine & Health Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:10:03 EST news179690420 Vermicomposting, the practice of using earthworms to turn waste into nutrient-rich fertilizer, can be an economical, organic waste management practice. During vermicomposting, earthworms and microorganisms stabilize organic waste in an aerobic, moist environment. The resulting product, called vermicompost (VC), or worm castings, provides commercial and amateur growers an environmentally friendly alternative to conventional substrate additives for producing many varieties of container-grown plants. A research team recently experimented with pine bark amended with vermicompost derived from pig manure to see if this organic alternative can produce healthy hibiscus. http://www.physorg.com/news179683263.html Space & Earth Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:10:02 EST news179683263 The climate may be 30-50 percent more sensitive to atmospheric carbon dioxide in the long term than previously thought, according to a recent study published in Nature Geoscience. http://www.physorg.com/news179690790.html Space & Earth Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:07:39 EST news179690790 The slogan is "one laptop per child." But it will be a long time before that is true everywhere in the world. Meanwhile, a new device aims to make a situation that is common in poor areas - one computer shared among many children - work better in school settings. http://www.physorg.com/news179690698.html Electronics Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:05:32 EST news179690698 (PhysOrg.com) -- Liftoff of a Delta II rocket and its NASA payload, the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), has been delayed 24 hours. At the soonest, launch now will be Saturday, Dec. 12, during a launch window that extends from 6:09:33 to 6:23:51 a.m. PST (9:09:33 to 9:23:51 a.m. EST). http://www.physorg.com/news179690067.html Space & Earth Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:55:27 EST news179690067 (PhysOrg.com) -- Results of diagnostic tests on Spirit's right-rear wheel on Sol 2109 (Dec. 8, 2009) continue to indicate a troubled wheel, which may leave the rover with only four operable wheels. http://www.physorg.com/news179689932.html Space & Earth Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:52:47 EST news179689932 Thursday's Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing featured testimony from experts about the power industry's need to develop systems capable of storing large amounts of electricity if the nation's power grid intends to utilize the expected increase of energy produced by renewable resources. http://www.physorg.com/news179688592.html Technology Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:30:20 EST news179688592 Imagine that an unknown force hacks your city into two chunks. Because of this new barrier, you can`t get from your home to your office or the grocery store. Suddenly, your access to critical resources is restricted and your life is immeasurably more difficult. http://www.physorg.com/news179683230.html Biology Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:30:01 EST news179683230 (PhysOrg.com) -- Name all the venomous animals you can think of and you probably come up with snakes, spiders, bees, wasps and perhaps poisonous frogs. But catfish? http://www.physorg.com/news179688441.html Biology Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:27:50 EST news179688441 Shrink a human being down to the size of an insect, and you would no longer be able to sip lemonade from a straw. The forces that hold liquid together would simply be too great to overcome at that tiny scale. http://www.physorg.com/news179688348.html Biology Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:26:33 EST news179688348 (PhysOrg.com) -- Despite being a founding principle of modern biology for 150 years, evolutionary theory has played a limited role in the field of medicine. Only in the last 20 years has Darwinian medicine emerged as a discipline unto itself. An article in this month`s issue of The Quarterly Review of Biology explains why early attempts to study disease from an evolutionary perspective failed, and how modern Darwinian medicine differs from its antecedent. http://www.physorg.com/news179686563.html Biology Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:19:48 EST news179686563 Cardiologists and oncologists must work together in an attempt to avoid or prevent adverse cardiovascular effects in patients from certain chemotherapies, especially for those who may be at a higher risk for such effects, according to a new review published online December 10 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. http://www.physorg.com/news179685646.html Medicine & Health Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:00:01 EST news179685646 (PhysOrg.com) -- A team of Stanford researchers has developed a new generation of retinal implants that aims to provide higher resolution and make artificial vision more natural. http://www.physorg.com/news179686378.html Medicine & Health Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:54:18 EST news179686378 (PhysOrg.com) -- As we near the end of the year, Phoenix-area home prices have started to go up, but another wave of foreclosures is likely to hit soon. That's according to the author of the latest Realty Studies report from the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. http://www.physorg.com/news179685024.html Other Sciences Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:50:01 EST news179685024 Sinuous channels on the Martian surface may be evidence of relatively recent rainfall. Researchers plan to test this hypothesis by studying sinuous streams on Earth. http://www.physorg.com/news179685449.html Space & Earth Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:40:15 EST news179685449 Chocolate milk is "soda in drag" and should be booted out of US school cafeterias, a former celebrity chef turned school lunch lady has said. http://www.physorg.com/news179684608.html Medicine & Health Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:25:13 EST news179684608 (PhysOrg.com) -- Invasive plants are advancing into Eastern forests at an alarming rate, and the rapid spread has been linked by researchers in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences to forest road maintenance and the type of dirt and stone used on roads. http://www.physorg.com/news179683105.html Biology Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:10:01 EST news179683105 (AP) -- At a critical time, the uproar over stolen e-mails suggesting scientists suppressed contrary views about climate change has emboldened skeptics - including congressional Republicans looking to scuttle President Barack Obama's push for mandatory reductions in greenhouse gases. http://www.physorg.com/news179683744.html Space & Earth Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:09:42 EST news179683744 (PhysOrg.com) -- The genetically modified cyanobacterium consumes carbon dioxide and produces the liquid fuel isobutanol by using energy from sunlight. http://www.physorg.com/news179683624.html Biology Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:07:55 EST news179683624 (PhysOrg.com) -- A team of Princeton University scientists has produced a systematic listing of the ways a particular cancerous cell has "gone wrong," giving researchers a powerful tool that eventually could make possible new, more targeted therapies for patients. http://www.physorg.com/news179683447.html Medicine & Health Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:04:58 EST news179683447 The impact of text messaging on the decline of formal writing among teens has been debated in pedagogical circles ever since cell-phone ownership became an adolescent rite of passage in the mid-2000s. But according to a University of Illinois expert in media literacy, not only are critics who argue that texting is synonymous with literary degradation wrong, they also often overlook the bigger role that texting and its distant cousin, "tweeting," could play in education and research. http://www.physorg.com/news179682626.html Technology Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:58:56 EST news179682626 (PhysOrg.com) -- This composite image of data from three different telescopes shows an ongoing collision between two galaxies, NGC 6872 and IC 4970. http://www.physorg.com/news179682939.html Space & Earth Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:56:28 EST news179682939