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Living buildings could mop up carbon dioxide

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Nov 27, 2009 | 1 / 5 (2) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Architecture could help us tackle climate change, if we start to design our buildings with 'living' materials, according to Dr Rachel Armstrong, UCL Bartlett School of Architecture.

Japan scientists attack govt research cut plans

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Nov 26, 2009 | 5 / 5 (5) | 0

Top Japanese scientists, including four Nobel laureates, have criticised the new government for plans to slash research budgets, warning the country will loose its high-tech edge.

Thanksgiving Combines Myths, Traditions and Truths, CU Professor Says

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Nov 24, 2009 | 2.8 / 5 (4) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Over the centuries Thanksgiving in America has meant many things to many people. What we consider the traditional Thanksgiving holiday today has been around only a few decades, according ...

UM Law professor examines the role of corporate lawyers in the court of public opinion

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Nov 17, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

In today's world, legal issues and controversies are not only tried in the court of law, but also in the "court" of public opinion. However, corporate lawyers tend to separate legal activities from public relations strategies. ...

'Unfriend' is New Oxford American word of the year

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Nov 16, 2009 | 2.3 / 5 (3) | 0

The New Oxford American Dictionary named "unfriend" -- as in deleting someone as a friend on a social network such as Facebook -- its word of the year on Monday.

Robots perform Shakespeare to learn how to save people

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Nov 13, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Flying robot fairies are joining human actors in Texas A&M University?s production of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, which runs through Sunday (Nov. 15) in the Rudder Forum.

Europe and America couldn't be more different, right? Not so fast, says historian

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Nov 13, 2009 | 2.7 / 5 (3) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Marshalling data on everything from colon cancer to the accuracy of public clocks, Peter Baldwin illustrates how differences between the U.S. and Western Europe are much smaller than commonly supposed.

Glorious Dawn: Sagan, Hawking Sing (w/ Video)

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Nov 12, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (17) | 8

Astronomer and long time science advocate Carl Sagan once said that he was "not very good at singing songs." But on Nov. 9 in Washington D.C., his voice could be heard singing about the wonders of universe -- 13 years after ...

The Beatles Return to Mono

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Nov 11, 2009 | 2 / 5 (2) | 0

From the White Album to Yellow Submarine modern releases of the Beatles present their music in stereo sound. But this Christmas, hard-core Beatles fans will eagerly unwrap "The Beatles in Mono," an 11-CD box set designed ...

Golden State: Yes, No or Maybe?

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Nov 10, 2009 | 3 / 5 (1) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Dan Schnur, director of the College's Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics, analyzes the findings from the first of six USC College of Letters, Arts & Sciences/Los Angeles Times statewide ...

Weather-sensitive architectural skins integrate form with function

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Nov 06, 2009 | 3 / 5 (2) | 0

Buildings typically provide shelter from the elements, but one Ryerson University researcher thinks structures ought to relate more to the environment instead. To this end, she has created architectural "skins," ...

Community education and evacuation planning saved lives in Sept. 29 Samoan tsunami

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Nov 05, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Community-based education and awareness programs minimized the death toll from the recent Samoan tsunami, though there are still ways to improve the warning and evacuation process, according to a team of researchers ...

Farmers' markets harvest new business

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Nov 05, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Something fresh is growing in Indiana. The number of farmers' markets in the state has increased at double the rate of other U.S. states; between 1994 and 2004 the number of farmers' markets in Indiana increased by an impressive ...

New study further disputes notion that amputee runners gain advantage from protheses

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Nov 04, 2009 | 5 / 5 (4) | 5

A study by six researchers, including a University of Colorado at Boulder associate professor and his former doctoral student, shows that amputees who use running-specific prosthetic legs have no performance ...

X-ray named top achievement by British museum

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Nov 04, 2009 | 4 / 5 (1) | 0

The X-ray was named the most important modern scientific achievement Wednesday in a poll conducted for Britain's Science Museum, beating Apollo spacecraft and DNA.

Things To Ponder While Eating Halloween Candy

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Oct 28, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (4) | 1

For kids, ringing a neighbor's doorbell, yelling "trick or treat," and receiving candy brings plenty of smiles, but for many the real fun of Halloween happens when you turn your plastic jack-o'-lantern candy ...

Vampire mania a perpetual fad in pop culture

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Oct 27, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- They're everywhere. Like knee boots, capes and cloaks, vampires are trendy again. In books and movies, on magazine covers, TV and the Internet -- it's hard to avoid blood suckers in the media lately.

A silo fire doesn't have to ruin all stored silage

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Oct 27, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sometimes, when harvest conditions are less than ideal, silage with lower-than-optimum moisture levels is put into a silo, potentially leading to excessive heating and a spontaneous-combustion ...