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1,700 UK scientists back climate science
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(AP) -- Fighting back against climate skeptics, over 1,700 scientists in Britain have signed a statement defending the evidence that climate change is being caused by humans, Britain's weather office said Thursday.
Brainstorming works best in less specialized efforts, study says
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
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Applying brainstorming techniques to new product development works best when the collaboration employs participants from varied specialties gathering to develop a less complex product, according to the Management Insights ...
'One keypad per child' lets schoolchildren share screen to learn math (w/ Video)
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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 ...
'Fighting' IED attacks with SCARE technology
Technology / Computer Sciences
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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Maryland researchers have developed and successfully tested new computer software and computational techniques to analyze patterns of improvised explosive device (IED) attacks ...
Genetic ancestry highly correlated with ethnic and linguistic groups in Asia
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Several genome-wide studies of human genetic diversity have been conducted on European populations. Now, for the first time, these studies have been extended to 73 Southeast Asian (SEA) and East Asian (EA) populations.
Earth's atmosphere came from outer space, find scientists
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The gases which formed the Earth's atmosphere - and probably its oceans - did not come from inside the Earth but from outer space, according to a study by University of Manchester and University ...
Sucking Up To Survive
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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.
Studies: Bone drugs may help prevent breast cancer
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(AP) -- New results from a large women's health study suggest that bone-building drugs such as Fosamax and Actonel might help prevent breast cancer.
Introns: A mystery renewed
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The sequences of nonsense DNA that interrupt genes could be far more important to the evolution of genomes than previously thought, according to a recent Science report by Indiana University Bloomington and ...
Fossils shake dinosaur family tree
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Paleontologists have unearthed a previously unknown meat-eating dinosaur in New Mexico, settling a debate about early dinosaur evolution, revealing a period of explosive diversification and ...
Staying Power: Senate Hearing Focuses On Energy Storage
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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 ...
Mechanism discovered by which body's cells encourage tuberculosis infection
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Scientists have discovered a signaling pathway that tuberculosis bacteria use to coerce disease-fighting cells to switch allegiance and work on their behalf. Epithelial cells line the airways and other surfaces ...
Cassini closes in on the centuries-old mystery of Saturn's moon Iapetus
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
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Extensive analyses and modeling of Cassini imaging and heat-mapping data have confirmed and extended previous ideas that migrating ice, triggered by infalling reddish dust that darkens and warms the surface, ...
Helpful or creepy? Overpersonalized Web sites may spook shoppers
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Michael Redding describes the get-to-know-you game between man and machine as a version of "Name That Tune."
Stolen e-mails embolden climate change skeptics
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(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 ...
