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NASA Outlines Recent Breakthroughs in Greenhouse Gas Research

NASA Outlines Recent Breakthroughs in Greenhouse Gas Research (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created 23 hours ago | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers studying carbon dioxide, a leading greenhouse gas and a key driver of global climate change, now have a new tool at their disposal: daily global measurements of carbon dioxide ...


Valuable, rare, raw earth materials extracted from industrial waste stream

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 5

Fierce competition over raw materials for new green technologies could become a thing of the past, thanks to a discovery by scientists from the University of Leeds.





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The global dynamics and spread of Hepatitis C virus 1a and 1b: A phylogeographical analysis

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Research published this week in PLoS Medicine finds that the global spread of Hepatitis C virus (HCV) coincided with widespread use of transfused blood and with the expansion of intravenous drug use but slowed before wholes ...


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Study: Earth's polar ice sheets vulnerable to even moderate global warming

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created 3 hours ago | popularity 2.3 / 5 (8) | comments 4

A new analysis of the geological record of the Earth's sea level, carried out by scientists at Princeton and Harvard universities and published in the Dec. 16 issue of Nature, employs a novel statistical approa ...


MESSENGER team releases first global map of mercury

MESSENGER team releases first global map of mercury

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's MESSENGER mission team and cartographic experts from the U. S. Geological Survey have created a critical tool for planning the first orbital observations of the planet Mercury - a global ...


A view through special glasses of a 3D TV program during a trade fair

S.Korea's LG aims to sell 400,000 3D TVs next year

Technology / Business

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

South Korea's LG Electronics announced Tuesday it plans to sell 400,000 three-dimensional televisions next year by teaming up with local digital satellite broadcaster SkyLife.


Global barcode project to scan plants in the wild

Biology / Ecology

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(PhysOrg.com) -- A cheap and fast method of identifying the world's most important plants in the wild could soon be possible, thanks to a global project involving the University of Adelaide.


Warming climate chills Sonoran Desert's spring flowers

Warming climate chills Sonoran Desert's spring flowers

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created 3 hours ago | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Global warming is giving a boost to Sonoran Desert plants that have an edge during cold weather, according to new research.


Malaria cases likely half in third of countries

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created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Malaria cases appear to have been slashed by half in more than a third of countries battling the disease following a renewed push by the United Nations to eradicate it, the World Health Organization said Tuesday.


EU drops Microsoft browser charges (AP)

Microsoft to let Europeans pick browser in EU deal

Technology / Software

created 11 hours ago | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

(AP) -- More than 100 million Europeans will get to pick a Web browser after Microsoft agreed to offer Internet users a choice to avoid fresh fines - a move that could represent a real thawing of long-standing ...


US-China showdown still looms over climate talks (AP)

US-China showdown still looms over climate talks

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created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- In a showdown between the world's two largest polluters, China accused the United States and other rich nations Tuesday of backsliding on fighting global warming and the top U.S. envoy said Chinese ...


Food aromas could become new weapon in battle of the bulge

Food aromas could become new weapon in battle of the bulge

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A real possibility does exist for developing a new generation of foods that make people feel full by releasing anti-hunger aromas during chewing, scientists in the Netherlands are reporting after a review ...



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