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As shuttle's career nears an end, NASA turns focus to satellites
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
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NASA heads into 2010 with the bittersweet assignment of retiring the space shuttle after nearly three decades. But that's not all the agency has planned: There are also launches of three new satellites aimed at better understanding ...
Chicken waste turned to watts
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A Nevada energy developer says it has developed an environmentally clean way of using animal waste from chicken farms across the state to light up homes and offices. Green Energy Solutions wants to convert ...
Follow Santa Claus, courtesy Google and NORAD
Dec 24, 2009 |
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Santa Claus is coming to your town -- and NORAD is tracking him as he drops off presents around the world. The North American Aerospace Defense Command, which monitors the North American airspace, on Thursday ...
A novel gene found for childhood-onset asthma
Dec 23, 2009 |
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Pediatric researchers have identified a novel gene involved in childhood asthma, in one of the largest gene studies to date of the common respiratory disease. Because the gene, called DENND1B, affects cells and signaling ...
Sun and moon trigger deep tremors on San Andreas Fault
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 23, 2009 |
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The faint tug of the sun and moon on the San Andreas Fault stimulates tremors deep underground, suggesting that the rock 15 miles below is lubricated with highly pressurized water that allows the rock to slip with little ...
Birds Play an Important Role in the Spread of Lyme Disease
Dec 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The range of Lyme disease is spreading in North America and it appears that birds play a significant role by transporting the Lyme disease bacterium over long distances, a new study by the Yale School of ...
Phragmites partners with microbes to plot native plants' demise
Dec 23, 2009 |
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University of Delaware researchers have uncovered a novel means of conquest employed by the common reed, Phragmites australis, which ranks as one of the world's most invasive plants.
BlackBerry e-mail restored for some after outage
Dec 23, 2009 |
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(AP) -- BlackBerry e-mail service in North America was restored for some users Wednesday morning following its second outage in less than a week.
American scriptwriters increasingly incorporating Spanish in their dialogues
Dec 23, 2009 |
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Nieves Jiménez Carra, a researcher and lecturer at the Pablo de Olavide (UPO) University in Seville has studied how scripts swap from one language to another in American television series and cinema. One of her conclusions ...
Hatchery-raised salmon too crowded
Dec 23, 2009 |
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Every year, large amounts of hatchery-raised young salmonids are released into Swedish rivers and streams to compensate for losses in natural production. Butthese fish generally survive poorly in the wild. ...
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