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Buildings are engulfed in haze in Wuhan, central China's Hubei province

Climate scientists underwhelmed by Copenhagen Accord

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 20, 2009 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (14) | comments 11

Top climate scientists said Saturday that the eleventh-hour political deal hammered out at UN talks in Copenhagen falls perilously short of what is needed to stave off catastrophic global warming.


Frederic Scheer, head of the plastics manufacturer Cereplast

Potatoes, algae replace oil in US company's plastics

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (17) | comments 5

Frederic Scheer is biding his time, convinced that by 2013 the price of oil will be so high that his bio-plastics, made from vegetables and plants, will be highly marketable.


Would a Google purchase of Yelp draw regulatory interest?

Technology / Business

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Google Inc.'s reported plans to acquire local-listings service Yelp may face difficulties, with regulators attuned to the Mountain View, Calif.-based company's established dominance of the Internet-search and advertising ...


NASA Flight Tests Unique Jumbo Jet with Opening in Side

NASA Tests Unique Jumbo Jet with Opening in Side; Plane's Airborne Telescope Will Be Used to Study Cosmos

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- A NASA jumbo jet that will help scientists unlock the origins of the universe with infrared observations reached a milestone Friday when doors covering the plane's telescope were fully opened ...


New insight in nerve cell communication

New insight in nerve cell communication

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Communication between nerve cells is vital for our bodies to function. Part of this communication happens through vesicles containing signalling molecules called neurotransmitters. The vesicle fuses with the ...


Twin study identifies factors associated with skin aging

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Smoking, being heavier, not using sunscreen and having had skin cancer appear to be associated with sun damage and aging of skin on the face, according to report based on a study of twins in the December issue of Archives of ...


Panasonic Develops High Energy Lithium-ion Battery Module  with High Reliability

Panasonic plans home-use storage cell

Technology / Energy

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (15) | comments 8

Panasonic Corp., which recently made a successful takeover bid for Sanyo Electric Co., plans to market a lithium-ion storage cell for home use around fiscal 2011.


Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea (GEBA)

First volume of microbial encyclopedia published

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The Earth is estimated to have about a nonillion (1030) microbes in, on, around, and under it, comprised of an unknown but very large number of distinct species. Despite the widespread availability of microbi ...


duck

Researchers reveal secrets of duck sex: It's all screwed up

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Female ducks have evolved an intriguing way to avoid becoming impregnated by undesirable but aggressive males endowed with large corkscrew-shaped penises: vaginas with clockwise spirals that thwart oppositely ...


College asks students to power down, contemplate (AP)

College asks students to power down, contemplate

Technology / Hi Tech

created Dec 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Dianne Lynch wanted to give the students of Stephens College a break from the constant digital communication that pervades their generation. So she asked them to put their phones and computers away ...



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