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Climate change human link evidence 'stronger'

Study finds surprising variation in how people define 'had sex'

DNA test 'could predict most effective diet'

Blood Vessel Cells Promote Self-Renewal of Blood Stem Cells

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Scientists Observe Live Human Cells Communicating For the First Time

U.S. Report Links Smoking Bans and Heart Health

WASHINGTON — A NASA probe exploring the outer edges of the solar system has helped scientists create the first map of this little-understood region of space 10 billion miles (16 billion kilometers) from Earth.

Glimpses of Solar System's edge: The first results from Nasa's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (Ibex) spacecraft have shown unexpected features at our Solar System's edge.

Mystery Space "Ribbon" Found at Solar System's Edge

Arctic Largely Ice Free in Summer Within Ten Years?

Impeccable Timing: 7,000+ Bloggers Focus on Climate Change

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Moon Craters Could Be Coldest Place in Solar System

Robotic arm fetches Japanese cargo ship at space station

Contraception advice is crucial to poor countries' battle with climate change

CORRECTED - UPDATE 1-Merck confident on Gardasil as Glaxo rival nears

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UPDATE 1-Space shuttle to land in California

NASA’s Loss Is Space Tourism’s Gain

Photos: Hubble's newest visions of space

Climate Change Impacting Arctic Ecology

How marijuana became legal

Rosenfeld is one of four people in the United States whom the federal government supplies with medical marijuana. Each is a living anomaly because, officially, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, NIDA, and the FDA all take the position that marijuana has "no currently accepted medical use."

-> Saw this on TV a while ago

Gardasil, the vaccine known to prevent cervical cancer in women, might be heading toward approval for use in men to prevent genital warts, healthday reports.

U.S. trials confirm one dose of H1N1 vaccine works

Tamiflu resistance reported in 23 patients: Roche

-> This illistrates how quickly viruses evolve!

US researchers have pinned down new differences in the brain chemistry of people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

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One in six long-term young jobless 'dead within ten years'

Life on Mars theory goes up in a puff: Scientists find methane gas would make planet poisonous

Ocean coral offers pain relief for people with nerve damage

Alaska glaciers shrinking fast: survey

The world’s biggest physics experiment will begin doing physics this winter at half power, officials at CERN, the European Center for Nuclear Research, said Thursday.

(08-06) 18:56 PDT -- In the first test of its planet-hunting ability, NASA's new spacecraft Kepler has shown that it can indeed detect planetary objects orbiting distant stars, and is now ready to search for Earth-like planets far out in the Milky Way galaxy.

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RPT-Arctic ice thinned dramatically since 2004 - NASA

ScienceDaily (July 8, 2009) — Scientists have identified a gene that is essential for embryonic stem cells to maintain their all-purpose, pluripotent state. Exploiting the finding may lead to a greater understanding of how cells acquire their specialized states and provide a strategy to efficiently reprogram mature cells back into the pluripotent state, an elusive step in stem cell research but one crucial to a range of potential clinical treatments.

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PHOENIX (Reuters) - New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson broke ground on Friday on construction of Spaceport America, the world's first facility built specifically for space-bound commercial customers and fee-paying passengers.

... all for a cost under 200 million dollars! Too bad it had yet to be built...

BERKELEY, Calif., June 18 (UPI) -- A report detailing the impact of climate change on the United States calls for decreased rainfall in southwestern states, with more 100-degree Fahrenheit days.

Los Angeles marijuana store robbed of pot, cash

... never thought about how easy it would be to rob a medical dispensary and get away with it... I doubt law enforcement would put it on the top of their list. Now, if it were only that easy to rob a bank...

Fallopian tubes removed during hysterectomies could provide a rich new source of stem cells, it was claimed today.

Scientists in Brazil found large numbers of 'mesenchymal' stem cells in fallopian tubes taken from women of reproductive age.

Birds do it, bees do it... in fact virtually all animals have 'gay' relationships, scientists say

Same-Sex Behavior Found in Nearly All Animals

happiness equals O + (N x S) + Cpm/T + He. Why June 19th is the happiest day of the year!

-> and it's also my little brother's bday! I love u Chris!

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New images show evidence of ancient Martian lake

9/11 dog cloned... 5 times!

-> I started reading about this a little bit ago... but held off on posting a link until just the right headline broke.

New York sign counts global greenhouse gases

NASA launches mission to explore the moon

Sabotage on shuttle? NASA doesn’t think so

UPDATE 1-Aastrom: FDA lifts clinical hold from heart study

Here is the weather for 2080: floods, droughts and heatwaves

-> but I thought the UK's main thing was that the weather sucks so much, so everyone is forced to be "creative" cause there's nothing else to do...

clouds

Ever since I was a child, I was always curious about the world around me. In my opinion, I always felt like intelligence is really a measurement of one's natural curiosity of the world and existence.

In 4th grade, I learned all about clouds, which made it so much easier to name what I saw before me!

Cirrus clouds are long and wispy like horse tails, and they're actually formed so high up in the sky that they're really ice crystals.

Cumulus are large, fat, white, puffy clouds that are usually a sign of good weather.

Stratus clouds blanket the whole sky, and they're usually a sign of rain.

Nimbus are black rain clouds, but they really mean precipitation.

But all those clouds can be mixed together- such as cumulonimbus, or thunderheads. Nibostratus, Cirrostratus... the list goes on.

But things change, and it seems like there's a new kind of cloud out there in the world that meteorologists have yet to name. I do admit, I've never seen anything like this before.

The cloud with no name: Meteorologists campaign to classify unique 'Asperatus' clouds seen across the world

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West Antarctic ice threat revised down; still dire

A new study has found the air in Madrid and Barcelona is also laced with at least five drugs — most prominently cocaine.

... but it says you can't get fucked up from breathing the air- bummer! I can't believe drugs have become part of pollution.

UPDATE 1-Spacewalkers struggle with Hubble steering system

*NASA settles for spare set of gyroscopes

*Telescope battery replacement under way (Updating with problems during spacewalk)

The James Webb Space Telescope will replace Hubble in 2014.

Craigslist: It's hard to be a pimp in 570 cities
The Web's biggest classified ads service is cleaning up its act -- or, at least, making a show of it -- by swapping "erotic" ads for "adult" ones. But will anything really change?

Will Craigslist Ban Boost Street Prostitution?

Twin European telescopes launched to study birth of the universe
European Space Agency looking to unravel mysteries behind the Big Bang theory

How human genes become patented

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If you think global warming is scary now, wait until the year 2059, according to a new study in the journal Nature.

Catching Flu From Money

It's not just from pigs: Swine flu is a mongrel of many strains, say scientists

Meet the ancestors: DNA study pinpoints Namibia as home to the world's most ancient race

->The origin of a species is taken to be the place where people show the most genetic diversity because of the time it takes for genes to evolve. The DNA tests therefore suggest the San are the oldest continuous population of humans on the Earth...the languages they spokes were closely correlated with the variation of their genes.

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What if you had a special kind of fat in your body that burned calories instead of storing them -- and it could be activated simply by spending time in the cold? According to three preliminary studies published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, you probably do.

In search of Lithium: The battle for the 3rd element

Men look away: Oral sex REALLY does cause some throat cancers

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Stem-cell injections could help heal fractures and treat bone diseases

Jamaica-Size Ice Shelf Breaks Free

Red Cross says doctors helped CIA torture

Will HPV Test Replace Pap Smear in Cervical Cancer Screening?

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Netflix on Monday confirmed that it will add "South Park" episodes and content from Nickelodeon to its Watch Instantly library.

I've been using netflix for a year, and I have nothing but good things to say about them. I still haven't gotten into hulu yet... I'm sure it will be a matter of time.

Survey reveals massive loss of Antarctica glaciers

BOULDER, Colo., April 6 (UPI) -- The U.S. space agency says this winter had the fifth lowest maximum coverage of arctic ice on record.

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Low-energy light bulbs can cause rashes and swelling to sensitive skin, warn experts

Is computer science the one smart major in a recession?

Flying Car Passes First Flight Test

Temperature rise may trigger West Antarctic thaw

All I have to say about "climate change" is that it's a poltical term, invented to make people think they can go through as many resources as they want. The earth is heating up. It's called global warming. Climate change is relevant, when it comes to describing the overall meterological trend of climate change that the earth undergoes naturally, on its own, over the course of millions of years ;P

It's obvious that due to human action that the whole world is heating up...

This image of a pair of colliding galaxies called NGC 6240 shows them in a rare, short-lived phase of their evolution just before they merge into a single, larger galaxy.

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Orbiting Debris May Reroute NASA's Space Shuttle Discovery

Walking, talking female robot to hit Japan catwalk
A walking, talking female robot to debut on a Japanese catwalk, not ready to help with chores

Physicist wins £1m Templeton gong

New York will bear brunt of uneven sea level rise

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., March 14 (UPI) -- The U.S. Internet search engine Google says its Google Mars feature began offering up-to-date images of Earth's planetary neighbor Saturday.

I'm so impressed! Maybe simple softwares such as this is what it takes to get the next generation really passionate about space travel.

The service, a relaunch of GrandCentral, which Google bought in 2007, allows you to choose a local number, which will simultaneously ring up to six phones such as your cell phone, home phone, office phone, and the phone at that vacation home that most of us can only dream about.

In addition to forwarding your calls, it also takes voice messages that you can listen to on the Web, from a phone, or read, thanks to a new feature that transcribes voice messages and sends them as e-mail and text messages.

The worst-case scenarios on climate change envisaged by the UN two years ago are already being realised, say scientists at an international meeting.

Ozone pollution amplifies risk of fatal respiratory illnesses

The Cost-Effectiveness of Virtual Colonoscopies

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prosthetic eye camera

The plastic that repairs itself in the sun within half an hour

Astronauts forced to take refuge in escape pod after International Space Station comes under attack from junk

Nasa shuttle launch delayed due to 'potentially catastrophic gas leak'

I'll never forget the project that I did in 4th grade, in 1994, about space garbage...

Artificial life could be created ‘within five years’, researchers claimed.

Laboratories across the world are closing in on a second genesis - an achievement that would be one of the greatest scientific breakthroughs of all time.

I'm seriously on the edge of my seat when it comes to synthetic lyfe... It really is one of the main things left to do... that and the life in other areas of the universe... and the equation for the universe...

Army of robots inspected at defence exhibition

It's such a tragedy that one of the main reasons robotic technology evolves is because of the large portion of money shuffled into defense spending... world peace would be cheaper for everyone.

Scientists develop mobile phone battery that can be charged in just 10 seconds

Politicians have failed to take on board the severe consequences of failing to cut world carbon emissions, according to Nicholas Stern, the economist commissioned by Gordon Brown to analyse the impact of climate change.

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scientists discover the area of the brain that makes us spiritual

interesting... but I'm still more interested in the genes that code for religious fantaticism

Discovery crew prepare to launch into orbit for mission to crank space station to full power

the UK prepares for the first computational knowledge engine

Sometimes I use cuil.com, because they keep saying it's better... but 99% of the time I still just google, which has become synonymous with search the internet.

COPENHAGEN, March 10 (Reuters) - The U.N.'s climate change panel may be severely underestimating the sea-level rise caused by global warming, climate scientists said on Monday, calling for swift cuts in greenhouse emissions.

you know, I keep having this strange feeling that my neighborhood, just 6 blocks from the beach, will probably soon be under water...

NASA's Kepler spacecraft hurtles past moon's orbit

searching the galaxy for the goldilocks spot, an area that's "just right" for the evolution of lyfe (according to our definitions of life)

Although humans could perhaps find analogs of the current definitions of life somewhere else in the galaxy, I think the silicon based life-form theory is still the most sound, as well as the most likely reality in this galaxy, or other parts of the universe.

today in global warming

POZNAN, Poland (Reuters) - An ancient technique of plowing charred plants into the ground to revive soil may also trap greenhouse gases for thousands of years and forestall global warming, scientists said on Friday.

I don't like the term "climate change" because global warming is just so much more ominous sounding...