Nasa's lunar orbiter has sent back stunningly detailed images of the Moon's surface, which show features as small as 10ft across. They are the first pictures taken by the cameras on board the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) since it was activated.
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]]> While federal government scientists play a critical role in protecting our health, safety, and environment, many report that they are often discouraged from sharing their scientific research and analysis with the media and the public.A recent investigati
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]]> The idea of food that’s not grown by conventional agricultural methods is actually not so far from reality as we’d all like to think. Check out these excerpts from recent stories in Wired magazine about meat grown in test-tube like conditions in vats.
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]]> El Niño, that meteorological trickster with the deceptively innocent name, wreaks havoc on the world's weather.
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]]> The two herbivores and one carnivore, excavated from the Winton formation, roamed Australia during the Cretaceous period - 98 million years ago
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]]> Microscopic analysis of scratches on dinosaur teeth has helped scientists unravel an ancient riddle of what a major group of dinosaurs ate -- and exactly how they did it!
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]]> According to new research published online in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B (Biological Sciences) on July 1, 2009, a new fossil primate from Myanmar (previously known as Burma) suggests that the common ancestor of humans, monkeys and apes....
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]]> Sea urchins are small and spiny, they have no eyes and they eat kelp and algae. Still, the sea creature's genome is remarkably similar to humans' and may hold the key to preventing and curing several human diseases, according to a University of .....
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]]> An infant chimpanzee seized in Africa for the US Air Force in the 1950s, Marty was recruited into the military’s air and space research program, paving the way for America’s first manned spaceflight in 1961 and, ultimately, the Apollo 11 moon landing.
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]]> A vast number of common gene variants come together in a perfect storm to increase risk of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, new studies reveal.Because schizophrenia tends to run in families, researchers have long sought a "schizophrenia gene."
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]]> Argentine ants from three huge colonies in Europe, America and Japan are actually part of one global super-colony, scientists have revealed.
The aggressive insects were first native to South America but humans have since spread them to the four corners
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]]> Firefox 3.5 brings the world's second-most popular browser up to speed with current browsing technology and trends, and perhaps nudges it just a bit ahead of the competition.
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]]> Scientists have discovered the world's first 'self-watering' plant in Israel's Negev desert – one of the driest regions on earth.

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]]> Archaeologists believe that bones discovered at Stirling Castle may have belonged to a knight killed in battle or during a siege in the early 1400s.
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]]> Cybercrime is rapidly spreading on Facebook as fraudsters prey on users who think the world's top social networking site is a safe haven on the Internet.
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]]> Eclipse of the Sun for July 22, 2009 (animated) will be visible across south-east Asia and the western Pacific. This will be a spectacular total eclipse, lasting over 6½ minutes at maximum and visible to millions.
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]]> What the devastation of the Congo is about--and how YOU can do your part to stop it--not to mention all the garbage in our mind-set...and how that DREK can stop, too---and by helping OTHERS, as well as yourself [!] (pretty cool, non?)
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]]> Your iPhone can play games, store loads of contact information, take pictures, play music, and of course make and receive phone calls. Here’s our list of 100 best reference tools for your iPhone, and ones that you’ll actually use.
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]]> Click's Facebook security advice
If you are worried about Click's investigation into the potential risk of identity theft by third-party applications on Facebook (1 May, 2008), here is our advice.
First: Do not panic. You can controll everything!
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]]> The excavation began in early June and the finds brought to light so far, mainly stone tools of a high quality, are from the Epipaleolithic Period approximately 14,000 years ago. The finds indicate a settlement of hunters, food-collectors and fishermen
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]]> An ancient river bed that has lain unseen for 185,000 years has been uncovered by scientists mapping the parts of the English Channel in the run up to the 2012 Olympics.
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]]> Scientists have unearthed the fossils of two new species of harvestmen, a delicate type of creature better known to many folks as daddy longlegs.
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]]> Mineral mining engineers locate, extract, and prepare minerals for use by manufacturing industries and utilities.To help you stay informed about this diverse and fast-moving industry we’ve combed through hundreds of blogs to collect
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]]> Overfishing threatens to drive a third of the world's open-ocean shark species to extinction, say conservationists. Hammerheads, giant devil rays and porbeagle sharks are among 64 species on the first ever red list for oceanic sharks produced by the Worl
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]]> All the evidence suggests there is a supermassive black hole lurking in the centre of our galaxy. We’ve known as much for quite some time, but it wasn’t until recently that we’ve been able to confirm it.
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]]> Aircrafts are notorious for adding carbon content into the atmosphere because more and more people are choosing this mode of travel. We are trying to reduce carbon emissions on the ground. But we are not giving enough thought to reducing carbon content...
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]]> A drug tailor-made to strike at a tumor cell's Achilles heel shrinks or stabilizes tumors in patients and spares healthy cells, while causing few side effects. A new approach. Logged into Doomwatch Legacy by Sunstroke author David Kagan.
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]]> PhysOrg.com introduces its new Science w/Video News section. A great selection for Science-Tech news articles that contain a wide variety of excellent video tracks! Please check this out & pass it on.
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]]> The mysterious 1908 Tunguska explosion that leveled 830 square miles of Siberian forest was almost certainly caused by a comet entering the Earth's atmosphere, says new Cornell University research. The conclusion is supported by an unlikely source: the ex
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]]> For the second time in a little over a year, Yemeni scientists have discovered dinosaur footprints in Yemen. The latest trackways, dating back 140 million years, were found in bedrock 35 km outside Sana’a.
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]]> There's been plenty of hype about the Smart Grid -- some justified and some not. But the gold award for Smart Grid hype has to go to Cisco, whose spokesperson last month said that the grid could end up being up to 1,000 times the size of the Internet.
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]]> GENEVA: Scientists seeking to uncover the secrets of the universe will have to wait a little longer after the CERN laboratory in Switzerland yesterday confirmed a delay in tests of its massive new particle accelerator.
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]]> Far below the Black Hills of South Dakota, crews are building the world's deepest underground science lab at a depth equivalent to more than six Empire State buildings. Sunstroke author Dr David Kagan writes of the terrifying facility in Doomwatch.
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]]> A new National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) assay using a “glow or no glow” technique may soon help the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) defend the nation against a spectrum of biological weapons that could be used in a terrorist
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]]> Nestled in a valley near the Martian equator, scientists have discovered the striking remnants of an ancient lake.
Though dry and frigid now, the traces it left behind hint at a water body younger than any other on the planet, and its
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]]> Machu Picchu, the "lost city of the Incas," was not a true city but rather a pilgrimage center symbolically connected to the Andean vision of the cosmos, an Italian study has concluded.
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]]> A transgenic line of monkeys carrying a gene encoding green fluorescent protein fully integrated into their DNA has been created for the first time. The research, published in the journal Nature, marks the first such feat in non-human primates and paves t
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]]> In a paper that shows just how strange our modern world has become, Robert P. Friedland, neurologist from the University of Louisville, warns that farmed fish could be at risk of Creutzfeldt Jakob disease, or mad cow disease.

Currently, farmed fish ar
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]]> Our new radiocarbon dating of the Condover mammoths changes that, by showing that mammoths returned to Britain and survived until around 14,000 years ago."
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]]> Given away by strange, crop circle-like formations seen from the air, a huge prehistoric ceremonial complex discovered in southern England has taken archaeologists by surprise.
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]]> Eighth-grader David S. Dixon–along with his dad David G. Dixon–has built a street-legal quadricycle powered by a solar-charged electric motor. The bike not only carries his dog and three friends, but it has also has an iPod dock and GPS. Ya, it’s that coo
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]]> The humble stickleback is the "genius" of the fish world, scientists claim, after discovering that they can learn from the mistakes of others.
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]]> Iowa State University researchers are reported to be planning experimental insertion of 'swine flu vaccines' into the genetic makeup of corn. The idea is to allow pigs and humans to get a flu vaccination "simply by eating corn or corn products."...
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]]> Scientists have used genetic engineering to tame one of the most deadly food poisoning microbes and turn it into a potential new way of giving patients medicine and vaccines in pills rather than injections. Colin Pouton and colleagues note that patients
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]]> Scientists have discovered that there are actually differences in the way women’s and men’s brains are structured and in the way they react to events and stimuli.
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