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• Heart cells on lab chip display nanosense that guides behavior

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 648
  Johns Hopkins biomedical engineers, working with colleagues in Korea, have produced a laboratory chip with nanoscopic grooves and ridges capable of growing cardiac tissue that more closely resembles natural heart muscle. ...
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• Are the Copenhagen climate talks failing?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  In the last few days it has seemed like the only thing everyone can agree on in Copenhagen is that time is running out. The heads of state start arriving today and descend in full force on Thursday. Negotiators say they don’t want their leaders arguing over the placement of a comma or a set of brackets, and so ...
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• A Giant Virus Discovery Trumps SciFi

  
  Xenophilia (True Strange Stuff) — Authority: 492
  Giant viruses aren’t the result of nineteen-fifties Atomic Mutation (now playing in our air-conditioned theater!) but a real infectious agent so unexpected they were only discovered recently. A giant virus was like a tiny elephant – something someone would not only not expect, but actively miss every time they ...
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• Black carbon deposits on Himalayan ice threaten Earths Third Pole

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 648
  WASHINGTON -- Black soot deposited on Tibetan glaciers has contributed significantly to the retreat of the worlds largest non-polar ice masses, according to new research by scientists from NASA and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Soot absorbs incoming solar radiation and can speed glacial melting when deposited on ...
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• Coke says green strategy will win business

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Having an integrated clean technology strategy will be a big part of winning business in the 21st century, a Coca-Cola executive told Reuters.com on Monday, and its investments in refrigeration will likely have the biggest impact on that strategy long-term. The worlds biggest soft drinks maker has hooked up with ...
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• Solar power mounts in Canada

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Solar power is heating up in the northern reaches of Canada, a country not exactly known for its sunny rays and warm weather. The industry has seen a heap of news from the region this week. US. solar heavyweight First Solar and Canadian pipeline company Enbridge announced that they are quadrupling the size of a ...
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• The answer could be blowing in the wind

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Well into the first week of the U.N. Conference on Climate Change, the haves and have nots of the world are still divided over who should pay for the cleanup of the planet. Poor countries want rich countries to cough up more ambitious goals for emissions cuts and developing technologies. From emerging wind and ...
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• JohnsonDiversey exec sees CO2 reductions good for businesses

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Some businesses in the United States will have to reinvent themselves as the Obama administration moves to lower greenhouse gas emissions, but theyll be better off in the long run, Pedro Chidichimo, president of JohnsonDiversey EMA, told Reuters.com on Thursday. Despite the inevitable short-term pain, Chidichimo said ...
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• 2,3,7,8-TETRACHLORODIBENZO-P-DIOXIN (TCDD) DOSE-RESPONSE STUDIES...

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 155
  EPA invited the public to comment on the preliminary list of in vivo mammalian dose-response citations for 2,3,7,8 tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD). This list was compiled as a first step in the development of EPA?s response to the National Academy of Sciences comments (NAS, 2006) on the dose-response assessment ...
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• Sea Level Rise of Up to 1.9 Meters (6′3″) This Century?

  
  EcoWorldly — Authority: 526
  Sea level may actually rise much faster than previously expected, a new scientific study shows. The study shows that by 2100, sea level could rise between 75 and 190 centimeters (about 2′6″ to 6′3″). The study uses very up-to-date data collected from satellites and builds on previous work by one of the ...
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• UBC geneticist reveals molecular view of key epigenetic regulator

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 648
  In a paper published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , Dr. Michael Kobor reported the structure and function of a key player in regulating chromatin in yeast and humans. Kobor is a UBC assistant professor of medical genetics and a scientist at The Centre for Molecular ...
  6 days ago

• Bacteria Offer Insights Into Human Decision Making

  
  Newsvine - JCAtom's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 131
  Scientists studying how bacteria under stress collectively weigh and initiate different survival strategies say they have gained new insights into how humans make strategic decisions that affect their health, wealth and the fate of others in society.More Articles
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• H1N1 influenza adopted novel strategy to move from birds to humans

  
  West Africa Doctors Network West Africa Doctors Network — Authority: 123
  Bird influenza viruses have a variety of strategies to cross the species barrier and spreadThe 2009 H1N1 influenza virus used a new strategy to cross from birds into humans, a warning that it has more than one trick up its sleeve to jump the species barrier and become virulent.In a report in this week’s early [...]
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• Scripps Research scientists reveal key structure from ebola virus

  
  West Africa Doctors Network West Africa Doctors Network — Authority: 123
  LA JOLLA, CA, December 7, 2009—Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have determined the structure of a critical protein from the Ebola virus, which, though rare, is one of the deadliest viruses on the planet killing between 50 and 90 percent of those infected. Described in the advance, online Early Edition ...
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• Does Reviewing Your Peers Create Better Results Than Peer-Review?

  
  The Scholarly Kitchen — Authority: 525
  National Academy of Sciences members contribute the very best (and very worst) articles in PNAS, a recent analysis suggests. Is diversity a better indicator of success than consistency in science publishing?
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• H1N1 influenza adopted novel strategy to move from birds to humans

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 648
  The 2009 H1N1 influenza virus used a new strategy to cross from birds into humans, a warning that it has more than one trick up its sleeve to jump the species barrier and become virulent. Link:  http://www.berkeley.edu
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• Why King Kong failed to impress

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 648
  DURHAM, N.C. -- Humans have the same receptors for detecting odors related to sex as do other apes and primates. But each species uses them in different ways, stemming from the way the genes for these receptors have evolved over time, according to Duke University researchers. ...
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• Paper Battery invented by scientists at Stanford University

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Stanford, Dec 8 (THAINDIAN NEWS) In a starling development scientists at the Stanford University have come out with a noble invention and which is making battery out of ordinary paper. It could very well be used as a lightweight battery to power the many electronic devices that are omnipresent in our lives ...
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• Africans protest COP15, say “process manipulated”

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  In the most heated protest of these early days at COP15 in Copenhagen, African representatives accused the political leaders of the developed world of hijacking the conference to the detriment of developing nations. The marchers said the process of the talks had been manipulated by the developed worlds political ...
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• Absence of evidence for a meteorite impact event 13,000 years ago

  
  OK4me2 — Authority: 153
  The woolly mammoth was one of the large mammals that became extinct in North America at the onset of the Younger Dryas approx. 13,000 years ago. Credit: Image of Woolly Mammoth at the Royal BC Museum, Victoria, British Columbia courtesy Wikipedia Commons An international team of scientists led by researchers at ...
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