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• | West: California: Review Backs Water Limits

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 917
  The National Academy of Sciences said that the rationale behind a decision to protect the endangered smelt, a tiny fish, was sound.
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• Even oysters pay taxes

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 649
  In physical, as in financial growth, its not what you make but what you keep that counts, USC marine biologists believe. Their study of genes associated with growth in oysters suggests that...
  3 days ago

• Why Habits Are Hard to Change (And Printers Hard to Buy)

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  A new study from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences confirms what many confused shoppers, dieters, and investors know first-hand: when a decision is difficult, we go with the status quo or choose to do nothing. (The last time I tried to buy a new printer online should have been proof enough for me; ...
  4 days ago

• Chemists influence stem-cell development with geometry

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 649
  University of Chicago scientists have successfully used geometrically patterned surfaces to influence the development of stem cells. The new approach is a departure from that of many stem-cell...
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• Wyden-Gregg Tax Plan

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 754
  By Chris Edwards Senators Ron Wyden and Judd Gregg recently introduced the “Bipartisan Tax Fairness and Simplification Act .” There is alot of interest in this plan, so I’ve put together some “pros” and “cons” from my small-government, flat-tax perspective. INDIVIDUAL TAX CHANGES – PRO Scraps the ...
  5 days ago

• Virginia uranium study starts

  
  Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes — Authority: 498
  Coles Hill site has an estimated 119 million pounds of uranium worth over $5 billion at current prices This blog post is an edited version of an article published in Fuel Cycle Week , V9:N366, March 3, 2010, by International Nuclear Associates, Washington, DC. The long-awaited study on the ...
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• Anti-immigration NumbersUSA hones talking points: Say ‘welfare queen’; say ‘dependents’

  
  Colorado Independent — Authority: 619
  In a strategy conference call with supporters Monday, anti-illegal immigrant group NumbersUSA geared up to counter a large immigration reform rally planned for next week in Washington. Conference call participants suggested Mexican women in the States should be branded as “the new welfare queens” and that ...
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• Life Began With the Help of a Molecular Midwife

  
  American Biotechnologist — Authority: 121
  Ever wonder how life really began? I mean the really basic building blocks of life? Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have discovered that small molecules could have acted as “molecular midwives” in helping the building blocks of life’s genetic material form long chains and may have assisted in ...
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• On global warming, the science is solid

  
  TexasVox: The Voice of Public Citizen in Texas — Authority: 552
  Last weekend professors and scientists from four major Texas universities joined forces to write an editorial in the Houston Chronicle defending the science of global warming from skeptics and deniers .  Check it out! On global warming, the science is solid In recent months, e-mails stolen from the University of ...
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• Cellulose. Biofuel. Enzyme. Wood. Conversion. Industrial setting. ” One of the most abundant enzymes is a cellulose degrading enzyme never before seen in animals.”

  
  Biotech — Authority: 130
  According to a Release dated March 8, sourced from University of York, in England, United Kingdom:“… a team headed by Professor Simon McQueen-Mason and Professor Neil Bruce at York, and Dr Simon Cragg at Portsmouth reveal that the gribble digestive tract is dominated by enzymes that attack the polymers that make ...
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• Musk ox population decline due to climate, not to humans, study finds

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 649
  A team of scientists has discovered that the drastic decline in Arctic musk ox populations that began roughly 12,000 years ago was due to a warming climate rather than to human hunting.
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• The Call to Get More out of Campus Research

  
  Campus Entrepreneurship — Authority: 118
  Last week officials from the Obama Administration Commerce Department met with U.S. Research University officials in order to figure out how to do even more with research that is generated — often with federal funding. Doug Lederman at Inside Higher Education has a solid piece on the meeting, which was closed to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Climate scientists plot to fight back at skeptics

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 505
  Undaunted by a rash of scandals over the science underpinning climate change, top climate researchers are plotting to respond with what one scientist involved said needs to be "an outlandishly aggressively partisan approach" to gut the credibility of skeptics. In private e-mails obtained by The Washington Times, ...
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• Medical Librarys Contagious Exhibit Sure To Go Viral

  
  Book Patrol — Authority: 531
  She may be…a bag of TROUBLE. Syphilis – Gonorrhea. U.S. Public Health Service,United States, 1940s. Photomechanical print: color; 41 x 51 cm. Artist: "Christian." A sultry, heavily-made-up woman squints provocatively, while smoking a cigarette. WWII posters usually addressed men, and fingered promiscuous women ...
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• Scientists Slam Lawmakers Attempt to Block EPA Regulation of Emissions

  
  Global Warming is Real — Authority: 124
  In an effort to dissuade congressional leaders to halt their anti-science campaign opposing the Environmental Protection Agencys endangerment finding signed by EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson late last year specifying carbon emissions as a risk to human health and welfare, more than 500 scientists have signed a ...
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• Search for Knowledge Stimulates Brain Health

  
  Psych Central News — Authority: 569
  Cutting-edge research by University of California-Irvine neurobiologists provides the first visual evidence that learning promotes brain health. Scientists are excited because the finding suggests mental stimulation could limit the debilitating effects of aging on memory and the mind. Using a novel visualization ...
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• World-Class Protection Boosts Australia’s Great Barrier Reef

  
  Climate of Our Future — Authority: 130
  ScienceDailyhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100222100815.htm(Feb. 24, 2010) — Australia’s Great Barrier Reef (GBR) is showing an extraordinary range of benefits from the network of protected marine reserves introduced there five years ago, according to a comprehensive new study published in the ...
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• Common Weedkiller Turns Male Frogs Into Females

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 509
  Source: Reuters Atrazine, one of the most commonly used and controversial weedkillers, can turn male frogs into females, researchers reported on Monday. The experiment is the first to show such complete effects of atrazine, which had been known to disrupt hormones and which is one of the chief suspects in the ...
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• New subtype of breast cancer responds to targeted drug

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 649
  A newly identified cancer biomarker could define a new subtype of breast cancer as well as offer a potential way to treat it, say researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis....
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• Research Shows Increasing Rate of Ocean Acidification

  
  Global Warming is Real — Authority: 124
  Often lost in the debate over climate change and CO2 emissions is the link between rising carbon dioxide levels and ocean chemistry. Since the early 19th century, scientists have understood carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas. Late in the 19th century researchers began to suspect that CO2 emissions could alter climate. ...
  3 weeks ago

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