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• Cave Study Links Climate Change to Centuries-long California Droughts

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 155
  California experienced centuries-long droughts in the past 20,000 years that coincided with the thawing of ice caps in the Arctic, according to a new study by UC Davis doctoral student Jessica Oster and geology professor Isabel Montañez. The finding, which comes from analyzing stalagmites from Moaning Cavern in the ...
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• Copenhagen climate talks: Time to change, no time to waste

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Next month, 192 countries will meet to set targets on carbon emissions. The summit will pit the developed world against the developing world in a last-ditch bid to limit warming to 2C The worlds first global treaty to combat climate change, the Kyoto Protocol, was agreed in December 1997 after exhausting, all-night ...
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• Giant Asteroid Impact Could Have Stirred Entire Ocean

  
  Wired Science — Authority: 770
  The collision of a large extraterrestrial object with Earth almost 2 billion years ago may have stirred the seas worldwide and delivered a huge serving of oxygen to the deep ocean. The Sudbury impact, named after the Canadian city located near the center of what remains of the ancient crater, happened around 1.85 ...
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• Three more drug advisers resign

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Scientists quit after meeting home secretary after sacking of Professor David Nutt Three more government drug advisers resign over the home secretarys sacking of Professor David Nutt as chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD). The three all resigned after a face-to-face meeting with Alan ...
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• Free body diagram of a bump in a rug

  
  Ars Technica — Authority: 756
  One of the things that drew me to science and engineering when I wasyounger was a desire to understand how everyday things worked. Whatmade a clock tick, why the bubbles form on the bottom of thepot just before water boils, how to describe the shape of ocean waves. As I got further and further along in myacademic ...
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• U.S. Delegation on Science Policy Travels to Cuba

  
  AAAS News - RSS Feed — Authority: 127
  U.S. Delegation on Science Policy Travels to Cuba AAAS President Peter C. Agre is among those in a non-governmental American delegation to Cuba on science policy.
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• Rwandans find few physical scars from past war

  
  Ars Technica — Authority: 756
  War and civil strife have a lasting effect on the societies that they strike. Although many attempts have been made to quantify the impacts, a recent PLoS One study shows just how difficult this can be. In 1994, some 800,000 people were killed in Rwanda as ethnic tensions exploded into an attempted genocide. Now, ...
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• Rwandans find few physical scars from past war

  
  ShareConnector — Authority: 455
  War and civil strife have a lasting effect on the societies that they strike. Although many attempts have been made to quantify the impacts, a recent PLoS One study shows just how difficult this can be. In 1994, some 800,000 people were killed in Rwanda as ethnic tensions exploded into an attempted genocide. Read ...
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• Winners of 2009 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards

  
  AAAS News - RSS Feed — Authority: 127
  _article_headline_ Creative, well-reported stories on genetic medicine, probability, and evolution are among this year’s winners, the first named under an endowment by The Kavli Foundation.
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• Male doctors are paid more than female doctors with the same experience and expertise.

  
  Restructure! — Authority: 498
  Male doctors earn £15,000 a year more than women, study reveals (The Guardian): There is an average salary gap of £15,245 between men and women among the UK’s 135,000 medics, according to a report by the British Medical Association. After excluding differences owing to age, experience and area of specialism, ...
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• New and Exciting in PLoS this week

  
  A Blog Around The Clock — Authority: 602
  Lets take a look at recent papers in PLoS ONE and other PLoS journals. As always, you should rate the articles , post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and ...
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• UCI robot being given ability to ‘think’

  
  Sciencedude — Authority: 123
  HAL 2000? Hardly. But Jeffrey Krichmar (right), a UCI cognitive scientist, and Brian Cox, an animatronics engineer, will give the robot Carl 1 software that simulates the decision making process. Image courtesy of UCI. A homely little robot with fake ears might end up helping to explain a problem faced by all ...
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• SCIENCE NEWS

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 963
  You knew those Ding Dongs, candy bars and strips of bacon werent good for you. But now comes a study suggesting that junk food may be addictive in the same way as heroin or cocaine.
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• New solar-sail mission planned after 2005 failure

  
  Reuters: Funds News — Authority: 825
  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Backers of a failed mission to launch the worlds first solar-sail spacecraft unveiled plans on Monday to try again five years later with a smaller, swifter satellite to test the limits of sunlight propulsion.
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• New solar-sail mission planned after 2005 failure

  
  Reuters: Funds News — Authority: 825
  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Backers of a failed mission to launch the worlds first solar-sail spacecraft unveiled plans on Monday to try again five years later with a smaller, swifter satellite to test the limits of sunlight propulsion.
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• Taiwan braces for protests over U.S. beef

  
  Flesh and Stone — Authority: 528
  Under the Oct. 23 agreement between Taipei and Washington, D.C., Taiwan has again opened its markets to “in-bone” beef and beef products from the United States. Taiwan had banned U.S. beef imports in 2003 following the discovery of a U.S. case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), popularly known as ...
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• Examining science on the fringes: vital, but generally wrong

  
  Ars Technica — Authority: 756
  The history of science is replete with examples, from plate tectonics to prions, of heretical ideas that received a poor reception from the scientific establishment when they were first proposed. The apparent resistance to new ideas has earned scientists a fair bit of criticism. But some recent publications have ...
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• SCIENCE NEWS

  
  Cedar Creek Voice — Authority: 432
    Earth & Climate November 2, 2009   Africa desert rift confirmed as new ocean in the making     Published: Monday, November 2, 2009 – 14:57 in Earth & Climate In 2005, a gigantic, 35-mile-long rift broke open the desert ground in Ethiopia. At the time, some ...
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• Scientists want debate on animals with human genes

  
  Reuters: Funds News — Authority: 825
  LONDON (Reuters) - A mouse that can speak? A monkey with Downs Syndrome? Dogs with human hands or feet? British scientists want to know if such experiments are acceptable, or if they go too far in the name of medical research.
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• Scientists want debate on animals with human genes

  
  Reuters: Funds News — Authority: 825
  LONDON (Reuters) - A mouse that can speak? A monkey with Downs Syndrome? Dogs with human hands or feet? British scientists want to know if such experiments are acceptable, or if they go too far in the name of medical research.
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