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JBG667 writes “Nice overview of the 9 largest science projects currently ongoing. Some of the usual suspects are on the list including CERN, Space Elevator, Space Station, etc. As well as some lesser known including a 3000-foot-tall …

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aproposofwhat noted that Ars Technica’s rebuttal to Yesterday’s story about ‘The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete’. The response is Why the cloud cannot obscure the Scientific Method and is a good …

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You wait ages for a new ome to come along, and then you hear two in the same talk.

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Is it appropriate to go for a cliche-ridden style reporting on a science blog ?’Ostrich approach’ carries a connotation which is perhaps not supported/backed by ethological observations. In literary contexts it is assumed that an …

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A new implantable medical device shows promise as a reversible and less extreme alternative to existing bariatric surgeries. read more.

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California will present its plan this morning to cut greenhouse gas emissions about 30 percent by 2020 in what amounts to a blueprint for transforming an entire economy. The state is proposing a slate of changes including a …

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quixote9 writes “The BBC reports on a set of Nature articles showing that Mars had an impact about four billion years ago by a huge asteroid. This was about the same time that a much bigger object slammed into the Earth, …

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Ronin takes a place beside, but not with, Oct4, Nanog, and Sox2. (This is out in Cell today. The research highlight will appear on our site on July 10) Embryonic stem cells exist in a state of suspended differentiation, able to become …

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NASA spacecraft observations reveal what appears to be by far the largest impact crater ever found in the solar system. read more.

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At Nature we recently got very excited by the platypus genome, and now another important genome sequencing project has been announced.

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