Countdown to AIDS day - November 26, 2008. Posted for Asher Mullard. Ahead of World AIDS Day on December 1st the papers are abuzz with AIDS news. A paper in the Lancet says universal testing could reduce the number of people developing …
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Is it a Pearl Harbor if it has to happen twice? Cross-posted from Heliophage. Prodded by Andy Revkin at the Times, Joe Romm offers a list of “Pearl Harbors” that might lead to the second-world-war scale of effort against climate change …
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On Nature News - November 26, 2008. Nature Podcast – This week we bring you news from the year’s biggest neuro jamboree, stick our heads into the oldest turtle fossil ever found, talk to the author of a new book on photosynthesis, …
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Sugar Daddy: Like sleeping with an elephant. Posted on behalf of Sugar Daddy, with a nod to Andy’s recent post. As a fifth-year chemical biology graduate student, I sometimes wonder if I’ll know when I’ve been in grad school too long. …
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This is the text of a recent Editorial in Nature (456, 2; 2008): Six foreign medics escaped the Libyan death penalty last year thanks to intense diplomacy, supported by the advocacy and decisive expertise of scientists. …
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No LHC before 2010? - November 27, 2008. lhc_repair.jpg The world’s biggest, newest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, may be out of service for the entirety of 2009. The LHC was knocked out of commission earlier this fall …
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Credit crunch chills climate change choices - November 27, 2008. UPDATE - We’ve now obtained the missing statistics, full details at the bottom of the post. Ever since the current financial crisis hit people have been suggesting that …
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How does your dog smell? - November 27, 2008. dog nose getty.BMP The Great Beyond has sniffed out some great science news for dog lovers. First up: New Scientist reports from an American Physical Society meeting in Texas that canines’ …
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This weekly Nautilus column highlights some of the online discussion at Nature Network in the preceding week that is of relevance to scientists as authors. The Nature Network week column is archived here. …
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Here’s a lovely picture sent by Arvind Paranjpye of the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics in Pune. Arvind has done a little computer graphic to show us what the western sky will look like on December one when Venus, …
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