Green technology was hot in 2008. Barack Obama won the presidential election promising green jobs to Rust Belt workers. Investors poured $5 billion into the sector just through the first nine months of the year. …
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Neanderthalmodernmuseum. Neanderthalamhranges Neanderthals could handle the weather, but they couldn’t handle us, concludes a new analysis of late-Pleistocene hominid habitation. Soon after modern humans arrived in Western Europe, …
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Roundup of roundups, 2008. While we wait for Stoat’s response to our 2008 climate science year-in-review, here are some of the annual roundups popping up elsewhere. First, the science: the most thorough state-of-the-Earth report is on …
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Contrail climate effects questioned. contrailfigure.jpg It was an irresistible factoid, widely covered and still found all over the web: in the three days after the September 11 terrorist attacks, when all commercial air traffic was …
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An international team of researchers has identified genetic markers associated with risk for ulcerative colitis. The findings, which appear today as an advance online publication of the journal Nature Genetics, bring researchers closer to understanding the biological pathways involved in the disease and may lead to the development of new treatments that specifically target them.
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MIT engineers have developed a new, highly efficient way to pair up cells so they can be fused together into a hybrid cell. The new technique should make it much easier for scientists to study what happens when two cells are combined. For example, fusing an adult cell and an embryonic stem cell allows researchers to study the genetic reprogramming that occurs in such hybrids.
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Researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have developed a versatile mouse model of glioblastoma — the most common and deadly brain cancer in humans — that closely resembles the development and progression of human brain tumors that arise naturally.
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Is it a small torpedo? A thermos? A shiny handbag? Who cares, it’s adorable! Metal purse by Frank Strunk, who has also created some really uncomfortable-looking.
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The Countess has been nominated for various awards for her writing, and she’d like our help in getting the word out. I warned her that you people aren’t a flock of sheep who will just follow the beckoning, nubile arm…
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I should really save this new item for next week’s Friday Fermentable but I was too excited walking back from picking up the NYT and local fishwrapper from the cold, rainy driveway this morning. Beer enthusiast, brewer, and public …
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