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Recently, a coal power plant in Kentucky was imposed the highest fine ever due to the acid rain. East Kentucky Power corporative: a coal fired electric utility decided to pay $11.4 million penalty for all it’s environment violations. The plant has...
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Beijing fired over 1,000 rain dispersal rockets on Friday evening to blow away rain clouds for the smooth opening ceremony of the 29th Olympic Games at the National...
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The UC Berkley scientist team has made a major development towards creating a cloak that is 100% invisible. The team, led by scientist Xiang Zhang, has developed a...
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University of Manchester scientists have uncovered the 3D structure of Mps1 - a protein that regulates the number of chromosomes during cell division and thus has an...
made popular Aug 10 2008
There are generally two types of science: first, there’s the type that makes computers work, allows us to ride around in metal boxes propelled by continuous...
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Scientists sometimes do crazy things. Too crazy. Purple Slinky blog (what a name) has an intriguing post about 5 scientists that went too far in the name of science.
made popular Aug 7 2008
Chinese government’s olympian efforts to clean up the city’s air aren’t working.
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Although “our reliance on fossil fuels has created global warming” sounded strange to me, I enjoy Al Gore optimism as much as a reality of processes occurring...
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Religion is dangerous, he wrote; it breeds hatred and idiocy. It is our job to advance humanity’s knowledge
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He is 8ft tall and has a roar that could start an avalanche.
Despite this, the yeti has always managed to remain abominably elusive.
But yesterday, claims that the...
made popular Aug 2 2008
The history of scientific discovery is full of missteps. Sometimes iffy ideas lead to stronger theories. Other times, a good idea becomes a bad idea.
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Modern day antiretroviral drugs lover HIV levels past detectable levels. But a HIV positive person has to stay on the drugs because the virus hides in immune cells,...
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Sixteen years after Barbie dolls declared, “Math class is tough!” girls are proving that, at math, they are just as tough as boys. In the largest study of...
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Dr. Victor A. McKusick, a key architect of the Human Genome Project and a winner of the National Medal of Science, has died. He was 86.Officials at Johns Hopkins...
made popular Jul 24 2008
About The Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN will become the world’s largest and highest-energy particle accelerator. Its main...
made popular Jul 22 2008
Apparently, America’s STEM is more of a dropping leaf. STEM means science, technology, engineering, and math; the number of graduates under these fields is dropping....
made popular Jul 21 2008
Optimism is good for heart health, at least among men, a new study shows.
University of Rochester Medical Center researcher Robert Gramling, M.D., D.Sc., found that...
made popular Jul 20 2008
By Vincent Van Ross
If human beings and other mammals are doing fine with babies, what was the need for god to create eggs as a means of reproduction?
Was Man made in...
made popular Jul 20 2008
By Vincent Van Ross
Here today—gone tomorrow? Is that possible in the animal kingdom? Where have all the dinosaurs that ruled the earth for millions of years...
made popular Jul 16 2008
So why do we sleep? This is a question that has baffled scientists for centuries and the answer is, no one is really sure. Some believe that sleep gives the body a...
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A high-profile push by business groups to double the number of U.S. bachelor’s degrees awarded in science, math and engineering by 2015 is falling way behind...
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Companies in the United States have developed a new method to gasify coal, which would reduce their cost of managing its greenhouse gas emissions.
In order to reduce...
made popular Apr 26 2007
We have always breath a sigh of relief with the news of the drop of acid rainfall, as scientists have warned of their negative effects. But, according to a new study by...
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An ecological study of Appalachian stream chemistry suggests that the drop in acid rain might be giving a respite to the hardwood forests though it is changing...
made popular Dec 13 2006
Scan through on what the nature is doing with us!! Is it just the start of the retaliations of what assaults we made on the environment we live in?
Strong quake struck...
made popular Aug 28 2006
Acid rain has been scourging Europe’s forests and lakes for long. And, eventually it is emerging as a major threat to diversity across the tropics! With countries...
made popular Apr 12 2006
Acid rain in North America was first discovered more than 40 years ago by ecologist Gene Likens. Acid rain is an environmental problem that has yet to be solved,...
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With all hopes and excitement on the part of the astronauts, Venus Express is due to lift off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on November 9th. The Venus Express mission to...
made popular Nov 5 2005
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