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Global Warming Would Harm Some Areas, Help Others
By the Editor on January 24, 2012
“Global warming” and “climate change” succinctly describe a complicated phenomenon, and in just a few decades they have become...
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Scientists Developing Salt-Tolerant Rice
By the Editor on January 24, 2012
Scientists are developing a salt-resistant variety of rice, a move prompted, in part, by last year’s Japan tsunami, which...
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‘Peak’ Timber Concerns in Tropics
By the Editor on January 24, 2012
Current tropical timber practices are not sustainable and nations should consider the implications of ‘peak timber’, a study has...
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Magnetic Soap Could Sop Up Oil Spills
By the Editor on January 24, 2012
Scientists from the University of Bristol have developed a soap, composed of iron rich salts dissolved in water, that...
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Oldest Dinosaur ‘Nursery’ Discovered
By the Editor on January 24, 2012
Tiny prints from baby dinosaurs dot the oldest dinosaur nesting site found to date, a 190-million-year-old nursery in South...
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Magic Mushrooms May Help Treat Depression
By the Editor on January 24, 2012
Psilocybin, the active ingredient in so-called magic mushrooms, may help people with depression, based on two studies that suggest...
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Online Gamers Achieve First Crowd-Sourced Redesign of Protein
By the Editor on January 23, 2012
Obsessive gamers’ hours at the computer have now topped scientists’ efforts to improve a model enzyme, in what researchers...
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Lasers Are Even Cooler Than We Thought
By the Editor on January 23, 2012
Scientists at Denmark’s Niels Bohr Institute have figured out a cool new way to lower the temperature of hot...
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‘Near Earth Objects’ Shield to Assess Earth Defense
By the Editor on January 23, 2012
NEOShield is a new international project that will assess the threat posed by Near Earth Objects (NEO) and look...
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Conservatives and Liberals Don’t See Eye-to-Eye, Literally
By the Editor on January 23, 2012
Conservatives and liberals pay attention to their environments differently, meaning the two sides of the political spectrum quite literally...
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