Climate Change Events (USA)

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Coal Plans in Scotland Shelved

post from Climate Change Action on 06 August 2012 04:16:14 PM. © Climate Change Action

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Android-Based Game Console Closing Out
Record-Breaking Kickstarter Campaign

post from Singularity Hub on 06 August 2012 03:55:03 PM. © Singularity Hub

Tired of feeling boxed in by your game console? Then rush over to Kickstarter and get ready to throw your [...]

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The science of relaxation

post from Canadian BioTechnologist2.0 on 06 August 2012 03:38:30 PM. © Canadian BioTechnologist2.0

It is a long weekend in most of Canada. Hopefully many of our readers are spending time with friends and family or are simply enjoying some rest and relaxation. We hope that whatever you are doing, you are having a great, relaxing long-weekend. As long as you are not a subject in one of these [...]

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Google earth for cell biologist

post from American Biotechnologist on 06 August 2012 03:29:41 PM. © American Biotechnologist

Just as users of Google Earth can zoom in from space to a view of their own backyard, researchers[...]

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Anti-Icing Surfaces

post from CR4 - Recent Blog Entries on 06 August 2012 01:00:00 PM. © CR4 - Recent Blog Entries

I always thought ice was pretty cool. We cool things down with it, skate and play hockey on it, make sculptures from it, and sometimes even fight evil mutants with it…(Credit: X-men Wiki | The Adventurers Club)But when dealing with a lot of technologies, ice is not so much fun. Ici

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Researchers Identify Mechanism That Turns White
Fat Cells to Brown

post from CR4 - Recent Blog Entries on 06 August 2012 12:33:00 PM. © CR4 - Recent Blog Entries

From Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine: Earlier this year, a team from UC San Francisco reported on the discovery that a class of commonly prescribed type-2 diabetes drugs, called TZDs (thiazolidinediones, such as Actos and Avandia), promoted the conversion of energy-storing white fat

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Climate change blamed for heatwaves

NASA scientist James Hansen says recent heatwaves were caused by climate change, and the current US drought probably was too

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Mars orbiter catches pic of Curiosity on its way
down!

This is truly astonishing: the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter snapped what may turn out to be the Space Picture of the Year: Curiosity descending to Mars under its parachutes!Holy. Haleakala.The rover is safely tucked inside the[...]

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World's Most Expensive British Car

Bonhams set several records at its Goodwood Festival of Speed auction on June 29, headlined by Tim Birkin's 1929 4-1/2-Litre supercharged blower Bentley single seater. When it sold for £4.5 million (with premium £5,042,000 or US$7,907,530), it became not only the world's most expensive Bentl

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