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Scientists Zero in on Reason for Mammoths' Demise
Science & Tech  (tags: scientists, discovery, mammoths, demise, interesting, investigation, research )

Simone
- 4 hours ago - latimes.com
About 15,000 years ago, North America was home to an astonishing number of large plant-eating mammals -- giant sloths, mastodons, mammoths. A thousand years later, they were all gone, wiped from the face of the Earth with sudden finality. Scientists
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Effects of Judge's Katrina Ruling Could Be Huge
Science & Tech  (tags: design, levees, science, investigation, interesting, KATRINA, technology, tech, society, safety )

Cal
- 9 hours ago - latimes.com
The finding that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is liable for much of the New Orleans flooding could change how levees are designed nationwide.
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'Big Bang' Experiment to re-Start
Science & Tech  (tags: world, scientists, tech, science, technology, research, Big Bang )

Katie
- 14 hours ago - news.bbc.co.uk
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment could be re-started on Saturday morning at the earliest, officials have said. Engineers are preparing to send a beam of sub-atomic particles all the way round the 27km-long circular tunnel which houses the LHC.
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Google Bets Big on Internet With Chrome
Science & Tech  (tags: technology, Internet, Google, Crome, OS )

Katie
- 15 hours ago - livescience.com
Chrome will run on specially designed computers and will be entirely web based. There are no desktop applications and the OS will run inside a web browser that resembles Google's current web browser, also called Chrome.
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U. of C.'s Sereno Unveils Ancient Crocodile Fossils
Science & Tech  (tags: crocodile, fossils, found, 110 million yrs. old, interesting, archaeology, ancient, discovery )

Lone
- 21 hours ago - chicagotribune.com
Crocodiles may have a nasty, nightmarish reputation among most people, but the leathery, snappish critters have been around so long that they probably gave most dinosaurs a fright, too
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INL Completes 1 Million Miles of Plug-in Hybrid Testing
Science & Tech  (tags: electric vehicles, technology, research, performance )

Lone
- 21 hours ago - localnews8.com
INL - The Idaho National Laboratory has logged 1 million miles in their program that tests the efficiency of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, or PHEVs
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Breakthrough Technology Converts CO2 to Ethanol Without Biomass
Science & Tech  (tags: concept, discovery, energy, environment, humans, investigation, NewTechnology, research, science, scientists, world )

Daphna
- 1 day ago - greenlivingideas.com
Producing fuel out of thin air sounds like a pipe dream, but a new process from a biofuel company promises to be able to turn CO2 and sunlight into fuel, bypassing the current need for large amounts of agricultural land and water to produce biomass feedst
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NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory Investigates the Sun's Cycle of Highs and Lows
Science & Tech  (tags: astronomy, computer, concept, discovery, energy, interesting, nasa, NewTechnology, news, research, scientists, science, space, study, technology, world )

PinkMindy
- 1 day ago - astronomy.com
How intense will the next solar cycle be? Can we predict when a violent solar storm will blast Earth with energetic particles? Could a prolonged period of inactivity on the sun plunge Earth into a prolonged winter?
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STS-129: Atlantis Successfully Launches
Science & Tech  (tags: Atlantis, Launches, spacewalks )

Nancy
- 1 day ago - nasa.gov
Atlantis, commanded by Charlie Hobaugh, will deliver parts to the space station, including a spare gyroscope. The mission will feature three spacewalks.
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LCROSS Finds Water on the Moon
Science & Tech  (tags: NASA, Space, Water )

Nancy
- 1 day ago - science.nasa.gov
At a press conference today, researchers revealed preliminary data from NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, indicating that water exists in a permanently shadowed lunar crater.
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National Medical Research Day: Celebrating the Importance of ARRA Funding for Iowa and Beyond
Science & Tech  (tags: science, medicine, health, research, humans, non humans, discovery, illness, disease, healthcare, prevention, protection, treatment, medicine )

Dee
- 1 day ago - icts.uiowa.edu
National Medical Research Day, sponsored by the Association of American Medical Colleges, was held on October 21, 2009. The event celebrated the importance and impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) and biomedical research.
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Treasure Trove of History Found at SugarHouse Site
Science & Tech  (tags: discovery, archaeology, Native Americans, articles, ancient )

Lone
- 2 days ago - philly.com
Under a tent on the grounds of the future SugarHouse Casino, archaeologists sift through buckets of debris, picking out and bagging the choicest broken bits.
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Report: Countries Prepping for Cyberwar
Science & Tech  (tags: technology, science, war, cyberwars, news, military )

Cal
- 2 days ago - cnn.com
Major countries and nation-states are engaged in a "Cyber Cold War," amassing cyberweapons, conducting espionage, and testing networks in preparation for using the Internet to conduct war, according to a new report
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Scientists Create Bacteria That Lights Up Around Landmines
Science & Tech  (tags: world, technology, tech, interesting, US, military stealth )

Katie
- 2 days ago - treehugger.com
A stunning 87 countries around the world are still littered with undetonated landmines, and their impact is devastating. Tens of thousands of people are killed or injured by mines every year, and they pose a grave threat to ecosystems and wildlife.
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Rosetta Space Mystery Could Be a Clue to New Laws of the Universe
Science & Tech  (tags: Space, Universe, Mystery, Science, Earth )

Sophie
- 3 days ago - dailygalaxy.com
Scientists are eagerly anticipating the ROSETTA probe's next pass of Earth, because they know that something they don't know about might happen.
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