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Science & Tech News tagged with scientists

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

Simone
- 6 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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'Big Bang' Experiment to re-Start
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Katie
- 16 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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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
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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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One Night Only: Leonid Meteor Shower
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Lone
- 3 days ago - latimes.com
The annual Leonid meteor shower will make its one-night appearance over North America tonight. Viewing conditions should be excellent because the peak will occur after midnight, when the lights of metropolitan areas will be at
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3 Levels of CERN Time Anomalies
Science & Tech  (tags: CERN, LHC, LargeHadronCollider, hadron, particle-physics, physics, energy, science, tech, technology, space, big-bang, mbh, micro-black-holes, black-holes, quantum-physics, engineering, design, concept, mathematics, scientists, time, time-travel )

SirRobert
- 5 days ago - volconvo.com
Here is a chance to discover the three known and speculated levels of time-distortion (dilation) anomalies, and will soon be occuring at CERN LHC in one form or another.
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Splash! NASA Moon Strikes Found Significant Water
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Lone
- 7 days ago - chron.com
LOS ANGELES -- It turns out there's lots of water on the moon -- at least near the lunar south pole. The discovery announced Friday comes from an analysis of data
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Scientists Create Robot Surrogate For Blind Persons In Testing Visual Prostheses
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Nancy
- 10 days ago - sciencedaily.com
Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have created a remote-controlled robot that is able to simulate the "visual" experience of a blind person who has been implanted with a visual prosthesis, such as an artificial retina.
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Giant Crack in Africa May Create a New Ocean
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Lone
- 12 days ago - msnbc.msn.com
A 35-mile rift in the desert of Ethiopia will likely become a new ocean eventually, researchers now confirm
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Eco Sleuths Use DNA Bar-Coding to Nail Poachers, Map Species
Science & Tech  (tags: ecology, biologists, DNA, environment, scientists, poachers, wildlife )

Simone
- 12 days ago - beta.thehindu.com
DNA analysis will now be used to solve the most widely perpetrated crimes today - those against the ecology. Biologists are now taking the DNA route to track the effects of global warming on the world's species or for identifying a piece of dried meat
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Scientists Expand Program to 'Bar-Code' DNA of World's Plants, Animals
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Simone
- 12 days ago - google.com
It sounds like a futuristic fantasy, but scientists are quietly creating a global databank of DNA bar codes for the world's flora and fauna that could be used to identify illicit goods at borders and track the spread of disease. From tiny micro-
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NZ Scientists Seek Blue Sheep as Part of Nepal Leopard Study
Science & Tech  (tags: studies, research, snow leopard, scientists, blue sheep, nepal leopard )

Simone
- 13 days ago - nznewsuk.co.uk
New Zealand scientists hope to improve the survival odds of the endangered snow leopard by studying its main prey in the Himalayas, the bharal, or blue sheep. A Nepali PhD student at Massey University, Achyut Aryal, and his professor are tramping
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Fossil-Funded Group Succeeds in Spreading Lies About How Much Water Desert Solar Uses
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Daphna
- 16 days ago - greenlivingideas.com
The Heartland Institute, the infamous fossil-industry-funded climate denier group that faked 500 scientists to deny climate change, is now creating a new fake narrative about water use in utility scale solar. They did a very thorough job of disseminating
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NASA Probe Sees Changing Seasons on Mercury
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Katie
- 16 days ago - msnbc.msn.com
A NASA spacecraft has spotted what appears to be changing seasons on Mercury and found much more iron on the surface of the small, rocky planet than previously thought.
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Good Dog, Smart Dog
Science & Tech  (tags: scientists, investigation, animals, dogs, canine, intelligence, health, humans, illness, seizure. alert, epilepsy, anxiety, depression, phobias, interesting, research, prevention, protection )

Tom
- 19 days ago - nytimes.com
The ability of dogs to tune in to needs of psychiatric patients, turn on lights for trauma victims afraid of the dark, remind owners to take medication and interrupt suicide attempts and self-mutilation, has lately attracted the attention of researchers.
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