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Heat Deaths Could Rise Sharply in NYC Study: Climate Could Increase Heat-Related Death in Largest U.S. City 20% Within the Next
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Agnes
- 59 minutes ago - thedailygreen.com
Residents of Manhattan will not just sweat harder from rising temperatures in the future, says a new study; many may die. Researchers at Columbia University estimate deaths linked to warming climate may rise some 20 percent by the 2020s, and, in some
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The Discovery That Could Rewrite Australian History: Ancient Copper Coins Suggest the Country Was Found SIX CENTURIES Before Cap
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Agnes
- 1 hour ago - dailymail.co.uk
Five copper coins found in northern Australia could rewrite the country's history. The coins are thought to date back as early as the 900s and are believed to have originated in Africa.
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Radical Houses
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Frans
- 1 hour ago - architecturaldigest.com
groundbreaking residences of the past century and their innovative architects......
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Knowledge Doubling Every 12 Months, Soon to Be Every 12 Hours
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Frans
- 1 hour ago - industrytap.com
Buckminster Fuller created the "Knowledge Doubling Curve"; he noticed that until 1900 human knowledge doubled approximately every century. By the end of World War II knowledge was doubling every 25 years. Today things are not as simple as .......
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18-Year-Old Eesha Khare Invents a Revolutionary Device That Can Charge a Phone in 20 Seconds
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Cal
- 2 hours ago - dnaindia.com
California resident Eesha Khare made the breakthrough by creating a small supercapacitor that can fit inside a cell phone battery and enable ultra-fast electricity transfer and storage, delivering a full charge in 20-30 seconds instead of several hours
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World's Longest Under Water Gas Pipeline, 1166km "Giant Serpent"
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Frans
- 2 hours ago - industrytap.com
The Langeled Pipeline project, spearheaded by Exxon Mobil, Stat Oil and Royal Dutch Shell, was undertaken to exploit one of the world's largest reservoirs of natural gas in Norway's Ormen Lange (in Norse mythology: "Giant Serpent") field....
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Firefighters Seeing Through Flames and Saving Lives
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Frans
- 2 hours ago - industrytap.com
New infrared holography technology could enable firemen to see through flames and smoke, according to Italian researchers at CNR (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche), the National Research Council....
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Plants 'Talk' To Each Other Using Nanoscale Sound Waves To Help Them Grow, Study Suggests
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Agnes
- 3 hours ago - huffingtonpost.com
The word in the garden is that basil is good to have around. Plants are known to communicate with each other via shade, aromatic chemicals, and physical touch, promoting processes such as growth and defense against disease, as well as attraction of bees
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The Invisible Beauty of Flowers: Images of Petals, Leaves and Pollen Captured By Electron Microscope
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Agnes
- 11 hours ago - dailymail.co.uk
These cutting-edge images reveal the usually invisible beauty of flowers, zooming right in on their vibrant colours and quirky textures.
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Out of 11,944 Peer-Reviewed Climate Papers, 97.2% Agree on Man-Made Global Warming
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Agnes
- 16 hours ago - treehugger.com
Why do so many people still believe there's a scientific debate? A new meta-study by John Cook et al titled "Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific literature" tells us what a lot of us already knew; that there's a
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Deadly Fungus Brought Into US -- By Frogs
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Agnes
- 22 hours ago - foxnews.com
African frogs once imported to laboratories and hospitals around the world may have carried with them a devastating fungal infection thought to be responsible for a rapid, global decline in amphibians, according to new research.
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Interpol Filter Scope Creep: Australia Ordering Unilateral Website Blocks
Science & Tech  (tags: technology, world, tech, safety, internet, investigation, discovery )

JL
- 1 day ago - delimiter.com.au
Australia's financial regulator has started requiring ISPs to block websites suspected of providing fraudulent financial opportunities, opening the door for other agencies to unilaterally block sites they deem questionable.
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Space Watch: Joint Asteroid Guard to Be Set Up in Russia
Science & Tech  (tags: Meteor, space, technology, world, safety, NewTechnology, humans, design, astronomy )

James
- 1 day ago - rt.com
Russia's science, military and space industries are now uniting to create a first-of-its-kind national space threats defense program. The project is expected to take shape by late 2013, but it will take at least five more years
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Fine for Destruction of Ancient Mayan Pyramid? $5,000
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Marty
- 1 day ago - foxnews.com
The penalty for the near-total destruction of one of the biggest Mayan pyramids in Belize -- which the government called "unforgivable" and left archaeologists speechless -- may leave conservationists speechless: just $5,000
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Billion-Year-Old Water Preserved in Canadian Mine
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Marty
- 1 day ago - news.nationalgeographic.com
Pockets of water trapped in rocks from a Canadian mine are over a billion years old, and the water could contain life forms that can survive independently from the sun, scientists said this week.
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