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Japan's Space Agency Launches Lunar Probe; largest mission to the moon since the U.S. Apollo flights...
Post Date: 2007-09-13 22:05:03 by Brian S
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TOKYO: Japan's space agency launched its much-delayed lunar probe Friday, beginning what it calls the largest mission to the moon since the U.S. Apollo flights. The Selenological and Engineering Explorer — or SELENE — probe was launched aboard one of the space program's mainstay H-2A rockets from its launch-pad on Tanegashima, the remote island where the agency's space center is located. Footage of the launch carried live over the Internet showed the rocket racing upward through slightly hazy skies to the southeast. Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said the craft's engines and navigation systems appeared to be operating normally. The launch of the 32-billion ...
Bread & vinegar
Post Date: 2007-09-13 12:30:03 by richard9151
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Each of us has a built-in hormonal reflex that sends a "full" message from digestive organs to the brain. Unfortunately, some people learn to tune that message out, resulting in frequent overeating. But research shows there may be a simple way to help get the message through loud and clear. And as an added bonus, this method might help diabetics control blood sugar levels. Bread & vinegar Satiety is the feeling you get when you're full. And according to a Swedish study, that feeling can be helped along with a little acetic acid, which is the component in vinegar that produces the sour taste. Researchers at the Department of Food Technology, Engineering and Nutrition, ...
Group: Ebola threatens gorilla recovery
Post Date: 2007-09-13 06:52:01 by HOUNDDAWG
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GENEVA, Switzerland (AP) -- The most common type of gorilla is now "critically endangered," one step away from global extinction, according to the 2007 Red List of Threatened Species released Wednesday by the World Conservation Union. art.western.gorilla.ap.jpg The Ebola virus is depleting Western Gorilla populations to a point where it might become impossible for them to recover. Commercial hunting, civil unrest and habitat loss due to logging and forest clearance for palm oil plantations are compounding the problem, said the Swiss-based group known by its acronym IUCN. "Great apes are our closest living relatives and very special creatures," Russ Mittermeier, head ...
New evidence on the role of climate in Neanderthal extinction
Post Date: 2007-09-12 21:47:11 by farmfriend
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New evidence on the role of climate in Neanderthal extinction Contact: Simon Jenkins S.Jenkins@leeds.ac.uk 44-011-334-35764 University of Leeds THE mystery of what killed the Neanderthals has moved a step closer to resolution after an international study led by the University of Leeds has ruled out one of the competing theories – catastrophic climate change – as the most likely cause. The bones of more than 400 Neanderthals have been found since the first discoveries were made in the early 19th century. The finds suggest the Neanderthals, named after the Neander Valley near Düsseldorf, where they were first recognized as an extinct kind of archaic humans, inhabited Europe ...
Study shows wild male chimpanzees use stolen food to win over the opposite sex
Post Date: 2007-09-11 20:47:05 by farmfriend
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Contact: Lesley Wilkinson 44-178-646-7058 Public Library of Science Study shows wild male chimpanzees use stolen food to win over the opposite sex They say that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach and the same could be said for female chimpanzees. Researchers studying wild chimps in West Africa have discovered that males pinch desirable fruits from local farms and orchards as a means of attracting female mates. The study is published in the September 12 issue of the online, open-access journal PLoS ONE. Lead researcher, Dr Kimberley Hockings from the University of Stirling’s Department of Psychology said: “We believe the males may be using crop-raids as a way ...
Acid Rain Has a Disproportionate Impact on Coastal Waters
Post Date: 2007-09-11 20:39:42 by farmfriend
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Acid Rain Has a Disproportionate Impact on Coastal Waters Research Suggests Sulfur, Nitrogen Emissions Play a Role in Changing Chemistry Near the Coast The release of sulfur and nitrogen into the atmosphere by power plants and agricultural activities plays a minor role in making the ocean more acidic on a global scale, but the impact is greatly amplified in the shallower waters of the coastal ocean, according to new research by atmospheric and marine chemists. Ocean “acidification” occurs when chemical compounds such as carbon dioxide, sulfur, or nitrogen mix with seawater, a process which lowers the pH and reduces the storage of carbon. Ocean acidification hampers the ability ...
Researcher finds lake boiling with methane
Post Date: 2007-09-11 20:23:25 by farmfriend
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Researcher finds lake boiling with methane Submitted by Katey Walter 09/07/07 Last month, UAF researcher Katey Walter brought a National Public Radio crew to Alaska’s North Slope, hoping to show them examples of what happens when methane is released when permafrost thaws beneath lakes. When they reached their destination, Walter and the crew found even more than they bargained for: a lake violently boiling with escaping methane. “It was cold, wet and windy. We were dropped off in the middle of nowhere by a helicopter and paddled out to a huge methane plume in the middle of the lake with no idea what to expect, how strong the bubbling plume would be, whether or not our raft ...
Pennsylvania Man Claims to Burn Salt Water
Post Date: 2007-09-11 18:09:51 by christine
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ERIE, Pa. — An Erie, Pa., cancer researcher says he has found a way to burn salt water, a novel invention that is being touted by a retired chemistry professor as the "most remarkable" water science discovery in a century. John Kanzius says he happened upon the discovery accidentally when he tried to desalinate seawater with a radio-frequency generator he says he developed to treat cancer. He discovered that as long as the salt water was exposed to the radio frequencies, it would burn. The discovery has scientists excited by the prospect of using salt water, the most abundant resource on earth, as a fuel. • Click here for http://FOXNews.com's Patents and ...
French Bulldog at Heart of RFID Tumor Story
Post Date: 2007-09-10 21:44:03 by tom007
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French Bulldog at Heart of RFID Tumor Story By Kim Zetter EmailSeptember 10, 2007 | 5:31:55 PMCategories: RFID Leon A nine-year-old French bulldog named Leon was the catalyst for the enterprising Associated Press story published this weekend about the link between RFID chips and cancer -- which comes just a week after the California senate passed a bill prohibiting the forced implanation of chips in humans. Leon (pictured at right) was diagnosed in 2004 with a tumor and later died. His Canadian owner "Jeanne," believing the RFID chip embedded in Leon's neck for identification purposes was linked to her pet's death, decided to seek answers about why the tumor had attached ...
iPhone User Racks Up $4,800 Bill
Post Date: 2007-09-10 21:12:25 by tom007
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iPhone User Racks Up $4,800 Bill By David Becker EmailSeptember 10, 2007 | 6:12:08 PMCategories: iPhone Iphone1 Here's another savvy Gadget Lab tip for new iPhone owners: Make sure you turn off e-mail updates before you take it overseas. In fact, just leave it at home to be safe. In a lead-lined case. Otherwise, you may follow in the steps of Jay Levy, who racked up a $4,800 AT&T bill that ran 54 pages long after taking three iPhones on a European cruise, apparently just so he could be near their gadgety perfection. He didn't use any of the phones to make or take calls, but the things kept checking in for e-mail updates, racking up roaming charges like a drunk teenager with a ...
Homo politicus: brain function of liberals, conservatives differs
Post Date: 2007-09-10 06:37:49 by Diana
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PARIS (AFP) - The brain neurons of liberals and conservatives fire differently when confronted with tough choices, suggesting that some political divides may be hard-wired, according a study released Sunday. Aristotle may have been more on the mark than he realised when he said that man is by nature a political animal. Dozens of previous studies have established a strong link between political persuasion and certain personality traits. Conservatives tend to crave order and structure in their lives, and are more consistent in the way they make decisions. Liberals, by contrast, show a higher tolerance for ambiguity and complexity, and adapt more easily to unexpected circumstances. The ...
Melting ice cap triggering earthquakes
Post Date: 2007-09-09 17:15:08 by Zipporah
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Melting ice cap triggering earthquakes· Estimates of sea-level rise out of date, say scientists · Religious leaders pray for planet at Greenland glacier Paul Brown in Ilulissat The Guardian Saturday September 8 2007 The Greenland ice cap is melting so quickly that it is triggering earthquakes as pieces of ice several cubic kilometres in size break off. Scientists monitoring events this summer say the acceleration could be catastrophic in terms of sea-level rise and make predictions this February by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change far too low. The glacier at Ilulissat, which supposedly spawned the iceberg that sank the Titantic, is now flowing three ...
Warming Is Seen as Wiping Out Most Polar Bears
Post Date: 2007-09-09 01:39:50 by robin
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September 8, 2007 Warming Is Seen as Wiping Out Most Polar Bears By JOHN M. BRODER and ANDREW C. REVKIN WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 — Two-thirds of the world’s polar bears will disappear by 2050, even under moderate projections for shrinking summer sea ice caused by greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, government scientists reported on Friday. The finding is part of a yearlong review of the effects of climate and ice changes on polar bears to help determine whether they should be protected under the Endangered Species Act. Scientists estimate the current polar bear population at 22,000. The report, which the United States Geological Survey released here, offers stark prospects for polar ...
Zombie Pfizer Computers Spew Viagra Spam
Post Date: 2007-09-08 20:22:47 by Zipporah
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Zombie Pfizer Computers Spew Viagra Spam By Ryan Singel 09.06.07 | 2:00 AM Computers inside pharmaceutical giant Pfizer's network are spamming the internet with e-mails touting the company's flagship erectile-enhancement drug Viagra, along with ads for knockoff Rolexes and shady junk stocks. But the e-mails are not part of Pfizer's official marketing efforts. Pfizer's computers appear to have been infected with malware that has transformed them into zombie computers sending spam at the behest of a hacker. Oddly ...
Physicists establish 'spooky' quantum communication
Post Date: 2007-09-08 10:19:49 by gengis gandhi
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Physicists establish 'spooky' quantum communication Physicists at the University of Michigan have coaxed two separate atoms to communicate with a sort of quantum intuition that Albert Einstein called "spooky." In doing so, the researchers have made an advance toward super-fast quantum computing. The research could also be a building block for a quantum internet. Scientists used light to establish what's called "entanglement" between two atoms, which were trapped a meter apart in separate enclosures (think of entangling like controlling the outcome of one coin flip with the outcome of a separate coin flip). A paper on the findings appears in the Sept. 6 ...
Israeli acute paralysis virus May Be Cause of Honeybee Deaths
Post Date: 2007-09-06 15:07:49 by Jethro Tull
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Virus May Be Cause of Honeybee Deaths From: Associated Press/AP Online Date: September 6, 2007 WASHINGTON - Scientific sleuths have a new suspect for what's been killing billions of honeybees: a virus previously unknown in the United States. The scientists report using a novel genetic technique and old-fashioned statistics to identify Israeli acute paralysis virus as the latest potential culprit in the widespread deaths of worker bees, a phenomenon known as colony collapse disorder. Next up are attempts to infect honeybees with the newfound virus to see if it's indeed a killer. "At least we have a lead now we can begin to follow. We can use it as a marker and we can use ...
Linux - Installing ubuntu - revealed
Post Date: 2007-09-06 11:50:19 by Lod
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Good information with video at the URL.
Loss of Arctic ice leaves experts stunned
Post Date: 2007-09-05 01:51:48 by robin
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The Arctic ice cap has collapsed at an unprecedented rate this summer and levels of sea ice in the region now stand at record lows, scientists have announced. Experts say they are "stunned" by the loss of ice, with an area almost twice as big as the UK disappearing in the last week alone. So much ice has melted this summer that the Northwest passage across the top of Canada is fully navigable, and observers say the Northeast passage along Russia's Arctic coast could open later this month. If the increased rate of melting continues, the summertime Arctic could be totally free of ice by 2030. Mark Serreze, an Arctic specialist at the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre at ...
A Google phone is the talk of the blogosphere
Post Date: 2007-09-04 17:43:22 by robin
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TECHNOLOGY A Google phone is the talk of the blogosphere No outsider can prove it exists, and the company won't comment, but rumors are rife that a possible iPhone killer could be out by next year. By Jessica Guynn Los Angeles Times Staff Writer September 4, 2007 The Google Phone is like the Roswell UFO: Few outsiders know if it really exists, but it's got a cult following. Just months after iPhone mania gripped Silicon Valley gadget heads, suspense is building over reports that Google Inc. plans to release its own cellphone. The blogosphere is buzzing with rumors that the search giant may announce Linux-based mobile software as early as this week and a Google phone, which ...
Scientists find elusive waves in sun's corona
Post Date: 2007-09-03 20:46:24 by farmfriend
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Scientists find elusive waves in sun's corona Discovery can help unlock secrets of corona's heat, solar storms BOULDER--Scientists for the first time have observed elusive oscillations in the Sun's corona, known as Alfvén waves, that transport energy outward from the surface of the Sun. The discovery is expected to give researchers more insight into the fundamental behavior of solar magnetic fields, eventually leading to a fuller understanding of how the Sun affects Earth and the solar system. The research, led by Steve Tomczyk of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), is being published this week in Science. "Alfvén waves can provide us with ...
At Rapleaf, your personals are public
Post Date: 2007-09-03 18:25:16 by mirage
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In the cozy Facebook social network, it's easy to have a sense of privacy among friends and business acquaintances. But sites like Rapleaf will quickly jar you awake: Everything you say or do on a social network could be fair game to sell to marketers. Rapleaf, based in San Francisco, is building a business on that premise. The privately held start-up, whose investors include Facebook-backer and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, runs two consumer Web sites: http://Rapleaf.com, a people search engine that lets you retrieve the name, age and social-network affiliations of anyone, as long as you have his or her e-mail address; and http://Upscoop.com, a similar site to discover, en masse, ...
Talks on Climate Change Impact in Africa
Post Date: 2007-09-02 15:27:48 by farmfriend
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Talks on Climate Change Impact in Africa By DOUG MELLGREN, Associated Press Writer OSLO, Norway - Climate change could worsen Africa's struggle to feed itself, but simple steps _ a cistern to catch rainwater, a solar panel, or hardier seeds for crops _ could help the continent's subsistence farms, specialists and activists said Friday. About 250 researchers, donors, and officials met in Oslo this week for the Second Green Africa Revolution Conference, which follows up a 2004 challenge from former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan to revolutionize African farming. Africa imports about 25 percent of its food, and one in three of its residents suffer chronic hunger, according to a ...
Coming Next Week: Colony Collapse Disorder Breakthrough
Post Date: 2007-09-02 12:59:32 by Eoghan
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The first break in the CCD mystery is about to be released. Researchers at Penn State, the USDA and Columbia University have had a research paper accepted by Science magazine that outlines the first published information on a possible cause of Colony Collapse Disorder commonly known as CCD. But Science and for the most part the researchers are being tight-lipped about what's in that paper. The secrecy surrounding this research has been extraordinary and some of the activities of the researchers has left us scratching our heads. One of the scientists let on a few weeks ago in a small farming magazine that what they had found was a virus, or viruses supposedly previously unknown in ...
Industrial nations shy away from stiff 2020 goals
Post Date: 2007-08-31 10:32:20 by richard9151
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57 minutes ago VIENNA (Reuters) - Industrial nations were shying away from fixing stiff 2020 guidelines for greenhouse gases cuts at U.N. talks on Friday in what environmentalists said would be a vote for "dangerous" climate change. A draft text at the U.N. talks dropped a demand that developed nations should be "guided" by a need for steep cuts in greenhouse gases of 25 to 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2020 in working out a long-term fight against global warming. "There are a limited number of problems still with the text," said Yvo de Boer, the head of the U.N. Climate Change Secretariat. He predicted a compromise by the end of the August 27-31 talks ...
Why talking to plants may not make you such a Charlie after all ( scientists said they had found "a set of sound-responsive genes in plants")
Post Date: 2007-08-30 11:49:32 by gengis gandhi
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Why talking to plants may not make you such a Charlie after all IAN JOHNSTON ENVIRONMENT CORRESPONDENT (ijohnston@scotsman.com) WHEN Prince Charles suggested plants responded to his words of endearment, it was dismissed by many as eccentric nonsense. But now researchers in South Korea claim to have discovered evidence that the heir to the throne may have been right all along. The scientists said they had found "a set of sound-responsive genes in plants" in what other experts said would be an astonishing finding. Plants are known to respond to light, temperature, touch and vibration, and the South Korean team, led by Dr Mi-Jeong Jeong, decided to investigate whether they could ...
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