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Nanoscale snowman Boing BoingThe snowman was made from two tin beads used to calibrate electron microscope astigmatism. The eyes and smile were milled using a focused ion beam, and the nose, which is under 1 µm wide (or 0.001 mm), is ion beam deposited platinum. A nanomanipulation system was used to assemble the parts 'by ...
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French introduced farming to Britain: studySimon Fraser University archeologists Mark Collard and Kevan Edinborough and colleagues from University College London have uncovered evidence that French farmers introduced agriculture to Britain some 60 centuries ago. The researchers note that without the civilizing influence of their Gallic ...
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UN scientists defend 'targeted' colleagues - Yahoo! NewsMembers of the Nobel-winning panel of climate scientists rose on Tuesday to defend colleagues that they said had been "targeted" for email hacking to sway the outcome of the UN global warming talks. Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), said he ...
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Scientists call leaked emails part of “smear campaign” before Copenhagen | TopNews United StatesIn their Tuesday-released report about the stepped-up pace of climate change, three scientists - Richard Somerville of Scripps Institution of Oceanography; Michael Mann of Penn State; and Eric Steig of University of Washington – said that last week’s leaked emails controversy was apparently a ...
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Why Are BPA and Other Chemicals in the Womb? | Kid-Safe Chemicals Act Interactive Magazine | Environmental Working GroupWhy Are BPA and Other Chemicals in the Womb?
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Feeding Birds Could Create New Species | Wired Science | Wired.comSomething as simple as feeding birds can change their biological fate, and even seed the formation of a new species. Central European blackcap warblers that spend the winter in the birdfeeder-rich United Kingdom are on a different evolutionary trajectory than those that migrate to Spain. The ...
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Ground-Breaking Science: Very Old Papers Are Both Awesome and Hilarious | Wired Science | Wired.comCan one species be transmuted into another just by swapping their blood? What are those funny little things swimming in my water? Did this Einstein guy get his math right? Those are a few of the questions addressed in a trove of history-making papers published by the United Kingdom’s Royal ...
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Proper use of English could get a virus past security - tech - 27 November 2009 - New ScientistHackers could evade most existing antivirus protection by hiding malicious code within ordinary text, according to security researchers. One of the most common ways of hijacking other people's computers is to use "code-injection" attacks, in which malicious computer code is delivered to and ...
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Welcome to the high-carbon future - tech - 27 November 2009 - New ScientistCARBON is a dirty word. We burn too much of it, producing billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide that threatens to wreck our planet's climate for generations to come. Before that it was the villain of the piece in the guise of the soot that poured from factory chimneys and turned cities black. It ...
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Royal Society online - from young Mozart to black holes, 350 years of the Royal Society go onlineBritain's academy of the sciences marks anniversary with online archive including letters from Newton and Captain Cook. Welcome to Trailblazing, an interactive timeline for everybody with an interest in science. Compiled by scientists, science communicators and historians – and co-ordinated by ...
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