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BBC News - 'Acidifying oceans' threaten food supply, UK warnsBy Richard Black Environment correspondent, BBC News website, Copenhagen Acidification of the oceans is a major threat to marine life and humanity's food supply, Hilary Benn has warned as the UN climate summit resumes. The UK environment secretary said that acidification provided a ...
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nanosensors used to measure cancer biomarkers in blood for first timeNanosensors Used to Measure Cancer Biomarkers in Blood for First Time ScienceDaily (Dec. 13, 2009) — A team led by Yale University researchers has used nanosensors to measure cancer biomarkers in whole blood for the first time. Their findings, which appear December 13 in the advanced online ...
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MIT gestural computing makes multitouch look old hat -- EngadgetMIT gestural computing makes multitouch look old hat Ah, the MIT Media Lab, home to Big Bird's illegitimate progeny , augmented reality projects aplenty, and now three-dimensional gestural computing. The new bi-directional display being demoed by the Cambridge-based boffins performs both ...
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Human blood stem cells engineered to kill HIVA proof-of-principle study has demonstrated that it is possible to engineer human blood stem cells into cells that can target and kill HIV-infected cells. The result is the equivalent of a genetic vaccine which is not only good news in the fight against HIV - the process could also be used ...
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Snow at Highest Elevations No Longer Pure - Yahoo! NewsThe pure white snow atop the Andes Mountains may not be so pure after all. Scientists have found traces of toxic pollutants called PCBs in snow samples taken from Aconcagua Mountain, the highest peak in the Americas. While the overall PCB levels were quite low, the results show that these ...
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Google opens satellite images, tools, to study deforestationWith the advent of commercial satellite imaging, it has become possible to track developments that were once exclusively the domain of space and spy agencies. Groups like the Federation of American Scientists and the American Association for the Advancement of Science have used changes between ...
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Climate projections underestimate CO2 impactThe climate may be 30-50 percent more sensitive to atmospheric carbon dioxide in the long term than previously thought, according to a recent study published in Nature Geoscience. Projections over the next hundreds of years of climate conditions, including global temperatures, may need to be ...
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Scientists observe super-massive black holes using Keck Observatory in HawaiiUKIRT infrared images of the four target galaxies show them in near-infrared color, where the images at different infrared wavelengths are assigned to represent red, green and blue colors. Observations with the Keck Interferometer have resolved the inner structure of the bright nucleus in all ...
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Earth's atmosphere came from outer space, find scientistsThe gases which formed the Earth's atmosphere - and probably its oceans - did not come from inside the Earth but from outer space, according to a study by University of Manchester and University of Houston scientists. The report published this week in the prestigious international journal ...
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Scientists Create Material More Insulating than the VacuumWith its complete lack of atoms, a vacuum is often considered to be the best known insulator. For this reason, vacuums are regularly used to reduce heat transfer, such as in the lining of a thermos to keep beverages hot or cold. However, in a recent study scientists have found a material even ...
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