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Opinion: Out of Water: From Abundance to Scarcity and How to Solve the World's Water Problems

Science News - Sun, 09/05/2010 - 18:00
Colin Chartres argues that meeting competing demands from agriculture, industry, cities and the environment will require a substantial overhaul in the way we manage the world’s water resources.(author unknown)

Making climate data free for all

Science News - Sun, 09/05/2010 - 14:01
International workshop will propose ways of creating a comprehensive climate databank.(author unknown)

How animals evolved personalities

Science News - Sat, 09/04/2010 - 21:00
Being social could drive the evolution of personality differences

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LED-studded skirt makes a bright fashion statement

Science News - Sat, 09/04/2010 - 19:00
You'll light up the room in a skirt coated with LEDs that illuminate as you move

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Canada sees shock salmon glut

Science News - Sat, 09/04/2010 - 08:50
Some 34 million of the fish are thronging British Columbia's Fraser River.(author unknown)

Canada sees shock salmon glut

Science News - Sat, 09/04/2010 - 08:50
Some 34 million of the fish are thronging British Columbia's Fraser River.(author unknown)

What lies beneath Antarctic ice

Science News - Sat, 09/04/2010 - 08:45
Rodolfo del Valle and his team are heading to the Southern Ocean to measure a methane leak.(author unknown)

Eternal black holes are the ultimate cosmic safes

Science News - Sat, 09/04/2010 - 03:59
Normally, black holes evaporate over time, a process that probably releases information about their contents – but there may be a way to create black holes that stand the test of time

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Edible crystals could store hydrogen fuel

Science News - Sat, 09/04/2010 - 02:56
Molecular cages for storing hydrogen fuel have been made from cheap, natural ingredients – and they taste like crackers

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Pakistan's flood weather eased Atlantic hurricanes

Science News - Sat, 09/04/2010 - 01:45
The stalled weather pattern behind floods in Pakistan and a heatwave in Russia may have delayed the start of the Atlantic hurricane season

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Trojan asteroids make planetary scientist lose sleep

Science News - Sat, 09/04/2010 - 01:33
The sizes of asteroids near Jupiter spell trouble for the leading theory of how our solar system evolved

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Computer games may be spawning reckless drivers

Science News - Sat, 09/04/2010 - 00:59
Young drivers who played car-based computer games in their mid-teens are more likely to say they drive fast and dangerously in the real world

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Humans with monkeypox virus cases rocket

Science News - Sat, 09/04/2010 - 00:54
A 20-fold jump in the number of humans with a smallpox-related virus in Congo has provoked a call to assess its global threat

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Monkeypox virus cases rocket

Science News - Sat, 09/04/2010 - 00:54
A 20-fold jump in the number of humans with a smallpox-related virus in Congo has provoked a call to assess its global threat

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Study of 9/11's Emotional Response Charts Anxiety, Anger

Science News - Sat, 09/04/2010 - 00:45
A new paper in Psychological Science has provided a fever chart of how the emotions of Americans as a whole rose and fell in the course of that singular day(author unknown)

Study: Brain Exercises Delay, but Can't Prevent, Dementia

Science News - Sat, 09/04/2010 - 00:45
Contrary to doctors' advice to "use it or lose it," a new study finds that brain-stimulating exercises may fend off dementia -- but at a cost(author unknown)

Why your brain flips over visual illusions

Science News - Fri, 09/03/2010 - 22:50
What happens in your brain when you view illusions in which two separate images can be seen?

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Nano-engineered cotton promises to wipe out water bugs

Science News - Fri, 09/03/2010 - 22:17
Cotton impregnated with silver nanowires and carbon nanotubes could provide a cheap and effective method of purifying water in remote locations

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Why the 'sixth extinction' will be unpredictable

Science News - Fri, 09/03/2010 - 21:19
The fallout from the current mass extinction of life on Earth will be far from simple to predict

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Second super-fast flip of Earth's poles found

Science News - Fri, 09/03/2010 - 21:04
Theory says the Earth's magnetic field can't flip in just a few years, yet for the second time evidence has been found of it happening in the past

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