ANIMALS - Are King Crabs Invading Antarctic Seas?: Scientific American
A new study suggests not, and points to a paucity of scientific knowledge of life undersea ...
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ANIMALS - Earthworms could help scientists 'dig' into past climates
A team of UK researchers believe earthworms could provide a window into past climates, allowing scientists to piece together the prevailing weather conditions thousands of years ago.
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ANIMALS - Going to Seed: Climate Change Could Spark Small Mammal Invasion: Scientific American
Seeding events in forests, on the rise due partly to climate change, provide more food for invasive mammals and could be the cause of a boom in their populations ...
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ANIMALS - How to Identify Grief in Animals: Scientific American
Many species mourn the passing of loved ones, but not every animal response to death qualifies as grief ...
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ANIMALS - Researchers uncover that moths talk about sex in many ways
Moths are nocturnal, and they have one major enemy; the bat. As a defense many moths developed ears sensitive to the bat´s echolocation cries, and they have also developed different behaviors to avoid bats. Now it turns out that many moths are able to use both their hearing and their avoidance behavior ... ...
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ANIMALS - This Bizarre Fish Can Live On Land For Up To Two Months
The mangrove rivulus is a small tropical killifish that can live out of water for months, and is the only vertebrate that can self-fertilize. ...
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CLIMATE - Australian heatwaves 'five times more likely due to global warming'
Climate News Network: Human activities will account for at least half of extreme summer temperatures likely to hit Australia in the future, say scientists at the University of Melbourne ...
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CLIMATE - More Storms, More Heat, More Extremes Says WMO | Climate Central
In the first decade of this century sea level rise increased at about double the rate of the preceding 100 years, the World Meteorological Organization says. ...
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CLIMATE - Climate change will still not be taught in English primary schools
Leo Hickman: The Department for Education has changed the wording of the key stage 3 geography curriculum to incorporate climate change ...
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CLIMATE - Insurance Companies Given Severe Weather Warning | Climate Central
The rise in extreme weather events driven by warming oceans leads industry to urge action by the government. ...
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ECONOMICS - Everything Must Go: A Strategy For Store Liquidation
Closing stores requires a deliberate, systematic approach to price markdowns and inventory transfers. Harvard Business School's Ananth Raman and Nathan Craig explain. ...
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ECONOMICS - Global Warming and Economists - SuperFreakonomics is SuperFreakingWrong
John Abraham: Those who purchased the book SuperFreakonomics are paying to be misled about climate change ...
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ECONOMICS - Singaporeans Are The Fastest In The World To Become Millionaires
It takes most Singaporeans less than 10 years to become a millionaire. That is the fastest rate anywhere in the world, says a wealth report released by the Barclays Bank on July 5, 2013 in Singapore. The Bank surveyed 2000 high net worth individuals globally in early 2013 to ascertain how entrepreneurs, business leaders and investors make, spend and share wealth. The r ...
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ECONOMICS - Why the Economy is Not Like a Pizza Pie | Post Growth Institute
Economic growth is about making the pie bigger – but making the pie bigger doesn’t guarantee that everyone will get a fair share. ...
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ECONOMICS - Dispatch From Europe: Learning, or Not, From Policy Mistakes
The continued insistence on austerity in Europe flies in the face of increasing evidence that a focus on public debt is hurting economic growth, an economist writes. ...
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ECONOMICS - The 10 Happiest States In The U.S.
Editor’s NoteFor a more global view, see the 10 happiest cities in the world.Live in Hawaii, Colorado, or Minnesota? Chances are, you’re happier than your brethren in Mississippi, Kentucky, and West Virginia. That’s according to the 2012 Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index. ...
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ECONOMICS - The 50 Americans Who Gave Away the Most Money in 2012 - In Photos: The 50 Americans Who Gave Away the Most Money in 2012
This is the 13th year the Chronicle of Philanthropy has put together its Philanthropy 50, a list of the 50 biggest charitable donors in the past year. The list tallies gifts and pledges of cash and stock to nonprofit organizations. The Chronicle does not count gifts that donors made from their family foundations, to avoid counting the same gifts twice. In addition to ca ...
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EDUCATION - How to teach outdoors
There will be lots of outdoor activities going on this term as the summer holiday draws near. The Guardian Teacher Network has resources to help teachers develop outdoor learning throughout the year ...
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EDUCATION - Shareable: Liberate Education: How to Start a Free School
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ENERGY - Japan moves closer to restarting nuclear reactors
Utility companies apply for safety inspections of idled plants in clearest sign of return to atomic energy after Fukushima disaster ...
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ENVIRONMENT - Researchers warn of legacy mercury in the environment
Environmental researchers at Harvard University have published evidence that significant reductions in mercury emissions will be necessary just to stabilize current levels of the toxic element in the environment. So much mercury persists in surface reservoirs (soil, air, and water) from past pollution, ... ...
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ENVIRONMENT - U.S. System for Flagging Hazardous Chemicals Is Widely Flawed: Scientific American
A 27-year-old U.S. program intended to warn the public of the presence of hazardous chemicals is flawed in many states due to scant oversight and lax reporting by plant owners, a Reuters examination finds. ...
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GARDENS - Thing You Must Plant This Instant: Cucamelons
They're grape-sized watermelons that taste like cucumbers with a tinge of lime. And they're totally easy to grow... ...
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MOVIES - 15 TED Talks That Will Change Your Life
Feel like getting inspired, motivated or just looking for a feel-good cry? Look no further. ...
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PERMACULTURE - Balance as the key to family farm survival
Family farms survived in the second half of the 20th century by balancing the demands of the regulated market economy with the astute use of their own resources. This is the conclusion reached by a research team working on an FWF project that examined agricultural development in Lower Austria during ... ...
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PERMACULTURE - Episode #62 Land Grabs
Fred Pearce joins us to talk about global land grabs and Gregor Macdonald covers how the global economy has responded to peak oil. ... http://www.extraenvironmentalist.com/2013/06/30/episode-62-l
PLANTS - Growing Chives in Your Herb Garden - Organic Gardening - MOTHER EARTH NEWS
MOTHER's Herb Garden provides a history and gardening guide for growing chives in your garden. ...
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SCIENCE - Device physics: Simulating electronic smog
A research team from A*STAR and Samsung Electronics has developed a fast and accurate way to estimate the electromagnetic emissions from printed circuit boards that could help designers to ensure that devices meet regulatory standards. ...
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SCIENCE - Frigid Space Speeds Chemical Reaction: Scientific American Podcast
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SCIENCE - Happy Birthday Higgs Boson! | Basic Space, Scientific American Blog Network
A year ago today I was at the 62nd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Germany. Miles away in Geneva, Switzerland, scientists were getting ready to tell ... ...
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SCIENCE - Let's be clear about science education and engagement
Melanie Smallman and Simon Lock from UCL explain how the Wellcome Trust have misread their own survey ...
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SCIENCE - Underwater survival story presents physics puzzle
(Phys.org) —When Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory physicist Maxim Umansky flipped through the news, a startling underwater survival story caught his attention. In May, a boat cook survived a 60-hour underwater ordeal 100 feet below the surface after his tugboat sank near the Nigerian coast. ...
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SCIENCE - Watch a Swirling Alien World Magically Appear in a Test Tube
A lot of your more flashy chemistry experiments are explosion-centric, but there are a few quieter ones that are just as mesmerizing. A mixture of copper sulfate and ammonia, for instance, looks like the surface of an alien gas giant. And when it's in slow motion, it's positively hypnotic. ...
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SCIENCE - Why Fireworks Depend on Geology | Rosetta Stones, Scientific American Blog Network
America is about to blow up a bunch of stuff for its 237th birthday. I love it! Who doesn't love fireworks? Well, aside from my childhood ... ...
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SCIENCE - Zombies offer key to understanding how crowds evacuate
Zombies might not be the most obvious candidates to use when researching how crowds evacuate buildings, but they have proved a key factor in a new study into crowd behaviour. ...
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SCIENCE - Material scientists reveal organizing principles for design of nanoscopic materials
(Phys.org) —The ultimate dream come true for material scientists is to have the ability to make materials that can take on properties and behaviors to best suit our needs. New materials could provide efficient ways to capture solar energy and help us significantly advance the way motors, generators ... ...
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SCIENCE - New metallic bubble wrap offers big benefits over other protective materials
Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a new metallic bubble wrap that is lighter, stronger and more flexible than sheet metal and more heat- and chemical-resistant than plastic or other polymer-based bubble wraps. Potential applications include automobile body panels, the wing ... ...
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SCIENCE - Polymers: Why Some Recyclable Items Just Don’t Mix
The numbers on recyclable plastics indicate the type of polymer involved, letting recycling processors know whether the item is compatible with their recipe. ...
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SCIENCE - Researchers perform first direct measurement of Van der Waals force
Researchers perform first direct measurement of Van der Waals force ...
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SCIENCE - Rust promises hydrogen power boost
A discovery by an international team of scientists could help boost the efficiency of hydrogen production from the Sun's rays - a potentially green source of energy. ...
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SPACE - Iain M. Banks gets asteroid named after him
Iain M. Banks has joined a select group of science fiction creators who've received the ultimate tribute, of having a celestial body named after him. The asteroid named Iainbanks is orbiting the sun in the main asteroid belt, every 3.94 years. ...
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SPACE - Inseparable galactic twins
(Phys.org) —Looking towards the constellation of Triangulum (The Triangle), in the northern sky, lies the galaxy pair MRK 1034. The two very similar galaxies, named PGC 9074 and PGC 9071, are close enough to one another to be bound together by gravity, although no gravitational disturbance can yet ... ...
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SPACE - Intergalactic magnifying glasses could help astronomers map galaxy centres
(Phys.org) —An international team of astronomers may have found a new way to map quasars, the energetic and luminous central regions typically found in distant galaxies. Team leader Prof. Andy Lawrence of the Royal Observatory Edinburgh presents the new results on Monday 1 July at the RAS National ... ...
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SPACE - NASA tests game changing composite cryogenic fuel tank
NASA recently completed a major space technology development milestone by successfully testing a pressurized, large cryogenic propellant tank made of composite materials. The composite tank will enable the next generation of rockets and spacecraft needed for space exploration. ...
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SPACE - Using the Sun to illuminate a basic mystery of matter
Antimatter has been detected in solar flares via microwave and magnetic-field data, according to a presentation by NJIT Research Professor of Physics Gregory D. Fleishman and two co-researchers at the 44th meeting of the American Astronomical Society's Solar Physics Division. This research sheds light ... ...
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SPACE - Send Your Own Personalized Spacecraft to the Moon
A new Kickstarter project now allows you to send your own personalized spacecraft to the moon. The small crafts are trackable via the web and a phone app. ...
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SPACE - The secret life of the Sun
What are the intricate layers forming this glowing star? ...
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WATER - Beer Brewers Tap Growing Economic Clout to Fight for Clean Water: Scientific American
A new campaign aims to leverage the growth of the craft-brewing sector into a powerful voice for clean water protection in the U.S. ...
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WATER - China's Largest Algal Bloom Turns the Yellow Sea Green | Climate Central
The largest algal bloom ever recorded in China has turned the Yellow Sea green and may be related to pollution from agriculture and industry. ...
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WORK - It Might Be Harder To Fire People For Being Fat Now
The American Medical Association's decision to upgrade obesity to a "disease" could provide new protections for very overweight employees. .. ...
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