ANIMALS - Boy lost in the Australian bush says he was saved by a friendly kangaroo
“I think it was a miracle, when I smell his jacket, it’s kangaroo – bush and kangaroo,”says the boy's mother. ...
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ANIMALS - How polar bears became a symbol for climate change
Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley interviewed Jon Mooallem on how the polar bear became a symbol for climate change, but ultimately lost its power: ...
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ANIMALS - Jumping spiders' silk trick revealed
Jumping spiders use their dragline of silk to stabilise themselves mid-air and land of their feet ready to pounce, say scientists. ...
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ANIMALS - Longest animal memory 'in dolphins'
Scientists say that dolphins can remember the whistles of old companions even after 20 years of separation. ...
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ANIMALS - The temperature tastes just right: Scientists discover new insect temperature sensor
Call it the Goldilocks Principle—animals can survive and reproduce only if the temperature is just right. Too hot and they will overheat. Too cold and they will freeze. ...
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ANIMALS - Wolf found in Netherlands is no joke, scientists say
The first wolf found in the Netherlands in over 140 years walked there freely from eastern Europe, scientists said Wednesday, dismissing allegations its body had been dumped as joke. ...
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CLIMATE - Cities Under Water, War and Heat, and New NOAA Head | Climate Central
The impact of climate extremes on violence, Obama new NOAA head nomination and a look at the U.S. cities under future seas. ...
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CLIMATE - Living with climate change in Greenland - in pictures
As Greenlanders adapt to the changing climate, researchers study the phenomenon of the melting glaciers and the long-term ramifications for the world ...
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CLIMATE - Sunburned in Siberia: Heat Wave Leads to Wildfires | Climate Central
A heat wave in Siberia has led to a surge in wildfires, releasing large amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. ...
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CLIMATE - Which U.S. City Will Be the First Submerged by Climate Change?
Even if carbon emissions stopped right now, climate change would still mostly submerge more than 1,400 U.S. municipalities by 2100. ...
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ECONOMICS - When Men Should Handle Money Like Women
A new study finds the sexes cope with financial setbacks differently. Here are five ways males can take cues from females. ...
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ECONOMICS - With an appetite for change, retailers set up shop in Silicon Valley
On the third floor of the historic Folgers Coffee Co. building, just blocks from the city's famed Embarcadero waterfront, Target Corp. is brewing up a storm, and it has nothing to do with caffeinated beverages. ...Enclosure: image/jpeg http://cdn.physorg.com/newman/gfx/news/tmb/2012/atom.jp
EDUCATION - England faces science teacher gap
The government's new teacher training programme is failing to recruit enough science and maths specialists, warns a leading teacher recruitment expert. ...Enclosure: image/jpeg http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/67373000/jpg/_67373987
EDUCATION - Online Courses Can Improve Life on Campus: Scientific American
The future of on-campus learning lies in the right combination of digital and traditional tools
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EDUCATION - Welcome to the new era of University, Inc.
After years of wariness, universities and industry scientists are forging new partnerships that are reinvigorating academic science departments, preparing students for careers and giving corporations better access to fundamental research. That 21st century alliance is the topic of the cover story in ... ...Enclosure: image/jpeg http://cdn.physorg.com/newman/gfx/news/tmb/2012/atom.jp
ENERGY - Clean Energy To Power Nuclear Weapons Testing | EarthTechling
Environmentally friendly nuclear weapons testing. ...
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ENERGY - Is Peak Oil Demand Real?
There has been increasing chatter in the Internet aether about the possibility that world oil demand might peak sometime in the near future. The thinking is informed primarily by falling demand in areas like the US and Europe, but especially the perception that a plethora of new transportation technologies, such [...] ...
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ENERGY - New Clean Energy Breakthroughs Offer Better Tomorrow | EarthTechling
Finnish researchers say they have found how to produce biofuel cheaply, while a US team says it can make hydrogen from water at less cost than conventional methods. ...
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ENERGY - Texas Oil And Gas Numbers Fly Off The Charts
English: Seal of Texas (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The growing scale of the oil and natural gas boom in Texas continues to stun most observers. We have discussed this phenomenon periodically (see prior pieces here and here) , but the newest developments are so off the charts that an update is warranted. We’ve [...] ...
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ENVIRONMENT - A Picture is Worth: The divide between the plastics industry and green building
The war of words continues between those who say plastics are safe and those who don't ...
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ENVIRONMENT - Childless Cities? Bring In The Hipsters
At City Journal, Joel Kotkin and Ali Modarres ask an unusual question: "What are cities for?" They don't go so far as to say that cities are for raising children in families. But Kotkin and Modarres do strongly imply that without that teleological view of urban environments, cities become moronic playgrounds [...] ...
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ENVIRONMENT - Emergency declared as Fukushima nuclear plant leaks radioactive water into ocean
http://www.examiner.com/article/emergency-declared-as-fukushima-nuclear-plant-leaks-radioactive-water-into-ocean?cid=db_articles
FASHION - Headgear Hall of Fame | style file | Style.com
The baseball cap: It's the sartorial hallmark of America's pastime. And while MLB's current doping scandal may have muddied the sport it represents, the ha ...
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FASHION - Three's a Trend: Reptilian Water Shoes | style file | Style.com
The fact that sandals—from flip-flops to gladiators—emerged as a keynote trend on the Spring '14 menswear runways isn't terribly surprising. Ho ...
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GARDENS - A rare long-distance immigrant makes my garden feel like the south of France
Country diary: Lower Benefield, Northamptonshire: It is the beautiful hummingbird hawkmoth, with its whirring orange hindwings and chessboard tail ...
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GARDENS - Blog » 27 Medicinal Plants Worth Your Garden Space
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MOVIES - Watch Every One of Doctor Who's 13 (Yes, 13) Regeneration Scenes
Celebrate the New Doctor Who by Watching the Show’s 13 (Yes, 13) Regeneration Scenes ...
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PEOPLE - With Washington Post Purchase, Jeff Bezos Completes His Transformation To Media Mogul
Jeff Bezos in Sun Valley, the natural summer habitat of the media mogul. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife) "I have a most surprising announcement," Washington Post Co. chairman Don Graham wrote in a memo to employees announcing the sale of the company's newspapers to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos for $250 [...] ...
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PERMACULTURE - Early August 2013
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PLANTS - Cactus helps solve prickly problem
Arrays of tiny copper spikes can clean oil from water, mimicking the way cacti pull water out of desert air. ...
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SCIENCE - 'Critical phase' for fusion dream
The world's largest bid to harness the power of nuclear fusion has entered a "critical" phase at Cadarache in the south of France. ...Enclosure: image/jpeg http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/67373000/jpg/_67373987
SCIENCE - 'Impossible' Material Created By Scientists Overseas
It doesn’t look like much, but scientists from Sweden’s Uppsala University are calling a newly created form of magnesium carbonate an “impossible” material. ...
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SCIENCE - Magnetic switching simplified
An international team of researchers has described a new physical effect that could be used to develop more efficient magnetic chips for information processing. The quantum mechanical effect makes it easier to produce spin-polarized currents necessary for the switching of magnetically stored information. ... ...
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SCIENCE - Squeezed light produced using silicon micromechanical system
One of the many counterintuitive and bizarre insights of quantum mechanics is that even in a vacuum—what many of us think of as an empty void—all is not completely still. Low levels of noise, known as quantum fluctuations, are always present. Always, that is, unless you can pull off a quantum trick. ... ...
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SCIENCE - Underground life gives alien clues
Could the tiny organisms living deep underground hold the key to whether life could thrive beyond the Earth? ...Enclosure: image/jpeg http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/67373000/jpg/_67373987
SCIENCE - What's the matter? Q-glasses could be a new class of solids
There may be more kinds of stuff than we thought. A team of researchers has reported possible evidence for a new category of solids, things that are neither pure glasses, crystals, nor even exotic quasicrystals. Something else. ...
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SPACE - Curiosity captures both Martian moons in a single photograph
When Curiosity looks up into the sky, what does it see? On August 1st, it saw the Martian moons Phobos and Deimos and was able to capture them in a single image. ...
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SPACE - For NOAA, Obama Tabs 1st U.S. Woman to Walk in Space | Climate Central
President Obama on Thursday nominated Kathryn Sullivan to head NOAA, taking the reins of the oceans and weather agency at a challenging time. ...
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SPACE - How Do We Measure the Distance to Stars?: Scientific American Video
News videos covering science, health and technology at Sciam.com ...
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SUSTAINABILITY - 78 Skills Everyone Should Know | How to Survive It
Survival is based on a positive mental attitude and knowledge, which make up for a lack of tools. Knowledge doesn't break, wear out, or get lost. ...
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SUSTAINABILITY - First Highly-Efficient BURN Cookstove Rolls Off The Line In Kenya | EarthTechling
The Burn cookstove requires minimal fuel, while boiling water faster and producing only half of the carbon emissions of normal stoves. ...
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SUSTAINABILITY - What's Wrong with the World and How to Fix it: Movie Screening, Followed by a Panel Discussion | Sustainable Brands
More and more of us are realizing that over the past 100 years, our global economic system has devolved from a structure that optimizes collective well-being into one more akin to a competitive money sport, where an increasing divide exists between the winners and losers, and the playing field suffers from the game. Inadvertently, we have found ourselves in the grip of ...
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URBAN - Move Over Crackerjack: SF Giants Stadium Gets Edible Garden | EarthTechling
The San Francisco Giants recently announced that its centerfield bleachers will soon be replaced with an organic garden designed by EDG Design Group. ...
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WIND - Wind Power Growing, Becoming Less Costly | EarthTechling
During its big 2012 expansion, the U.S. wind power sector saw lower turbine costs and lower levelized costs of energy, according to the DOE's big annual report. ...
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WORK - 5 Simple Steps To Boosting Your Job Search
Feeling stuck at work? Career coach Christie Mims shares her best tips to get off the couch and kick-start your career. ...
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WRITE - Jeff Bezos Buys The Washington Post, Ending America's Golden Age Of Newspapers
This is the end. With his purchase of The Washington Post for a mere $250 million, Amazon chief Jeff Bezos has made formal what we've all deeply suspected for years: America's golden age of newspapers is officially over. What we're perhaps not so clear on is exactly what that means. But it [...] ...
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