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Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:10:00 GMT

British lawyer appointed Karadzic standby counsel

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Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:10:00 GMT

DISCOVER-Reading NFL Star Shares Views on LHC, ROS Suppression, Etc

Pop quiz: Which former NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year is a (literally) big fan of science, and this magazine in particular? That?s right, defensive end Hugh Douglas. Recently, as part of an ongoing effort to playfully engage the public in science, he
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:04:00 GMT

Circulating Beam in LHC Imminent!

9:37 PST: Like many of my colleagues, I?ve been eagerly awaiting word that the LHC has successfully threaded the proton beam around the whole ring. In recent days they have gotten it half way around the 27 km circumference, and within hours, they should
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:04:00 GMT

New Bench Top Sequencer Offers Significant Improvements to the Genome Sequencer FLX System

454 Life Sciences, a Roche Company, announced today at the Association of Molecular Pathology Annual Meeting in Kissimmee, Florida a series of revolutionary developments which significantly expand the company’s high-throughput sequencing portfolio.
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:56:00 GMT

Science journalism awards announced

Winners of AAAS Kavli Awards include television and radio stories supported by NSF A television feature about growing diamonds in the lab, and a radio story that dramatizes some strange coincidences in a discussion of randomness and probability won
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:34:00 GMT

Pickled evidence for evolution

For similar stories, visit the Galleries and Evolution Topic Guides IF A snake is a reptile and an eel is a fish, why do they look so similar? This was one of the questions that fascinated Charles Darwin as he wrote On the Origin of Species, published
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:33:00 GMT

Giant Cannibal Galaxy's Last Meal

New images show the "last meal" of a giant cannibal galaxy as it gobbles down a smaller spiral galaxy, which has been twisted and warped from being devoured. The giant galaxy, Centaurus A (NGC 5128) is the nearest giant, elliptical galaxy, at a distance
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:27:00 GMT

Wiring the Wilderness

An HPWREN automated digital camera on Lyons Peak captured an image around 8:00 p.m. on Sunday, July 23, 2006, that shows the extent of the Horse Fire. The camera remotely collected many images that day, which the researchers were able to use to better
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:27:00 GMT

Green Chemistry: Principles and Practice

Paul Anastas, Nicolas Eghbali (Critical Review from Chem. Soc. Rev.) Paul Anastas, Chem. Soc. Rev., 2010, DOI: 10.1039/b918763b To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:27:00 GMT

Just like old times: Generating RNA molecules in water

Appearing in the Nov. 27, 2009, issue (Vol. 284, No. 48) of JBC A key question in the origin of biological molecules like RNA and DNA is how they first came together billions of years ago from simple precursors. Now, in a study appearing in this week's
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:25:00 GMT

CERN to re-start Large Hadron Collider this weekend

The scientists at CERN are shrugging off the fact that the future may be trying to stop their particle-finding mission and are ready to restart the Large Hadron Collider this weekend. Having been offline for over a year, the LHC has overcome its myriad
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:07:00 GMT

Medicinal chemistry: Target acquired

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Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:02:00 GMT

New EU's president's life motto is quiet determination

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Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:54:00 GMT

Guapa, it's your genetic ancestry I love

For similar stories, visit the Genetics and Love and Sex Topic Guides Next time you catch a stranger's eye and feel a surge of attraction, here's something to ponder: is your ardour based partly on shared genetic ancestry? That's the intriguing question
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:40:00 GMT

Science: Large Hadron Collider ready to restart

Interactive graphic on the Large Hadron Collider, the world's biggest atom-smasher, which was shut down soon after its inauguration amid technical faults and is set to restart.
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:36:00 GMT

Biologists discover bacterial defense mechanism against aggressive oxygen

Contact: Joris Gansemans Brussel, November 19th 2009 - Bacteria possess an ingenious mechanism for preventing oxygen from harming the building blocks of the cell. This is the new finding of a team of biologists that includes Joris Messens of VIB, a life
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:27:00 GMT

Planet 51 PSA Campaign Brings NASA's Message of Exploration Down to Earth

WASHINGTON -- Broadcast-quality digital public service announcements are available for download from NASA featuring actor Dwayne Johnson, star of the new film "Planet 51," discussing the importance of space exploration, diversity and education. NASA
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:15:00 GMT

Planet 51 Star Brings NASA's Message of Exploration Down to Earth

WASHINGTON -- Actor Dwayne Johnson, usually known for his action and comedic film roles, takes to the stars as an astronaut in a new animated feature that brings important messages about the importance of space exploration and education to those of us
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:15:00 GMT

Giant atom-smasher poised for restart: CERN

The world's biggest atom-smasher, which was shut down soon after its inauguration amid technical faults, is set to restart this weekend, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research said on Friday. The first beam of sub-atomic particles are expected to
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:11:00 GMT

Giant atom-smasher poised for restart: CERN

The world's biggest atom-smasher, which was shut down soon after its inauguration amid technical faults, is set to restart this weekend, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research said on Friday. The first beam of sub-atomic particles are expected to
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:11:00 GMT

Regional stream sediment and water geochemical data, Mount Eduni area, northern Mackenzie Mountains, NT (NTS 106A and part of 106B)

Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 6312, 2009; 11 pages 1 CD-ROM Northwest Territories Geoscience Office, NWT Open File 2009-004 location, sample location, 1:250,000 CD-ROM; on-line; digital pdf (Adobe® Reader®) xls (Microsoft Excel) kml (Google
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:04:00 GMT

Happy Birthday, Edwin Hubble, Influential Astronomer

“Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.� The namesake for NASA’s most important telescope, Edwin Hubble has been called a modern-day Galileo. He identified multiple galaxies and helped
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:04:00 GMT

Fusion power project launch date doubted

ITER, the international project to concept proof nuclear fusion technology, may be postponed. The agreed date of launch was put in doubt by some members. At a project council meeting this week EU delegates told other participants that 2018, the planned
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:01:00 GMT

Causative Gene Of Rare Disorder Discovered

Results show exome-sequencing might help identify genetic cause of thousands of disordersFor the first time, scientists have successfully used a method called exome sequencing to quickly discover a previously unknown gene responsible for a mendelian
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:39:00 GMT

Causative Gene Of Rare Disorder Discovered

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Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:36:00 GMT

Dinosaur Fossils Helicoptered Out of Southern Utah

Late Cretaceous dinosaur fossils were helicoptered out of The Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah this week. The bones transported from the site site represent a Gryposaurus monumentensis, an ankylosaur, a pterosaur, dinosaur-era
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:26:00 GMT

After flirt with Europe, back to Dutch reality for Balkenende

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Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:15:00 GMT

From the Prospect archive: inside the Large Hadron Collider

The Large Hadron Collider is due to be relaunched this weekend The Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator, was launched in September 2008 to much fanfare.  It was expected that the collider would address
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:02:00 GMT

Coffee Break: Ancient crocs; Hubble at the museum

Three ancient crocodile species found ... Instruments from the Hubble telescope sent to a museum ... Dung spores suggest how the mastodon went extinct ... Why ancestry is attractive ... How a proton's neighbors can alter its structure ... Bacteria...
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:48:00 GMT

Large Hadron Collider to restart (probably) Saturday

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Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:48:00 GMT