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Science week in review: vans get wings, the brain-pelvis interaction, and darkness decays

Aerodynamics, irrigation, self-replicating molecules, and the possible return of the mammoth loomed large in the world of science this week. Read More...
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The week in science: sick bats, steering light, and antimatter gone MIA

Researchers use carbon nanotubes for fiber optics, silver snowflakes for invisibility, and look for signs that humanity has triggered a new geological era. It's all in a week's worth of science.Read More...
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msnbc You'll need a microscope to see...

President-elect Barack Obama is larger than life these days. Except, that is, at the University of Michigan, where he has become remarkably small.
11/12/08
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Forbes Star Struck

The endless race for fusion energy pits a giant reactor in France against two upstarts in North America.
11/07/08
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WRAL.com Officials: Obama chooses Chu for...

President-elect Barack Obama intends to round out his environmental and natural resources team with a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and three former Environmental Protection...
12/11/08
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WRAL.com Mich. State Univ. awarded nuclear...

The U.S. Department of Energy on Thursday chose Michigan State University for a $550 million cutting-edge nuclear physics research facility that could attract top scientists...
12/11/08
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Los Angeles Times Copper ruins in Jordan bolster...

New carbon dating shows the site is older than previously believed. Critics say there's still no evidence of an empire. ...
10/27/08
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Los Angeles Times Environmental groups, scientists...

With a Nobel physicist and a former EPA chief on board, some expect Obama's White House to break from what they see as the Bush administration's record of overlooking science in...
12/16/08
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msnbc

Laser technique produces bevy of antimatter

Blasting a gold target with high-powered lasers creates huge amounts of antimatter, reported scientists from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory at a conference last week.
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Could a hot air balloon help map Saturn moon?

Athena Coustenis, an astrophysicist and planetologist with the Paris Observatory, is helping draft a plan to send a hot air balloon to Titan, as well as an orbiting spacecraft and a surface probe.
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WRAL.com Tape measure: X-rays detected from...

Just two weeks after a Nobel Prize highlighted theoretical work on subatomic particles, physicists are announcing a startling discovery about a much more familiar form of...
10/22/08
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msnbc X-rays emitted from ordinary Scotch tape

Just two weeks after a Nobel Prize highlighted theoretical work on subatomic particles, physicists are announcing a startling discovery about a much more familiar form of...
10/22/08
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WRAL.com Sidelined CERN collider gets a new,...

The world's largest scientific machine may have malfunctioned soon after its spectacular start and still be out of action. But that didn't stop dignitaries, donors and diplomats...
10/21/08
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Los Angeles Times Obama chooses global-warming foes for...

His selections as science advisor and NOAA head are two advocates for mandatory limits on greenhouse gas emissions. Environmentalists are heartened, and conservatives dismayed....
12/19/08
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WRAL.com Obama names Holdren, Lubchenco to...

President-elect Barack Obama has named Harvard physicist John Holdren and marine biologist Jane Lubchenco to top science posts.
12/20/08
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Los Angeles Times Obama chooses global warming...

Physicist John Holdren will be the president-elect's top science advisor; marine biologist Jane Lubchenco will lead NOAA. Both advocate more action to fight climate change. ...
12/21/08
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Times Online

Gundam cartoon academy to open in Japan

For most universities around the world illegal meteor-mining, politically explosive space colonies and wars waged between teenagers in robot battle suits are treated as the stuff of pure fantasy.
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The Day the Earth Stood Still: Perspectives on the remake

Ars took part in the pre-launch events for the upcoming remake of the sci-fi classic, The Day the Earth Stood Still, and we report on the new movie and on a panel discussion involving the actors and some Caltech scientists.Read More...
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chicagotribune.com 'Buckypaper' could transform planes,...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) _ It's called "buckypaper" and looks a lot like ordinary carbon paper, but don't be fooled by the cute name or flimsy appearance. It could revolutionize...
10/18/08
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msnbc 'Buckypaper' may build the future

It's called "buckypaper" and looks a lot like ordinary carbon paper, but don't be fooled by the cute name or flimsy appearance. It could revolutionize the way everything from...
10/17/08
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WRAL.com Future planes, cars may be made of...

It's called "buckypaper" and looks a lot like ordinary carbon paper, but don't be fooled by the cute name or flimsy appearance. It could revolutionize the way everything from...
10/17/08
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msnbc Clouds have a metal, not silver, lining

It's not a silver lining that causes night-shining clouds to bounce radar , but that's close, claims plasma physicist Paul Bellan.
10/16/08
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msnbc Good heavens: Vatican rehabilitating...

Galileo Galilei is going from heretic to hero.
12/24/08
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Arstechnica Nobel Prize in Physics awarded for...

The 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded for work in the theoretical understanding of symmetry breaking which led to the prediction of new particles that took over 22...
10/07/08
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Los Angeles Times 2 Japanese, 1 American share Nobel...

Two Japanese citizens and an American won the 2008 Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for discoveries that help explain the behavior of the smallest particles of matter.
10/07/08
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Nikkei.co.jp - Japanese Physicists Win Nobel Prize...

10/07/08
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