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Kidney Transplants - Medicine and Health - A Holiday From Illness, All Too Fleeting - New York TimesAfter the kidney transplant, he felt great. A little too great, as it turned out.
Despite Climate Worry, Europe Turns to Coal - New York Times
Driven by rising demand and oil and natural gas prices, European countries plan to build dozens of new coal-fired power plants.
Weak Dollar Weighs on Europe - New York Times
The euro rose above $1.60 on Tuesday for the first time, adding to pressure on big European exporters to raise prices.
Panel Finds Link Between Smog and Premature Death - New York Times
Mortality due to air pollution should be taken into account when measuring the benefits of proposed clean-air legislation, according to a new report.
Expressing Our Individuality, the Way E. Coli Do - New York Times
Scientists have only a rough understanding of how human diversity arises.
Life expectancy no longer improving for large segment of the US population
PhysOrg news: Life expectancy no longer improving for large segment of the US population
Want to Remember Everything You'll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm
Piotr Wozniak has a technique to turn people into geniuses, and a portion of the technique is in a software program called SuperMemo. Users around the world apply it to learning languages and gaining language fluency. SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned.
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Surgeons give hope to blind with successful 'bionic eye' operations - Times Online
Surgeons have carried out the first operations in Britain using a pioneering
“bionic eye” that could in future help to restore blind people’s sight.
Food shortages: how will we feed the world? - Telegraph
Telegraph Earth is your source for environmental and green news and environmental and green issues, with information on climate change, global warming, pollution, green living and recycling, and all other environment issues.
The Greenback Effect
Greed has helped destroy the planet—maybe now it can help save it.
Why fruit-eating bats eat dirt
PhysOrg news: Why fruit-eating bats eat dirt
You are what your mother eats: First evidence that mother's diet influences infant sex
PhysOrg news: You are what your mother eats: First evidence that mother's diet influences infant sex
Human brain appears 'hard-wired' for hierarchy
PhysOrg news: Human brain appears 'hard-wired' for hierarchy
Beetles may doom Canada's carbon reduction target: study
PhysOrg news: Beetles may doom Canada's carbon reduction target: study
Scientists Automate Molecular Evolution
PhysOrg news: Scientists Automate Molecular Evolution
Cheating Starts Before the Boston Marathon Does - New York Times
Why does the Boston Marathon make it so hard to enter? And how often do runners sneak in by trading or buying one another’s entries?
Honda Robot Will Conduct Detroit Symphony | Listening Post from Wired.com
Yo Yo Ma and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra will soon submit to a robotic overlord in the form of Honda's Asimo, which will pick up a baton to conduct the
ESA Portal - Ship-sinking monster waves revealed by ESA satellites
Once dismissed as a nautical myth, freakish ocean waves that rise as tall as ten-storey apartment blocks have been accepted as a leading cause of large ship sinkings. Results from ESA's ERS satellites helped establish the widespread existence of these 'rogue' waves and are now being used to study their origins.
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High School Project on Genocide Was a Portent of Real-Life Events - New York Times
A teacher’s approach to teaching genocides in history included having the students study the conditions associated with mass murder.
New source for biofuels discovered
PhysOrg news: New source for biofuels discovered
Senate Passes Genetic Discrimination Bill - New York Times
The 95-0 Senate vote sends the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act back to the House, which could approve it early next week.
Deal Consolidates More of Russia’s Mining Industry - New York Times
The aluminum tycoon Oleg V. Deripaska said that he had purchased 25 percent of the Arctic mining company Norilsk Nickel, furthering his quest to consolidate the Russian metals and mining industry.
For Airlines, Runways Are the Danger Zone - New York Times
Recent groundings have raised flags about skipped inspections and botched repairs to wiring, but what really worries specialists is runway collisions.
Ozone hole recovery may reshape southern hemisphere climate change
PhysOrg news: Ozone hole recovery may reshape southern hemisphere climate change
Study says near extinction threatened people
PhysOrg news: Study says near extinction threatened people
Molecular analysis confirms T. rex's evolutionary link to birds
PhysOrg news: Molecular analysis confirms T. rex's evolutionary link to birds
Goodbye, Bunny Ears: Future Antennas May be Flat
PhysOrg news: Goodbye, Bunny Ears: Future Antennas May be Flat
Geoengineering Quick-Fix Would Wreak Ozone Havoc | Wired Science from Wired.com
A proposed quick fix for climate change will make our problems worse.
Sayings and Phrases - meanings and origins
Sayings and Phrases - meaning and origin.
Singing the Praises of the Bumblebee - Gardening - Gardens - New York Times
The bumblebee and other native wild bees are all the more important in the garden now that the population of honeybees is in such decline.
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