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Evolution can occur in less than 10 years

How fast can evolution take place? In just a few years, according to a new study on guppies led by UC Riverside's Swanne Gordon, a graduate student in biology.

Sunlight Trap Could Lead to New Generation of Solar Devices

In the Greek legend of Dionysius' ear, Dionysius made a cave shaped like an ellipse in order to hear the words whispered by a prisoner in one of the foci of the cave. Some science museums today feature a similar exhibit, where two people at opposite ends of a room can whisper into giant ellipses and ...

Swine Flu Upgraded to Pandemic, Sans Pandemoium | Wired Science | Wired.com

Swine flu is officially a pandemic, the World Health Organization announced today in upgrading its evaluation of the disease to its highest risk

Technology Review: Blogs: TR Editors' blog: China's "Green Dam" Censorware Could Spawn a Zombie Network

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Video: Century-Old Taxidermy Yields Clues to Climate Future | Wired Science | Wired.com
BERKELEY, California — A hundred years ago, zoologist Joseph Grinnell was thinking about you. Long before ENIAC or ARPANET, the visionary first director

Wind money given to oil producers instead, Raitt tape suggests - Nova Scotia News - TheChronicleHerald.ca

OTTAWA – Money earmarked to support wind energy producers was diverted to research and development i

Belgian Biofuels Company Secretly Developed Algae Cultivation System : TreeHugger

Image: Proviron Working under the radar of the media, Belgian biofuels company Proviron has quietly developed a new approach to algae cultivation. At the first general assembly and conference of the newly founded European Alga Biomass Association, Proviron announced

Global Warming Turns Syrian Villages Into Ghost Towns : TreeHugger

A Syrian man sits in the village of Ain al-Tineh. Photo via AFP. Residents of sinking tropical islands and flooding Alaskan villages are the dramatic examples of global-warming refugees that come most readily to mind. But a dearth of

The Alcoholic Republic: An American ... - Google Books [via claudio]

City's image trashed

It was Saturday night at a downtown bar. There was a full
house. Then it happened.

Earthquake Preparedness, Bridges and Infrastructure - Earthquake Proof Alloy - Popular Mechanics
A nickel-titanium alloy recently developed and currently being tested by the University of Nevada, could make bridges elastic—allowing them to move slightly with vibrations and then revert back to their original shape.

To Avoid Layoffs, Some Companies Turn to Work-Sharing - NYTimes.com

A new program aims to help employers avoid layoffs by reducing their workers’ hours and pay. For employees, state unemployment funds help make up the difference.

Credit Card Issuers Settle Accounts for Lower Balances - NYTimes.com

Customer service employees are calling to offer deals, a practice that was practically unheard-of before the financial crisis.

In Some Swimming Pools, a Nasty Intestinal Parasite - NYTimes.com

A swimming pool can offer relief from summer heat, but swimmers should know what they are jumping into. It could be a soup of nasty parasites.

Iran's Disputed Election - The Big Picture - Boston.com

The Big Picture - News Stories in Photographs from the Boston Globe

Scientists use high-pressure 'alchemy' to create nonexpanding metals

By squeezing a typical metal alloy at pressures hundreds of thousands of times greater than normal atmospheric pressure, scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have created a material that does not expand when heated, as does nearly every normal metal, and acts like a metal with ...

Book Party for ‘Coming Insurrection’ Backs Tarnac 9 of France - NYTimes.com
“The Coming Insurrection,” a book which predicts the imminent collapse of capitalist culture, has developed a small but devoted following.

Technology Review: A Two-Pronged Water-Treatment Technology

Combining light and electrical current removes contaminants from water.

Micromagnetic-microfluidic device could quickly pull pathogens from the bloodstream

Sepsis, an infection of the blood, can quickly overwhelm the body's defenses and is responsible for more than 200,000 deaths per year in the U.S. alone. Premature newborns and people with weakened immune systems are especially vulnerable. Since most existing treatments are ineffective, researchers in ...

SKorea military networks under growing cyber attack

South Korea's military computer networks are under ever-growing cyber attack with 95,000 cases reported daily on average, officials said Tuesday.

Why do we choose our mates? Ask Charles Darwin, prof says

Charles Darwin wrote about it 150 years ago: animals don't pick their mates by pure chance - it's a process that is deliberate and involves numerous factors. After decades of examining his work, experts agree that he pretty much scored a

scientific bullseye, but a very big question is, 'What have we ...

MIT slows concrete creep to a crawl

MIT civil engineers have for the first time identified what causes the most frequently used building material on earth — concrete — to gradually deform, decreasing its durability and shortening the lifespan of infrastructures such as bridges and nuclear waste containment vessels.

The Living Machine Sewage System
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From Sewage to Salmon, Climate Change Hitting Here and Now | Wired Science |

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The impacts of climate change are as American as Vermont maple syrup, according to the surprisingly unchanged final version of a Bush-era report on global

Passengers cheat flu scan with fever reducers - Yahoo! News

Many sick passengers who flew to Ho Chi Minh City in southern Vietnam took fever reducers to cheat temperature scanners at the airport, leading to the discovery of several infected cases later, state media reported at the weekend.