January 2010
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Is the Country Ready for a Manhattan Project... →
Unfortunately, the University of Chicago would not be included in the park (via National Parks Traveler)
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Missing San Francisco Sea Lions Move To Oregon →
Scientists in the US believe they may have solved the riddle of San Francisco’s vanishing sea lions. The Californian city’s famous colony of sea lions all but disappeared over the past month, baffling experts. But now large numbers of the animals have been spotted further north, off the coast of Oregon. Scientists say the animals have probably migrated in search of food during the...
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New Tool in the Fight Against Mosquito-Borne... →
Earlier this year, researchers showed that they could cut the lives of disease-carrying mosquitoes in half by infecting them with a bacterium they took from fruit flies. Now, a new report in the December 24th issue of Cell, suggests that their strategy might do one better: The Wolbachia bacteria also makes the mosquitoes more resistant to infection by viruses that are a growing threat to humans,...
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Russia Plans to Stop Asteroid →
The head of Russia’s federal space agency has said it will work to divert an asteroid which will make several passes near the Earth from 2029…. (continues @ BBC News)
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