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How landslides can be the key to ignition

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Rocks exposed to air during landslides can warm up enough to spark a fire under the right conditions  comments (0)  | report problem


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Urban growers go high-tech to feed city dwellers

a shared story    1 week 1 day 15 hours 11 minutes ago
POMONA, Calif. (AP) -- Terry Fujimoto sees the future of agriculture in the exposed roots of the leafy greens he and his students grow in thin streams of water at a campus greenhouse....  comments (0)  | report problem


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Girl is 29th child left under Neb. safe-haven law

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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- Nebraska authorities say an 11-year-old girl has become the 29th child to be left at a hospital under the state's much-criticized safe haven law....  comments (0)  | report problem


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Stem Cell Solution

a shared story    2 weeks 6 days 5 hours 11 minutes ago
Few issues are likely to generate more emotional opposition than federal funding of stem cell research. Handled wrongly, it could energize conservative opponents and derail Barack Obama's presidency. There is no question that we must move ahead, but caution is key. Effective federal support for...(more)  comments (0)  | report problem


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e=mc2: 103 years later, Einstein's proven right

a shared story    1 week 4 days 3 hours 28 minutes ago
It's taken more than a century, but Einstein's celebrated formula e=mc2 has finally been corroborated, thanks to a heroic computational effort by French, German and Hungarian physicists. A brainpower consortium led by Laurent Lellouch of France's Centre for Theoretical Physics, using some of the world's mightiest supercomputers,...(more)  comments (0)  | report problem


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Whales rescued from Australian beach join pod

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HOBART, Australia (AP) -- A group of whales rescued from an Australian beach have joined a larger pod in deep waters - a sign they are doing fine after their ordeal, an official said Monday....  comments (0)  | report problem


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Amoeba tracks prompt rethink over early life

a shared story    1 week 3 hours 11 minutes ago
Ancient fossil tracks could be the handiwork of oversized amoebas that existed 1.8 billion years ago – not multicelled creatures as had been thought  comments (0)  | report problem


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Photon force harnessed to do some light work

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The pressure exerted by a beam of light is enough to set a nanomachine vibrating – the principle could be used in electronics or light-based computer chips  comments (0)  | report problem


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Fuel from food? The feast is over

a shared story    1 week 1 day 14 hours 11 minutes ago
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) -- In future years we may look back at the Great Mexican Tortilla Crisis of 2006 as the time when ethanol lost its vroom....  comments (0)  | report problem
tags: feast food fuel


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Researchers try to solve mystery of autism

a shared story    1 week 1 day 10 hours 25 minutes ago
Who would have thought that Danielle Bell's Danville home might reveal clues for solving one of the biggest mysteries of modern medicine: the cause of a rapid rise in autistic children. Epidemiologists at the UC Davis M.I.N.D. (Medical Investigation of Neurodevelopmental Disorders) Institute believe the Bell family,...(more)  comments (0)  | report problem


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Why Overeating Hurts and How You Can Avoid It on Thanksgiving

a shared story    1 week 4 hours 11 minutes ago
You know just what it'll be like. Again. You'll arrive at the Thanksgiving table with the best of intentions. You're going to sample just a smidgen of each of the offerings laid out there. But who can stop at a smidgen of turkey, stuffing and...(more)  comments (0)  | report problem


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Endeavour astronauts work on repairs on third spacewalk

a shared story    1 week 2 days 13 hours 10 minutes ago
AFP - Two astronauts on the US space shuttle Endeavour were ahead of schedule on their spacewalk Saturday, halfway through the third repair mission on the exterior of the orbiting International Space Station.  comments (0)  | report problem


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