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Nanotechnology may take Nobel in chemistry
Oct 9 2007 11:34PM (CT)
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - The rapidly expanding field of nanotechnology was honored by the Nobel Prize in Physics and it could get another nod when the chemistry prize is announced on Wednesday.
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Gas emissions said at unsafe threshold
Oct 9 2007 7:50PM (CT)
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - Worldwide economic growth has accelerated the level of greenhouse gas emissions to a dangerous threshold scientists had not expected for another decade, according to a leading Australian climate change expert.
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Scientists to shut down space telescope
Oct 9 2007 7:49PM (CT)
BALTIMORE (AP) - Having coaxed all the life they can out of an 8-year-old ultraviolet light-detecting space telescope, scientists will reluctantly turn it off later this month.
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Asia unveils disaster education campaign
Oct 9 2007 4:14PM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - In the 1950s, American children were taught to "duck and cover" in the case of a nuclear explosion. Now, Asia is stepping up its campaign to prepare school children for calamities.
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Hawaii scientists examine volcanic rocks
Oct 9 2007 4:08PM (CT)
HONOLULU (AP) - Scientists are studying whether a submerged extinct volcano may sit to the south of Kauai, a would-be sister island to the Garden Isle that never emerged above the ocean.
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Green chemistry joins college curriculum
Oct 9 2007 4:00PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - Terry Collins sounds like the world's most dour pessimist. The Carnegie Mellon University chemistry professor paints a bleak picture of the Earth's future, a planet damaged by global warming and ravaged by toxins, with a population sickened by poisonous chemicals.
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Green chemistry joins college curriculum
Oct 9 2007 4:00PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - Terry Collins sounds like the world's most dour pessimist. The Carnegie Mellon University chemistry professor paints a bleak picture of the Earth's future, a planet damaged by global warming and ravaged by toxins, with a population sickened by poisonous chemicals.
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Green chemistry joins college curriculum
Oct 9 2007 4:00PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - Terry Collins sounds like the world's most dour pessimist. The Carnegie Mellon University chemistry professor paints a bleak picture of the Earth's future, a planet damaged by global warming and ravaged by toxins, with a population sickened by poisonous chemicals.
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Green chemistry joins college curriculum
Oct 9 2007 4:00PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - Terry Collins sounds like the world's most dour pessimist. The Carnegie Mellon University chemistry professor paints a bleak picture of the Earth's future, a planet damaged by global warming and ravaged by toxins, with a population sickened by poisonous chemicals.
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Group: Problems plague Great Lakes parks
Oct 9 2007 3:53PM (CT)
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) - Shrinking dunes. Crumbling lighthouses. Decimated populations of native trout and clams. These are among a long list of threats to national parks and lakeshores in the Great Lakes region, a nonprofit advocacy group said Tuesday.
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Scientists discover hantavirus mechanism
Oct 9 2007 3:46PM (CT)
ALBUQUERQUE (AP) - A group of researchers has discovered a mechanism that helps protect deer mice from hantavirus even though the rodents carry the life-threatening disease.
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Progress made on Tasmanian Devil illness
Oct 9 2007 3:41PM (CT)
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - Australian researchers have made a breakthrough discovery in understanding a rapidly spreading facial cancer that has decimated the country's Tasmanian Devil population.
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Progress made on Tasmanian Devil illness
Oct 9 2007 3:41PM (CT)
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - Australian researchers have made a breakthrough discovery in understanding a rapidly spreading facial cancer that has decimated the country's Tasmanian Devil population.
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Progress made on Tasmanian Devil illness
Oct 9 2007 3:41PM (CT)
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - Australian researchers have made a breakthrough discovery in understanding a rapidly spreading facial cancer that has decimated the country's Tasmanian Devil population.
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Shipwreck found off Alaskan coast
Oct 9 2007 2:42PM (CT)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - A private dive team has discovered the wreckage of an American ship that sank off the south-central Alaska coast 139 years ago. The Torrent sank in Cook Inlet in 1868 after tidal currents rammed it into a reef south of the Kenai Peninsula. Documents from the period show that all 155 people on board survived.
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Scientist: Greenhouse gas levels grave
Oct 9 2007 3:57AM (CT)
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - Strong worldwide economic growth has accelerated the level of greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere to a dangerous threshold scientists had not expected for another decade, according to a leading Australian climate change expert.
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