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U.S., Australia warn of terror attacks in India

Reuters - Sat, 2010-05-01 09:11
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The United States and Australia on Saturday warned of "imminent" terror attacks on a number of popular shopping centers in New Delhi, stepping up their previous alerts of last month.


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Thai standoff may worsen to civil war: crisis group

Reuters - Sat, 2010-05-01 03:55
BANGKOK (Reuters) - A prolonged and increasingly violent stand-off between government and red shirt protesters in Bangkok is worsening and could deteriorate into "an undeclared civil war," the International Crisis Group said.


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Greek austerity measures will work: deputy PM

Reuters - Sat, 2010-05-01 03:49
SHANGHAI/ATHENS (Reuters) - The austerity measures Greece is likely to implement as part of a pending financial rescue deal will be enough to help avert default on the country's debts, Deputy Prime Minister Theodoros Pangalos said on Saturday.


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Getting the Bugs Out to Produce New Fuel

Scientific American Online - Sat, 2010-05-01 02:45

The Geobacter bacterium could be the biofuel-generating machine of the future, producing energy-rich butanol costing as little as $2 per gallon.

A project seeking to accomplish this, headed by Derek Lovley and colleagues at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst , received $1 million in funding today from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). It was not even the largest grant, with 37 projects receiving $106 million to further their research in this second round of funding.

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Sea Ice Loss Accelerates Arctic Warming

Scientific American Online - Sat, 2010-05-01 01:15

Melting sea ice has accelerated warming in the Arctic, which in recent decades has warmed twice as quickly as the global average, according to a new study.

"The findings reinforce suggestions that strong positive ice-temperature feedbacks have emerged in the Arctic, increasing the changes of further rapid warming and sea ice loss," concludes the research published yesterday by the journal Nature .

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Obama to visit scene of Gulf oil spill

Reuters - Sat, 2010-05-01 00:26
VENICE, Louisiana (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will visit the Gulf Coast this weekend to back efforts to avert a environmental disaster threatened by a huge, growing oil slick forecasters said was being driven ashore by winds.


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Second Louisiana rig accident minor: report

Reuters - Fri, 2010-04-30 20:58
HOUSTON (Reuters) - An inland shallow-water drilling rig capsized near Morgan City, Louisiana, while being towed to a salvage yard, the Coast Guard said on Friday.


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Hacker of Sarah Palin's e-mail found guilty

Reuters - Fri, 2010-04-30 20:43
KNOXVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - A college student who hacked into former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's e-mail account and posted some of its contents on the Internet was found guilty Friday.


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Twister Mysteries Lure Scientists to Launch Massive Midwest Field Experiment

Scientific American Online - Fri, 2010-04-30 18:40

More than 1,200 tornadoes rip through the U.S. Midwest in an average year, killing about 100 people and costing millions of dollars in damage. Currently the longest warning time meteorologists can give is a nerve-racking 13 minutes, with a 70 percent false alarm rate. [More]

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Aphids Pilfered Red Genes from Fungus

Scientific American Online - Fri, 2010-04-30 16:38

Aphids can be a gardener’s nightmare. But they may be an evolutionary biologist’s dream. Because they’re pioneers in the history of life on Earth. For one thing, they’re now the only known animals to produce the chemical pigments called carotenoids, which help in cell repair and immunity. It’s the same stuff that makes tomatoes red.

More impressive, aphids got their ability to make carotenoids through a major shortcut. Millions of years back, they apparently grabbed the genes for making carotenoids directly from a carotenoid-producing fungus. And then incorporated those genes into the aphid genome. That’s according to a study in the April 30th issue of the journal Science . [Nancy Moran and Tyler Jarvik, http://bit.ly/928R4t ]

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Massey faces criminal probe for mine blast: sources

Reuters - Fri, 2010-04-30 16:17
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Massey Energy Co is under criminal investigation by the FBI after the deadly mine explosion in West Virginia, U.S. officials familiar with the matter said on Friday, news that sent the company's stock plummeting.


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How a Tornado Forms

Scientific American Online - Fri, 2010-04-30 15:46
Storm-chasing scientists with the VORTEX2 two-year field experiment explain what they know and what they don't know about how and why tornadoes form.
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Star physicists trade barbs over cosmological model

Scientific American Online - Fri, 2010-04-30 15:45

A tony social club in midtown Manhattan is not the place one might expect to find a verbal sparring match between famous physicists. But that was the case April 23 at the Harmonie Club , when Alan Guth and David Gross had a feisty off-the-cuff debate about Guth's model for the dawn of the universe. Perhaps in keeping with their genteel surroundings, the two kept their jabs mostly playful, but a few may have stung nonetheless. [More]

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BP CEO says will pay oil spill claims

Reuters - Fri, 2010-04-30 14:54
LONDON (Reuters) - BP Plc will compensate all those affected by an oil spill from one of its wells in the Gulf of Mexico, said its chief executive, who admitted that the disaster could hit plans to open new areas off the U.S. coast to drilling.


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Massive oil spill in Gulf of Mexico heads to shore

Scientific American Online - Fri, 2010-04-30 14:51

By Carlos Barria

VENICE, Louisiana (Reuters) - A massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico washed up to wildlife refuges and seafood grounds on the Louisiana coast on Friday, as authorities struggled to avert what could become one of the worst U.S. ecological disasters.

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The Mother-Baby Bond

Scientific American Online - Fri, 2010-04-30 14:30
After spending nine months intricately joined together, mother and infant share more than just common features. Now, in a special partnership with theVisualMD.com, we present a look at this remarkable bond, complete with scientifically accurate and stunning images. [More]
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How Breastfeeding Benefits Mothers' Health

Scientific American Online - Fri, 2010-04-30 14:30

The benefits of breast milk for babies are numerous. Lower rates of childhood obesity, decreased incidence of asthma and even better brain development are all linked with drinking more of mother's milk in infancy, and despite decades of research and promising marketing claims, the formula industry has not caught up to mother nature in the milk department. [More]

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Iraq's Maliki rejects rival's call for intervention

Reuters - Fri, 2010-04-30 14:15
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's prime minister on Friday criticized his main rival in last month's inconclusive election for wanting outside intervention, and denounced what he said was the foreign powers' desire to stage a ballot box coup.


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Women's Better Sense of Touch Explained

Scientific American Online - Fri, 2010-04-30 14:00

For pianists and guitarists, small fingers are a curse. [More]

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Beyond Birth: A Child's Cells May Help or Harm the Mother Long after Delivery

Scientific American Online - Fri, 2010-04-30 13:30

A pregnant woman knows she is shaping her child's future from the moment of conception. But she might not realize that the baby is already talking back. Mother and child are engaged in a silent chemical conversation throughout pregnancy, with bits of genetic material and cells passing not only from mother to child but also from child to mother. Scientists increasingly think these silent signals from the fetus may influence a mother's risk of cancer , rheumatoid arthritis and other diseases, even decades after she has given birth. [More]

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