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Dolphin hunt film screenings cancelled in Tokyo

Scientific American Online - Sat, 2010-06-05 06:36

TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokyo screenings of "The Cove," an Oscar-winning documentary about a grisly annual dolphin hunt have been canceled over planned protests by conservatives who say the film is anti-Japanese, the distributor said on Saturday.

The film, which picked up an Oscar for best documentary feature this year, follows a group of activists who struggle with Japanese police and fishermen to gain access to a secluded cove in Taiji, southern Japan, where dolphins are hunted.

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Israel boards Gaza aid ship as blockade criticized

Reuters - Sat, 2010-06-05 05:38
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's navy boarded a ship carrying aid to Gaza without incident on Saturday, five days after killing nine people on a Turkish aid ship to enforce what Washington calls an unsustainable blockade.


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Gaza aid ship intercepted, not boarded: activist

Reuters - Sat, 2010-06-05 03:55
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The Israeli navy intercepted and was shadowing an Irish-owned aid ship bound for Gaza on Saturday, but a spokeswoman for the activists aboard said an earlier report that troops were aboard the vessel was wrong.


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U.S. weighing new options over North Korea

Reuters - Sat, 2010-06-05 03:23
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The United States said on Saturday it was weighing new options beyond the United Nations to punish North Korea, which South Korea blames for the sinking of a warship that has escalated tensions on the peninsula.


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Oil spill siphoning picks up speed

Reuters - Sat, 2010-06-05 03:03
VENICE, La/PENSACOLA BEACH, Fla (Reuters) - The latest effort to siphon oil and gas gushing from a ruptured deep-sea wellhead in the Gulf of Mexico is working well so far, U.S. officials said on Saturday, as President Barack Obama defended his handling of the environmental crisis.


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John Wooden, peerless U.S. basketball coach, dies

Reuters - Sat, 2010-06-05 03:02
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - John Wooden, the peerless U.S. college basketball coach who became known as the "Wizard of Westwood" while winning a record 10 national championships at UCLA, died on Friday at age 99, a spokesman for the UCLA Medical Center said.


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U.S. appeals to China to restore military ties

Reuters - Sat, 2010-06-05 01:49
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The United States appealed to China on Saturday to restore military ties despite discord over U.S. arms sales to Taiwan and said it was considering options beyond the United Nations to punish North Korea over the sinking of a South Korean ship.


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Obama names retired general new intelligence chief

Reuters - Sat, 2010-06-05 00:38
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama named retired general James Clapper as his new director of national intelligence on Saturday, selecting a defense veteran to coordinate action between numerous U.S. intelligence agencies.


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Unmanned Seaglider undersea vehicles could cut through debates about underwater plumes and the quantity of oil spilled in Gulf of Mexico

Scientific American Online - Sat, 2010-06-05 00:00

At least two fundamental questions remain about the ongoing environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico: how much oil has spilled and where exactly is it located? BP's use of chemical dispersants to address the crisis has complicated the answers to these questions by likely redistributing oil from the surface to locations deeper into the water column--something BP's chief executive Tony Hayward disputes .   [More]

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Deep in thought: What is a "law of physics," anyway?

Scientific American Online - Fri, 2010-06-04 23:05

One thing that's both disconcerting and exhilarating about physics is how many seemingly simple questions remain unanswered. When you hear the questions that physicists struggle with, you sometimes say to yourself, Wait, you mean they don't even know that? Physics might be defined as the subject that tries to figure out why the world may look incomprehensibly complex at first, but on closer examination is governed by simple laws. Those laws, applied repeatedly, build up the complexity. From this definition, you'd presume that physicists have at least sorted out what they mean by "law".

Sorry.

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Why so many artists have lazy eyes, and other things art can teach us about the brain

Scientific American Online - Fri, 2010-06-04 21:30

NEW YORK--When ancient denizens of central France painted leaping horses on the cave walls at Lascaux, they might not have had the late Renaissance understanding of how to illustrate perspective and three dimensions. But they did, with simple black lines, give the implication of depth, showing the far pair of limbs behind the closer pair. [More]

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Web site shows how a tumor grows in 3-D

Scientific American Online - Fri, 2010-06-04 21:23

Ever wondered what it looks like when tumor cells grow inside the body? Drug maker Amgen is hoping to sate this morbid sort of Fantastic Voyage with a new Web site that takes viewers through the various stages of tumor angiogenesis in 3-D. Angiogenesis is a physiological process whereby new blood vessels grow from existing vessels. Although this process is a normal part of the body's ability to grow and heal itself, angiogenesis is also the path through which tumors transition from benign to malignant. [More]

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SpaceX completes successful first test launch of Falcon 9 rocket

Scientific American Online - Fri, 2010-06-04 21:12

Private access to space took a giant leap forward Friday with a successful test launch of the Falcon 9 rocket, developed and built by SpaceX, a venture headed by PayPal co-founder Elon Musk. [More]

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Hungary debt fears gnaw at euro

Reuters - Fri, 2010-06-04 21:06
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The possibility of a Hungarian debt crisis pushed the euro to a four-year low against the dollar on Friday and reignited fears more Eastern European nations could reveal financial frailties.


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Seagliders Scan the Gulf for Deepwater Oil

Scientific American Online - Fri, 2010-06-04 20:45
Joseph Dyers, president of government and industrial robots at the iRobot Corp.,discusses how unmanned underwater vehicles called Seagliders are being used to answer important, basic questions about the Gulf oil spill.
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Lead poisoning from mining kills 163 in Nigeria

Reuters - Fri, 2010-06-04 20:41
DARETA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Lead poisoning caused by illegal gold mining has killed 163 Nigerians, most of them children, in remote villages in the past few months, a government official said on Friday.


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Scientists Will Monitor Deepwater Horizon Methane Plumes for Gulf Oil Spill Answers

Scientific American Online - Fri, 2010-06-04 20:10

Much of the focus at the Deepwater Horizon disaster site has been on the oil pouring out of the damaged well, but some researchers are beginning to turn their attention to the methane , or natural, gas escaping along with the gushing crude. Careful study of this methane, which comprises about 40 percent of the riser pipe output, is expected to provide scientists with a wealth of information, including a more accurate calculation of the spill's magnitude and thereby a better understanding of its impact on ocean life. [More]

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Hungary raises specter of Greece

Reuters - Fri, 2010-06-04 18:26
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary's markets tumbled on Friday on confusing comments from the new government on the state of public finances, prompting the central bank to rush to reassure investors the country's budget was sustainable.


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New Apple iPhone on tap but may fail to dazzle

Reuters - Fri, 2010-06-04 18:25
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc's next-generation iPhone, which CEO Steve Jobs is widely expected to unveil on Monday, will have to really set new standards in multimedia content and function to wow Wall Street and consumers.


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G20 policymakers candid about world economic risks

Reuters - Fri, 2010-06-04 18:25
BUSAN, South Korea (Reuters) - Leading policymakers spoke with unusual frankness on Friday of their fears that the euro zone's financial and banking woes could derail the global economic recovery.


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