Stories about global warming, asteroids hitting the earth, bird flu epidemics, that sort of thing.
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An utterly incomprehensible paper has been produced by a team of physicists, designed to make everyone feel better about the possibility that the Large Hadron Collider will produce black holes that will suck the Earth into themselves.
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radioweather writes "An article from the Financial Post says that recent studies of biosphere imaging from the NASA SEAWIFS satellite indicate that the Earth's biomass is booming: 'The results surprised Steven Running of the University of Montana and Ramakrishna Nemani of NASA, scientists involved in analyzing the NASA satellite data.
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This is not what you'd normally expect to see in a press release from a U.S. government scientist:
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John Gray: With an increasing population, the earnest debate over the merit of biofuels and wind farms misses the point - it is the technologies we fear that will be our salvation
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Medicines for HIV and cancer could be lost because plants used in their preparation are facing extinction, experts have warned
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I, for one, welcome our new monkey overlords with their thought-controlled robotic henchmen.
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Ponca City, We Love You writes "There is an interesting story in Seed Magazine on active SETI — sending out signals to try to contact other civilizations in nearby star systems.
- This is tempting fate.recommended by euan
sufijazz writes "Scientists have gotten tiny robots to not only integrate into cockroach society but also control it. 'This experiment in bug peer pressure combined entomology, robotics and the study of ways that complex and even intelligent patterns can arise from simple behavior.
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Actual Reality writes "It is ironic to me that much of the same sentiment that thwarted the nuclear power industry back in the 80's is partially responsible for reviving it. Nuclear power is very clean compared to any power source that burns fuel. The US has missed several advancements in nuclear technology.
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The cases of avian flu at a Suffolk turkey farm have been confirmed as the highly pathogenic form of the virus that can be deadly to humans