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Time-Lapse Videos Of Extreme Ice Loss Show Vivid Evidence Of Climate Change (VIDEO)

Posted 11.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Science, Global Warming Video, Glaciers Melting Video, Global Warming, Climate Change, Climate Change Video, Green News

Photographer James Balog unveiled some amazing time-lapse videos of extreme ice loss during the recent TED conference. The images are from the Extrem...

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James Balog: Time-Lapse Proof of Extreme Ice Loss

TEDTalks | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Science, Photography, Technology, Climate Change, Global Issues, James Balog, Polar Ice Caps, Global Warming, Green News
TEDTalks

Balog has been going up north to shoot the half-alive ice of the mammoth glaciers for his Extreme Ice Survey, a look at the shocking effects of abrupt climate change in Alaska, Greenland and Iceland.

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Bird Eats Bat: Great Tits Hunt Bats For Heads (VIDEO)

New Scientist | Sanjida O'Connell | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Ornithologist, Uk, Cave, Nature, Hungary, Biology, Bats, Great Tits, Science, Birds, Ornithology, Video, Green News

It sounds like the avian equivalent of an Ozzy Osbourne legend. Great tits have been discovered killing and eating bats by pecking their heads open. ...

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Is Time Travel Possible? A Look At The Science That Might Make Time Travel A Reality

Huffington Post | Posted 11.09.2009 | Home

Read More: Space Travel, Wormholes, Atom Collider, Light Years, Time Travel Science, Science, Technology, Time Travel, Microscopic Wormholes, Home News

The Today Show examines the possibility of time travel and scientific advancements that might make such travel a reality. NBC's Keith Miller Reports:...

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Rage Against Science and Reason: Fear Continues as a Tool of Distraction

J. Carl Ganter | Posted 09.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Peter-Gleick, John Holdren, Water, Science, Democracy, Media, Health Care, Mccarthyism, Politics News
J. Carl Ganter

Dr. Peter Gleick rolls up his sleeves in his latest post about science, fact and rationality.

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Book Review: So You Want to Be a Scientist?

Dan Agin | Posted 10.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Careers, Science, Einstein, Technology, Medicine, Albert Einstein, Green News
Dan Agin

There are too few good books about the positives and negatives of research careers in science. Philip A. Schwartzkroin, a neurosurgeon who specializes in epilepsy research, has written such a book.

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Scientists Discover Fanged Frogs, Giant Rats In Papua New Guinea Crater

The Guardian | Robert Booth | Posted 10.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Grunting Fish, Bat, Science, Mount Bosavi Crater, Henamo Grunter, Biologists, Giant Rats, Bosavi Woolly Rat, Biodiversity, Evolution, Paupa New Guinea, Frogs With Fangs, Green News

A lost world populated by fanged frogs, grunting fish and tiny bear-like creatures has been discovered in a remote volcanic crater on the Pacific isla...

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HIV Researchers Find Antibodies That Prevent Virus From Causing Severe AIDS

The Los Angeles Times | Thomas H. Maugh II | Posted 10.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Living With HIV/AIDs, Hiv, Africa, AIDS Vaccine, Science, Aids Research, Health, Aids, Antibodies, Living News

After nearly two decades of futile searching for a vaccine against the AIDS virus, researchers are reporting the tantalizing discovery of antibodies t...

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Doctors Believe They've Diagnosed Illness Of Boy Who Cries Tears Of Blood (VIDEO)

Posted 10.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Haemoacria, Video, Living News, Boy Cries Blood Video, Boy Cries Blood, Calvino Inman Cries Blood, Science, Health, Calvino Inman, Living News

We introduced you on Tuesday to Calvino Inman, a young teen who has an illness which causes him to cry tears of blood for up to 15 minutes at a time. ...

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Electronic Contact Lenses Could Make Bionic Eyesight A Reality

SmartPlanet.com | Andrew Nusca | Posted 10.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Science, Electronic Contact Lenses, Contact Lenses, Health, Bionic Eyesight, Living News

A new generation of contact lenses built with tiny circuits and LEDs could make bionic eyesight a reality. Researchers at the University of Washing...

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Humans Are All Mutants

BBC NEWS | Posted 10.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Dna, Science, Human Mutants, Genes, Human Genes, Genetic-Mutations, Green News

Each of us has at least 100 new mutations in our DNA, according to research published in the journal Current Biology....

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How Extremophiles Might Help Us Save the World

Levi Novey | Posted 10.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Yellowstone, Research, Astrobiology, Atacama Desert, Science, Mars, Methane, Exploration, Caves, Imax, Space Exploration, Extremophile, Health, Green Technology, James Cameron, Microbiology, Climate Change, Ethanol, Technology, Breast Cancer Treatment, Medicine, Global Warming, Carlsbad Caverns National Park, Microbes-on-Mars, Microorganisms, Green News
Levi Novey

Living and thriving in the most inhospitable conditions on Earth, tiny bacteria-like microbes known as extremophiles might soon have an over-sized effect on our human world.

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The World Is Moving Forward Without Us

Dr. Seth Berkley | Posted 10.18.2009 | World

Read More: Developing Countries, AIDS Vaccine, Iavi, Sabin Vaccine Institute, International Health, World News, HIV/AIDS, Foreign Aid, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, Science Research, Pneumococcal Vaccine, Science, Seth Berkley, Advance Market Commitment, Orin Levine, Amc, World News
Dr. Seth Berkley

Advance Market Commitment (AMC) is a new market-based financing mechanism that accelerates the delivery of life-saving vaccines for children worldwide.

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Experts Looking Into Possibility Of Cloning Animals That Have Been Extinct For Thousands Of Years (VIDEO)

Posted 10.18.2009 | Home

Read More: Today Show, Science, Genetics, Video, Dinosaurs, Cloning Dinosaurs, Home News

The "Today Show" has an interesting report on how the science for cloning long-dead animals, including dinosaurs and woolly mammoths, has taken large ...

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Boy Cries Blood VIDEO: Calvino Inman's Illness Baffles Doctors

Posted 10.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Calvino Inman Cries Blood, Science, Boy Cries Blood, Video, Calvino Inman, Boy Cries Blood Video, Health, Living News

In an illness straight out of a science fiction story, Calvino Inman cries blood up to three times a day. His doctors as of yet cannot figure out why...

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The Complement Between Islam and Science

Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi | Posted 10.16.2009 | World

Read More: Science, Islam, Uae, Johns Hopkins, Algeria, World News
Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi

Every Ramadan, Sheikh Mohammed gathers intellectuals from across the Arab world to personally listen to their success stories and to benefit from their wisdom.

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This Week in Animals: Bat Love Songs, Celebrity Pets, Lobster Power And More!

Huffington Post | Barbara Fenig | Posted 09.28.2009 | Green

Read More: Animals, Cute Animals, Science, Pets, Celebrity Pets, Bats, Love Songs, Celebrities, Celebrity Animals, Global Warming, Animal Face of Global Warming, Lobsters, Farm Animals, Animal Abuse, Rats, Rat Island, Alaska Rat Island, This Week in Animals, This-Week-in-Animals, Slideshow, Slidepoll, Green News

HuffPost Green posted some informative animal stories this week, which we hope that you enjoyed. Flip through our slideshow for a refresher and don't ...

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Hans Rosling: Let My Dataset Change Your Mindset

TEDTalks | Posted 09.27.2009 | Media

Read More: Science, Technology, Development, Presentation, Medicine, Education, Media News
TEDTalks

Hans Rosling uses his fascinating data-bubble software to burst myths about the developing world this summer at the U.S. State Department.

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Reading Lion Tracks: New York Times' Friedman on Vacation in the Bush

Todd Palmer and Rob Pringle | Posted 09.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Population, Thomas Friedman, Brad Pitt, Africa, Angelina Jolie, Science, New York Times, Environmentalism, Biodiversity, Forests, Green News
Todd Palmer and Rob Pringle

As long as we remain a bioilliterate populace of which only the wealthiest 0.1% can afford to have an expert interpret the hieroglyphics, and only lions and other celebrity species attract our interest, then we will continue to turn the dazzling diversity of life into cannon fodder.

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Truth and Reconciliation for Group Selection XIV: Group Selection in the Laboratory

David Sloan Wilson | Posted 09.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Evolutionary Models, Group Selection, Multilevel Selection, Politics, Science, Inclusive Fitness, Kin Selection, Truth and Reconciliation, Evolution, Green News
David Sloan Wilson

For the evolutionary community at large, the rules governing the acceptance and rejection of group selection are not a storybook portrayal of science.

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This Week in Animals: Blended Families, Panda Porn, Marching Penguins And More! (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Barbara Fenig | Posted 09.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Animals, Cute Animals, Baby Animals, Cute Baby Animals, This Week in Animals, This-Week-in-Animals, Green Living, Green, Slidepoll, Tasmanian Devil Cancer, Tasmanian Devil, Elephants, Panda, Orangutans, China Giant Panda, Penguins, Smithsonian's National Zoo, Interspecies Mothers, Baby Giraffe, Motala, Endangered Animals, Video, Green News, Zoo Animals, Science, Green News

The HuffPost Green page showcased some wild animal stories this week including scientific studies, animal videos and remarkable photos. Don't forget t...

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Daily Mail: Artificial Life Will Be Created "Within Months" As Genome Experts Claim Vital Breakthrough

The Daily Mail | Posted 09.21.2009 | Home

Read More: Genome, J. Craig Venter Institute, Science, Biology, Artificial Life, Microbe, Bacteria, Synthetic Species, Cloned Bacteria, Craig Venter, Synthetic Genome, Home News

Artificial life will be made to order in the laboratory within four months, a controversial biologist has claimed. U.S genome expert Craig Venter, sa...

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Teen Sex Headline Abuse

Philip N. Cohen | Posted 09.19.2009 | Media

Read More: Boston, Children, Health, Chicago, San Antonio, Science, Teen Sex, Media, Sexuality, Adolescents and Sex, Media News
Philip N. Cohen

Early sexual activity is risky for adolescents. But, despite what you might have read in today's headlines, sex at age 12 is not the norm for poor children.

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Young Science USA

James M. Gentile | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Science, Department of Energy, Steven Chu, National Institutes of Health, Barack Obama, Albert Einstein, Competitiveness, Doe, Us-China-Economy, Education Budget, India Economy, Stimulus Higher Education, Steven Chu Energy Secretary, China Tech, National Institute of Health, Education Policy, U.S. Department of Energy, Relativity, Higher Education, Nih, China Economy, Cambridge University, Scientists, Politics News
James M. Gentile

If the future of our nation is not continually renewed by young Americans well supported in their advanced scientific research, we likely will have a very dim future indeed.

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DNA Evidence Can Be Fabricated, Scientists Show

New York Times | ANDREW POLLACK | Posted 09.17.2009 | Home

Read More: Dna, Science, Dna Evidence Can Be Faked, Dna Evidence Fabricated, Crime, Dna Evidence, Home News

Scientists in Israel have demonstrated that it is possible to fabricate DNA evidence, undermining the credibility of what has been considered the gold...

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