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April 30, 2007

Finding the God Particle

Category: Technology

Physicists covening in Canada have a brand new atom smashing project designed to reveal one of the Universe's great secrets: Why does matter have mass? The unsexy sounding still though theoretical sub-atomic particle Higgs boson has an ecumenical alias the...

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Melamine: Shorthand for Cutting Corners with Food Security

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Feed suppliers in China's rapidly industrialized countryside have been cutting corners. Leading to a health crisis in the pet food industry. Melamine scrap is believed to be commonly mixed in animal feed in China to artificially boost the protein level,...

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Co2 Neutral: Smart or Not So Green?

Category: Environment

Is the carbon neutral movement just a gimmick? Growth in this free-market form of environmentalism has been blazingly fast. But with no oversight or hard data to support their broad claims are advocates simply selling a form of global-warming indulgence....

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April 29, 2007

Blogging as Catharsis

Category: Health

Misery lit seems to have a lot in common with a certain strain of bloggers revealing inner-lives of pain and anguish, or at the very very least the salacacious details of their sex lives. Some of the memoirists say they...

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April 28, 2007

Religion and Reason can they Co-exist?

Category: Commentary

If you thought the Christian Right had cornered the market on creationst myths of the Old Testament variety. Think again. A charismatic Muslim cleric has been spreading the word through his tome "The Atlas of Creation." Its author claims to...

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April 27, 2007

Residents Pay Ultimate Price for Superfund Dodges

Category: Environment

Corporations responsible for hundreds of the most toxic sites in the United States spent nearly as much money lobbying politicians and funding political campaigns as they did repaying the government for cleaning up their messes, according to a new analysis...

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MicroRNA Packs Powerful Punch

Category: Health

Apparently, the human body has a regulator much like a thermostat that affects the entire immune system. A snippet of RNA known as miR-155, one of about 500 that have been discovered in mammals in the last 10 years, is...

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April 26, 2007

What's Bugging the Bees?

Category: Environment

The recent sudden collapse of bee colonies mystified scientists and farmers concerned over the potential commerical impact on open-pollinated crops such as almonds. Without workers bees spreading pollen there's no harvest. Experts think they may have the answer to the...

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Guardian of Trees Wins 415K Prize

Category: Environment

Largley unknown in the UK but a well respected man of science and conservation. Peter Ashton has been interested in trees for a long time and in a big way. He knows more about - and has done more to...

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Email Antagonisties

Category: Commentary

As news junkies well know, email has been at the root of several recent scandals used to incriminate politicos and CEOs under investigation. The Send button may be the most dangerous word in the English language. A simple tool intended...

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