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Obama urges new effort on climateBarack Obama urges the US and EU to re-double efforts to achieve
success at the climate
change summit in Copenhagen.
BBC Wednesday, November 04, 2009India's space ambitions taking offIn this seaside village, the children of farmers and fishermen aspire to become something that their impoverished parents never thought possible: astronauts.
Washington Post Wednesday, November 04, 2009Oldest T. rex relative identifiedScientists identify the most ancient fossil relative of the predatory dinosaur Tyrannosaurus rex.
BBC Wednesday, November 04, 2009Scientists are first to 'unlock' the mystery of creating cultured pearls from the queen conchIn their natural form, conch pearls are among the rarest pearls in the world. For more than 25 years, all attempts at culturing pearls from the queen conch have been unsuccessful -- until now. For the first time, novel and proprietary seeding techniques to produce beaded and non-beaded high-quality cultured pearls from the queen conch have been developed by
scientists from FAU's Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute.
Eurekalert.org Wednesday, November 04, 2009Great wines come from great soils(American Society of Agronomy) Experts will discuss terroir with an emphasis on soil
science in a symposium on Wednesday, Nov. 4 in Pittsburgh. "Terroir: Winegrapes and the Environment" will be presented in two parts at the 2009 Annual Meetings of the
american Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America and Soil Science Society of America in Pittsburgh, Pa.
Eurekalert.org Wednesday, November 04, 2009New scientific study indicates that eating quickly is associated with overeatingAccording to a new study accepted for publication in the Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, eating a meal quickly, as compared to slowly, curtails the release of hormones in the gut that induce feelings of being full. The decreased release of these hormones, can often lead to overeating.
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Amazon Wednesday, November 04, 2009Can we manipulate the weather?Chinese
scientists claim to be able to control the weather. But is so-
called geoengineering more than wishful thinking? And, if so,
should we be worried?The unseasonal snow that fell on
beijing for 11 hours on Sunday was the earliest and heaviest there has been for years. It was also, China
claims, man-made. By the end of last month, farmland in the already dry north of China was suffering badly due to drought. So on Saturday night China's meteorologists fired 186 explosive rockets loaded with chemicals to "seed" clouds and encourage snow to fall. "We won't miss any opportunity of artificial precipitation since Beijing is suffering from a lingering drought," Zhang Qiang, head of the Beijing Weather Modification Office, told state media.The US has tinkered with such cloud seeding to increase water flow from the Sierra Nevada mountains in California since the 1950s, but there remains widespread scientific sniffiness in
the west at such attempts at weather control. The chemicals fired
Guardian Wednesday, November 04, 2009Orange slime holds science secretsA single-celled Antarctic organism could help guide research in cryogenics, stem cell research and food safety.
ABC.net.au Wednesday, November 04, 2009Folate supplements linked to childhood asthmaResearchers say they may have found a link between folate supplements taken during late pregnancy and asthma in young children.
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