China's carbon dioxide (CO2) levels soared in 2011, putting its per capita emissions on a par for the first time with those of Europe, while global levels of the greenhouse gas hit another all-time high, a report released ...
Environment
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(AP) — A British lawyer representing victims of phone hacking by Rupert Murdoch's News International says a significant new email has just emerged in litigation.
Internet
Jul 18, 2012
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It's summer. For many of us, summer is a time synonymous with fresh corn, one of the major field crops produced in the United States.
Environment
Jul 18, 2012
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Scientists have recreated the extreme conditions at the boundary between Earth's core and its mantle, 2,900 km beneath the surface. Using the world's most brilliant beam of X-rays, they probed speck-sized samples of rock ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 18, 2012
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An international team of researchers, led by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and the University of York, has provided the first molecular evidence that Neanderthals not only ate a range of cooked plant foods, but ...
Archaeology
Jul 18, 2012
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(Phys.org) -- Astronomers have witnessed for the first time a spiral galaxy in the early universe, billions of years before many other spiral galaxies formed. In findings reported July 19 in the journal Nature, the astronomers ...
Astronomy
Jul 18, 2012
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An international research team has published the results of an ocean iron fertilization experiment (EIFEX) carried out in 2004 in the current issue of the scientific journal Nature. Unlike the LOHAFEX experiment carried out ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 18, 2012
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(Phys.org) -- A team of archaeologists led by Brown University's Stephen Houston has uncovered a pyramid, part of the Maya archaeological site at El Zotz, Guatemala. The ornately decorated structure is topped by a temple ...
Archaeology
Jul 18, 2012
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(Phys.org) -- Researchers in Germany appear to have found a way to create a monolithic (integrated) graphene transistor, using a lithographic process applied to silicon carbide, a breakthrough that could lead to computers ...
(AP) — A revolutionary discovery is rewriting the history of underwear: Some 600 years ago, women wore bras.
Archaeology
Jul 18, 2012
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