Fermi nuke plant used wrong test for years
The U.S.-based Union of Concerned Scientists says the Fermi Nuclear Power Plant near Detroit used the wrong backup systems safety test for 20 years.
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Feb 22, 2007
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Discovery Reveals that Distant Quasars Live in Massive Dark-Matter Halos
The discovery of dark-matter halos surrounding clusters of quasars that are over 10-billion light years away from Earth has been announced by an international research team of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS).
Astronomy
Feb 22, 2007
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Study: Inhabitants of early settlement were desperate to find metals
A new study provides evidence that the last inhabitants of Christopher Columbus’ first settlement desperately tried to extract silver from lead ore, originally brought from Spain for other uses, just before abandoning the ...
Archaeology
Feb 22, 2007
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Looking for life on Jupiter's moon Europa
While NASA and the European Space Agency focus on Mars rovers and future missions to search for life on the Red Planet, a determined core of scientists is lobbying for equal attention to a place they feel is just as likely ...
Space Exploration
Feb 22, 2007
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LA region's garages suffering identity crisis, say UCLA researchers
Forget hot tubs beckoning sybaritic adults, garages brimming with impressive cars and families frolicking on verdant lawns. From their clutter-strewn garages to their mostly lovely but abandoned yards, busy Southern California ...
Other
Feb 22, 2007
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Lower carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fueled power plants possible with technology development
A more economical technology for a 90 percent reduction of carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fueled power plants is being developed by a chemical engineer and his colleagues at The University of Texas at Austin as part of ...
Feb 22, 2007
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Killing the messenger RNA -- But which one?
Tiny molecules called microRNAs, only 19 to 21 nucleotides in length, are able to effectively silence sometimes large sets of genes. They do this by specifically binding to and neutralizing another form of RNA called messenger ...
Feb 22, 2007
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New evidence -- Clovis people not first to populate North America
The belief that the Clovis People were the first to populate North America some 11,500 years ago has been widely challenged in recent years, and a Texas A&M University anthropologist has found evidence he says could be the ...
Archaeology
Feb 22, 2007
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ISS Crew Wraps Up Successful Spacewalk
Expedition 14 Commander Michael Lopez-Alegria and Flight Engineer Mikhail Tyurin retracted a stuck antenna on a cargo spacecraft during a 6-hour, 18-minute spacewalk that ended at 10:45 a.m. CST Thursday.
Space Exploration
Feb 22, 2007
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There's no such thing as a picky grizzly bear
A new University of Alberta study, which tracked eating habits of grizzly bears living in the Alberta foothills, sheds some light on the animal's varied diet and their activity pattern.
Feb 22, 2007
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