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New material to soak up oil spills?

by  Agence France-Presse  on  May 01, 2013

A team of scientists made nanosheets of boron nitride, also called white graphene, that were able to soak up a wide...

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Virgin Galactic spaceplane breaks sound barrier

by  Agence France-Presse  on  April 30, 2013

SpaceShipTwo ignited its engine after being released by WhiteKnightTwo, a plane that carried it to 47,000 feet (14,000...

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Climate chief warns of 'urgency' as CO2 levels rise

by  Agence France-Presse  on  April 29, 2013

UN climate chief Christiana Figueres stressed 'a heightened sense of urgency' as CO2 levels approach a symbolic...

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Fil-Am scientist joins TIME 100 for HIV breakthrough

by  Rappler.com  on  April 29, 2013

Filipino-American scientist Katherine Luzuriaga is also honored by the magazine in its annual list

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Gene clues point to Cambodia for drug-resistant malaria

by  Agence France-Presse  on  April 28, 2013

Gene analysis of malaria parasites has pinpointed western Cambodia as the hotspot of strains that are dangerously...

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Top virologist warns of human-to-human H7N9 bird flu

by  Jean-Louis Santini, Agence France-Presse  on  April 28, 2013

Virologist: No evidence that the deadly H7N9 bird flu has yet spread between humans but health authorities must be...

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Campaign launched to save Great Barrier Reef from industry

by  Agence France-Presse  on  April 28, 2013

Conservationists accused Australia of failing to protect the Great Barrier Reef from massive industrial development

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Climate refugees: losing homes and hopes

by  Purple Romero  on  April 28, 2013

The government must come up with a more nuanced solution to the problem of having climate refugees

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[Science Solitaire] What is beautiful?

by  Maria Isabel Garcia  on  April 26, 2013

Our wiring for what is beautiful is intricately tied to what helped us survive

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Earth, art, and heart at the Mind Museum

by  Christine Chan  on  April 24, 2013

At the Mind Museum, they thought of a different way of celebrating Earth Day, using fossils, art, and performance

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