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British scientists want to resurrect SETI in the UK
2013-07-08 21:11:45| Extremetech
A new UK version of SETI is campaigning for government funding to bring alien-hunting back to a national agenda.
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Scientists Grow Human Liver With Stem Cells in Mice, Give Hope to Humans
2013-07-05 20:15:29| Footwear - Topix.net
Scientists have been able to use stem cells to grow a functioning miniature human liver in mice, giving hope to thousands waiting for liver and other organ transplants.
Europe must tackle air pollution, warn UN scientists
2013-07-04 12:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The health effects of air pollution have been underestimated and Europe should review its laws to tackle the problem, UN scientists have concluded after a major review of new evidence. Sixty international scientists, commissioned by the World Health Organisation, analysed eight years of studies to see how minute specks of soot, gases such as ozone and nitrogen dioxide (NO2), and other pollutants from road and rail traffic, industry and indoor fires harm human health. In addition to premature...
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As Arizona fire rages, scientists warn of more unpredictable blazes
2013-07-03 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: Early morning is a frenetic time at a wildfire command post. Biologists, meteorologists, foresters and firefighters hustle into tents and grab laptops to review overnight reports, prepping for the day's assault. Fire behavior analysts run computer models that spit out information crucial to putting out the blaze: how many acres a fire will probably burn, in which direction and with what intensity. In recent years, the models have been rendered practically obsolete, unable to project how erratic...
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Scientists Seek Regional Differences to Explain Variable Spread of PED
2013-07-03 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US - The vice president science and technology with the National Pork Board says researchers are looking for regional differences that might explain why Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea has been spreading rapidly in some areas of the US and not at all in other areas, Bruce Cochrane writes.
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