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This week I’m trying something new: including a climate model that runs on your web browser! It’s not a realistic model; we’re just getting started.
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As economists puzzle over the future direction of global markets, there is a growing consensus among pharmaceutical industry analysts that slimming down will reap profits for Pfizer.
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Scientists are irked over a paper claiming, as The New York Times reported on Monday, that “ DNA’s power to predict illness is limited .” “Yes,” geneticists have replied. “What else is new?” Geneticists don’t dispute the idea that genes aren’t the only factor that determines whether we get sick; many of them agree with that point.Nature Publishing Group : science journals, jobs, and information
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SETI Institute Celebrates World-Famous Alien Hunter’s 35 Years of Research And Looks Forward To The Next Chapter Astronomer who inspired Jodie Foster’s character in “Contact” retires as Director of the Center for SETI Research. Astronauts, Scientists and Celebrities to gather in Santa Clara to salute science, imagination, and Tarter June 22 – 24 NASA's Kepler mission has been approved for extension through fiscal year 2016 based on a recommendation from the agency¹s Senior Review of its operating missions. SOS: Save our Science! The planetary science budget is under attack!
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By NEIL GENZLINGER “Titanoboa: Monster Snake,” on the Smithsonian Channel, investigates the existence of a prehistoric serpent that stretched 48 feet and the possibility of existing species growing to that size.
It was almost one year ago that the space shuttle Atlantis rose into the sky on a pillar of flame for the last time. The shuttle program ended forever with that mission. American astronauts were left to hitch rides on Russian space capsules, and American kids were left with no tangible direction forward for their dreams of a high-tech, space-happy future.
13.7: Cosmos And Culture : NPR