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Bee disease a mystery

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Scientists are one step closer to understanding the recent demise of billions of honey bees after making an important discovery about the transmission of a common bee virus.
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NIST Releases Preview of Much-Anticipated Online Mathematics Reference

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Science news // 25 June, 2008 08:51:00
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a five-chapter preview of the much-anticipated online Digital Library of Mathematical Functions (DLMF).

Solar system's biggest impact scar discovered

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Astronomy news // 25 June, 2008 01:00:00
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MIT scientists solve riddle of Mars' two-faced nature

Harnessing solar energy like plants do

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Technology news // 23 June, 2008 12:14:00
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MIT chemists see near-term promise in mimicking photosynthesis

Phoenix finds ice?

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Astronomy news // 19 June, 2008 11:59:00
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Dice-size crumbs of bright material have vanished from inside a trench where they were photographed by NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander four days ago, convincing scientists that the material was frozen water that vaporized after digging exposed it.

Newly Born Twin Stars Are Far From Identical

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Astronomy news // 18 June, 2008 12:03:00
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NSF-funded basic research may cause astronomers to re-examine the masses and ages of young stars and star formation theories

Solstice Moon Illusion

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Astronomy news // 17 June, 2008 11:59:00
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On tonight, June 18th, step outside at sunset and look around. You'll see a giant form rising in the east. At first glance it looks like the full Moon. It has craters and seas and the face of a man, but this "moon" is strangely inflated. It's huge!

Harnessing the sun

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Environment news // 16 June, 2008 12:06:00
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In many villages throughout Tibet, there are two ways to cook a meal. There's the traditional open fire, fueled by yak dung or the region's increasingly scarce wood. And then there are solar cookers, concentrating mirrors made of two-inch-thick concrete and covered with a mosaic of small glass mirrors.

A Trio of Super-Earths

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Astronomy news // 14 June, 2008 07:57:00
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A harvest of low-mass exoplanets discovered with HARPS

Nanoglassblowing Seen as Boon to Study of Individual Molecules

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Technology news // 12 June, 2008 04:13:00
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Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Cornell University have found beauty in a new fabrication technique called "nanoglassblowing" that creates nanoscale fluidic devices.

Has global warming research misinterpreted cloud behavior?

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Environment news // 10 June, 2008 12:47:00
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When researchers observe natural changes in clouds and temperature, they have traditionally assumed that the temperature change caused the clouds to change, and not the other way around.

Roadrunner supercomputer fastest in world

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Technology news // 08 June, 2008 08:49:00
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The Roadrunner high-performance computer at the Los Alamos National Laboratory is now the fastest in the world. The computer, developed in partnership with IBM and housed at the Laboratory, reached a petaflop of sustained performance.

Nuclear Pairs

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Physical sciences news // 08 June, 2008 01:52:00
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Like children playing a game of tag, some protons and neutrons link up briefly inside the nucleus of the atom and then rapidly split apart. These pairings have now been quantified in the first simultaneous measurement of such pairings and their constituents.

Circadian Math: One Plus One Doesn't Always Equal Two

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Life sciences news // 07 June, 2008 01:39:00
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Like a wristwatch that needs to be wound daily for accurate time-telling, the human circadian system - the biological cycles that repeat approximately every 24 hours - requires daily light exposure to the eye's retina to remain synchronized with the solar day.

Plastic Brain Outsmarts Experts

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Life sciences news // 05 June, 2008 12:02:00
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Training can increase fluid intelligence, once thought to be fixed at birth

Spitzer Captures Stellar Coming of Age in Our Galaxy

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Astronomy news // 03 June, 2008 12:31:00
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More than 800,000 snapshots from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have been stitched together to create a new "coming of age" portrait of stars in our inner Milky Way galaxy.

Strange Ring Found Circling Dead Star

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Astronomy news // 01 June, 2008 12:00:00
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NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has found a bizarre ring of material around the magnetic remains of a star that blasted itself to smithereens.