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Science on a melting ice floe
2008/07/17
After Russian researchers are evacuated from their Arctic base, one member of the team explains what it was like to spend the winter on ice.
Nature News
Russia delays Lake Vostok drill
2008/07/17
Russia is postponing its controversial plans to drill into Antarctica's sub-glacial Lake Vostok. Russian scientists now hope to start probing the pristine environment almost 4,000 metres below the East Antarctic ice sheet in the 2009–10 drilling season.
nature News
Whatever happened to bird flu?
2008/07/10
The media frenzy over bird flu has receded, but the threat of a global epidemic still looms large.
Nature News
Competing to use "green" words
2008/07/07
Organisations with an ambition to appear environmentally conscious are adopting the language of the environmental movement. But businesses are using 'green' words in their own way, concludes Mark Brown at BI Norwegian School of Management.
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First images of solar system's invisible frontier
2008/07/07
ASA's sun-focused STEREO spacecraft unexpectedly detected particles from the edge of the solar system last year, allowing University of California, Berkeley, scientists to map for the first time the energized particles in the region where the hot solar wi
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Condemned to single-sex life by climate change
2008/07/03
Rising temperatures look set to produce male-only offspring in the tuatara, condemning the ancient reptile species to extinction by 2085, computer modelling predicts.
Nature News
Closer than ever to the Sun
2008/07/03
After nearly 18 years, the Ulysses mission's odyssey is over. The fuel line could freeze shut in days, according to Ed Massey, NASA project manager at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
Nature News
Fermilab Cancels Layoffs
2008/07/03
Since December, scientists, engineers, technicians, and staff at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, Illinois, have waited anxiously to find out who will be asked to leave in layoffs forced by an unexpected budget cut.
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Rain on the Martian Plain?
2008/07/03
Martian soil data collected by five robotic missions indicates that rain fell on the Red Planet billions of years ago.
Sciencenow
Planetary science: Tunguska at 100
2008/06/30
The most dramatic cosmic impact in recent history has gathered up almost as many weird explanations as it knocked down trees, writes Duncan Steel.
Nature News
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