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Obama's Climate Strategy Doesn't Require Congressional Approval : NPR 27 Jun 2013 | 07:34 pm
Obama anticipated resistance to his ideas. Many Republicans in Congress don't even acknowledge climate change as a serious issue. But all the particulars of his program can be implemented without invo...
Mouse Cloned From Drop of Blood 27 Jun 2013 | 07:24 pm
Circulating blood cells collected from the tail of a donor mouse were used to produce the clone, a team at the Riken BioResource Center reports in the journal Biology of Reproduction. The female mouse...
Nerve Cells Regrown In Rats With Spinal Cord Injury 26 Jun 2013 | 06:30 pm
Rats with severe spinal cord injury were able to urinate normally after scientists used a new technique to regenerate nerve cells across the site of injury. The US team hopes their methods will help d...
Lopsided Map of the Cosmos Offers Clues that our Universe has Bumped into Another Universe 26 Jun 2013 | 06:22 pm
If our universe slammed into a neighboring one during a growth spurt in its first second, the collision would have left a mark. And Matthew Kleban thinks he sees it in the most detailed snapshot yet t...
Bumper Crop of Habitable Worlds Discovered 26 Jun 2013 | 06:09 pm
Astronomers believe they have found an alien solar system packed with a record-breaking three potentially habitable worlds. New observations of the star Gliese 667C—about one-third the mass of our sun...
Syria Deaths Top 100,000 26 Jun 2013 | 06:01 pm
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which has been tracking the death toll through a network of activists in Syria, said Wednesday that 100,191 have died. Of those, 36,661 are civil...
Supreme Court rules against patenting human genes - latimes.com 13 Jun 2013 | 08:49 pm
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that human genes cannot be patented, a victory for cancer patients and their doctors who had challenged a Utah company’s exclusive control over a defective gene sequen...
Game of Thrones Trickery, Hidden in Plain Sight -- Red Wedding & Jaime's Hand 11 Jun 2013 | 11:35 am
So, here are a few published shots from someplace (they are cited, however) that are fairly--not Fairley--evidential of how they pulled off a couple of things on the WONDERFUL show, Game of Thrones......
Animal Behaviorist: We'll Soon Have Devices That Let Us Talk With Our Pets 6 Jun 2013 | 10:45 pm
We all try to talk with animals, but very few of us do so professionally. And even fewer are trying to build devices that could allow us to communicate with our pets and farm animals. Meet one person ...
Watch the Men of Fox News Freak Out Over Female Breadwinners 31 May 2013 | 10:19 am
Most of the time, conservatives pooh-pooh the pay gap as a result of women's "choice" to work less and attend to the home more. They're not against equality, they assure us, but equality just naturall...
