Study: Sun's Changes to Blame for Part of Global WarmingIncreased output from the Sun might be to blame for 10 to 30 percent of global warming that has been measured in the past 20 years, according to a new report.
Increased emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases still play a role, the scientists say.
But climate models of global warming should be corrected to better account for changes in solar activity, according to Nicola Scafetta and Bruce West of Duke University.
The findings were p... (more)
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Chip gives broadband from the mainsELECTRIC outfit Matsushita has released a chip that will allow you to set up broadband connections using the power supply in your house.
The big idea is that instead of messing around with wireless connections, you can link using the wires that run the lecky
Apparently there are all sorts of products that are being developed to run the chip. And, theoretically, it will mean that some of these appliances can talk to each other, share data, and build philosophies on t... (more)
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Sporadic Meteor Lights Up South Florida SkiesSOUTH FLORIDA - Residents from Kendall to Boca Raton reported bright lights in the sky Wednesday evening.
An expert at the Museum of Science Planetarium said the flash was a sporadic meteor, or a fireball that fell from west to east into the Atlantic Ocean.
"You see the movies and they have the little shooting stars and things going above. This was nothing like that. This was like a big thing coming in fast and burning up fast," said Bob Cooper, who saw the meteor. ... (more)
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Sweetener manufacturer disputes validity of new health researchAspartame, the artificial sweetener used in more than 6,000 food and drink products around the world, is the subject of renewed controversy this week after the results of the latest research into whether it can cause cancer.
Scientists at the independent European Ramazzini Foundation for cancer research in Bologna presented new results from its long-term, large-scale study of the effect of aspartame on 1,800 rats, at its international conference on cancer and environmental science... (more)
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Deadly flu is 'inevitable'THE Chief Medical Officer for England said yesterday it was a "biological inevitability" that an expected flu pandemic would seriously affect the health of people in the United Kingdom.
Sir Liam Donaldson, who restated that contingency plans are looking at 50,000 UK deaths from the pandemic, was asked if this country was ready to face the threat.
"I don't think I would ever want to be as bold as to claim that," he told BBC Radio 4's The World At One. "It's inevitab... (more)
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OK expected for sale of beef from cloned cows, offspringWASHINGTON -- The federal government is nearing a decision to allow the sale of meat and milk from cloned cows and their offspring, according to officials from government, industry and consumer groups.
The Food and Drug Administration is expected to take a major step toward approval soon, proposing to permit the sales, subject to 60 days of public comment and some additional review.
That could lead to choice cuts of steak and cartons of milk produced from cloned cat... (more)
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EU and U.S. clash over control of NetGENEVA - The United States and Europe clashed here Thursday in one of their sharpest public disagreements in months, after European Union negotiators proposed stripping the Americans of their effective control of the Internet.
The European decision to back the rest of the world in demanding the creation of a new international body to govern the Internet clearly caught the Americans off balance and left them largely isolated at talks designed to come up with a new way of regulatin... (more)
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EU outlines future net governanceAn oversight body of international governments will decide the top-level of the internet from now on, pulling it away from the US government and enshrining the revolutionary medium in international law.
That is the position taken by the EU, which is currently cutting a deal with other nations including Brazil, Canada and China, to end two weeks of argument at the PrepCom3 conference in Geneva.
The UK/EU representative, David Hendon told us that a new co-operative mo... (more)
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Meteor `like a fireball' flies across skyFoooosh!
That's how fast witnesses said a glowing meteor streaked across Florida skies Thursday before disappearing. From Fort Lauderdale to Cape Canaveral people called the National Weather Service reporting the bright orange orb.
"We think it was a meteor that was falling through the sky and burning up," said Barry Baxter, a weather service meteorologist.
"We don't know if it was over the ocean or land. [People] just said it was over the sky, like ... (more)
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WHO tries to play down expert warning of 150 million deaths from flu pandemic
The World Health Organisation has moved to play down a cataclysmic warning by one of its own officials that a pandemic caused by the bird flu virus ravaging poultry flocks in the Far East could kill as many as 150 million people.
The prediction came from David Nabarro, a senior WHO expert on infectious diseases, who was appointed on Thursday as UN co-ordinator for avian and human influenza. He said the next pandemic could claim from five million up to 150 million lives.... (more)
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Mighty Mice Regrow OrgansMice discovered accidentally at the Wistar Institute in Pennsylvania have the seemingly miraculous ability to regenerate like a salamander, and even regrow vital organs.
Researchers systematically amputated digits and damaged various organs of the mice, including the heart, liver and brain, most of which grew back.
The results stunned scientists because if such regeneration is possible in this mammal, it might also be possible in humans.
The research... (more)
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Study: Adept Liars' Brains Are Built DifferentlyIn the lexicon of lying, there are white lies and bare-faced lies. Facts can be fudged, forged or shaded. There are fibbers, fabricators and feckless fabulists. By whatever clinical term, the truth simply is not in some people.
Now scientists have an anatomical inkling why.
A new study from the University of Southern California, published in the October issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry, suggests that the talent for compulsive deception is embedded in the s... (more)
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Bird flu 'could kill 150m people'A new flu pandemic could happen at any time and kill between 5-150 million people, a UN health official warned.
David Nabarro, who is charged with co-ordinating responses to bird flu, said a mutation of the virus affecting Asia could trigger new outbreaks.
"The consequences in terms of human life when the pandemic does start are going to be extraordinary and very damaging," Dr Nabarro told the BBC.
Bird flu has swept through poultry and wild birds in ... (more)
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First Live Giant Squid PhotographedThis extraordinary image, captured by Japanese scientists, marks the first-ever record of a live giant squid in the wild. The mysterious deep-sea creature has inspired countless sea monster tales and a variety of scientific expeditions.
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