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Study: Price gap threatens Chicago Board of Trade's wheat futures market

A commodity market that has long helped wheat growers and processors manage price risks could lose its relevance unless the Chicago Board of Trade bridges a wide gap between futures and cash prices, a new University of Illinois ...

Other Sciences / Other

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Research shows fine wine investors should diversify

Wine investors are warned not to put all their eggs in one French basket in a new report from the University of East Anglia.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

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On the hunt for high-altitude microorganisms

The United States Rocket Academy has announced an open call for entries in its High Altitude Astrobiology Challenge, a citizen science project that will attempt to collect samples of microbes that may be lurking ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 21, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 2

Latest Southern Ocean research shows continuing deep ocean change

New research by teams of Australian and US scientists has found there has been a massive reduction in the amount of Antarctic Bottom Water found off the coast of Antarctica. Comparing detailed measurements taken during the ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 21, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

SpaceX readies ambitious ISS launch

California-based company SpaceX was poised to launch its Dragon capsule to the International Space Station Saturday in what may be a historic mission for private spaceflight.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

SpaceX poised for high-stakes space station launch

SpaceX on Saturday aims to become the first private company to send its own cargo ship to the International Space Station, a feat that only a handful of world governments have pulled off.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 5

Slow-motion film reveals what happens when lizards drop their tails

Timothy Higham, an assistant professor of biology at the University of California, Riverside, will be featured in the program “Animal Superpowers: Extreme Survivors” on the National Geographic Wild ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

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Japan in first commercial satellite launch

Japan joined the commercial space race Friday after its workhorse rocket put a paid-for South Korean satellite into orbit, pitting the country against Russia and Europe in the competition for customers.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Social security: Fixing the glaring gap for women

(Phys.org) -- After a lifetime of lower wages and time out of the labor market for caregiving, women typically receive less from Social Security than men, with millions of widows and women of color falling into poverty in ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 14, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New nanostructure for batteries keeps going and going

(Phys.org) -- For more than a decade, scientists have tried to improve lithium-based batteries by replacing the graphite in one terminal with silicon, which can store 10 times more charge. But after just a ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

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Laos says building of controversial dam on hold

Laos has postponed construction of a controversial dam on the Mekong, an official said Thursday, dismissing fears that the work was going ahead despite growing regional opposition.

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1


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