Study of beach water supports warnings
Sun and sand worshippers should heed contamination warnings posted along beaches, especially near the U.S.-Mexico border, research showed.
Environment
Dec 22, 2006
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Science group posts interactive Web site
The San Francisco-based Public Library of Science says its online journal will post research and allow interactive review before and after publication.
Other
Dec 22, 2006
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Bears not sleeping during warm winter
Scientists, calling it another sign of climate change, say European brown bears have stopped hibernating in the mountains of northern Spain.
Dec 22, 2006
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EU sets fish quotas for 2007
The European Union fisheries ministers have set the 2007 limits for fish catches in European waters.
Environment
Dec 22, 2006
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Rare mongoose found in Tanzania
The Bronx Zoo-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) announced today that a camera-trap study in the mountains of Southern Tanzania has now recorded Africa’s least-known and probably rarest carnivore: Jackson’s mongoose, ...
Dec 22, 2006
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Discovery's manifest includes ponytail
U.S. astronaut Sunita Williams, assigned to the International Space Station, sent a present home with the Discovery space shuttle crew -- a ponytail.
Space Exploration
Dec 22, 2006
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N.M. secretary wants Los Alamos lab fined
A New Mexico official proposed fining Los Alamos National Laboratory, alleging it hasn't lived up to a legal agreement on handling Cold War nuclear waste.
Other
Dec 22, 2006
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New research could lead to 'invisible' electronics
Imagine a car windshield that displays a map to your destination, military goggles with targets and instructions displayed right before a soldier's eyes or a billboard that doubles as a window.
Condensed Matter
Dec 22, 2006
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NIST laser-based method cleans up grubby nanotubes
Before carbon nanotubes can fulfill their promise as ultrastrong fibers, electrical wires in molecular devices, or hydrogen storage components for fuel cells, better methods are needed for purifying raw nanotube materials. ...
Nanomaterials
Dec 22, 2006
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'Vortex lattices' may help explain material defects
What do you get when you superimpose a rotating pattern of intersecting laser beams on a spinning cloud of ultracold atoms in a thin gas? Pretty pictures, for one thing--but also a new method that could be used to simulate ...
General Physics
Dec 22, 2006
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