US sci-fi author Jack Vance dies, aged 96
Tributes poured in Thursday for award-winning US fantasy and science-fiction writer Jack Vance, after he died at home in California aged 96.
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Pacaya volcano erupts in Guatemala
Guatamala's Pacaya volcano erupted early Thursday, sending volcanic material more than 400 meters in the air, authorities said.
Earth Sciences
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Tesla promises to add charging stations
Electric car maker Tesla Motors Inc. promises to boost the number of fast-charging stations in the U.S. and Canada to make cross-country travel by electric car possible in the next year.
Energy & Green Tech
May 30, 2013
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Cherished 'Start' button returning to Windows software (Update)
Microsoft unveiled an update to its latest Windows operating system Thursday that included a return of a "Start" button that had been missed by longtime users of the computer software.
Software
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Climate: Carbon 'offsets' rise 4% in 2012
Trade in carbon offsets, a voluntary means of reducing one's footprint in global-warming gases, rose by four percent in volume terms last year as the market price of carbon collapsed, a report said on Thursday.
Environment
May 30, 2013
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Landsat 8 satellite begins watch
NASA transferred operational control Thursday of the Landsat 8 satellite to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in a ceremony in Sioux Falls, S.D.
Earth Sciences
May 30, 2013
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NASA's MMS team assembles final observatory
On May 20, 2013, the Magnetospheric Multiscale, or MMS, mission team at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., reached an unprecedented milestone. The team mated the instrument and spacecraft decks to form ...
Space Exploration
May 30, 2013
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Climate change threatens extinction for 82 percent of California native fish
(Phys.org) —Salmon and other native freshwater fish in California will likely become extinct within the next century due to climate change if current trends continue, ceding their habitats to non-native fish, predicts a ...
Ecology
May 30, 2013
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Biologists take snapshot of fleeting protein process
Structural biologists from Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) have captured the first three-dimensional crystalline snapshot of a critical but fleeting process that takes place thousands of times per second ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 30, 2013
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Researchers gain insight into key protein linked to cancers, neurodegenerative disorders
Virginia Commonwealth University researchers studying a key molecular player called Hsp70 that is responsible for protein homeostasis have uncovered how it binds together with another molecule responsible for intracellular ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 30, 2013
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