Climate totem: Has Kyoto run its course?
Should the Kyoto Protocol, the only international curb on greenhouse gases, be allowed to die?
Environment
Dec 6, 2011
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UN chief to open ministers level at climate talks
(AP) -- An international treaty on climate change won't be enough to avert a dangerous rise in global temperatures, and countries need to voluntarily make deeper cuts in carbon emissions, the head of the U.N. Environment ...
Environment
Dec 6, 2011
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Helping businesses defend against cyber threats
Analysts with the National Security Agency see the threats coming at corporate America: viruses, worms and other malware targeting the computer networks that serve the nation's banks, utilities and businesses.
Internet
Dec 6, 2011
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Verizon Wireless nixes Google Wallet in new phone
(AP) -- Verizon Wireless is blocking Google's new flagship phone from supporting Google's attempt to make the smartphone the credit card of the future.
Business
Dec 6, 2011
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New material's capability to increase weapons' explosive force demonstrated at Navy test range
Military, government and industry officials watched the demonstration of a revolutionary material that increases the explosive force and lethality on enemy targets during a test at Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Dahlgren, ...
Engineering
Dec 6, 2011
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Tropical sea temperatures influence melting in Antarctica
Accelerated melting of two fast-moving outlet glaciers that drain Antarctic ice into the Amundsen Sea Embayment is likely the result, in part, of an increase in sea-surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific Ocean, according ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 6, 2011
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DNA evidence offers proof of North American native population decline due to arrival of Europeans
(PhysOrg.com) -- Most history books report that Native American populations in North America declined significantly after European colonizers appeared, subsequent to the “discovery” of the new world by Christopher ...
Still in the dark about dark matter
Dark matter, the mysterious stuff thought to make up about 80 percent of matter in the universe, has become even more inscrutable.
General Physics
Dec 6, 2011
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It's elemental: Paper celebrates discovery of iodine
(PhysOrg.com) -- It's not every day that an element gets to celebrate a bicentennial, and a University of Delaware professor is pleased to have been invited to the "birthday party" for iodine, which was discovered in 1811.
Materials Science
Dec 6, 2011
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Worms can evolve to survive intersex populations
(PhysOrg.com) -- Sexually reproducing species need at least two sexes in order to produce offspring, but there are many ways that nature produces different sexes. Many animals (including humans and other mammals) use a chromosomal ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 6, 2011
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