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Global warming turns tundra to forest-study
Reuters
* Shrubs have grown to trees in just a few decades * More trees in tundra will speed warming LONDON, June 3 (Reuters) - Plants and shrubs have colonised parts of the Arctic tundra in recent decades growing into small trees, a scientific study found, ...
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Global warming turns tundra to forest: study
Firstpost
by FP Staff 1 min ago LONDON (Reuters) – Plants and shrubs have colonised parts of the Arctic tundra in recent decades growing into small trees, a scientific study found, adding the change may lead to an increase in global warming pressures if...
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Firstpost
Importance of Political Science and International RelationsStudies
Oman Daily Observer
OUTLOOK — By Haider Al Lawati — Study of politicalscience major in universities has become one of the most important humanistic and scientific studies on the global level. The study of politics is centuries old. Aristotle called it the "queen of the ...
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Oman Daily Observer
Scientists complete most comprehensive genetic analysis yet of corn
Science Codex
The study appears in two corn genome projects published in separate reports in the June 3 issue of the journal Nature Genetics. "This work represents a major step forward and an important tool in the arsenal available to scientists and breeders for ...
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Science Codex
Excessive levels of Vitamin D can be as unhealthy as too little
PakTribune.com
Research suggests that vitamin D is also beneficial in combating cardiac disease, depression and certain types of cancers. The results from a studyconducted by the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences now support the benefits of vitamin D in terms ...
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Warming Arctic Tundra Producing Pop-Up Forests
New York Times (blog)
Low tundra shrubs, many of which are willow and alder species, have rapidly grown into small trees over the last 50 years, according to the study, led by scientists from Oxford University and the Arctic Center of the University of Lapland.
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New York Times (blog)
Crime goes hand in hand with lack of education: Study
Times of India
THANE: The tilt towards crime and delinquency is strongly linked to the high percentage of illiteracy among Muslims, states a research study on Muslim prisoners conducted by Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) in 2009.
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UWF: Most oil from BP spill gone from Gulf along Panhandle
Pensacola Business Journal
The scientists have spent a year on an offshore study to determine how much of the 270 million gallons of spilled BP oil remains in the Gulf between Perdido Key and Panama City. The offshore study will continue for another year. An onshore study will ...
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Employment solutions: Can a town's good deeds lower unemployment?
Christian Science Monitor
Some seeking employment solutions see this altruistic glue as something to study. By Leda Hartman, Contributor to The Christian Science Monitor / June 3, 2012 A meeting of the Unofficial Beach Moms group in Pittsboro, NC, where the community glue of ...
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Christian Science Monitor
Natural and industrial trans fats' implications on health revealed
Newstrack India
Washington, June 3 (ANI): In a new study, scientists have given new insights into the health implications of different types of trans fat. The latestresearch, by Canadian scientists who joined their international colleagues, builds on groundbreaking ...
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Experiment helps rats with spine injuries walk again
Bryan College Station Eagle
He wasn't involved in the research. In the new experiment, reported in Friday's issue of the journal Science, researchers stimulated spinal nerve circuits and used physical training. The stimulation was electrical current from implanted electrodes plus ...
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New animal disease facility stalled by budget, politics
Reuters
The future of the plant could hinge on the two studies by the NationalResearch Council, which is affiliated with the National Academy ofSciences. The NRC issued a scathing report in late 2010, saying the risks had not been adequately studied.
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Maize diversity discoveries may help ease world's hunger pangs
Science Codex
The findings, together with a companion study on maize diversity, will be published June 3 in the online edition of the journal Nature Genetics. Theresearch was funded by the National Science Foundation and conducted by scientists from 17 ...
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Pesticide `junk science' challenge
Chatham Daily News
As well, Health Canada stated that the “OCFP report is a review of epidemiology studies selected from the public scientific literature,” and that it lacked sufficient scientific data. And the Canadian Institutes of HealthResearch issued its own ...
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Cloud Physics Lab in Maharashtra to gather data on monsoon season
Times of India
Perched atop the 4710 ft (1438 meter) above sea level hill station, the Rs 35 crore laboratory of the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MOES) will house the state of art instruments for the observations including a "sky imager" with an additional ...
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PU awards 12 PhD degrees
The Nation, Pakistan
LAHORE – University of the Punjab produced 12 PhDs in the fields of High Energy Physics, Education, Urdu, Medicine (Urology), Biological Sciences, Islamic Studies and Administrative Sciences (Management). As per details, PU awarded PhD degree to ...
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Exercise may actually be bad for your heart
Times of India
A well-known group of researchers, including one who helped write thescientific paper justifying US guidelines that promote exercise for all, say the answer may be a qualified yes. By analyzing data from six rigorous exercise studies involving 1687 ...
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Stay or go? Communities are eyeing a retreat from sea
msnbc.com
More science news from msnbc.com Experts find credible calls from Amelia Earhart Dozens of previously dismissed radio signals were actually credible transmissions from Amelia Earhart, according to a new study. Updated 118 minutes ago 6/3/2012 1:17:33 ...
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Prime Mininster vows steps to curb brain drain
Times of India
Founder of the institute, Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose, had rightly understood the importance of such interdisciplinary studies in various streams of science. It is interdisciplinary research that helps in mastering the secrets of nature.
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Who's afraid of the neuroscience of politics? I am.
ScienceBlog.com (blog)
There's the psychologist Arthur Jensen's 1969 study purporting to show, with good hard scientific data, that blacks are about 10-20 IQ points stupider than whites, so it was pointless for liberals to provide “compensatory education” designed to right ...
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Engineer enlisted scientific advances to aid Texas woman on death row
Austin American-Statesman
Newberg tracked down the defense lawyer quoted in the story, George Cumming of San Francisco, to explain that Henderson's alibi could be reinforced by biomechanics, an emerging field of study that measures the effect outside forces have on the human ...
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Austin American-Statesman
Scientific American on “White Skies:” Chemtrail Conditioning?
DeathRattleSports.com
The article touches on a recent study from the Carnegie Institute forScience that explores the possible benefits of man-made geoengineering, as they term it. The process of geoengineering, essentially “adding sulfate to the atmosphere to block the ...
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'Safe' levels of arsenic in drinking water found to compromise pregnant ...
Eureka! Science News
"This study raises a couple of issues. First, we have to think again about whether 10 ppb arsenic as a US drinking water standard is safe and protective of human health," says Hamilton, who is the MBL's chief academic and scientificofficer and a ...
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Eureka! Science News
A post-coital switch: Mapping the changing behaviors in the female fruit fly's...
Eureka! Science News
The work was funded by the Wellcome Trust and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC). In their study the researchers showed that stimulation by sex peptide of just two neuronal clusters on the uterus is sufficient to ...
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Former Top USN Admiral Sees Navy Moored In Shallow Climate Science And Green ...
Forbes
(See my recent column titled “Global Warming Alarmism: When Science IS Fiction”.) Despite a plethora of scientificevidence to the contrary, the US Government, including the military, continues to enact costly and unproductive policies.
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Forbes
SNU to investigate alleged stem cell fraud
Korea Times
By Yi Whan-woo Seoul National University (SNU) will launch an investigation this week into the allegation that one of its stem cell researchers fabricated 14 studies submitted to international scientificjournals for publication.
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Blotchy bass raise questions about Susquehanna River
Standard Speaker
By ROBERT SWIFT (Harrisburg Bureau Chief) HARRISBURG - The state Fish and Boat Commission wants a sister agency to designate the mainstream of the Susquehanna River impaired so additional scientific studies can be done to determine the cause of a major ...
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Fukushima still feeds lawmakers' concerns for West Coast
News10.net
One of the studies, done by researchers at California State University-Long Beach, found them in kelp; a second, released by the National Academy ofSciences and involving researchers at Stanford, found them in bluefin tuna. In both cases, the amounts ...
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Does living alone spell our doom?
Foster's Daily Democrat
From Mestel's synopsis of the study: "Some scientists believe that ancestors of humans had chimplike patterns of mating and child-rearing. The transition to pair-bonding was a key step for our big-brained species, because our children take years and ...
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'Pulse' cancer treatment seen as inferior
San Antonio Express
“It's changing my practice,” said Thompson, professor of urology at the University of Texas Health Science Center. “My suspicion is that it will change the standard of care.” The study of some 1500 men in San Antonio and across the country looked at ...
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Facts in scientific drug literature may not be
(May 28, 2009) — It's a long-standing and crucial question that, as yet, remains unanswered: just how common is scientific misconduct? A newstudy finds the ...
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120529181145.htm
Scientific research in a forest - Boing Boing
Scientific research in a forest ... This particular study, led by Dr. Jerry Melillo of the Marine Biological Laboratory, ... I'll get more in-depth on thisstudy later.
boingboing.net/2012/05/21/scientific-research-in-a-fores.html
Mind-Pops: Psychologists Begin to Study an ... - Scientific American
Sudden, unannounced memories might help people make connections between disparate ideas more quickly—but they might also be the building blocks of ...
www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=mind-pops
Research Space Scientist Assistant Planetary Studies Job in ...
Job Title:Research Space Scientist, AST, Planetary Studies. Department:National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Agency:Goddard Space Flight Center ...
federalgovernmentjobs.us/.../Research-Space-Scientist-Assistan...
Full lab scene script (scientific studies on pornography) | The Husky ...
Ninon- Well, I haven't conducted any studies myself, but I've beenresearching scientific studies on pornography. Who knew pornography was such a large ...
www.thehuskynetwork.com/2012/05/23/labscript/
Swing theory doesn't hold water: study › News in Science (ABC ...
Howzat? The widely-held belief that moisture in the air during humid conditions helps make a cricket ball swing has been clean bowled in ascientific study.
www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2012/05/30/3514434.htm
Yale study concludes public apathy over climate change unrelated to
If Americans knew more basic science and were more proficient in technical reasoning, would public consensus match scientific consensus? A study published ...
news.yale.edu/.../yale-study-concludes-public-apathy-over-cli...
Yale study concludes public apathy over climate change unrelated ...
If Americans knew more basic science and were more proficient in technical reasoning, would public consensus match scientific consensus? A study published ...
phys.org/.../2012-05-yale-apathy-climate-unrelated-science.ht...
Yale Study: Climate Skeptics Lack Scientific ... - Occupy Corporatism
The globalist college conducted a research study that states climate skeptics do not understand the science behind climate change and “if Americans were more ...
occupycorporatism.com/yale-study-climate-skeptics-lack-scien...
Science Journalism
I previously pointed out, for example, that every time a journalist reports about a scientific study that has anything to do with viruses the focus of the article is ...
www.randi.org/site/index.php/.../1727-science-journalism.html
Another Scientific Research Study: “Old People Smell.” WTF ...
I'm getting to the point that I've decided that I'm not going to worry about the deficit anymore. Nope….there's way too much other stuff that we need to focus on ...
misfit120.wordpress.com/.../another-scientific-research-study-...
Postgraduate options: Academia misses the mark : Naturejobs
A US study confirms what many observers of and participants in graduate-level science education have long suspected: that physical and natural-sciences ...
www.nature.com/naturejobs/science/articles/10.../nj7399-535a
BOEM Hears from Scientific Advisory Committee on Future ...
BOEM scientists led breakout sessions on multiple study discipline areas including biology and ecology, physical sciences and social sciences. Additional ...
boem.gov/BOEM-Newsroom/Press.../press05242012.aspx
Case study 7: Tools for participative climate risk communication ...
Relevance of approach across scientific disciplines : ... This case studyshows that scientists and research institutes engage in different ways in supporting ...
www.elrha.org/.../case-study-7-tools-participative-climate-risk-...
The Threads of Inspiration To Study Science: More Than Academic ...
do you know who inspired that person to support science or to be ascientist? .... Another research study that would be informative would be to ask instructors ...
pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ed2005278
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