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TwitterA flu shot is prepared in Chicago, Illinois. US President Barack Obama has vowed to fight for his budget proposals that include investments in clean energy and healthcare as he faces a tough battle moving the measures through Congress. (AFP/Getty Images/File/Tim Boyle)From Yahoo News/Reuters:WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Virtually all cases of the most common strain of flu circulating in the United States now resist the main drug used to treat it, the U.S.
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Resistance To Flu Drug Widespread In U.S.: Study
March 3rd, 2009 
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February 22nd, 2009 admin NASA workers watch as the space shuttle Discovery is moved to the launch site at the Kennedy Space Center in January. NASA has postponed the launch of the space shuttle Discovery for a fourth time, but without setting a new target date to send the orbiter to the International Space Station (ISS).
Posted in Science News Tags: Agonizing Decision, Center Shuttle, Discovery Launch, Fox News, Getty Images, International Space Station, Kennedy Space Center, Nasa Delays, Nasa Launch, New Space Station, Russian Soyuz, Shuttle Launch, Shuttle Managers, Soyuz Launch, Space Shuttle Discovery, Space Station Crew, Space Station Iss, Target Date, Time China, Time Nasa Comments OffBlowing Smoke Is Clean Coal Technology Fact Or Fiction?
February 11th, 2009 admin This coal-fired plant in western Pennsylvania is one of the 12 biggest carbon dioxide polluting power plants in the U.S. emitting 17.4 million tons annually. Robert Nickelsberg/Getty ImagesFrom Newsweek:In the elusive search for the reliable energy source of the future, the prospect of clean coal is creating a lot of buzz.
Posted in Science News Tags: Barren Desert, Blowing Smoke, Clean Coal Technology, Climate Protection, Coal Production, Conclusive Evidence, Deep Underground, Elusive Search, Energy Source, Getty Images, Harmful Gases, Media Campaign, National Resources Defense Council, Polluting Power, Power Plants, Reliable Energy, Resources Defense Council, S Tv, Sierra Club, Western Pennsylvania Comments OffPlumbing The Planet: The 5 Biggest Projects Taking On The World’s Water Supply
February 7th, 2009 admin An Israeli employee inspects membranes that extract salt from the water at Ashkelon’s seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) plant, south of Tel Aviv. Ashkelon’s desalination plant is one the biggest in the world. (Photograph by David Buimovitch/AFP/Getty Images)From Popular Mechanics:As nations and regions all over the globe face too much polluted water and too little fresh water, they are turning to some of the largest, most technologically complex projects the world has ever seen.
Posted in Science News Tags: Afp, Ashkelon, Desalination Plant, Fresh Water, Getty Images, Globe, Good Water, Panelists, Plumbing, Polluted Water, Popular Mechanics, Reverse Osmosis, Sanitation, Seawater, Taps, Tel Aviv, United Nations, Water Supplies, Water Supply, World Photograph Comments OffReading This Will Change Your Brain
February 6th, 2009 admin Jeff Sherman / Taxi-Getty ImagesFrom Newsweek:A leading neuroscientist says processing digital information can rewire your circuits. But is it evolution?Is technology changing our brains? A new study by UCLA neuroscientist Gary Small adds to a growing body of research that says it is.
Posted in Science News Tags: Alteration, Brains, Circuits, Digital Information, Dramatic Shift, Early Man, Getty Images, Human Brain, Jeff Sherman, Neuroscientist, Newsweek, Rapid Evolution, Taxi, Technological Skills, Ucla Comments OffThe Father Factor: How Dad’s Age Increases Baby’s Risk of Mental Illness
February 5th, 2009 admin When a large study linked schizophrenia to paternal age, some researchers wondered if the root cause, rather than age, was that men who had waited had the makings of the disease themselves. Getty ImagesFrom Scientific American:Could becoming a father after age 40 raise the risks that your children will have a mental illness?
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February 3rd, 2009 admin A jatropha nursery in the Ivory Coast. Photograph: Kambou Sia/AFP/Getty ImagesFrom The Guardian:Corn-based bioethanol has higher burden on environment and human health, says US studySome biofuels cause more health problems than petrol and diesel, according to scientists who have calculated the health costs associated with different types of fuel.The study shows that corn-based bioethanol, which is produced extensively in the US, has a higher combined environmental and health burden than conventional fuels.
Posted in Science News Tags: Afp, Bioethanol, Combined Health, Conventional Fuels, Diesel, Environmental Costs, Gasoline, Getty Images, Guardian, Health Burden, Health Problems, High Hopes, Human Health, Ivory Coast, Marginal Land, Next Generation, Organic Waste, Petrol, Photograph, Scientists Comments OffGlobal Warming ‘Irreversible’ For Next 1000 Years: Study
January 28th, 2009 admin The Department of Water and Power (DWP) San Fernando Valley Generating Station is seen in Sun Valley, California, 2008. Climate change is “largely irreversible” for the next 1,000 years even if carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions could be abruptly halted, according to a new study led by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). (AFP/Getty Images/File/David Mcnew)From Yahoo News/AFP:WASHINGTON (AFP) – Climate change is “largely irreversible” for the next 1,000 years even if carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions could be abruptly halted, according to a new study led by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).The study’s authors said there was “no going back” after the report showed that changes in surface temperature, rainfall and sea level are “largely irreversible for more than 1,000 years after CO2 emissions are completely stopped.”NOAA senior scientist Susan Solomon said the study, published in this week’s Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal, showed that current human choices on carbon dioxide emissions are set to “irreversibly change the planet.”Read more ….
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