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What can be done to slow climate change?

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

ScienceDaily - By NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center - Jan. 12 (Research) - ScienceDaily (Jan. 12, 2012) A new study led by a NASA scientist highlights 14 key air pollution control measures that, if implemented, could slow the pace of global warming, improve health and boost agricultural production.

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Paleoclimate record points toward potential rapid climate changes

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

ScienceDaily - By NASA / Goddard Space Flight Center - Dec. 08 (Research) - New research into the Earth's paleoclimate history suggests the potential for rapid climate changes this century, including multiple meters of sea level rise, if global warming is not abated.

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Erratic, extreme day-to-day weather puts climate change in new light

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

ScienceDaily - By Princeton University, Morgan Kelly - Nov. 15 (Research) - Researchers report the first climate study to focus on variations in daily weather conditions, which found that day-to-day weather has grown increasingly erratic and extreme, with significant fluctuations in sunshine and rainfall affecting more than a third of the planet. These swings could have consequences for ecosystem stability and the control of pests and diseases; industries such as agriculture and solar-energy production; and could affect what scientists can expect to see as the Earth's climate changes.

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Feeding the world while protecting the planet: Global plan for sustainable agriculture

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

ScienceDaily - By McGill University, ScienceDaily staff - Oct. 18 (Research) - An international team of researchers from Canada, the US, Sweden and Germany has come up with a plan to double the world's food production while reducing the environmental impacts of agriculture.

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From blue whales to earthworms, a common mechanism gives shape to living beings

Fri, 14 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

ScienceDaily - By Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne, ScienceDaily Staff - Oct. 14 (Research) - Mice don't have tails on their backs, and their ribs don't grow from lumbar vertebrae. And for good reason. Scientists have discovered the mechanism that determines the shape that many animals take -- including humans, blue whales, and insects.

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'Dark matter' of the genome revealed through analysis of 29 mammals

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

ScienceDaily - By Broad Institute of MIT, Harvard, ScienceDaily Staff - Oct. 13 (Research) - An international team of researchers has discovered the vast majority of the so-called "dark matter" in the human genome, by means of a sweeping comparison of 29 mammalian genomes. The team has pinpointed the parts of the human genome that control when and where genes are turned on. This map is a critical step in interpreting the thousands of genetic changes that have been linked to human disease.

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Why climate models underestimated Arctic sea ice retreat: No Arctic sea ice in summer by end of century?

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

ScienceDaily - By CNRS, ScienceDaily staff - Oct. 12 (Research) - "results from the new model suggested that there will be no artic sea ice in summer by the end of the century"

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Early Celtic 'Stonehenge' discovered in Germany's Black Forest

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

ScienceDaily - By Roemisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, Science-Dily staff - Oct. 12 (Research) - "The order of the burials around the central royal tomb fits exactly with the sky constellations of the Northern hemisphere"

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Breeding crops with deeper roots could 'slash CO2 levels'

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

ScienceDaily - Aug. 03 (News) - Writing in the Annals of Botany, Professor Douglas Kell argues that developing crops that produce roots more deeply in the ground could harvest more carbon from the air, and make crops more drought resistant, while dramatically reducing carbon levels.

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Solar power manufacturing makes good business sense for governments, study finds

Fri, 21 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

ScienceDaily - May. 21 (News Report) - Canadian and provincial governments could spend $2.4 billion to build a large scale solar photovoltaic manufacturing plant and then give it away for free and still earn a profit in the long run, according to a financial analysis conducted by the Queen's University Applied Sustainability Research Group in Kingston, Canada.

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U.S. could eliminate CO2 emissions from coal in 20 years, experts say

Sun, 02 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

ScienceDaily - May. 02 (News Report) - The United States could completely stop emissions of carbon dioxide from coal-fired electric power plants -- a crucial step for controlling global warming -- within 20 years by using technology that already exists or could be commercially available within a decade, according to a group of scientists, engineers, and architects.

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Reducing Greenhouse Gases May Not Be Enough To Slow Climate Change

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

ScienceDaily - Nov. 14 (News Report) - Georgia Tech City and Regional Planning Professor Brian Stone is publishing a paper in the December edition of Environmental Science and Technology that suggests policymakers need to address the influence of global deforestation and urbanization on climate change, in addition to greenhouse gas emissions.

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Majority Of Americans Believe 'Myths' About Health Care Reform, National Survey Finds

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

ScienceDaily - Aug. 26 (News Report) - Findings from a new national survey of Americans by researchers from Indiana University Center for Health Policy and Professionalism Research (CHPPR) and the Indiana University Center for Bioethics says that Americans do believe the "myths" about health care reform, confirming that the White House may indeed be losing this battle.

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Why Saints Sin And Sinners Get Saintly

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

ScienceDaily - Jun. 28 (News Report) - To many, New York Gov. Eliott Spitzer's fall from grace seemed to make no sense at all. But a new Northwestern University study offers provocative insights that possibly could relate to why the storm trooper of reform -- formerly known as the Sheriff of Wall Street -- seemingly went from saint to sinner overnight.

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The Healing Power Of Prayer?

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

ScienceDaily - Jun. 21 (News Report) - Health and religion have always been intertwined, most obviously through prayer on behalf of the sick. Does intercessory prayer for sick people actually help heal them? For thousands of years some people have believed so. But new Brandeis University research in the Journal of Religion this month shows that over the last four decades, medical studies of intercessory prayer—the prayer of strangers at a distance—actually say more about the scientists conducting the studies than about the power of prayer to heal.

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Easily Grossed Out? You Might Be A Conservative!

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

ScienceDaily - Jun. 07 (News Report) - Are you someone who squirms when confronted with slime, shudders at stickiness or gets grossed out by gore? Do crawly insects make you cringe or dead bodies make you blanch? If so, chances are you're more conservative -- politically, and especially in your attitudes toward gays and lesbians -- than your less-squeamish counterparts, according to two Cornell studies. The results, said study leader David Pizarro, Cornell assistant professor of psychology, raise questions about the role of disgust -- an emotion that likely evolved in humans to keep them safe from potentially hazardous or disease-carrying environments -- in contemporary judgments of morality and purity.

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People Who Wear Rose-colored Glasses See More, Study Shows

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

ScienceDaily - Jun. 07 (News Report) - A University of Toronto study provides the first direct evidence that our mood literally changes the way our visual system filters our perceptual experience suggesting that seeing the world through rose-coloured glasses is more biological reality than metaphor. “Good and bad moods literally change the way our visual cortex operates and how we see,” says Adam Anderson, a U of T professor of psychology. “Specifically our study shows that when in a positive mood, our visual cortex takes in more information, while negative moods result in tunnel vision. The study appears in the Journal of Neuroscience.

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Staying Together 'For The Sake Of The Kids' Doesn't Necessarily Help Them, Says Study

Sun, 31 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

ScienceDaily - May. 31 (News Report) - The research is clear: Adolescents tend to fare better -- academically and behaviorally -- when they live with both biological parents. But when their parents frequently argue, young adults are significantly more likely to binge drink than other teenagers. They also tend to smoke, and their poor school grades are similar to those of their peers who don't have both biological parents at home.

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Even In Hostile Working Environments, Employees Reluctant To Leave Jobs

Wed, 20 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

ScienceDaily - May. 20 (News Report) - ... among workers reporting hostility in the current position, almost half -- 45 percent of them -- had no definite plans to leave their current job. In addition, 59 percent indicated that they either liked or did not dislike their current job.

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Still Irritating After All These Years: Study Of Adult Children And Parents

Sun, 10 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

ScienceDaily - May. 10 (News Report) - The majority of parents and adult children experience some tension and aggravation with one another, a new study says. But parents generally are more bothered by the tensions—and the older the child, the greater the bother. "The parent-child relationship is one of the longest lasting social ties human beings establish," said Kira Birditt, lead author of the study and a researcher at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research (ISR). "This tie is often highly positive and supportive but it also commonly includes feelings of irritation, tension and ambivalence."

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'Ice That Burns' May Yield Clean, Sustainable Bridge To Global Energy Future

Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

ScienceDaily - By American Chemical Society - Mar. 28 (Press Release) - In the future, natural gas derived from chunks of ice that workers collect from beneath the ocean floor and beneath the arctic permafrost may fuel cars, heat homes, and power factories. Government researchers are reporting that these so-called "gas hydrates," a frozen form of natural gas that bursts into flames at the touch of a match, show increasing promise as an abundant, untapped source of clean, sustainable energy.

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Cost of Installed Solar Photovoltaic Systems Drops Significantly Over the Last Decade

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800

ScienceDaily - By Lawrence Berkeley Lab - Mar. 03 (News Report) - A new study on the installed costs of solar photovoltaic (PV) power systems in the U.S. shows that the average cost of these systems declined significantly from 1998 to 2007, but remained relatively flat during the last two years of this period.

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Cost Of Installed Solar Photovoltaic Systems Drops Significantly Over The Last Decade

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800

ScienceDaily - Mar. 03 (News Report) - A new study on the installed costs of solar photovoltaic (PV) power systems in the U.S. shows that the average cost of these systems declined significantly from 1998 to 2007, but remained relatively flat during the last two years of this period.

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Psychologists Shed Light On Origins Of Morality

Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800

ScienceDaily - Mar. 01 (News Report) - In everyday language, people sometimes say that immoral behaviours “leave a bad taste in your mouth”. But this may be more than a metaphor according to new scientific evidence from the University of Toronto that shows a link between moral disgust and more primitive forms of disgust related to poison and disease.

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If Something Is Difficult, Most People Believe It Must Be Important To Achieving Goals

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

ScienceDaily - Feb. 20 (News Report) - Try the following experiment with two young children. To one child, hold a toy out just beyond their grasp and watch them bounce all over the place trying to reach it. With the second child, just hand the toy over to them. Is the first child likely to find the toy more interesting than the other child? When we are pursuing a goal, we need to carefully consider the best ways of achieving it. If we come across something very difficult, how will that affect our ability to meet our goal? University of Chicago psychologists Aparna A. Labroo and Sara Kim investigated the extent that subjective feelings of difficulty are associated with an increased appeal towards a product.

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