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Japan deep-sea drilling boat casts off to find quakes
from apperspective.net: A Japan-led team of seismologists set off Friday on a mission to drill deep beneath the seabed in a search for the origin of earthquakes. The scientists weighed anchor on Japan’s deep-sea drilling vessel Chikyu, heading for a spot in the ocean off the Kii peninsula, southwestern Japan, and a fracture in the…
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#Voyager 1 Spacecraft Has Left Solar System
from space.com: A spacecraft from Earth has left its cosmic backyard and taken its first steps in interstellar space. After streaking through space for nearly 35 years, NASA’s robotic Voyager 1 probe finally left the solar system in August 2012, a study published today (Sept. 12) in the journal Science reports. “Voyager has boldly gone…
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‘Monsanto Protection Act’ quietly extended by Congress
from RT.com: A budget provision protecting genetically-modified seeds from litigation in the face of health risks was extended for three months in an approved US House of Representatives’ spending bill on Tuesday evening. Called “The Monsanto Protection Act” by opponents, the budget rider shields biotech behemoths like Monsanto, Cargill and others from the threat of…
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Outer space demilitarization agreement threatened by new technologies
from rawstory.com: Security experts warn weaknesses in treaties and exploitation of GPS are compromising the prohibition against space weapons. Developments in satellite technologies and cyber-warfare are threatening the internationally agreed demilitarization of outer space, according to legal and security experts. Weaknesses in existing treaties and military exploitation of GPS location systems are compromising the prohibition…
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“Lost” Fortresses of Sahara Revealed by Satellites
from news.nationalgeographic.com: Real-life “castles in the sand” made by an ancient culture have been revealed in the Sahara, archaeologists say. New satellite photographs show more than a hundred fortress settlements from a “lost” civilization in southwestern Libya. The communities, which date to between about A.D. 1 and 500, belonged to an advanced but mysterious people…
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Project aims to map giant galactic clouds of gas where stars are born
from UPI.com: Australia say they’ve begun to map the location of the most massive and mysterious objects in our galaxy, giant gas clouds where stars are born. Using a giant radio telescope in southeastern Australia, the researchers have identified the galactic clouds of molecular gas — some up to 100 light-years across — from the…
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Stem cells: Living adult tissue transformed back into embryo state
from bbc.co.uk: The living tissue inside an animal has been regressed back into an embryonic state for the first time, Spanish researchers say. They believe it could lead to new ways of repairing the body, for example after a heart attack. However, the study published in the journal Nature, showed the technique led to tumours…
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US Farmers in Supreme Court Appeal over #Monsanto’s Patents on GE Crops
from sustainablepulse.com: A group of 73 American organic and conventional family farmers, seed businesses and public advocacy groups asked the U.S. Supreme Court today to hear their case against Monsanto Company challenging the chemical and biotech seed giant’s patents on genetically engineered seed. In Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association (OSGATA) et al v. Monsanto,…
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Large water reserve in Kenya discovered
from bubblews.com: Recently it has been revealed that a large aquifer has been discovered in Kenya. More than 300 metres underground, there is so much water there it could potentially serve Kenya’s needs for 70 years. The Lotikipi Basin Aquifer was found by project ran by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) and…
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USDA Privatizing Meat Inspections With Program That Allowed ‘Chunks’ of Feces
from crooksandliars.com: The Department of Agriculture (USDA) is planning to roll out a meat inspection program nationwide that will allow pork plants to use their own inspectors, but it has a history of producing contaminated meat at American and foreign plants. The Washington Post reported on Monday that documents and interviews showed that a plan…
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New iPhone Has TouchID Fingerprint Authentication
from wired.com: When Apple bought AuthenTec for its biometrics technology — reported as one of its most expensive purchases — there was a lot of speculation about how the company would incorporate biometrics in its product line. Many speculate(d) that the new Apple iPhone…will come with a fingerprint authentication system, and there are several ways it…
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Inside the Great Pyramid
from blogs.smithsonianmag.com: “There is a story, regrettably apocryphal, about Napoleon and the Great Pyramid. When Bonaparte visited Giza during his Nile expedition of 1798 (it goes), he determined to spend a night alone inside the King’s Chamber, the granite-lined vault that lies precisely in the center of the pyramid. This chamber is generally acknowledged as…