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100 articles from SUNDAY 1.8.2010
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SUNDAY 1. AUGUST, 2010
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23:51
BP prepares to plug Gulf oil well for good (Reuters)
Reuters - BP Plc could start plugging its broken deepsea oil well in the Gulf of Mexico on Monday night, more than three months after its rupture led to the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history.
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23:46Reuters - Enbridge Inc's chief executive said on Sunday the company would not restart its ruptured pipeline in Michigan this week as it continues to clean up 800,000 gallons of oil spilled in and around the Kalamazoo River.
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23:37
AFP - A failure of the cooling system on the International Space Station forced astronauts to re-route power Sunday as NASA planned emergency spacewalks to fix the problem.
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23:31Reuters - Some BP gas station owners in the United States want to drop the BP name and return to the Amoco brand to recover business hit by public anger over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster.
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23:18
Reuters - Floods caused by a week of heavy rain have killed more than 1,000 people in Pakistan's northwest and rescuers battled on Sunday to distribute relief to tens of thousands of trapped people.
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22:28
Incoming! The Sun Unleashes CME at Earth
Earlier this morning, NASA's SDO witnessed a magnetic eruption on the sun. The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) also spotted a large coronal mass ejection (CME) blasting in the direction of Earth. -
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1962 glass could be Corning's next bonanza seller
(AP) -- An ultra-strong glass that has been looking for a purpose since its invention in 1962 is poised to become a multibillion-dollar bonanza for Corning Inc. -
22:23Walter and Eliza Hall Institute researchers in Melbourne, Australia, have made a discovery that has upended scientists' understanding of programmed cell death and its role in tumour formation.
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22:23A computer espionage specialist has laid out blueprints for building a cyber army capable of crashing through US defenses.
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22:22
Is It Hot in Here? Must Be Global Warming.
In any debate over climate change, conventional wisdom holds that there is no reflex more absurd than invoking the local weather. But both sides still do it.
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22:20LiveScience.com - Galveston, Texas, is the site of the deadliest weather disaster in U.S. history. In 1900, a hurricane sent walls of water surging across the island, killing an estimated 8,000 people.
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22:11The spectacle in the Gulf of Mexico has unsettled leaders in the European Union, who have serious concerns about the ability of regulators to assert their authority over the oil and gas industry.
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22:03
Space station cooling system malfunctions
Half of the International Space Station's cooling system suddenly shut down during the weekend, forcing the astronauts to power down equipment and face the likelihood of urgent spacewalking repairs. -
22:03An NDP critic is blasting the Ontario government after it revealed there was a possible case of identity theft linked to its driver's licence address-change website.
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21:13The science news media were primed for this ??shoot-ready-aim? response because they are growing impatient with one of NASA??s most exciting and inspiring space observatory missions.
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21:00
How the humblebee became the bumblebee
Darwin's name for the bee was replaced in the 20th century
Whatever happened to the humblebee, the old name for the bumblebee, asked Angus Doulton of Oxfordshire in a letter to the Guardian last week.
When Darwin, or indeed any of his contemporaries, wrote of the animated bundles of fluff, he would have called them humblebees. But they weren't humble in the sense of lowly beings doing the drudge work of nectar and pollen collecting; rather they would have been celebrated for the powerful evolutionary interaction with the flowers they had visited for millions of years. Darwin would have called them humblebees because, as they fly, they hum. Simple.
The etymological change of entomological names occurred gradually and imperceptibly, but some key events can be pin-pointed. The first great 20th-century book on bees was by Frederick Sladen, and his 1912 opus on their life history was firmly in the "humble" camp. By then, bumble, which had always been knocking around in the background as a second-rate alternative, had started to gain some ground. In Beatrix Potter's Tale of Mrs Tittlemouse (1910), the eponymous heroine is troubled by squatters making mossy nests in her back yard. Chief troublemaker is one Babbitty Bumble.
It is, perhaps, at about this time that the myth of the bumblebee's scientifically impossible flight came into play. As aeronautics took off between the wars, along with faster and sleeker planes, the clumsy-looking furry bee with its pitifully small wings and tubby body was the perfect match for its new, slightly belittling name, as it bumbled from droopy bloom to droopy bloom. By the time of the next bee monograph, by John Free and Colin Butler (1959), the humblebee had gone for ever.
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20:46AFP - Astronauts aboard the International Space Station may need to undertake unscheduled spacewalks later this week after one of the orbiting outpost's ammonia cooling systems broke down, NASA said Sunday.
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20:23One Chicago skyline is dazzling enough. Now imagine 15,000 of them.
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20:23(AP) -- Doctors have successfully transplanted windpipes into two cancer patients in an innovative procedure that uses stem cells to allow a donated trachea to regenerate tissue and create an organ biologically close to the original, they said Friday.
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20:23New research points to a genetic route to understanding and treating epilepsy. Timothy Jegla, an assistant professor of biology at Penn State University, has identified an ancient gene family that plays a role in regulating the excitability of nerves within the brain.
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20:23(AP) -- U.S. regulators earlier this year demanded improvements to the pipeline network that includes a segment that ruptured in southern Michigan, spilling hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil into the Kalamazoo River, according to a document released Saturday.
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20:23(AP) -- Kim Nam-soo has stuck needles into generals, actors, tycoons and at least one president for more than six decades as South Korea's acupuncturist to the stars.
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20:23(AP) -- A computer security researcher has built a device for just $1,500 that can intercept some kinds of cell phone calls and record everything that's said.
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20:23Security maverick Marc Tobias showed hackers on Saturday how simple it is to defeat some of the world's top high-tech locks.
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20:23The "Terminator" had it, US fighter pilots use it and it's the next hot feature on Japanese smartphones -- "augmented reality" which peppers the world around you with useful bits of information.
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