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Top science stories of 2009 (so far)

Right before the school year starts, science stops. Professors flee away on vacations to recoup those last shreds of sanity, and grad students use...
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Lowering atmospheric pressure to save the future

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Researchers from the California Institute of Technology have offered a bizarre hypothesis: some time in the far future, between 100 million and 1...
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Scientists investigate critter contraceptives

Here's some strange weekend news for you: wildlife scientists are investigating a way to control exploding animal populations with birth...
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Most wars take place in Earth’s most important ecologies

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A new study published in Conservation Biology tells a worrying story: 80 percent of the world's major armed conflicts from 1950-2000 occurred in...
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Researchers to dump iron in ocean to investigate impact on climate change

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Geoengineering has been in the news lately thanks to a group of German researchers from the Alfred Wegner Institute in Bremerhaven who are set to...
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Rare venomous mammal caught on tape

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One of the world's only venomous mammals was finally caught on tape this summer. The Hispaniolan solenodon (Solenodon paradoxus), also known as the...
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Bush to create oceanic national monuments

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As one of his last acts as the leader of the United States, President Bush plans to announce a sweeping marine conservation movement Tuesday evening....
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Top 10 science stories of 2008 -- #9: The doomsday vault

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In celebration of the approaching New Year, I present a list of the top ten science stories of 2008. Taken from the vast expanse of all fields of...
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A call to Americans to recycle this holiday season

We are rapidly (rapidly!) approaching the holiday season. Between now and New Years, expect a few holiday hued science articles from the Turkey Nap...
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Whale Wars: Animal Planet's look into extreme whale conservation

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-Animal PlanetIn the late ‘80s through early ‘90s, whale conservation was the environmental movement to end all environmental movements....
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