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8 hrs ago | The Miami Herald

Moniz: LNG exports on hold until he reviews data

Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said Tuesday he will put on hold about 20 applications to export liquefied natural gas until he reviews studies by the Energy Department and others on what impact the exports would have on domestic natural gas supplies and prices.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US Senate, Ron Wyden, Democrat, Global Warming

13 hrs ago | Tri-cityherald.com

Moniz sworn in as energy secretary

The 68-year-old Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor took the oath of office Tuesday at the Energy Department.

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17 hrs ago | R & D

Evaluating a new way to open clogged arteries

Over the past few decades, scientists have developed many devices that can reopen clogged arteries, including angioplasty balloons and metallic stents.

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Related Topix: Circulation, Medicine, Health

19 hrs ago | Business Journal

Harvard-MIT's EdX adds 15 schools

EdX, the $60M online learning partnership founded last year by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has added 15 schools, more than doubling its membership at a stroke.

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Related Topix: Harvard University

23 hrs ago | NOLA.com

High tech will never make teachers obsolete, educational visionary tells UNO audience

In the idealistic educational strategy that Salman Khan spelled out Monday evening to an enthralled audience at the University of New Orleans , students learn at their own pace from the thousands of YouTube videos his enterprise has turned out for a worldwide audience on everything from art history to organic chemistry to differential calculus.

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Related Topix: New Orleans, LA, Chemistry, Science, Metairie, LA, Harvard University

Yesterday | NewsOn6 Tulsa

Israel returns fire following shooting from Syria

When Jodi Arias addresses the jury in her murder trial, the big question will be whether she pleads for mercy or repeats what she told a TV reporter minutes after her conviction: She would rather be executed than... When Jodi Arias addresses the jury in her murder trial one more time, the big question will be whether she pleads for mercy or repeats ... (more)

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Related Topix: Israel, World News, Middle East, Oklahoma, Pop/Rock, The Doors

Mon May 20, 2013

Northwest Florida Daily News

Niceville senior wins $100,000 scholarship

Niceville High School senior Kyle Saleeby and his parents got the surprise of a lifetime Monday morning inside the principal's office.

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Related Topix: Niceville, FL, Lottery

CFR.org

Biotechnology: Innovations, Applications, and U.S. Competitiveness

Speakers: James C. Greenwood, President and CEO, Biotechnology Industry Organization Robert Langer, David H. Koch Institute Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Presider: Josh Wolfe, Founding Partner and Managing Director, Lux Capital Management May 23, 2013 James C. Greenwood and Robert Langer discuss recent advances in the ... (more)

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EurekAlert!

'The Biology of Cancer' by Robert A. Weinberg

Garland Science is proud to announce the publication of the much-anticipated Second Edition of The Biology of Cancer by Robert A. Weinberg.

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Related Topix: Biology

Boston Herald

Bicyclist killed was MIT researcher from Japan

The Back Bay bicyclist struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver yesterday afternoon near Beacon Street and Charlesgate West has been identified by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as 36-year-old Kanako Miura, a native of Japan and researcher of humanoid robots, who has been working at the school's Computer Science and Artificial ... (more)

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Robots, Opinion

Dalton Daily Citizen

Warning signs: Technology speeds disaster alerts, response

Editor's note: This is the fourth part of a five-part series on disaster preparedness.

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Related Topix: Weather

Sun May 19, 2013

Newkerala.com

Kavita Srinivasan: No fixed rule for success in showbiz

Chennai, May 19 : Southern actress Kavita Srinivasan, who is making her Telugu debut with a negative role in revenge-drama "Kalicharan", feels there is no foolproof plan to be successful in showbiz.

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MLive.com

Flint Bishop, other small Michigan airports have suffered big losses in flights, available seats

Like other small- and medium-sized airports, Flint's Bishop Airport has lost flights and had fewer seats available during the last five years.

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Related Topix: Michigan, Flint, MI

Sat May 18, 2013

UnionLeader.com

New president named at FIRST

Don Bossi, a successful technology executive, has been named president of FIRST, the robotics competition created by Manchester inventor Dean Kamen to inspire young people's interest in science and technology.

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Related Topix: Inventions, Science / Technology, Manchester, NH

Russia Taday

Asteroid 9 times size of ocean liner approaches Earth

The 1998 QE2 asteroid has the physical mass to potentially deliver life on Earth a knockout punch, being 2.7km in length.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Space, Astronomy, Science, World News, Queen Elizabeth, Elizabeth Ii, Cambridge, MA

American Institute of Physics

Senate Confirms Ernest Moniz as Secretary of Energy

By a vote of 97-0 yesterday, the Senate confirmed Ernest Moniz to be the new Secretary of Energy.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, Lindsey Graham, Department of Energy, Boston College, Ron Wyden, Democrat

Fri May 17, 2013

Cleveland.com

Olmsted Falls' Jim Coury relishing Jeopardy College Championship victory

Olmsted Falls native Jim Coury, a 20-year-old sophomore at Georgetown University, conquered a field of some of America's sharpest college students Friday night when he won the JEOPARDY! College Championship.

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Related Topix: Game Show, Jeopardy!, Entertainment, Television, Olmsted Falls, OH, Georgetown University, Berea, OH

FiveThirtyEight

The Choice Blog: Long Journey to College, but I Was Never Alone

Sush Krishnamoorthy , a student at Sardar Patel Vidyalaya in New Delhi, is one of eight high school seniors around the world blogging about their college searches.

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Related Topix: Blog News, World News, India, Cornell University, Standardized Testing, Education, Wesleyan University

Financial Times

Humane development

Charles Correa, 'India's greatest architect' subscribes to the view that 'cities aren't the problem, they're the solution' I get the impression that Charles Correa may not have been entirely comfortable with the title of the new exhibition devoted to his work at the Royal Institute of British Architects in London, India's Greatest Architect .

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The Washington Post

Senate confirms Moniz as secretary of energy

Environmental groups had opposed his nomination early on, saying they were concerned about his support for natural gas and nuclear power.

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Related Topix: Environment, Science