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2 hrs ago | Science Daily

Watching a cannibal galaxy dine

This amazing image also shows thousands of star clusters, strewn like glittering gems, churning inside Centaurus A. Centaurus A is the nearest giant, elliptical galaxy, at a distance of about 11 million light-years. One of the most studied objects in the southern sky, by 1847 the unique appearance of this galaxy had already caught the attention of ...

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Related Topix: Astronomy, Science / Technology, Space

6 hrs ago | Reuters

U.S. civilian experts train for the real Afghanistan

They arrive at the meeting by U.S. military helicopter, politely accept a cup of tea and haggle over a U.S.-funded water project gone awry.

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Related Topix: World News, Asia, Afghanistan, Travel, Afghanistan Travel, Agriculture, Hamid Karzai, US News

11 hrs ago | Science Daily

Scientists crack corn code: Reference genome of maize, most important US crop

Maize, or corn, as it is commonly called by North American consumers, is one of the world's most important plants and the most valuable agricultural crop grown in the United States, representing $47 billion in annual value.

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Related Topix: Agriculture, US News, United States Department of Agriculture

Thu Nov 19, 2009

Las Cruces Sun-News

Hearing begins for Maui man accused of being spy

A former B-2 stealth bomber engineer accused of spying for China suffers from narcissistic personality disorder, expert witnesses for the prosecution and the defense testified in federal court Thursday.

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Related Topix: Psychology, Federal Prisons, Prison

All Things Digital

Chrome OS: "Turning On a PC Should Be Like Turning On Your TV" [Digital Daily]

Chrome OS: "Turning On a PC Should Be Like Turning On Your TV" Direct from Google headquarters, and liveblogged by John Paczkowski, Google's Sundar Pichai, vice president of product management and Matthew Papakipos, engineering director for Google Chrome OS, explain some of the advantages of the operating system.

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Related Topix: Google, Startups, Computer Science

ClipSyndicate

Will This Be The Year There Was No Pumpkin?

Poor weather affects harvest; likely to be less pumpkin available this holiday Nestle Baking today announced that it expects a shortage of LIBBY'S Pumpkin on store shelves as the country enters the holiday season.

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Related Topix: Morton, IL, Agriculture, Video

KHWB-TV Houston

China holds, mistreats US geologist for 2 years on state secrets charges over a database

Sometime into his long detention by China's feared state security agents, American geologist Xue Feng had something to show U.S. consular officials on their monthly visit.

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Related Topix: World News, China, Asia, Geology, University of Chicago, Hu Jintao, Houston, TX

KPLR-11

Researchers ask whether caged egg-laying chickens are miserable stuffed into tiny cages

Are cramped chickens crazy chickens? Researchers are trying to answer that question through several studies that intend to take emotions out of an angry debate between animal welfare groups and producers.

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Related Topix: Animal Rights, Clemson University, Agriculture, Life, Food, Meat, Chicken

Guardian Unlimited

Forest Service says trees can slow climate change - AP

A A A' National forests can be used as a carbon "sink" with vast numbers of trees absorbing carbon dioxide to help slow global warming, the Forest Service chief said Wednesday, but that goal must be balanced.

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Related Topix: Global Warming, Entomology

Wed Nov 18, 2009

Seeking Alpha

Salesforce Chatter: A Real-Time Social Network for the Enterprise

We're here at Dreamforce, Salesforce.com's annual cloud computing event in San Francisco.

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Related Topix: Salesforce.com, Software, Startups, salesforce.com, Cloud Computing, Science / Technology, Computer Science, Social Software

www.scientificblogging.com | Cash

New Z Bosons coming your way in 2010?

I recently discussed here the Tevatron results of searches for new Z bosons in electron-positron or dimuon samples collected by CDF and DZERO, pointing out that there seem to be a couple of intriguing upward fluctuations in the data. One of the dielectron fluctuations sits at a mass of 240 GeV, the other, also in the dielectron spectrum, is at about 720 GeV.

Neither is compelling.

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Freerepublic.com

Hubble Spies Galaxy's Big Bulge ("x" ,...

A new image of the bulge at the center of a distant spiral galaxy, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, is giving astronomers insight into how these galactic paunches form.

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Related Topix: Astronomy

The Victoria Star

Critics: UN summit ends with 'crumbs' in bid to reduce hunger in world with food for all

The head of a U.N. food agency expressed regret Wednesday that an anti-hunger summit failed to result in precise promises of funding, and critics said the meeting had only thrown crumbs to the world's 1 billion people without enough to eat.

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Related Topix: Agriculture, Europe, Italy, World News

KPLR-11

Stink bug that's new to US munches nuisance kudzu, but ...

Researchers recently found an insect in north Georgia that has never before been reported in the Western Hemisphere - and its arrival could be both a blessing and a curse.

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Related Topix: Entomology, Agriculture, University of Georgia

Chicago Tribune

Government reports more than $98B wasted on improper payments for Medicare, other programs

More than $98 billion in taxpayer dollars spent by government agencies was wasted, much of it on questionable claims for tax credits and Medicare benefits, representing an increase of $26 billion from the previous year.

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Related Topix: Medicare, Health, Agriculture, Business News

Tue Nov 17, 2009

Telegraph.co.uk

Large Hadron Collider ready to restart

Nine days after the launch a single electrical splice overheated because it had been badly soldered, and disaster struck Photo: PA The 'Big Bang' machine was launched with great fanfare last year before its spectacular failure from a bad electrical connection.

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Related Topix: Physics

WJLA-TV Arlington

France: GDP stays, happiness too hard to pin down

Gross domestic product - that traditional way of measuring economic growth - has won out over a new happiness index in France.

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Related Topix: Nicolas Sarkozy, Mathematics, Offbeat

CANOE

Earthquake strikes off B.C. coast

A 6.6 magnitude earthquake has struck the Queen Charlotte basin, off British Columbia's north coast.

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Related Topix: Earthquake, Natural Disasters, Canada, Geology,

KCEN

Job prospects drawing students to ag schools

Tristesse Jones will probably never drive a tractor or guide a combine through rows of soybeans at harvest time.

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Related Topix: Agriculture, UC Davis, Purdue University, US News, United States Department of Agriculture, Texas A&M University, Social Software

PhillyBurbs.com

Mexico Indian remains returned from NY for burial

Northern Mexico's Yaqui Indians buried their lost warriors after a two-year effort to rescue the remains from New York's American Museum of Natural History, where the victims of one of North America's last Indian massacres lay in storage for more than a century.

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Related Topix: Anthropology, World News, Mexico

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