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Alabama tornado team scours paths of killer storms
HACKLEBURG, ALA. -- The Mobile Meteorological Measurement Vehicle -- a worn-looking '90s-model Dodge Intrepid with classic rock on the radio, a tower of weather gauges attached to its roof and a laptop computer bolted to its dash -- crested a rolling hill...
Tags: Students, Southern U.S. Storms (2011), Science, National Weather Service, Tornadoes
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RNA was a key ingredient in primordial soup that led to life
How did we go from a lifeless Earth with no oxygen to a planet teeming with life and that essential element? Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have found one crucial clue: iron and RNA. The team managed to re-create conditions of life on...
Tags: Chemical Industry, Biotechnology Industry, Biology, Science and Technology
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EDITORIAL: CO2 overdose
The Free Lance-Star, Fredericksburg, Va.THE NEWS about 400 parts per million -- the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere -- it's just a symbolic figure that gives environmental doomsayers something to whine about, right? Well, sure, if you don't care about rising temperatures,...Tags: Environmental Issues, Global Warming, Oceans, Bodies of Water, Weather
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Golf notes: State Open qualifiers continue this week
Cape Cod Times, Hyannis, Mass.The Massachusetts Open will be played June 11-13 at Woodland GC in Auburndale and several local players will be looking to qualify on Tuesday at the Bay Club in Mattapoisett. Local pros entered are Mike Haberl (Hyannisport), Ken Lewis (Cummaquid), Joe...Tags: NBC (tv network), Sports, Foods and Beverages, ESPN (tv network), U.S. Open (golf)
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READER SUBMITTED: Connecticut Students Earn International Science Fair Awards
StatewideFour Connecticut students captured Grand Awards, Friday, May 17, at the 2013 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF), the world's largest pre-college science fair. The students traveled to the ISEF, in Phoenix, Ariz., to compete with...Tags: Engineering, Environmental Issues, Science, Biotechnology, Glastonbury
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New Studio Cinipix to Shoot Film Footage in Outer Space
ReutersMay 20 (TheWrap.com) - Cinipix, a new Hollywood studio run by Todd Slater, will send a ship into space to shoot footage for its upcoming film "Newcomers." This marks the first Hollywood involvement in a private space mission. Former NASA astronaut... -
First Kauffman Scholars prepare to graduate
The Kansas City StarThe middle of Cristina Ortiz's sophomore year, it hit her. Despair? Or maybe fear? Certainly a crisis of confidence. I can't be an engineer. "I reached a point where I stopped believing in myself," she said. Many other students like her in the...Tags: University of California, Irvine, Social Issues, Science, Colleges and Universities, University of Missouri
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Time-lapse project shows region's sprawling growth
The Columbus DispatchThe mega-city of Dubai spreads across a desert. An Alaskan glacier melts away. Las Vegas resorts grow bigger and more elaborate as a nearby lake shrivels. That's what 30 years of observation from space show in a new time-lapse Google project released...Tags: Google Inc., Dubai (United Arab Emirates), 2010 Census
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Hesperia students get hands-on experience
Daily Press, Victorville, Calif.Kingston Elementary School's Gifted and Talented Education (GATE) teacher Mike Apodaca is taking his students on a path to the real world. The sixth grade GATE students study the professional field they wish to enter during a Individual Learning Plan...Tags: Students, Sports, Baseball, Taylor Swift, Justice System
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On a quiet Cary cul-de-sac, a surprising moment of violence
The News & ObserverTheir trucks still are parked on Carbon Hill Court, his red and hers white, as if everyone's home. A week ago this tiny cul-de-sac was overwhelmed by police and emergency crews. The swarm of sirens drew neighbors to their stoops, ensuring half the...Tags: Raleigh, Rentals, Nursing, Colleges and Universities, Internal Revenue Service
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San Jose Mercury News Sal Pizarro column
San Jose Mercury NewsIt's going to be a milestone summer for the entertaining and often irreverent San Jose Stage Company. The company is celebrating its 30th anniversary, marking the 20th year of its political satire fundraiser, "Monday Night Live" and opening the regional...Tags: Jack Nicholson, Science, Jean Stapleton, Music, Theater
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Watch: Space rock strikes moon with force of 5 tons of TNT
The biggest explosion ever recorded on the moon was caused by a space rock roughly the size of a beach ball. It weighed 80 pounds and was just over 1 foot wide, but it was going incredibly fast, traveling through space at speeds of 56,000 mph. And...
Tags: Space Programs, Emergency Incidents, Science and Technology, Explosions, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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