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WASHINGTON (AP) — One of the nation’s oldest farm groups said Thursday a proposed foot-and-mouth disease research laboratory on the U.S. mainland, near livestock, could be an inviting target for terrorists. Commercial livestock representatives and the Bush administration insisted it would be safe to move an island lab to sites near animals….

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s final visit to the Hubble Space Telescope is now set for Oct. 8…. Full Story Via Associated Press

Rock Port, a small town in Missouri, has become the first city in the U.S. to be 100% wind powered. Supposedly, their electric bills will freeze for the next 20 years. Rock Port, MO 2/6/08. Rock Port Missouri is the first 100% wind powered community in the United States.

Scientists said Tuesday they had "resurrected" a gene from the extinct Tasmanian tiger by implanting it in a mouse, raising the future possibility of bringing animals such as dinosaurs back to life. In what they describe as a world first, researchers from Australian and U.S.

Yesterday morning Barger gave the first talk at PPC 2008, discussing the status and the perspectives of research in physics and cosmology with neutrinos. I offer my notes of his talk below. Neutrinos mix among each other and have mass. There is a matrix connecting flavor and mass eigenstates, and the matrix is parametrized by three angles and a phase.

"The Science of Irrationality: Why We Humans Behave So Strangely MIT's Dan Ariely discusses his research in behavioral economics and explains how to deal with our brain's flawed decision-making process" - Scientific American.

Author Charles Petzold discussing our forthcoming book, The Annotated Turing: In an ideal imaginary world, a book is finished only when the author is fully satisfied that every word and comma is perfect. In the real world, that doesn’t work.

Medicine 2.0 Carnival: How are web 2.0 technologies changing the practice of medicine? Category: Science culture On June 1st, I'll be hosting the next edition of Medicine 2.0, a carnival devoted to exploring the impacts of web 2.0 technologies on medicine and medical practice.

Everyone knows we should be drilling for more oil outside of Texas. Texas, where oil production is half what it was in 1972, should be turned into a National Human Reserve, and Alaska should be opened to drilling. But we’ll probably keep getting the largest part of our domestic oil supplies from Texas, and soon, more alternative energy, too.

It’s entirely possible to spend years living in the Bay Area and never encounter a California Newt. This tiny amphibian spends most of its time living in burrows and holes. But once year, the newts make an epic migration (at least for them) to nearby ponds for mating season.