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www.livescience.com — A Google phone is expected as early as January 2010.

www.pastemagazine.com — From 2000's Emo to 2009's Meta-Nerd, we revisit the last decade of hipster-dom.

www.washingtontimes.com — The fight over global warming science is about to cross the Atlantic with a U.S. researcher poised to sue NASA, demanding release of the same kind of climate data that has landed a leading British center in hot water over charges it skewed its data.

news.bbc.co.uk — A group of European scientists have successfully connected a robotic hand to an amputee, allowing him to feel sensations in the artificial limb, and control it by thought.

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www.wired.com — Here's one way to get back at your sibling: Release a deadly odor. Honeybee researchers have discovered the first example of a pheromone that shortens the

latimesblogs.latimes.com — Researchers and policymakers have long rued that it’s hard to illustrate the perils of global warming when its most serious impacts won’t be visible for decades. But thanks to the state Department of Natural Resources and Google, a graphic view...

online.wsj.com — Daniel Henninger writes in The Wall Street Journal that the Climategate scandal has undermined science as objective and fact-based. Climate change researchers war against skeptics is similar to Father Firenzuola's efforts to silence Galileo.

www.wired.com — All around the world, blue whales aren't singing like they used to, and scientists have no idea why. The largest animals on Earth are singing in

www.guardian.co.uk — Exclusive: World's pre-eminent climate expert says any agreement would be so flawed that deal would be a disaster

scicom.ucsc.edu — Stories and art by the students in the Science Writing and Science Illustration programs at the University of California, Santa Cruz

www.telegraph.co.uk — Scientists at the University of Montreal launched a search for men who had never looked at pornography - but couldn't find any.

www.cnsnews.com — Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, is calling on Chairman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) to conduct hearings on a possible conspiracy between some of the world's most prominent climatologist

www.washingtonpost.com — A scientist who is one of the central figures in the controversy over hacked e-mails from the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit announced Tuesday that he is stepping down while the university investigates the incident.

www.scientificamerican.com — A study suggests that spending time in nature changes our values

online.wsj.com — Richard S. Lindzen writes in The Wall Street Journal that confident predictions of catastrophe just around the corner are unwarranted and that claims that climate change is accelerating are bizarre.

www.breitbart.com — Congress scrambles to extend estate tax   'Mr. Hyphen' redefines image of Asian-American men   Police: Woods at fault in crash, will get citation   Most states have not adopted sex offender rules   Salahi denies being White House party cras

www.boston.com — The spectacular structure of Planetary nebula NGC 2818 contains the outer layers of a star that were expelled into interstellar space. The glowing gaseous shrouds in the nebula were shed by the central star after it ran out of fuel to sustain the nuc

www.foxnews.com — Global Warming Scandal Makes Scientific Progress More Difficult, Experts Say, The trustworthiness of the scientific community's global warming data pool is being called into question as the scandal over doctored data continues to unfold.

www.clickorlando.com — ORLANDO, Fla. -- A piece of space debris moving toward the International Space Station may force astronauts to take shelter in an escape pod, according to NASA. Tuesday, December 1, 2009.

www.wired.com — CERN announced early Monday that the Large Hadron Collider has become the world's highest-energy particle accelerator. The LHC pushed protons to 1.18 TeV

www.guardian.co.uk — As blanket of ozone over southern pole seals up, temperatures on continent could soar by 3C, increasing sea level rise by 1.4m

timesofindia.indiatimes.com — Now, vodka that comes in a pill

naldzgraphics.net — As designers, we prefer to create, if not, to edit or enhance certain pictures to develop it into our own interpretation of the concept. The same practice is also observed in making space images. Like many of us, these type of images never fail to am

gizmodo.com — Scientists in the Netherlands have successfully synthesized some real-deal pork meat without having to kill any pigs. Sure, it's not quite edible yet, but they predict you'll be eating labmeat in a mere five years.

thehill.com — The White House on Monday made exceptionally clear that it wants nothing to do with the furor over documents that global warming skeptics say prove the phenomenon is not a threat. Despite the incident, which rocked international headlines last week,

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www.newscientist.com — Experiments on people who believe in God suggest they endow the deity with their own views on controversial issues such as abortion

www.techcrunch.com — What is it with architects that they feel the need to glom onto the latest buzzwords to justify their projects? A group from ...

www.guardian.co.uk — George Monbiot: The tar barons have held the nation to ransom. This thuggish petro-state is today the only obstacle to a deal in Copenhagen