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European training for Russian cosmonauts  
In the spirit of the international nature of the International Space Station, ESA's Astronaut Training Division not only welcomes European astronauts: four Russian cosmonauts are also working hard at ...

 

Students find rent a hurdle  
Record high rents are pushing some young people to cancel university studies and others to sign up for welfare grants. As the academic year dawned, Auckland's biggest student union said steep accomm...

 

Green potential of our industrial past  
Soil scientists and ecologists at Newcastle University have been investigating ways to maximise the carbon capture and storage in soils on brownfield sites where the land is typically high in mineral...

 

Cold frame (thing)  
A cold frame is an enclosure which traps solar radiation for the purpose of growing plants in cold weather . Typically, a cold frame is a simple open-bottomed frame made from wood or other constr...

 

Celebrating Luis Alvarez's 100th  
Luis Alvarez, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist known worldwide for his codiscovery that the dinosaurs were wiped out by an asteroid, was celebrated by the American Physical Society ...

 

Vancouver Island unfazed by earthquake southwest of Tofino  
Shallow 5.6-magnitude quake wasnt even noticed, mayor says as Natural Resources Canada says tsunami isnt expected

 

Record snowfall in Denver  
DENVER, Feb. 4 (UPI) -- After weeks of mild and dry weather, Denver was slammed with a blast of winter weather and snowfall that broke an 80-year-old record, meteorologists said. DENVER, Feb. 4 (UP...

 

Collective action  
Genetic switches called enhancers and the molecules that activate them can be used to draw a cell's family tree, EMBL scientists have found.

 

'Grey's Anatomy' season 8: did the 'If/Then' experiment deliver?  
"Grey's Anatomy" chose to air an episode on Thursday night that was all about an alternate universe -- though really, this was just another example of why these characters are who they ...

 

Astronaut applications are up dramatically  
First of all, who wouldnt want to be an astronaut? The pays good. You get to inspire people. And, most of the time, you get to rocket into space. Nevertheless I was mildly surprised by the response to...