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Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:00:00 -0800

Robert Lawrence on antibiotic resistance and livestock
Robert Lawrence: By using antibiotics as growth promoters rather than to treat sick animals, the industry is placing at risk...
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Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:41 -0800

Steven Holland on how bacteria make us sick
Titus, a 6-year-old student from the International School of Tiajin in China, asks the scientists about the bacteria that make...
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Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:36 -0800

Roxanne Decyk: 'More than governments needed to solve climate change'
Roxanne Decyk: Climate change, combined with the quest for enough energy for the globe, plus economic recovery, are hugely...
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Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:34 -0800

Nancy Moreno follows butterflies launched into space
Nancy Moreno: For this particular investigation, we selected painted lady butterflies - they're a very common butterfly. They...
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Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:23 -0800

Tom Tomich says global sustainability starts with food
Tom Tomich is director of the Agricultural Sustainability Institute at the University of California - Davis. At a fall 2009...
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Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:10 -0800

Susan Levy on advances in autism research
There are an estimated 1.5 million people in the U.S. with some form of autism. Their symptoms include mild to severe problems...
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Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:00:00 -0800

Peter Gleick warns that world faces a water crisis
Peter Gleick: In my opinion, the worst 'crisis' around freshwater is our failure to meet basic human needs for so many...
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Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:00:00 -0800

Heather Clark is developing a nano tattoo for diabetics
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Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:00:25 -0800

Joanna Fowler says drug addiction is a disease of the brain
Joanna Fowler: What our images show is that addiction is really a disease of the brain and not a moral weakness. [...]
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Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:00:23 -0800

Carl Imhoff on transforming U.S. electric grid into smart grid
Carl Imhoff: The grid that you look at today hasn't changed much in the last 50 years. [...]
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Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:00:21 -0800

Catherine Badgely believes organic agriculture can scale up
Today, less than 5% of the world's agriculture is organic, or produced without the use of synthetic pesticides or fertilizers....
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Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:00:20 -0800

Paul Davies on how life on Earth began
Paul Davies: There's been a lot of research on the setting in which life on Earth may have begun. And there are various...
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Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:00:00 -0800

Dev Niyogi on urban sprawl and storm intensity
Tornadoes are usually drawn to wide-open spaces. That's according to climatologist Dev Niyogi of Purdue University. So Niyogi...
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Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:00:00 -0800

Dan Greenbaum on greenhouse gases and the threat to public health
In mid-April 2009, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) declared that carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases...
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Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:52 -0800

John Barry urges wide use of carbon capture and storage
John Barry: The world's going to be burning fossil fuels for a long time to come. And carbon capture and storage, or CCS, is...
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Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:32 -0800

Jon Foley envisions a hybrid of industrial and organic farming
Jon Foley: I think we need a new kind of agriculture - kind of a third agriculture, between the big agribusiness, commercial...
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Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:20 -0800

Beth Shapiro uses DNA to see how animals fared in ancient climate
Beth Shapiro: We really have very little information about how populations and species respond to climate change. [...]
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Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:19 -0800

Christopher Raxworthy: 'Cryptic chameleons could change understanding of evolution'
Christopher Raxworthy: Over the recent last 30,40, 50 years, geographic isolation has been the dominant recognized way that you...
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Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:19 -0800

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Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:00:00 -0800

Peter Moeller has discovered a bacteria-fighting sea sponge
The oceans still contain mysteries with the potential to help humanity. For example, scientists have discovered a sea sponge...
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Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:00:00 -0800

Elke Anklam describes nanofoods' benefits and possible risks
Elke Anklam: What is nanofood? It's food which contains some tiny elements - "nanomaterials" - in the food, to make it more...
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Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:30 -0800

Karen Goldberg trying to make natural gas more accessible fuel option
Karen Goldberg: It's a really difficult transformation. It's been a holy grail in catalytic chemistry to try to do this...
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Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:10 -0800

Steve Monismith tracks water in the San Francisco Estuary
Steve Monismith: This network of islands and marshes - what do we want it to be, as a natural functioning system, and what's...
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Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:06 -0800

Reza Fazel says medical imaging carries risks
Reza Fazel: If the test is being done for a clear medical reason and the patient can expect any benefit from that based on...
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Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:03 -0800

David Freyberg on costs and benefits of dams in 21st century
David Freyberg: If I could sort of focus people's attention, I would focus attention on local dams, many of which are quite...
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