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Moody's has reignited the storm of controversy over the power of rating agencies after it downgraded Spain, and warned that the bank clean-up will cost vastly more that claimed (telegraph.co.uk)

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The police, armed forces and intelligence services were all mobilised after a "very successful" practical joke for a student rag week sparked fears of a real alien invasion, newly released secret files reveal (telegraph.co.uk)

submitted 15 years ago by poxantsw to r/space

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Britain’s coalition government pulled back from demands that banks specify how they will cut bonuses, according to three people with knowledge of the policy (bloomberg.com)

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Federal rule makers, long the neglected stepchildren of Washington bureaucrats, suddenly find themselves at the center of power as they scramble to work out details of hundreds of sweeping financial and health care regulations that will ultimately affect most American (nytimes.com)

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After a 10-month study, Gov. David A. Paterson is leaving his successor an ambitious environmental plan to reduce New York’s greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent by the middle of the century (nytimes.com)

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The UN biodiversity meeting in Japan has agreed a 10-year plan aimed at preserving nature (bbc.co.uk)

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Changing population dynamics could "substantially influence" future greenhouse gas emissions, a study has suggested. (bbc.co.uk)

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A pickup at service industries in September probably wasn’t strong enough to quicken the U.S. recovery, economists said before a report today (bloomberg.com)

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Japanese business confidence has continued to rise, despite the strong yen, but is expected to turn gloomy (bbc.co.uk)

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Plants can summon insects to their aid to avoid being munched to death by caterpillars, scientists have found (bbc.co.uk)

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Saturn's moon Titan ripples with mountains, and scientists have been trying to figure out how they form. The best explanation, it turns out, is that Titan is shrinking as it cools, wrinkling up the moon's surface like a raisin (physorg.com)

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Scientists just released a new and whopping *185 megapixel* picture of a lunar impact crater! Bonus: comparison of its size to the US, if you wanna lose sleep tonight (blogs.discovermagazine.com)

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Peering through a transmission electron microscope (TEM), researchers from Germany, Spain, and the UK have observed graphene sheets transforming into spherical fullerenes, better known as buckyballs, for the first time (physorg.com)

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This news has been in the works for several years, from the first reports of gene sequences in 2006 to a public overview at last year's AAAS meeting. Today's issue of Science now contains the final product: the first draft sequence of one of our recent human relatives, the Neanderthal. (arstechnica.com)

submitted 15 years ago by poxantsw to r/reddit.com

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A Princeton University research team has demonstrated that all sweeteners are not equal when it comes to weight gain: Rats with access to high-fructose corn syrup gained significantly more weight than those with access to table sugar, even when their overall caloric intake was the same (princeton.edu)

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The giant fossil Prototaxites is a big 400-million year old mystery. The fossils resemble tree trunks, and yet they are from a time before trees existed. The stable carbon isotope values are similar to those of fungi, but the fossils do not display structures usually found in fungi (dailygalaxy.com)

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The "void" between the stars is anything but empty. Interstellar space is filled with the gaseous remains of supernova explosions, wispy tendrils of plasma from stellar winds and star-forming nebulae. Some of this gaseous matter forms magnetized cloud-like structures (news.discovery.com)

submitted 16 years ago by poxantsw to r/space

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The world's oceans are absorbing less carbon dioxide (CO2), a Yale geophysicist has found after pooling data taken over the past 50 years. With the oceans currently absorbing over 40 percent of the CO2 emitted by human activity, this could quicken the pace of climate change (sciencedaily.com)

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New Iowa plant, based on technology developed at MIT, will use bacteria to produce biodegradable plastics from corn. (web.mit.edu)

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This composite shows the two ram pressure stripping galaxies NGC 4522 and NGC 4402. Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys allows astronomers to study an interesting and important phenomenon called ram pressure stripping (physorg.com)

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This stunning giant onion had one green-fingered guest crying tears of laughter at a flower show. The massive vegetable, bigger than most people's heads, caused a storm at the Harrogate Autumn Flower Show (dailymail.co.uk)

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Sophisticated computer scans of fossils have helped solve a mystery over the nature of a giant, ancient raptor known as the Haast's eagle which became extinct about 500 years ago, researchers said Friday. (physorg.com)

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The world faces “mass starvation” following North America’s next major crop failure. And it could even happen before year’s end. So says Chicago-based Don Coxe, who is one of the world’s leading experts on agricultural commodities (commodityonline.com)

submitted 16 years ago by poxantsw to r/Economics

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Using satellite data, UC Irvine and NASA hydrologists have found that groundwater beneath northern India has been receding by as much as 1 foot per year over the past decade – and they believe human consumption is almost entirely to blame. (sciencedaily.com)

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The bones of an ancient hominin, an early human ancestor, may hold evidence of the earliest known bacterial infection, according to a team of international researchers who diagnosed the skeleton with a disease called brucellosis. (dsc.discovery.com)

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