AP – Mayor Gavin Newsom and the United Nations are eyeing a former naval shipyard contaminated by radiation, heavy metals and other industrial toxins as the future site of a sprawling new green technology complex and climate change think tank.
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SF eyes UN Climate Center at polluted shipyard
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SPACE.com – A new view of supernovas — the spectacular explosions of dying stars — has come not from a telescope, but from a powerful supercomputer simulation.
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Mock Supernova Created by Supercomputer
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AFP – The shuttle Endeavour descended safely to Earth on Friday, ending a successful 16-day assembly mission to the International Space Station (ISS) with the final piece of Japan’s Kibo science laboratory.
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Space shuttle Endeavour lands safely after 16-day mission
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LiveScience.com – Video gamers are gamers for life, analysts say. And that’s no surprise to the industry that peddles the games and the hardware, which grew last year as the rest of the economy went south.
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Video Gamers Hooked for Life
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AFP – Cyprus on Friday signed a deal with local company DK Windsupply to build one of the largest wind parks in the east Mediterranean, to boost its renewable energy sources, officials said.
LiveScience.com – In a starring role for E. coli, researchers have developed a new technique to make movies of bacteria as they infect their victims and are consumed by the host’s immune cells.
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Caught in Action: Immune Cell Destroys Bacteria
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SPACE.com – HOUSTON – Space shuttle Endeavour touched down in Florida on Friday morning, bringing to an end a successful 16-day mission to complete Japan’s laboratory at the International Space Station (ISS).
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Shuttle Endeavour Lands Safely in Florida
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No guesswork is allowed in museum art: scientists review everything from the color and texture of the tree bark to the facial expression of the animals in dioramas. Go behind the scenes at the American Museum of Natural History with artist Steve Quinn to see what is involved in creating an exhibition.
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SciFri Video:Museum Artists Keep It Real
AFP – India insisted Friday it wanted to reach a global agreement on fighting climate change at the upcoming UN summit in Copenhagen but reiterated its opposition to binding carbon emission cuts.
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India wants climate change pact at Copenhagen
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AP – A scientific journal has retracted a controversial paper claiming to have created the first human sperm from embryonic stem cells.
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Journal retracts claim of sperm made of stem cells
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