Chemistry is not a world unto itself. It is woven firmly into the fabric of the rest of the world, and various fields, from literature to archeology, thread their way through the chemist's text.
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Once more, we enter the month of December and the traditional western Holiday Season, and once again, I'd like to present a Hubble Space Telescope imagery Advent Calendar for 2009. Keep checking this page, because every day, for the next 25 days, a new photo will be revealed here from the Hubble Space Telescope, some old and some new. I have ...
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Online Advent Calendar launches
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Feeling Christmassy yet? No, nor me… Last leaf, last raindrop, last holiday of the year Well, in the past you might have let Intute lead you through the preparations for the holiday with our Advent Calendar. Previously these were such a success, generating more visits to the blog than we’d received before and involving so many of [...]
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Hubble Explains Nebulas Ruddy Complexion
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A ruddy nebula reflects the light from a huge, nearby star in this latest image released by the Hubble Space Telescope’s operators. The Iris Nebula is a bit mysterious. It’s not hot enough to emit its own light, like some nebulae do. Instead, the Iris reflects light from the star, HD 200775, which is 10 times as massive as the sun, ...
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Universe Today
Hubble Sees Dazzling Dust in the Iris Nebula
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Another gorgeous image from Hubble! This close-up of NGC 7023, or the Iris Nebula, shows an area filled with cosmic dust. Illuminated from above by the nearby star HD 200775, the dust resembles pink cotton candy, accentuated with diamond-like stars. The "cotton candy" is actually made up of tiny particles of solid matter, [...]
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Science and Reason
Opening up a Colourful Cosmic Jewel Box
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Opening up a Colourful Cosmic Jewel Box (10/29/09) The combination of images taken by three exceptional telescopes, the ESO Very Large Telescope on Cerro Paranal , the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at ESO’s La Silla observatory and the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, has allowed the stunning Jewel Box star cluster to be seen in a whole new light.
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Here's an update on the butterflies in space, and it's good news from the International Space Station, where four Painted Lady larvae formed chrysalises and emerged as butterflies on Monday and Tuesday. The butterflies seem to be doing OK in...
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Universe Today
ISS Temporarily Down to Crew of 2
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Following today’s departure of the three man crew of Expedition 21 aboard the Soyuz TMA 15 capsule, staffing on the International Space Station (ISS) is now temporarily reduced to a skeleton crew of just 2 men for the first time since July 2006. The ISS had hosted a complete 6 person and truly [...]
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Soyuz Lands Safely in Kazakhstan
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Soyuz Leaves International Space Station and Lands Safely in Kazakhstan , SpaceRef Canada (With Video) "Canadian Space Agency Flight Engineer Robert Thirsk, Expedition 21 Flight Engineer and Soyuz Commander Roman Romanenko and European Space Agency Flight Engineer Frank De Winne undocked their Soyuz spacecraft from the station at 10:56 p.m. EST ...
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WASHINGTON/KABUL (Reuters) - The top U.S. battlefield commander said on Wednesday that President Barack Obama's 30,000-strong troop increase for the Afghan war would make a huge difference, as the White House prepared to sell the new strategy to Congress.
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Obama image spotlights Web searching
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When a racist image of first lady Michelle Obama surfaced from the ugliest corners of the Internet last week to top Google's image search results, the episode shined a spotlight on the mysterious workings of search engines.
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Troops support Obama's surge plans
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- U.S. troops stationed in Afghanistan say they are cautiously optimistic about President Barack Obama deploying an additional 30,000 troops to the country.
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AP - Developing countries will need tens of billions of dollars each year to cope with the effects of climate change such as floods and drought, the global head of the U.N.'s development arm said.
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Impact of CRU Hacking on the AMS Statement on Climate Change
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AMS Headquarters has received several inquiries asking if the material made public following the hacking of e-mails and other files from the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia has any impact on the AMS Statement on Climate Change, which was approved by the AMS Council in 2007 and represents the official position of the ...
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Climate change: Go figure!
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5 of the next 10 years are expected by the Met Office to be hotter than 1998 (the hottest year on record) 1.3°C Rough estimate of the cumulative increase in global average temperature (relative to 1906 levels) that current levels of atmospheric carbon make inevitable.
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Modelling suggests these cuts will not be enough to head off dangerous climate change – Europe may have to take up the slack
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Europe Could Double Its Emission Reductions For €2 a Day Per Person Cost
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Here's another report showing how comparatively little it could cost to take meaningful action on climate change: The Stockholm Environment Institute , in partnership with Friends of the Earth have released a new report showing that the European Union could double its current emission reduction pledge of 20% below 1990 levels by 2020 at a daily ...
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Scientists have developed an innovative way to boost the output of the next generation of solar cells. They have produced tandem dye-sensitized solar cells with a three-fold increase in energy conversion efficiency compared with previously reported tandem dye-sensitized solar cells.
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TreeHugger
Solar Powered Hat and Gloves Concept Keeps You Warm in Winter
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Images via Design Boom Yiran Qian from Germany dreamed up "Endless Warm," a concept for solar cells integrated into hats and gloves to help keep the wearer warm. Finally solar clothing designs that are cute ! The idea was submitted to Design Boom's Green Life design competition , and we love how the fair isle design makes solar power actually ...
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MUMBAI: A group of naturalists from Amravati districts has discovered a set of 17 unique cave paintings in the nature-rich Satpura range of Madhya Pradesh – which opens up new avenues of research as this art form are believed to be of Paleolithic period.
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LiveScience.com - Scientists have worried in recent years that rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which is increasing acidification of the ocean, will cause shells of sea creatures to be thin and brittle, potentially threatening the entire ocean ecosystem.
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Acidic Oceans May Be a Boon for Some Marine Dwellers
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Researchers fret that many species of invertebrates will disappear as the oceans acidify due to increased levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2). But a new study concludes that some of these species may benefit from ocean acidification, growing bigger shells or skeletons that provide more protection. The work suggests that the effects of ...
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Mikyong Shin, DrPH, MPH, RNa,b, Lilah M. Besser, MSPHc, James E. Kucik, MPHa, Chengxing Lu, PhDa,b, Csaba Siffel, MD, PhDa,d, Adolfo Correa, MD, PhDa the Congenital Anomaly Multistate Prevalence and Survival (CAMPS) Collaborative
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Down Syndrome Prevalence In The United States
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Down syndrome is a chromosomal disorder that affects an estimated 1 in 800 births or 5,400 infants in the United States each year. The chance of surviving beyond the first year of life has improved in the past few years, with 90 percent of children with Down syndrome now living past 5 years of age...
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From my Twitter account : 2009 Google Zeitgeist examines the billions of queries that people around the world have typed into Google search -- Fastest Falling Google query in 2009: acai berry -- Fastest Rising Google Query By Quarter: "Swine Flu" Outnumbered Everything Else By Far Looking ...
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Social Media Related Tweets and Insights
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From my Twitter account : 4 Ways To Make Use Of Twitter Lists Do You Make These 10 Mistakes When You Blog? Does Text Paging Health Information Violates HIPAA Rules? by Dr. Wes Doctors in Social Media Shouldn't Be Anonymous - It's personal decision but I agree it' ...
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How to follow Twitter users in Google Reader
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In summary, @dreamingspires asked how you can follow more Twitter users without feeling overwhelmed with updates. I only follow around 60 people on Twitter who in general do not post very frequently. However, I follow more Twitter accounts in Google Reader which is actually nicer because I see the tweets grouped by user and I can use tags/folders.
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Health News of the Day is a daily summary made from the selected links I post on Twitter . It is in a bullet points format with links to the original sources which include 350 RSS feeds that produce about 2,500 items per day: Prone positioning does not provide survival benefit in patients with ARDS - JAMA Study: Loneliness ...
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Health News of the Day
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Health News of the Day is a daily summary made from the selected links I post on Twitter . It is in a bullet points format with links to the original sources which include 350 RSS feeds that produce about 2,500 items per day: "What happens when doctors give patients more power? They may be less willing to try a potentially risky treatment. ...
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Oops! A Twitter misstep in the book world
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It sounded like such a cool idea. Short story writer and novelist ("The Ice Storm") Rick Moody created a short work of fiction designed to be "micro-serialized" on Twitter between yesterday and tomorrow. What could go wrong? A lot, apparently.
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Twitter, Facebook and Sciencebase
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Regular readers will hopefully have spotted I’ve cleaned up the site a little recently and added a couple of new widgets to the Sciencebase sidebar menu just below the About section link to my Research Blogging posts. The first widget heralds the relaunch of the sciencebase.com Facebook fan page and its adoption of a proper URL [...] ...
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The presence of doulas (paid birth assistants) during labour may alter the doctor-patient dynamic and can compromise communication and therefore patient care, warns a doctor in the British Medical Journal today.
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Should patients talk with their doctors using social media?
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As both patients and doctors find themselves increasingly on Twitter and Facebook, more are wondering whether they should be talking to one another using social networking outlets. This issue has come up before, most recently when the New England Journal of Medicine asked whether doctors should friend their patients on Facebook. Pediatrician ...
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In what must certainly be the world's first live, webcast brain dissection, scientists today will cut thin sections from a human brain
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H.M. recollected
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Jacopo Annese, director of the UCSD Brain Observatory, holds a mounted slide of a human brain in front of a multiscreen display at the California Institute of Telecommunications and Information Technology. (John Gibbins/Union-Tribune)
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This post is about a journal article that describes mortality rates in populations of persons with eating disorders. It is sort of about that. The article is in the APA green journal, which is not openly accessible. Only the abstract is free. Usually I don't write about closed-access articles. But this is different, because I am not going to do a ...
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Auch wenn alle Klimaprognosen für die nächsten Jahrzehnte einen massiven Temperaturanstieg vorhersagen, ist die globale Temperatur in den letzten zehn Jahren nicht angestiegen. Für Skeptiker mag das ein sichtbares Argument gegen den Klimawandel sein, es gibt aber Erklärungen für dieses Phänomen.
Heuer hat sich die Sonne außergewöhnlich ebenmäßig und fleckenfrei präsentiert. Setzt sich der Trend fort, wird sie nach Meinung von Fachleuten noch "makelloser" sein als im bisherigen Rekordjahr 1913.
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California will be the "lead market" for the Chevy Volt when the electrically driven car is available at the end of next year, General Motors said on Wednesday.
This exhibition was organized to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the world's first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction, an achievement of Enrico Fermi and his colleagues at the Metallurgical Laboratory at the University of Chicago.
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We frequently extol the virtues of local food, but nothing is more local than one's own backyard. To wit, in urban settings all across the country, a growing number of city-dwellers young and old are exploring the wonders of raising and farming backyard chickens. Recently, the photographer Todd Parsons scoured the San Francisco Bay Area for ...
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