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How the Biotech Revolution Is Changing the Way We Fight Disease

From heart disease to AIDS and cancer, Biochemist Frank H. Stephenson helps you understand how the tools of biotechnology are being used to combat our most common afflictions. This book is an approachable look at how the human genome project will eventually benefit humanity in ways we haven't yet contemplated.

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Exhibition Brings to Life the Man Who Revolutionized the Science of Biology

When 22-year-old Charles Darwin stepped aboard the HMS Beagle in 1831, he took with him little more than a magnifying glass, a stack of notebooks, and an open mind.

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Turning tables in chemistry

What do glowing veggies have to do with a career in science" It just so happens that electrified pickles swimming in metal ions are one example of the type of undergraduate chemistry class demonstration that helps make a future in science a bright possibility, rather than a total turn-off, for many students.

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News and Commentary on Cape Wind Book and Interview With Co-Author on Diane Rhem' s Show

Cape Wind "Church Lady" on Diane Rhem's Show but not on local affiliates causes what Cape Wind proponents claim, "a windstorm of protest".

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The Dragons

Is there a Dragon in your yard? Make friends with it!

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Alcatel-Lucent's Special and Grand Awards

Alcatel-Lucent Presents Three Special Awards and Chemistry and Math Sciences Grand Awards to Students at Intel Science and Engineering Fair

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Because You are "Green" Doesn't Mean You Have to Love Wind Farms

Industrial wind farms, like the Cape Wind project, are on the rise and along with them public protest and opposition. Is it anti-environnmental to even question much less object? Not at all. In fact, questioning wind power does not mean anti-environment and in fact the opposite is most often the case. Those that question are those that care or they wouldn't be involved in the debate at all.

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Top Ten Uses for Cape Wind Book

The David Letterman Show and all those interested in unbiased journalism should have a field day with this book written by admitted wind industry writer Wendy Williams and opinion based editor Robert Whitcomb.

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Red Square nebula revealed

An international team led by University of Sidney, Australia, astronomer Professor Peter Tuthill has announced the discovery of a new member in the pantheon of exotically beautiful celestial objects.

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Cutting-Edge Biology Talk -- San Francisco in April

Dr. Thea Tlsty, an expert on cancer at the University of California at San Francisco, will present some of her latest research on the origin and development of cancerous cells in the body.

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UF launches project to bridge 'Regeneration' gap

Can a salamander or starfish hold secrets that could one day help cure human diseases? University of Florida McKnight Brain Institute researchers aim to find out.

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Is Global temperature politics or science?

The entire debate about global warming is a mirage. The concept of 'global temperature' is thermodynamically as well as mathematically an impossibility, says professor at The Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Bjarne Andresen who has analyzed this hot topic in collaboration with professors Christopher Essex from University of Western Ontario and Ross McKitrick from University of Guelph, both Ontario, Canada.

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