Scientists believe NASA's Phoenix Mars lander exposed bits of ice while recently digging a trench in the soil of the Martian arctic, the mission's principal investigator said Thursday. --- FOXNEWS.com 2008/06/20
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The rush to grow biofuel crops -- widely embraced as part of the solution to global warming -- is actually increasing greenhouse gas emissions rather than reducing them, according to two studies published Thursday in the journal Science.
One analysis found that clearing forests and grasslands to grow the crops releases vast amounts of carbon into the air -- far more than the carbon spared from the atmosphere by burning biofuels instead of gasoline. --- Los Angeles Times 2008/02/08
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An unmanned "tractor spacecraft" could eventually be used to drag an asteroid off course before it slams into Earth with catastrophic consequences, experts said Friday. NASA astronaut Edward Lu said Hollywood-style solutions such as detonating a nuclear bomb in outer space to destroy an oncoming asteroid could increase the chances of a hit on Earth. --- spacedaily.com 2007/02/16
Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe, as expected, was elected president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Wednesday in a landslide victory.
The win has made it certain that Abe, 51, will replace Junichiro Koizumi as Japan's prime minister.
Abe is expected to name the LDP executive lineup on Monday.
On Tuesday, Abe will be elected prime minister in the extraordinary Diet session and form the new Cabinet. --- asahi.com 2006/09/20
An international scientific team which has been drilling beneath the bed of the Arctic Ocean says it enjoyed a sub-tropical climate 55 million years ago.
The cores they have extracted show the Arctic Ocean was once a subtropical, shallow sea. --- BBC News 2004/09/07
Everyone knows secondhand smoke is bad for the lungs, but a new study suggests it might also increase the risk of diabetes. The long-term study of more than 4,500 American men and women found their incidence of glucose intolerance -- a precursor to diabetes in which the pancreas can no longer produce enough insulin to regulate blood sugar -- was directly related to exposure to tobacco smoke. --- Wired News 2006/04/12
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