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Stories tagged with: science
Twentyfive Phenomenal Forensic Science Job Sites
http://www.bestforensicscienceschools.com/2012/25-phenomenal...
Forensic scientists work to collect and analyze physical evidence in order to solve crimes. Other careers in forensics could include forensic psychologists whose responsibilities include analyzing court cases as well as criminals. Regardless of which area of forensics interests you, having reliable job
resources allows you access to a portal of potential careers.
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Science decodes 'internal voices'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16811042
Researchers have demonstrated a striking method to reconstruct words, based on the brain waves of patients thinking of those words.
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Volunteers wanted for planet hunt
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16512017
Members of the public are being asked to join the hunt for nearby planets that could support life.Volunteers can go to the Planethunters website to see time-lapsed images of
150,000 stars, taken by the Kepler space telescope.
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Are You Left or Right Brain?
http://www.onlinecollege.org/left-or-right-brain
If you are ever wondered why you act the way you do, the answer may lie in which side of your brain you tend to use more. Although they are generalizations,popular theories suggest that the right-brain people have different skills and perferences than those who are left brain people. How do these differences impact you ? Lets check out :
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Tags: brain, Left brain, right brain, action, people, science
NORAD's Santa trackers pull out high-tech stops
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/story/2011-12-22/santa-...
That's right. This Christmas, NORAD, the premier U.S.-Canadian air defense directorate, is once again using its super high-tech tracking equipment to keep tabs on jolly old Saint Nick.
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Nasa space telescope finds 'twin' of Earth orbiting a distant Sun-like star
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2076711/Keple...
A rocky planet the same size as the Earth has been discovered orbiting a star like our sun. It is the first time a planet of this size has been detected in another solar system. Scientists have hailed the technical achievement of detecting Earth sized ‘exoplanets’ - the technical term for planets outside the solar system - as it increases the chances of finding life-bearing worlds.Although the planet, Kepler-20f could have a thick
water-vapour atmosphere, its surface is believed to be too hot for life.
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Science and Medicine stars the world lost in 2011
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/8950816/Science-a...
The man who rebuilt Bletchley Park's code-breaking Colossus and America's "Dr Death" were among the scientists and doctors who passed away this year.McCulloch and his research
partner James Till were heralded as the new Watson and Crick when they discovered what we know today as stem cells.
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Tags: science, medicine, stars, Watson
15 Fascinating TED Talks for Physics Students
http://www.onlineuniversities.com/15-fascinating-ted-talks-f...
Considering physics literally keeps the known (and possibly some of the unknown) cosmos alive and kicking, anyone with a particularly piquant passion for the science enjoy thousands of lessons far beyond classroom confines. No matter the principles and applications that capture their imaginations, there likely exists a corresponding TED Talk. Though, admittedly, many heavily emphasize things on a distinctly more spacey scale. Nevertheless, even the distant quasars and pulsars and black holes and question marks out there illuminate some decidedly more terrestrial phenomena.
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Tags: TED Talks, physics, students, education, science, Applicatio
Decisions, Decisions: House-Hunting Honey Bees Work Like Complex Brains
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111208141942.ht...
House-hunting is full of decisions, for us and honey bees. One early decision we both face is where to live.P. Kirk Visscher at the University of California, Riverside, often in
collaboration with Thomas Seeley at Cornell University, NY, has long been studying how honey bees make these decisions.
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Did $16 Stand in the Way of Climate Science?
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/11/23/did-10-stand-in-wa...
The head of a key British climate lab, a central figure in the 2009 "Climategate" scandal, thought requests made under Great Britain's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) were a nuisance that should be stonewalled while crucial correspondence is deleted -- unless someone pays up first.
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