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Geneva atom smasher sets record for beam energy
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| <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100319/ap_on_sc/eu_big_bang_machine"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100310/capt.photo_1268237549958-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=n1U16mvCeUZjDQdPyGNisA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="A view of a superconducting solenoid magnet at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) near Geneva. The European Organisation for Nuclear Research said that the world's most powerful atom smasher will be brought up to unprecedented power by early April.(AFP/File/Fabrice Coffrini)" border="0" /></a>AP - Operators of the world's largest atom smasher on Friday ramped up their massive machine to three times the energy ever previously achieved, in the run-up to experiments probing the secrets of the universe.</p><br clear="all"/>
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Cloak of invisibility takes a step forward
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| <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100318/ap_on_sc/us_sci_cloak_of_invisibility"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100318/i/r275696966.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=OPCLjbeGFIP_pk71Julbxg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Gold bars are displayed to be photographed at bullion house in Mumbai December 3, 2009. REUTERS/Arko Datta" border="0" /></a>AP - From Grimm's fairy tales to Harry Potter, the cloak of invisibility has played a major role in fiction. Now scientists have taken a small but important new step toward making it reality.</p><br clear="all"/>
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Export ban on Atlantic bluefin tuna rejected
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| AP - Fishing nations won a victory over environmentalists Thursday when a U.S.-backed proposal to ban export of the Atlantic bluefin tuna was overwhelmingly rejected at a U.N. wildlife meeting.
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Onions Made Pre-Human Ancestors Cry Too, Study Suggests
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| LiveScience.com - The sensors in your body that make you tear up when you'recutting onions have been around for 500 million years, a new study finds.
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Japan sighs relief as bluefin tuna ban fails
(The Christian Science Monitor)
| The Christian Science Monitor - Sushi chefs and fish dealers across the Japanese archipelago were letting out small sighs of relief Thursday night as news filtered in from the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) in Qatar that a proposed export ban on Atlantic bluefin tuna had failed to pass. Japan consumes around three-quarters of the globe’s bluefin tuna catch, with almost all of it served raw as sushi and sashimi, of which it is the most sought-after variety.
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Rio protests: Sharing Brazil's oil revenues will hurt 2016 Olympics
(The Christian Science Monitor)
| The Christian Science Monitor - Thousands of Brazilian schoolchildren and city and state workers were given the afternoon off to gather in Rio de Janeiro today and protest a federal law that would reduce the amount of petroleum royalties the energy-rich state now gets.
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Crippled Mars Rover is Chilled, But Still Alive
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| SPACE.com - NASA's crippled Spirit Mars rover is still awake as itprepares for the oncoming Martian winter, which has already left it colder thanever before.
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Bulgaria boosts GM crop restrictions
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| <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100318/sc_afp/bulgariafarmlawbiotech"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100318/capt.photo_1268932667589-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=81&q=85&sig=pGU4.6gZ88f2CKmjfAYwUg--" align="left" height="81" width="130" alt="Genetically modified corn cobs are seen at a corn field. Bulgaria's parliament on Thursday tightened restrictions on genetically modified food crops in the face of pressure from environmentalists seeking a total ban.(AFP/File/Khaled Desouki)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Bulgaria's parliament on Thursday tightened restrictions on genetically modified food crops in the face of pressure from environmentalists seeking a total ban.</p><br clear="all"/>
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Arctic animals doing better, but not close to pole
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| AP - The overall number of animals in the Arctic has increased over the past 40 years ago, according to a new international study. But critters who live closest to the North Pole are disappearing.
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Activists urge Australia to charge Japanese whalers
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| <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100319/wl_asia_afp/australiajapanwhaling"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100319/capt.photo_1269006067773-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=79&q=85&sig=mX1dBCXb9zQq7dnfB3GdPg--" align="left" height="79" width="130" alt="The Japanese harpoon vessel Shonan Maru No 2 shadows the Sea Shepherd's Ady Gil in the Southern Ocean off Antarctica in 2009. Anti-whaling activists have lodged a legal complaint against the captain and crew of a Japanese trawler which hit and sank their hi-tech speedboat, a politician said Friday.(AFP/Sea Shepherd/File/Laurens de Groot)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Anti-whaling activists have lodged a legal complaint against the captain and crew of a Japanese trawler which hit and sank their hi-tech speedboat, a politician said Friday.</p><br clear="all"/>
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Smithsonian opens $21M human evolution hall
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| <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100317/ap_on_re_us/us_smithsonian_human_evolution"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100317/capt.dd859b36de3744f5adc862b9d3177ae8-dd859b36de3744f5adc862b9d3177ae8-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=hWhHIJZxRXfXh18X93kxFQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Part of the exhibit comparing the brain size of early humans is seen inside the David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, on Wednesday, March 17, 2010. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)" border="0" /></a>AP - Hundreds of early human fossils, artifacts and forensically recreated faces of our prehistoric relatives went on display Wednesday, exploring 6 million years of evolution at the National Museum of Natural History.</p><br clear="all"/>
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Lifetime tiger hunter, 92, snared in Indonesia
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| <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100319/sc_afp/indonesiaenvironmentwildlifeanimaltiger"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100319/capt.photo_1269001747852-1-0.jpg?x=89&y=130&q=85&sig=8YEH_EdjyYRj3zrH0RqOcg--" align="left" height="130" width="89" alt="A Sumatran at the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, DC. Indonesian conservationists said they had caught red-handed a 92-year-old man who had admitted to killing dozens of critically endangered Sumatran tigers over a lifetime of hunting.(AFP/File/Karen Bleier)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Indonesian conservationists said on Friday they had caught red-handed a 92-year-old man who had admitted to killing dozens of critically endangered Sumatran tigers over a lifetime of hunting.</p><br clear="all"/>
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The nation's weather
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| AP - Most of the nation will see generally pleasant conditions on Friday, but there are some clouds, rain and snow in store for the western Plains and the Rockies.
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Saturn at its Best for 2010
(SPACE.com)
| SPACE.com - While theplanet Venus is now gaining in prominence low in western evening sky and Marscontinues to slowly fade as it recedes from Earth, another bright naked eyeplanet, Saturn, is now enjoying its finest month in 2010. The great ringedbeauty arrives at opposition to the sun on the American evening of Sunday,March 21, putting on an all-night performance.
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Tests for genes don't predict breast cancer better
(Reuters)
| Reuters - Studying genes linked to breast cancer may someday lead to better treatments, but they do little to improve a doctor's ability to predict who is likely to develop a tumor, researchers reported on Wednesday.
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Sudan hangs two for killing Chinese oil workers
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| Reuters - Sudan executed two people convicted of killing four oil workers, two of them Chinese, in one of the country's most energy-rich regions, state media reported on Wednesday.
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Many tools but no guarantees in forecasting floods
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| <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100319/ap_on_re_us/us_flood_threat_forecasts"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100319/capt.fcce4dc4160948e5b0022d133132da70-fcce4dc4160948e5b0022d133132da70-0.jpg?x=130&y=63&q=85&sig=fFnwkU8gGTVh3SOGdsl2qw--" align="left" height="63" width="130" alt="National Guard troops patrol the perimeter of flood waters along the Red River, Friday, March 19, 2010, in Fargo, N.D. The rising waters of the Red are expected to crest in Fargo on Sunday. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)" border="0" /></a>AP - A year ago, weather forecasters changed their estimate late in the game of just how high the Red River would rise, stoking an 11th-hour sandbagging flurry in Fargo that proved unnecessary in the end because the new prediction was wrong.</p><br clear="all"/>
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