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By Randolph E. Schmid Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Remains of meals that included seaweed are helping confirm the date of a settlement in southern Chile that may offer the earliest evidence of humans in the Americas.
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NASA engineers Thursday successfully completed the first series of tests in the early development of the J-2X engine that will power the upper stages of the Ares I and Ares V rockets, key components of NASA's Constellation Program. Ares I will launch the Orion spacecraft that will take astronauts to the International Space Station and then to the moon by 2020. The Ares V will carry cargo and components...
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The radioactive carbon-14 produced by above-ground nuclear testing in the 1950s and '60s has helped researchers determine that the number of fat cells in a human's body, whether lean or obese, is established during the teenage years. Changes in fat mass in adulthood can be attributed mainly to changes in fat cell volume, not an increase in the actual number of fat cells.
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legionofmarduk | 03/06/2008
Co2 emissions, greenhouse effect, climate change, global warming are featured daily on the news headlines; this, coupled with raises in the price of crude and the related growing costs of gasoline and fuels makes energy the hot topic of early 21st century life, with increasingly colliding interests which would lead Mankind towards devastating wars or ecological doom....
legionofmarduk | 02/25/2008
What are sea dates and why their harvesting harms the marine environment? Sea dates are a rare and truly delicious kind of shellfish: three to four inches in lenght they are brown and similar to small cigars or chocolate bars; renowned since the days of Rome they are credited with a delicate flavour which no mussel nor scallop can ever hope to match...
legionofmarduk | 02/24/2008
with the "Electricity saving week" having recently ended and the anniversay of the Kyoto Protocol taking place in the same lapse of time it's quite significant that the Cinque Terre National Park inaugurated a facility to underline its environmental committment, both to preserve its delicate natural equilibrium and to do its part in the fight against global warming and the resulting environmental changes...
