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90 articles from SATURDAY 21.1.2012

• SATURDAY 21. JANUARY, 2012
• 23:58 Chicago News Cooperative: ComEd’s Smart Grid Begins With a Promise for the Future

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  Commonwealth Edison has started a $2.6 billion smart grid, but questions remain about whether it will improve how consumers use electricity.
  
   

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• 23:36 The Bay Citizen | Local Intelligence: City Grazing

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  The 60 goats living in the rail yard near Pier 96 at the Port of San Francisco clear brush as fire prevention and offer a green alternative to toxic herbicides.
  
   

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• 23:24 Opinion: The Other Final Frontier

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  There’s a strong bang-for-the-buck argument to be made for ocean-depth missions.
  
   

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• 23:00 Race to serve up artificial chicken for a $1m prize

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• 22:37 Fast-moving snowstorm hits Northeast (Reuters)

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  Reuters - After an unusually mild winter across much of the United States, a fast-moving snowstorm struck the Northeast from central Pennsylvania to Connecticut on Saturday, while the Pacific Northwest struggled to recover from a rare heavy snowfall.  

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• 22:30 NASA Tackles Problem of Missing Moon Rocks

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  Hundreds of moon rocks and other stuff from space have been lost, destroyed, stolen or remain unaccounted for, according to inspectors.
  
   

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• 22:04 Nanmaterial detects and removes arsenic from drinking water

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  Scientists have developed a nanomaterial which enables simple detection and removal of arsenic from drinking water.  

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• 21:27 Britons reach for their telescopes as Brian Cox and BBC spark huge interest in astronomy

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• 19:48 Dot Earth Blog: Tallying Disasters and Gauging a Greenhouse Impact

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  An environmental scientist explains the challenges in efforts to gauge global warming through disaster patterns.
  
   

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• 19:24 Hollywood v Silicon Valley in US piracy battle

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  The anti-piracy battle gripping Washington and the Internet pits two US West Coast power bases directly against each other: Hollywood is taking on Silicon Valley over the right to make money online.  

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• 18:41 Mystery bird: Chestnut-breasted malkoha, Phaenicophaeus curvirostris | @GrrlScientist

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• 18:34 Habitat for Endangered Leatherback Turtles Designated (ContributorNetwork)

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  ContributorNetwork - According to the Associated Press, more than 41,000 square miles off the West Coast have been designated by the National Marine Fisheries as a habitat for endangered leatherback sea turtles. The designation will go into full effect Feb. 25 and will help protect the area, which is used by the migrating turtles for feeding on jellyfish after traveling thousands of miles across the ocean from its original nesting grounds.  

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• 18:01 Facial symmetry may play a role in 'gaydar'

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  Researchers examined how perceptions of a person’s sexual orientation are influenced by facial symmetry and proportions. Self-identified heterosexuals had facial features that were slightly more symmetrical than homosexuals. And the more likely raters perceived someone as heterosexual, the more symmetrical that person’s features were.  

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• 18:01 Sleep vs. cuddling: Study looks at what happens after sex

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  According to a recent study by evolutionary psychologists, the tendency to fall asleep first after sex is associated with greater partner desire for bonding and affection.  

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• 17:33 Today's mystery bird for you to identify | @GrrlScientist

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• 16:27 Bubbles Propel Microrockets Through Acid

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  Somewhat like effervescent tablets, these little rockets bubble up, then zoom away.  

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• 16:05 Gloves Keep You In 'Touch' All Winter Long

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  Non-slip, waterproof gloves from Isotoner play well with touchscreen of all kinds.  

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• 15:49 Fun With Interactive Back Seat Windows

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  "Windows of Opportunity" project gives us a glimpse into the future of back seat entertainment.  

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• 15:45 Costa Concordia: As Hope Fades for More Survivors, Finger-Pointing Begins (Time.com)

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  Time.com - With the death toll now at 12 and rescue operators increasingly worried about the threat of an oil spill, the Costa Concordia's survivors -- and their lawyers -- turn to the culpability of the ship's captain and owners  

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• 15:10 Romney's Weapon Against Anti-Mormon Bias: Obama (LiveScience.com)

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  LiveScience.com - New voter survey results indicate that Mitt Romney does indeed face bias against his religion, Mormonism, from Republicans, and in particular from Southern evangelical Christians. But, the survey also reveals something else about evangelicals that could help Romney overcome this bias, should he win the nomination.  

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• 14:30 Mystery Surrounds Air Force's Secretive X-37B Space Plane Landing Plan (SPACE.com)

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  SPACE.com - The United States Air Force's secretive X-37B space plane has been circling Earth for more than 10 months, and there's no telling when it might come down.  

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• 13:24 'Anonymous' hackers briefly hijack French Elysee website

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  The shadowy online hackers group Anonymous briefly hijacked the French presidential website on Friday in apparent retaliation for the US shutdown of file-sharing site Megaupload.  

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• 13:24 AIDS kills 28,000 in China in 2011: report

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  AIDS killed 28,000 people in China last year, and another 48,000 new infections from the HIV virus were discovered in the country, according to an official report on Saturday.  

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• 13:24 Beijing releases key air pollution data

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  (AP) -- Caving to public pressure, Beijing environmental authorities started releasing more detailed air quality data Saturday that may better reflect how bad the Chinese capital's air pollution is.  

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• 13:24 Brazil implant maker in eye of global storm

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  Brazil's Silimed, the third-biggest manufacturer of silicon breast implants in the world, has suddenly found itself in the eye of a global firestorm.  

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