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• TUESDAY 17. AUGUST, 2010
• 23:15 ScienceShot: Zombies Thrived on Ancient Earth

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  Parasitized ants were early victims of fungal mind control  

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• 19:41 Strange Rocks May Preserve Some of Earth's First Animals

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  Fossil find suggests presence of sea sponges 645 million years ago  

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• 18:13 Aussie Academy: Warming Is Real, Dangerous

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  MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA—In the run-up to national elections on 21 August, the country's top science...  

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• 00:56 Nobel Laureate Protests Lack of Israeli Speakers at Chemistry Conference in Jordan

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  A chemistry Nobel laureate wants leading scientists to boycott an upcoming international chemistry conference...  

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• 00:49 Lessons From Skipping Stones Could Improve Aircraft Safety

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  Researchers develop model that reveals what happens when a stone skips across the water  

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• SATURDAY 14. AUGUST, 2010
• 00:28 California Postdocs Embrace Union Contract

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  Postdocs at the University of California (UC) voted overwhelmingly this week to adopt a...  

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• 00:10 Lasers Set Hearts Aflutter

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  Pulses of light allow researchers to change how fast heart beats  

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• FRIDAY 13. AUGUST, 2010
• 23:22 Berkeley Gene Testing Program Scaled Back

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  A novel experiment at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, that involved analyzing the...  

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• 23:03 'Colorblind' NASA Satellite May Yet See Green Seas

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  There's rare good news for the beleaguered U.S. environmental satellite fleet. Two years ago,...  

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• 22:46 Should You Be Able to Shoot the Moon in an NSF Proposal?

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  Does the National Science Foundation (NSF) give out money primarily to researchers who check...  

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• 21:13 ScienceShot: Titan's Shrinkage Raises Mountains

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  Cassini radar mapping reveals signs of the moon's "pruning"  

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• 19:22 'Killer' Volcanoes Not Guilty

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  New research questions link between mammoth eruptions and mass extinctions  

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• 17:23 Astronomers' Wish List: Giant Scopes, Satellites, and Lots of Moola

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  Every 10 years, the U.S. astronomy community goes through the collective exercise of ranking...  

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• 01:10 Government: Carbon-Friendly Coal Plants 'Viable' in Next 5 years

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  A new report on carbon-capture and storage for coal power plants by the U.S....  

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• THURSDAY 12. AUGUST, 2010
• 22:59 Europe Makes Plans for Physics Experiments in Orbit

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  With the increasing convergence of particle physics, astrophysics, and cosmology, the European Space Agency...  

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• 22:18 Stars Steal Their Planet's Moons

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  Astronomer predicts that many of the alien worlds detected so far will be moonless  

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• 21:23 Astronomical Find by Three Average Joes

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  Number-crunching by home computers has revealed a rare, fast-spinning pulsar  

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• 20:21 ScienceShot : Odd Galaxy Raises Many Questions

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  Features suggest a collision, but astronomers aren't sure  

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• 18:18 Russia's Auditors Censure Effort to Support Nanotechnology

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  Russian government auditors say that a disbanded government agency for research and innovation misspent...  

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• 00:26 Earth's Oldest Cranny Explored

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  Geochemists may have tapped into deep rock undisturbed since shortly after the planet formed  

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• WEDNESDAY 11. AUGUST, 2010
• 22:57 ScienceShot: Mystery Rings Spied Around Elderly Galaxies

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  Features suggest the starmaking process has rekindled  

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• 20:55 How Tiny Drips Can Crumble a Building

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  Mathematical model tracks movement of groundwater through stone  

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• 20:38 The Makings of an Anxious Temperament

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  Monkey study yields new clues about the heritability of a nervous nature  

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• 20:25 After Court Rejects Appeal, Russian Crop Collection Faces Destruction

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  MOSCOW—A unique collection of European fruit and berry crops could be destroyed after a...  

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• 19:34 ScienceShot: How to Pour Champagne Like a Scientist

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  Researchers find a way to keep the fizz in sparkling wine  

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