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After surviving nuclear tests, can the Marshall Islands survive the great climate experiment?
2013-07-30 06:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: In March 1946, the United States dropped the first of 67 nuclear bombs on the Marshall Islands, a tiny nation of scattered atolls in the northern Pacific Ocean. The Republic of the Marshall Islands US Embassy website documents the testing program that ended in August 1958 - how some Marshallese were evacuated from their homes to allow the bombs to drop and how radioactive dust fell on half the nation. The slow but inevitable emergence of tumours, the sharp spikes in cancers, the displacement of...
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69-year experiment captures pitch-tar drop
2013-07-18 18:25:50| CNET News.com
Begun in 1944, an Irish attempt to witness apparently solid pitch tar dripping from a funnel finally bears fruit. [Read more]
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NASA experiment uncovers Arctic climate time bomb
2013-07-02 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RTCC: The Arctic could prove to be a climate time bomb according to early results from a NASA experiment to monitor the release of greenhouse gases from thawing permafrost. With previous data on CO2 and methane released from the carbon rich soils imprecise, the Carbon in Arctic Reservoirs Vulnerability Experiment (CARVE) has been able to fill in the blanks with initial indications creating cause for concern. While it was known that the release of gases that had previously been trapped in solid ground...
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Talking robot to blast into space for experiment in human/robot conversation
2013-06-27 23:15:39| Automakers - Topix.net
A small, humanoid robot will be flown to the International Space Station this summer to take part in the first experiment on conversation in space between a human and a robot.
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Disney and Sony experiment with in-theater rentals
2013-06-25 00:26:38| CNET News.com
Microsoft gets serious about cloud computing, Google Mine may be a new "plus" feature, and South Korea experiments with in-theater rentals. [Read more]
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