• Learning and memory stimulated by gut hormone | Science Blog (p)(f)
  Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have found evidence that a hormone produced in the stomach directly stimulates the higher brain functions of spatial learning and memory development, and further suggests that we may learn best on an empty stomach. Science Blog, Feb 23, 2006
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• Medical Editors Fired in Plan B Dispute (p)(f)
  Following a dispute at the Canadian Medical Association Journal regarding a story about Plan B, two of its editors were abruptly fired, leading to angry protests at the journal and in other medical circles. Wasingto post Feb 27, 2006 A07
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• Microbes convert Styrofoam into biodegradable plastic (p)(f)
  Bacteria could help transform a key component of disposable cups, plates and utensils into a useful eco-friendly plastic, significantly reducing the environmental impact of this ubiquitous, but difficult-to-recycle waste stream. Science Blog Feb 23, 2006
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• NASA Craft Reaches Mars (p)(f)
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• National Center for Science Education (p)(f)
  Defending the Teaching of Evolution in the Public Schools
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• Need an Answer? Sleep on It. (p)(f)
  When decisions involve a lot of complex factors, thinking deeply about them can produce worse outcomes than decisions made simply after "sleeping on it," according to research published last week in Science. Washington Post, Feb 20, 2006
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• New Mexico Schools Could Enter Battle Over `Intelligent Design` (p)(f)
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• New orbiter on track for Mars meeting / NASA craft will perform intensive explorations (p)(f)
  A new spacecraft more powerful and sophisticated than any other is flying flawlessly toward Mars, and its date to begin orbiting the planet on March 10, NASA officials reported Thursday. San Francisco Chronical, Feb 25, 2006
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• New Washington Archbishop favours Intelligent Design in schools (p)(f)
  The Archbishop-designate of Washington DC, Bishop Donald Wuerl of Pittsburgh, “threw his support behind the teaching of Intelligent Design as an alternative theory of creation to materialist Darwinism”. Bishop Wuerl who will replace Cardinal Theodore McCarrick as archbishop in Washington DC, spoke last year of the theory’s “reasonableness” and the need to offer students more than one theory of the origins of life. May 19, 2006
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• NY team confirms UCLA tabletop fusion | Science Blog (p)(f)
  Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a tabletop accelerator that produces nuclear fusion at room temperature Feb 13, 2006
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• Pastor Brinton on Evolution (p)(f)
  Here`s a refreshingly intelligent treatise on religion and evolution by Henry Brinton, a Presbyterian pastor, in today`s Outlook section. He believes religion and science ask different questions (why and how, respectively), and he has no troubled [sic] reconciling evolution with his deep faith in the guidance of God. Washington Post, Achenblog, Sep 18, 2005
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• Pluto’s New Place in Space (p)(f)
  An international committee of astronomers has come up with a new definition [for “Planet”] that would include Pluto — a planet would be any body massive enough to be round that is not a star but is orbiting one. “These are the most fundamental physical parameters that apply not only in our solar system, but everywhere in the universe”. A “pluton” would be any planet beyond Neptune. August 16, 2006
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• Quantum computing unplugged | Science Blog (p)(f)
  By combining quantum computation and quantum interrogation, scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have found an exotic way of determining an answer to an algorithm – without ever running the algorithm. Science Blog, Feb 23, 2006
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• Royal Society Journals Digital Archives From 1665 (p)(f)
  Nearly three and a half centuries of scientific study and achievement is now available online in the Royal Society Journals Digital Archive following its official launch this week. This is the longest-running and arguably most influential journal archive in Science, including all the back articles of both Philosophical Transactions and Proceedings. Sep 2006
  <br>The Royal Society Digital Journal Archive, dating back to 1665 and containing more than 60,000 articles, is now available online at and is FREE to access until the end of November 2006.
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• Science Teachers Confront Intelligent Design (p)(f)
  In classrooms across the country, science teachers are increasingly finding themselves on the front lines of the decades-long evolution wars, pitting accepted scientific explanations against biblical-based challengers. So when some 15,000 science teachers convened for their annual conference recently, many attended workshops designed to help them deal with the issue. May 24, 2006 VOA News
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• Science Wars - Intelligent Design (p)(f)
  Should public schools teach intelligent design? Called an alternative to evolution, the theory claims that intelligent causes are responsible for life. Science writer Sally Satel moderates this American Enterprise Institute panel discussion on science, religion, and intelligent design. AEI 10/21/2005: WASHINGTON, DC: 2 hr. REAL VIDEO
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• Science, Religion and Public Education (p)(f)
  A well-organized and well-funded campaign is under way to undermine the separation of church and state in America’s public schools. Aggressive religious pressure groups are pushing school boards nationwide to change the curriculum to conform to their doctrines. Battles have erupted all over the nation, and your community may be next. PDF
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• Scientists predict how to detect a fourth dimension of space | Science Blog (p)(f)
  Scientists at Duke and Rutgers universities have developed a mathematical framework they say will enable astronomers to test a new five-dimensional theory of gravity that competes with Einstein's General Theory of Relativity.
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• Scientists Show How Brain Processes Sound | Science Blog (p)(f)
  Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University have discovered that our ears use the most efficient way to process the sounds we hear, from babbling brooks to wailing babies. Feb 24, 2006
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