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Article:	New EU CO2 caps anger airlines	View Article
Published:	10/27/2008	View Comments (0)
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Category:	Earth Sciences and Environment

Article Details: The European Union on Friday imposed tougher pollution limits on airlines from 2012, angering the air industry and the United States, whose carriers will be included.

Article:	Warming warnings get overheated	View Article
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Category:	Earth Sciences and Environment

Article Details: Alarmist predictions of climate change like Oliver Tickell's are not just bad science – they stop us thinking rationally about solutions

Article:	Is NASA's Ares doomed?	View Article
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Category:	Astronomy and Space

Article Details: Bit by bit, the new rocket ship that is supposed to blast America into the second Space Age and return astronauts to the moon appears to be coming undone

Article:	In search of a light Higgs boson	View Article
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Category:	Physics

Article Details: “It's pretty clear that the standard model of physics is not enough to explain all the phenomena in nature. Through looking at a variety of phenomena – one of them being dark matter – we know that there is a whole set of interactions beyond our standard model.”

Article:	Hail Scotch Tape	View Article
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Category:	Chemistry

Article Details: Scotch tape is not only see-through, it can also see through, for the product can be used to take X-rays, bemused scientists say.

Article:	Scientists develop high-performance steel for possible use in ITER fusion project	View Article
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Categories:	Chemistry & Earth Sciences and Environment

Article Details: Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the U.S. ITER Project Office, which is housed at ORNL, have developed a new cast stainless steel that is 70 percent stronger than comparable steels and is being evaluated for use in the huge shield modules required by the ITER fusion device.

Article:	Microsoft's Ozzie unveils 'cloud computing' play	View Article
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Category:	Computers and Internet

Article Details: The Azure Services Platform is an industry move by Microsoft aimed at helping developers build the next generation of applications that will deliver new experiences across the PC, Web and phone.

Article:	Microsoft's Ozzie unveils 'cloud computing' play	View Article
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Category:	Computers and Internet

Article:	In game of tennis, seeing isn't always believing	View Article
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Category:	Behavorial Science

Article Details: A universal bias in the way people perceive moving objects means that tennis referees are more likely to make mistakes when they call balls "out" than when they call them "in,"

Article:	Flexible OLED display one-step closer with organic light emitting material direct writing	View Article
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Categories:	Physics & Computers and Internet

Article Details: One of the more interesting methods of pattern transfer available for a number of applications right now is Laser Induced Forward Transfer (LIFT). However, when working with organic material, there are some drawbacks to LIFT, as well as other drawbacks to making use of a high threshold UV or IR laser to effect the transfer. “Besides thermal degradation,” Seung Hwan Ko tells PhysOrg.com, “high laser threshold laser can also induce mechanical cracks on transfer material and problems in edge sharpn