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  • 2010
  • Jun
  • 29

Got a fix for oil spill? It may be worth a prize (AP)

Karen submitted this piece highlighted on Yahoo!. An excerpt follows:

Oil pools in Barataria Bay near Grand Isle, Louisiana. BP has revealed it has so far spent $2 billion on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill crisis, after an internal BP document suggested the undersea gusher might be spewing far faster than initially feared.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Cheryl Gerber)AP - You might be able to get rich quick if you can fix the BP oil spill.


  • 2010
  • Jun
  • 29

Exhibit imagines utopian, green cities in 2030

Thomas found us this composition via USA Today. The article begins:

Imagine no cars or fewer, anyway.



  • 2010
  • Jun
  • 28

Genetically Altered Salmon Set to Move Closer to Your Table

An Anonymous Reader contributed this treatise posted over at The New York Times. A selection follows:

The first engineered animal for people to eat, salmon that grow faster than normal, may be approved by the F.D.A.




  • 2010
  • Jun
  • 26

Circling the square

Richard sent us this recent treatise written over at ScienceNews. From the article:

Fifty years later, creator of the first digital image aims to smooth the pixel

  • 2010
  • Jun
  • 26

Spacecraft to Make Final Flyby of Earth

An Anonymous Reader emailed us this current article presented at Universe Today. Here’s a taste:

The re-purposed Deep Impact spacecraft will make one final flyby of Earth on Sunday June 27, 2010, getting a gravity assist to help propel the spacecraft towards a meetup with comet Hartley 2 this fall. The spacecraft bus that brought the Deep Impact "impactor" to comet Tempel 1 in July of 2005 has been put […]