&#39;The skids are greased,&#39; says one watching scientist
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And some time, someday, maybe soon, Mount St. Helens could purge a column of ash miles into the atmosphere -- an outburst that could rival even that of the infamous blast of 1980.
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The phenomenon, known as frame-dragging, is quite small, amounting to 6 feet in the distance that satellites, moving at about 18,000 miles per hour, cover in their orbits in a year, but it is within the ability of NASA&#39;s instruments to detect.
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The news comes as some observers warn that the United States needs to focus more on training scientists and engineers.
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The biopic shows admirably how liberating, and threatening, the work of some scientists can be. It's a timely film, a reminder that scientists sometimes suffer in their efforts to reveal truths others would prefer remain hidden. Jason Silverman reviews Kinsey.
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Scientists are perfecting a technique which they hope will improve detection of mad cow disease (vCJD).
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Scientists are zeroing in on brain growth and inflammation as possible suspects in the cause of autism.
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The claim has the ring of a myth. But environmental scientists say it is real.
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Science instructor Roxanne Hunker&#39;s methods are a bit unorthodox: She shuns science textbooks and seldom assigns homework. Yet year after year, her hands-on instruction has groomed a multitude
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A Nobel Prize-winning scientist from the United States who reportedly claimed black people are less intelligent than whites said Friday he was "mortified" at the comments, and suggested he was misquoted.
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The genetic code of the fungus that causes dandruff has been cracked by an international team of scientists.
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The scientist who discovered genetic &quot;fingerprinting&quot; 20 years ago said yesterday that he has some worries about the use of the technology.
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Calling Cassini&#39;s flyby &quot;the tale of two moons,&quot; imaging scientist Carolyn Porco said that &quot;one of them has been like out of a Lewis Carroll story and gets curiouser and curiouser the more we look at it and the closer we get, and the other turns out to be
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Scientists trying to create life are more like engineers than biologists. They want to make stuff rather than learn about life.
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Imagine the weight of a nagging suspicion that what held your world together, a constant and consistent presence you had come to understand and rely on, wasn't what it seemed. That's how scientists feel when they ponder gravity these days.
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Gerhard Ertlâs work in surface chemistry has applications across an array of fields, including the environment.
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There is a distinction between the layman&#39;s use of the term theory and the word&#39;s meaning in the scientific world. That distinction seems lost in Cobb County, where thousands of dollars have been spent as