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Computers to pinpoint wild weather forecasts

Computer simulations of the weather workings of the entire planet will be able to make forecasts to within a few kilometers accuracy, helping predict the effects of deadly weather systems.

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Scientists Fail To Create Black Hole -- This Time

Scientists didn't see black holes when they fired up the Large Hadron Collider, but they plan to try again.

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NASA Scientists Find Meteorites Have Building Blocks Of Life

An international team of scientists studying remnants of an asteroid that crashed into the Nubian Desert found it had some of the same chemicals that are the building blocks of life on earth.

American biologist Dr. Craig Venter addresses a medical conference in Rome

Bioethics Commssion Calls For Closer Oversight Of Synthetic Biology

The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues today called for greater oversight of scientists working on synthetic biology, though it fell short of calling f...

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Improving Yeast Genes Could Boost Biofuel Production

Scientists at the University of Wisconsin have found the genes that control alcohol tolerance in yeast, opening the way to engineer better yeast strains and make biofuels more competitive.

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Customers walk past a display of the biography of Steve Jobs, sold at a bookstore in Quezon City

Steve Jobs book may be Amazon's 2011 top seller

10:21 AM ET

The new biography of deceased Apple Inc Chief Executive Steve Jobs may be Amazon.com Inc's top-selling book of 2011, a spokeswoman at the largest Internet retailer said on Monday.

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A screen shot of a web browser displaying the WikiLeaks website with a picture of its founder Julian Assange in Bern

Wikileaks Announces New Submission System, Claims Every Other Site to be Insecure

07:26 AM ET

Julian Assange of Wikileaks today announced that the Whistleblowing site will be introducing a new, more secure, submission system and claims that every web-based encryption is not to be trusted.

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