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Cannibals nabbed selling Human Meat to Kebab House

MOSCOW - Russian police have arrested three homeless people suspected of eating a 25-year-old man they had butchered and selling other bits of the corpse to a local kebab house.

Enhanced lithium depletion in Sun-like stars with orbiting planets

Here we report Li abundances for an unbiased sample of solar-analogue stars with and without detected planets.

NASA Invites You to do real Mars research at the same time you are playing a video game

With NASA's manned space flight program in tumult, it's an open question when/if human boots will tramp on Martian soil. But the space agency has provided a virtual way for humans to explore the red planet, with its new "Be a Martian" program.

Big success at Large Hadron Collider

After a delay of over a year at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the massive underground particle accelerator, beginning on November 20, 2009, is already sending particles beams on paths within the circular, underground chamber.

CRU Scientists Find Solar Connection in Climate (extracted from the email dump)

Here is an interesting email in the CRU compendium about a solar connection to temperature. I wonder if they ever published this? Naaaa. The nice part is that there is data and mathematica code that can be run to verify the connection.

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CRU Refuses FOI Request, Whistle Blower Releases Sought After Data?

A very interesting post by Steve MacIntyre about the possible motivations of the person/persons who released the emails and other data from CRU. It may be a whistleblower and not a random hacker. This is far more likely in my opinion.

Suspected Gang are Killing People to Sell Human Fats

LIMA - Peruvian police said on Thursday they had broken up a gang that allegedly killed dozens of people and sold their fat to buyers who used it to make cosmetics.

Galileo's lost tooth, fingers found

An art collector has found a tooth, thumb and finger of the renowned Italian scientist Galileo Galilei who died in the 17th century, Florence's History of Science museum said.

Child abuse may shorten cell lifeline: study

Beaten or sexually abused children are more likely to show accelerated ageing of cells later in life, a condition linked to higher rates of cancer and heart disease, according to a study released Friday.

ACS Genes Discovery May Make Valuable Plants Survive In Difficult Terrain

According to a recent GENETICS study, a family of genes (1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate synthase, or ACS genes) are responsible for production of ethylene and since this gas affects many aspects of plant development, it could lay the foundation for future genetic manipulation  …

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