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• Could Scientists Using Large Hadron Collider Accidentally Destroy Earth? Fears Of Unintended Black Hole Increase

  A giant Death Star sized atom smasher in Europe is once again sparking fears that scientists could accidentally create a black hole with their controversial experiments that could destroy Earth. Scientists working on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland are spinning up the massive atom smasher once again, this time with twice the amount of power as before, and skeptics are worried they could destroy mankind. Pope Francis has joined critics around the world in urging scientists at the ..

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• Sperm Whale May Have Evolved A Forehead For Ramming In Combat

  

  Sperm Whale May Have Evolved A Forehead For Ramming In Combat Sperm whales may have evolved to ram each other with their large foreheads. Scientists have taken a closer look at the structures found inside this whale's head. By Catherine Griffin | Apr 05, 2016 07:17 PM EDT Sperm whales may have evolved to ram each other with their large foreheads. Scientists have taken a closer look at the structures found inside this whale's head. (Photo : Wikimedia Commons) Scientists have finally found out..

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• World's smallest diode made from a single DNA molecule

  

  Electronics World's smallest diode made from a single DNA molecule Colin Jeffrey April 5, 2016 As electronic devices become ever more complex, and the densities of components in those devices increases exponentially, we are rapidly approaching the day when the limitations of Moore's Law will be realized. In an effort to avert this eventuality, research has concentrated on moving away from tr..

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• World Heritage sites at risk: study

  

  World Heritage sites at risk: study

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• Two Strategies to Surviving the Coming Mass Extinction

  

  The next Great Dying is coming. In fact, it’s definitely already here.The last time our planet saw a dying-off of global proportions was approximately 250 million years ago, and most of the life on Earth was wiped out for good. Plants, land and marine vertebrates, and invertebrates were all devastated. Scientists call this incident the Permian-Triassic extinction event.Right now, we’re witnessing the sixth mass extinction that Earth has ever known. But this time, it’s not the devastating impact..

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• 'Trifecta' Needed to Save Great Barrier Reef

  

  Wednesday, 6th April 2016 at 9:06 pm ‘Trifecta’ Needed to Save Great Barrier Reef By Ellie Cooper, Journalist The Queensland Government gave the go ahead for the Adani coalmine as scientists warned that Australia is unlikely to meet water quality targets for the Great Barrier Reef. But a CSR expert believes a joint approach could balance the seemingly conflicting objectives. The Palaszczuk government approved three mining leases to Carmichael coalmine in the Galilee basin, which..

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• NASA's chief 'Hubble-Hugger' announces retirement from agency

  

  NASA’s chief ‘Hubble-Hugger’ announces retirement from agency Jason Rhian April 5th, 2016 Grunsfeld has announced that he will retire from NASA on April 30, 2016. Photo Credit: STS-125 / NASA At the end of this month, on April 30, NASA will lose one of the space agency’s most experienced space flight veterans when five-time shuttle astronaut John Grunsfeld will retire from NASA. Grunsfeld is currently serving as the agency’s associate administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, a rol..

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• CSIRO cuts were about taking focus off 'public-good research', emails show

  

  The CSIRO’s decision to sack about 120 climate scientists was motivated by an intention to move some of the organisation’s focus from science done in the public good towards science that makes money, internal emails suggest. The internal decision-making process behind the CSIRO’s decision to cut its climate research has been revealed in a 700-page document dump, delivered as part of a Greens-Labor inquiry into federal government budget cuts. Many key emails sent from private accounts were not i..

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• Ethical Conclusions of DNA editing – Olathe Tech Time

  

  Designer babies or an end to intractable illnesses: A revolutionary technology is letting scientists learn to rewrite the genetic code, aiming to alter DNA in ways that, among other things, could erase disease-causing genes. There are a lot of questions and huge differences in opinion within the research community How far should these experiments try to go – fix only the sick, or make changes that future generations could inherit? Regulations also vary wildly across the globe, with some coun..

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