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- Tech
Obama worried about research funding
Barack Obama offered yet another argument about why the current federal-budget stalemate is so risky: “[T]he sequester, as it’s known in Washington-speak — it’s hitting our scientific research.” As things now stand, “we could lose a year, two years of scientific research as a practical matter, because of misguided priorities here in this town.”
- Animals
Oysters may struggle to build shells as carbon dioxide rises
Ocean acidification could hamper larvae's growth.
- Humans
Students bring home big prizes for science projects
The 2013 Intel Science Talent Search awards teens for research.
- Life
Blue-green algae release chemical suspected in some amphibian deformities
Retinoic acid levels high in waterways rich in cyanobacteria blooms.
- Humans
Teens take home science gold at Intel ISEF
Self-driving vehicles, battery alternatives and analyses of galaxy clusters claim top prizes at global high school science competition.
- Life
Microbes flourish at deepest ocean site
At the bottom of the Mariana Trench, eleven kilometers down, bacteria prosper despite crushing pressure and isolation.
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- Earth
Field test stashes climate-warming carbon in deep ocean
Strategically dumping the metal stimulates a bloom of microscopic creatures that carry the greenhouse gas to Davy Jones’s locker.
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New species of the year
More creatures, less Latin used to describe them.
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- Humans
STS finalists bound for Washington
Forty vie for top awards in 2013 Intel Science Talent Search.
- Earth
Deep network
The NEPTUNE observatory — a ring of six underwater research stations connected to the Internet with fiber optic cables — is the first online observatory to brave the depths of the abyss.
