Campaigners say that biofuels made from cereals could provide an eco-friendly and sustainable alternative to conventional fuels such as petrol. However, Bolivian President Evo Morales has now spoken out against this new fuel resource. Whilst UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown

Attorneys have mapped out their defense of a woman accused of crashing into a school bus and killing four children in southwestern Minnesota.

New Entry by Mark Balaguer on April 22, 2008.] Mathematical fictionalism (or as I'll call it, fictionalism) is best thought of as a reaction to mathematical platonism. Platonism is the view that (a) there exist abstract mathematical objects (i.e., nonspatiotemporal

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NASA has awarded Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, a NASA Launch Services contract for the Falcon 1 and Falcon 9 launch vehicles.

NASA?s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., has awarded a contract to Deltha-Critique Joint Venture of New Orleans, La., to provide administrative support services for the center.

NASA has selected General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, Inc., to build the Landsat Data Continuity Mission spacecraft.

NASA will hold a media briefing Tuesday, April 29, at 1:30 p.m. EDT to discuss the latest research documenting changes in Earth?s ecosystems using NASA remote-sensing data.

University of Cincinnati) George Uetz, professor of biological sciences in the McMicken College of Arts & Sciences, was a Master's student in the Department of Entomology and Applied Ecology at the University of Delaware in Newark. That wasn't his only

American Geophysical Union) In this issue: Cooling a climate disagreement; Southern skies sensitive to ozone variation; Do surges trigger geomagnetic substorms?; Model warns early of Indonesia, Australia drought; Corals reveal oceans' carbon reservoir age; Unusual tremor jiggles Mexican zone.

American Meteorological Society) This release contains story ideas and tips about upcoming AMS meetings, papers in our peer-reviewed journals, and other happenings in the atmospheric and related sciences community.

NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service) Sharks in captivity avoid metals that react with seawater to produce an electric field, a behavior that may help fishery biologists develop a strategy to reduce the bycatch of sharks in longline gear. Shark bycatch

Catherine Breese Davis wrote of loss, abandonment, destitution, despair and decrepitude—and she knew what she was talking about.

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