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Since the 70s, the pole has moved more than 1500 km at a rate of 10 kilometres a year. In the 1980s, this increased to 30 km a year. Today, the Pole travels 50, even 60 km - close to 150 metres a day.

Scientists don't quite know why its speed has increased these past 20 years.

ScienceDaily (May 8, 2011) From a bucket of seawater, scientists have unlocked information that may lead to deeper understanding of organisms as different as coral reefs and human disease. By analyzing genomes of a tiny, single-celled marine animal, they have demonstrated a possible way to address diverse questions such as how diseased cells differ from neighboring healthy cells and what it is about some Antarctic algae that allows them to live in warming waters while other algae die out.

ScienceDaily (Aug. 25, 2010) An unusual substance known as "dry water," which resembles powdered sugar, could provide a new way to absorb and store carbon dioxide, the major greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming, scientists reported at the 240th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society.


"There's nothing else quite like it," said Ben Carter, Ph.D., researcher for study leader Professor Andrew Cooper. "Hopefully, we may see 'dry water' making waves in the future."

The Icelandic volcano that has kept much of Europe land-bound is far from finished spitting out its grit, and offered up new mini-eruptions Saturday that raise concerns about longer-term damage to world air travel and trade.

Facing days to come under the volcano's unpredictable, ashy plume, Europeans are looking at temporary airport layoffs and getting creative with flight patterns to try to weather this extraordinary event.

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Microsoft software clones the environment running on a user's machine.

Nowadays, it's easy for developers to build fully fledged applications that run inside the browser. Keeping these applications safe from hackers is another matter.

With this in mind, scientists at Microsoft Research have unveiled a new way to secure complex Web applications by effectively cloning the user's browser and running it remotely.

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Taking care of the carpets in your home can be frustrating. When theyre fresh and clean, theyre a joy, but it sometimes it seems you just turn around and your carpet is looking dirty and not smelling so fresh either. So, how can you keep your carpets clean and looking good without using a bunch of chemicals. Heres some ideas ...