Womens groups urge CBS to drop divisive Super Bowl ad

A national coalition of women's groups called on CBS on Monday to scrap its plan to broadcast an ad during the Super Bowl featuring college football star Tim Tebow and his mother, which critics say is likely to convey an anti-abortion message

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Females may harbor biological "inner male"

In adult fe­male mice, switch­ing off one gene seems to start turn­ing the ovaries in­to tes­ti­cles and trig­gers the pro­duct­ion of male hor­mones at nor­mal male levels, sci­en­tists say.

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The Physics of Space Battles

For the same reason that we have Space Shuttle launch delays, we'll be able to tell exactly what trajectories our enemies could take between planets: the launch window.

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Uranium Is So Last Century — Enter Thorium, the New Green Nuke

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Photographer Arrested For Taking Pictures

CHARLESTON, WV - A freelance photographer is outraged after being arrested for taking pictures.

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The power of the sun; The Photovoltaic Project in Africa

This project has the potential to change forever the lives of children and adults who benefit from the use of the African Photovoltaic Project in their communities.

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Scientists Discover Fossils of Feathered Dinosaur with Four Wings

A dinosaur that lived between 160 and 151 million years ago could be the missing link between birds and dinosaurs. Scientists in Beijing announced yesterday that a four-winged creature called Anchiornis huxleyi could finally prove birds are descended from dinosaurs.

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Is the Internet melting our brains?

By now the arguments are familiar: Facebook is ruining our social relationships; Google is making us dumber; texting is destroying the English language as we know it.

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Got a dream but no cash? The Internet can help | Reuters

Chris Waddell wants to climb Kilimanjaro in a wheelchair; George Del Barrio wants to make a film in Cambodia; Jeff Edwards wants to write a book about a science fiction writer: they want you to fund their dreams.

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20,000 Nations Above the Sea: Is floating the last, best hope for liberty?

What if you could just move—not just you, but everything you own, including your home, and, if your neighbors agreed with you, your whole community? What if you could move all of it where no government would bother you at all, and you could make a new, better society?

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Microwave weapon will rain pain from the sky - tech - 23 July 2009 - New Scientist

THE Pentagon's enthusiasm for non-lethal crowd-control weapons appears to have stepped up a gear with its decision to develop a microwave pain-infliction system that can be fired from an aircraft.

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Seven Deadly Wine Glasses

Kacper Hamilton has designed a series of seven wine glasses inspired by the seven deadly sins.

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Harvard Physicist Turns Light Into Matter.... And Back Into Light

Now Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and of Applied Physics, Hau has done it again. She and her team made a light pulse disappear from one cold cloud then retrieved it from another cloud nearby. In the process, light was converted into matter then back into light.

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Does Social Networking Breed Social Division?

Is the social media revolution bringing us together? Or is it perpetuating divisions by race and class?

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Forget about whether the new Disney princess is black or white. The problem is with princesses. Period.

Tiana's creation has been lauded as a milestone. She is a first in a long succession of Disney princesses, which began more than 70 years ago. The toys she inspires will acknowledge the beauty of young black women as children of all colors identify with Tiana.

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Physicists Take First Steps to Harness Antimatter

"This morning, NASA successfully launched the world's first gamma ray shuttle to the galactic center of the Milky Way. Once there, geo-astronauts say they can mine and harvest enough raw antimatter to power Earth's energy needs for the next decade.

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Is time an illusion?

Time. There is nothing with which we are so familiar, and yet when you try to pin it down you find only a relentless torrent of questions.

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Wolfman lives off the land

A WOLFMAN has been living wild in woods for years – evading capture by cops. The loner has a series of lairs in dense woodland in deepest West Wales and lives off berries, rabbits and other wild animals.

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Cybersecurity Act would give president power to 'shut down' Internet

A recently proposed but little-noticed Senate bill would allow the federal government to shut down the Internet in times of declared emergency, and enables unprecedented federal oversight of private network administration.

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