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AlphaGalileo Science News of the Week 3

AlphaGalileo Science News of the week 16-22 January 2012.
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AlphaGalileo Science News of the Week 2

AlphaGalileo Science News of the week 09-15 January 2012.
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AlphaGalileo Science News of the Week 1

AlphaGalileo Science News of the Week 02-08 January 2012.
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Members of the European Parliament promote science cooperation between Europe and Africa

Members of the European Parliament call upon their colleagues to support scientific partnerships between Europe and Africa. European involvement in African science and especially in current radio astronomy projects presents a unique opportunity to bridge the traditional divide between developed and developing economies and contribute to attaining the Millennium Development Goals. The Written Declaration on Science Capacity Building in Africa: promoting European African radio astronomy partnerships is open for signatures until February 16, 2012.
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New portret of Robert Hooke at IOP: Rara avis work of a history painter

On January 12, portrait of polymath Robert Hooke will be hung at the Institute of Physics (IOP) in London. The portrait of the scientist is the work of Rita Greer, a history painter.
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ESO Celebrates 50 Years of Reaching New Heights in Astronomy

The year 2012 marks the 50th anniversary of the European Southern Observatory (ESO), the foremost intergovernmental astronomy organisation in the world. The anniversary year is an opportunity to look back at ESO’s history, celebrate its scientific and technological achievements and look forward to its next ambitious programmes. ESO is planning several exciting activities during the year.
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Top Tech of 2012

IEEE Spectrum Magazine previews the technology news of 2012. Most likely, this year headlines will refer to Retinal Prostheses, LED Lighting, Windows 8, Chinese Supercomputers, 3-D Printing, 3-D Chips, or Exoskeletons for Paraplegics.
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2011 Top Science News and Images

The most beautiful pictures, the most popular gadgets and toys, the most publicized persons, or the most important science news of 2011. In addition, some tips on choosing the right e-reader or laptop. Rankings bears the specialists' imprint from Nature, Science, National Geographic, How Stuff Works, Cosmos and The Scientist.
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First Earth-sized Planets Found

Astronomers using NASA’s Kepler mission have detected two Earth-sized planets orbiting a distant star. This discovery marks a milestone in the hunt for alien worlds, since it brings scientists one step closer to their ultimate goal of finding a twin Earth.
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Plant-eating dinosaur discovered in Antarctica

First record of a sauropod dinosaur in Antarctica suggests more widespread distribution of this species than previously thought.
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Play an online game and and learn about energy

Researchers at the University of Southampton, UK, developed a new online version of The Energy Quiz which tests people's knowledge of the amount of energy used by various devices and processes.
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The world’s smallest steam engine

At about 200 years from the invention of the steam engine researchers at the University of Stuttgart and Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems developed the world’s smallest one, as they say in a news release.
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ShareBiotech meeting in Portugal

On April 12, Research Groups, Companies and others Stakeholders of Life Sciences and Biotechnology of the Atlantic Area meet at Biocant, Portugal, for the first public event of ShareBiotech Project. Biotechnology stakeholders including representatives of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), research and development organizations, regional and national policy and strategy makers are trying to define how the Atlantic Region can harness its Biotechnology potential.
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Fuchs Foundation 2012 Svalbard Expedition

Do you aspire to be an inspirational teacher of Science and Geography? Can you challenge yourself by an exceptional chance to go to the Arctic? This is the opportunity of a lifetime. The Fuchs Foundation is planning an expedition to Svalbard in 2012 on which there are places for twelve science or geography teachers.
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The first international conference on science communication in Romania

The College of Communication and Public Relations at the State University of Political and Administrative Studies and the Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding is organizing the workshop ‘Science of Communication for the Communication of Science (SC4CS)’ under the aegis of the Romanian Academy and the National Authority for Scientific Research. The event will take place on December 6-7, 2010, at the Romanian Academy Library, Bucharest, Romania.
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American Historian of Chinese Astronomy and Culture Wins 2011 Osterbrock Book Prize

The Historical Astronomy Division (HAD) of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) has awarded its 2011 Donald E. Osterbrock Book Prize to Nathan Sivin for his landmark volume “Granting the Seasons: The Chinese Astronomical Reform of 1280, With a Study of Its Many Dimensions and an Annotated Translation of Its Records.”
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Acoustic warning system for landslide prediction

British scientists at Loughborough University and British Geological Survey have developed a sensor system to predict landslides. The system works by measuring and analysing the acoustic behaviour of soil.
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Taking a break in nature helps in combating stress, but why?

Scientists from University of Essex want to find out why taking a break in natural green spaces is good in combating work stress.
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Evidence of cosmic climate change

The Universe may have gone through a warming trend early in its history. That is what a team of astronomers have discovered by measuring the temperature of the gas that lies in between galaxies. They found that the temperature had progressively increased over the period from when the Universe was one tenth to one quarter of its current age. Most likely this cosmic climate change was caused by the energy output from young and active galaxies during the epoch. Results are presented in a paper to be published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS).
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New Earth-like planets

About one in four stars similar to our Sun may host planets as Earth. That is according to a new study funded by NASA and University of California and published by Science.
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