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Moon may be younger than scientists thought

...scientists think covered its surface soon after it formed. Either way, the findings published online Wednesday by the journal Nature could send lunar scientists back to the drawing board to reconsider the moon's evolution. The moon is thought...

http://juneauempire.com/amina-khan/2011-08-18/moon-may-be-younger-scientists-tho
Ancient humans used hand axes earlier than thought

...Rutgers University and Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, appear in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature.The stone tools, known collectively as Acheulian tools, are believed to be the handiwork of the human ancestor...

http://juneauempire.com/alicia-chang/2011-09-02/ancient-humans-used-hand-axes-ea
Thawing permafrost gases to worsen warming

...Permafrost Carbon Research Network met this summer and jointly wrote up their findings, which were published in the journal Nature on Wednesday."The survey provides an important warning that global climate warming is likely to be worse than...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2011-12-01/thawing-permafrost-gases-worsen-warming
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Study says Arctic was once a lot like Miami

...than 1,000 feet below the Arctic Ocean floor, is contained in three studies published in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature. Scientists say the findings are both a glimpse backward at a region heated by naturally produced greenhouse gases...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/060106/sta_20060601005.shtml
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Juneau Empire Story Archive

...nothing can travel faster than the speed of light' is wrong.'' The results were published in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature. ``This is a breakthrough in the sense that people have thought that was impossible,'' said Raymond Chiao...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/071900/Bre_breaking.shtml
Fossils suggest new land-bridge theory

...collect and date more fossils, Marincovich and a Russian co-author published their findings in the January issue of the journal Nature. They presented convincing evidence that the Bering Strait opened 1 million to 2 million years earlier than previously...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/021599/Loc_landbridge.html
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Light can break its own speed limit, researchers say

...nothing can travel faster than the speed of light' is wrong.'' The results were published in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature. The achievement has no practical application right now, but experiments like this have generated considerable...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/071900/Bre_breaking.html
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Researchers use a computer to study dynamics of crowd panic

...of emotional states but produces results similar to actual panics, the researchers said in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature. "We think it works particularly well in panic situations because people don't think about what they should do...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/092700/Bre_Breakin.html
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Study: Spawning fish drop pollutants in some lakes

...concentration in the lake sediment more than sevenfold in some cases, researchers conclude in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature. It's not clear whether the pollution is affecting the wildlife in the lakes by weakening their disease resistance...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/091803/sta_fish.shtml
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Nutrition writer calls salmon No. 1 food for athletes

...streams and lakes by returning sockeye. Researchers from the University of Ottawa this summer published the article in the journal Nature that set off alarms about PCBs transported to Alaska in sockeye. The state Division of Public Health has been working...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/111203/sta_salmon.shtml
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