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University of Michigan program aims to improve scientific credibility of Great ...
http://kstp.com/article/stories/s2817032.shtml
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. - The University of Michigan is establishing a research program designed to make sure the federal government bases decisions in its billion-dollar battle to clean up the Great Lakes on solid science, officials said Tuesday.

First eyes EVER SEEN (by definition) appeared 700 million years ago
http://zeenews.india.com/news/eco-news/vision-originated-700mn-years-ago_808368.html
When exactly the ability to see evolved in animals has been hotly contested among boffins, but researchers from Bristol and Maynooth universities reckon a group of marine animals first "saw" the light 700 million years ago.

Tsunami hit Geneva in AD 563: scientists
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gw95CXYM_tTEH3J2HRIX5XkaCC8g?docId=CNG.f1b69071a71b5a3c203360758bd240fe.4a1
By Richard Ingham and Veronique Martinache (AFP) - 1 day ago. PARIS - Nearly 1,500 years ago a tsunami triggered by a rockfall swept Lake Geneva, engulfing its shores with a wall of water up to 13 metres (42 feet) high, Swiss scientists reported on ...

Astronauts See Superstorm Sandy From Space Station
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/astronauts-superstorm-sandy-space-station-17597181
The superstorm that has been ravaging the East Coast is enormous, even when seen from space. Astronaut Sunita Williams, commander of the International Space Station, said Tuesday that she and her crew were able to make out the big swirl at the center of ...

Grand Opening Ceremony Today For Shuttle Endeavour Exhibit At Science Center
http://www.slashgear.com/space-shuttle-endeavour-exhibit-to-open-today-30254754/
Los Angeles, CA -. (AP) The Space Shuttle Endeavour exhibit will be formally opened today in a grand ceremony at the California Science Center in Exposition Park, where it will spend its retirement years.

NASA Pumpkin Carver Creates Curiosity Space-O'-Lantern
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/et-cetera/manned-mission-to-mars-could-threaten-life-on-the-red-planet/articleshow/17006332.cms
Curiosity Space O'Lantern 2012 Glowing. Liz Warren's 2012 "space-o'-lantern" features Curiosity rover. She writes: "Bobak Ferdowski is going to be in Houston late next week and I think it would be fun to give him the pumpkin!

Michoud ready for deep-space rocket project
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49610066/ns/technology_and_science-space/
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A month after the space shuttle Endeavour passed over the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans on its final journey to California, NASA officials this week looked to the future as they gave business owners from across the ...

'Rare' desert wheatear 'accidentally' migrates to Essex
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-20138672
A rarely-seen bird thought to have become lost migrating from Asia to the Arabian desert has set up a temporary home in a large sandpit in Essex.