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Online Dating Background Checks Debated
As Valentine's Day approaches, Web Site operators of online dating sites are divided over to have criminal background checks of would-dbe cyber daters. feeds.cbsnews.com
Study casts doubt on water on Mars surface
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - It made a big splash when scientists announced in 2006 that images from a NASA spacecraft indicated water apparently had flowed on the surface of Mars in the past decade but new research casts doubt on that finding. feeds.reuters.com
Tiny Mexican porpoise near extinct from fish nets
SAN FELIPE, Mexico (Reuters) - The vaquita, a tiny stubby-nosed porpoise found only in Mexico's Sea of Cortez, is on the brink of extinction as more die each year in fishing nets than are being born, biologists say. feeds.reuters.com
You, in a Dish [Subscriber Only]
Human cells grown in conditions that mimic life inside the body are beginning to replace lab animals for testing drug candidates and industrial chemicals. sciencenews.org
UW-Madison part of DOE-funded ‘microgrid’ collaboration
University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers will collaborate with industrial and government partners on a $14 million project to implement a microgrid power backup system at the nation's fifth-largest incarceration facility-the Santa Rita Jail. news.wisc.edu