Rising Temperatures Bringing Bigger Floods

All these news stories, and more, are available at: news.sciencemag.org Today's news from Science Thursday, 17 February 2011 U.K. Start-Up Aims to Cash in on Small Fusion Reactor A company in Oxfordshire, U.K., is aiming to make a business out of fusion with a design for a super compact fusion reactor, or tokamak, that it hopes to... http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/02/uk-start-up-aims-to-cash-in-on.html?etoc Live @ AAAS - Bill Foster on Electing Scientists to Office (Transcript) Bill Foster talks about scientists running for office http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/02/live-aaas---bill-foster-on-scien.html?etoc First U.S. Cowpox Infection: Acquired From Lab Contamination A student laboratory worker at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, is the first person in the United States to come down with cowpox, a less dangerous relative of smallpox,... http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/02/first-us-cowpox-infection-acquired.html?etoc Nobel Insults, Radical Departures, and Budget Battles A conversation with E.U. Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/02/MGQ-nobel-insults-radical-departures.html?etoc Ancient Britons Used Skulls as Cups Gruesome goblets were carefully fashioned, may have been used to serve up enemies' brains http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/02/ancient-britons-used-skulls-as-c.html?etoc DOE's Chu Says Proposed House Cuts Could Trigger Brain Drain Energy Secretary Steven Chu warned today that proposed cuts to energy research as part of a spending plan by House of Representatives Republicans for the rest of 2011 could... http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/02/does-chu-says-proposed-house-cut.html?etoc Physicist-Politico Pursuing Fund to Elect Scientists Having lost his seat in a tough election in November, physicist and former Representative Bill Foster is telling his fellow scientists: You should run for office, too. Foster, a... http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/02/physicist-politico-pursuing-fund.html?etoc Rising Temperatures Bringing Bigger Floods Study suggests that CO2 emissions have boosted risk of intense precipitation and consequent flooding http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/02/rising-temperatures-bringing-big.html?etoc Live @ AAAS - Bill Borucki and Sara Seager on Planetary Science Sara Seager on the search for planets outside the solar system http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/02/live-aaas---sara-seager-on-plane.html?etoc Live @ AAAS - Tom Kunz on Bats and the Atmosphere Tom Kunz will discuss the emerging field of aeroecology http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/02/live-aaas---tom-kunz-on-bats-and.html?etoc Live @ AAAS - Andrew Schwartz on Robotics Dr. Andrew Schwartz talks about his work using brain activity to drive prosthetics http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/02/live-aaas---andrew-schwartz-on-r.html?etoc Unsubscribe or edit your subscriptions for this service at: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/alerts/main Written requests to unsubscribe may be sent to: AAAS / Science, 1200 New York Avenue NW, Washington DC 20005, U.S.A.

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