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Perseid Meteor Shower Peaks Tuesday, Aug. 12 ((send by free-web-host.me user))

(PhysOrg.com) -- It's time once again for nature to put on its late-summer fireworks show: the Perseid meteor shower. This year's best viewing will be before dawn on Aug. 12, with a second chance after sunset that night, according to the editors of StarDate magazine.
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Data From Newest Ocean Satellite Ready for Their 'Close-up' ((send by free-web-host.me user))

Following a year of calibration and validation by an international team of scientists, fully-validated, research-quality sea surface height data from the NASA/French Space Agency Ocean Surface Topography Mission/Jason-2 satellite are now available to the public. These "geophysical data record" products, as they are known, will be used primarily by climate researchers for climate monitoring and modeling.
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Perseid Meteor Shower Might Dazzle (SPACE.com) ((send by free-web-host.me user))

SPACE.com - For Northern Hemisphere observers, August is usually regarded as "meteor month," with one of the best displays of the year reaching its peak near midmonth.
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Scientists discover new Alzheimer's gene ((send by free-web-host.me user))

A UC Irvine study has found that a gene called TOMM40 appears twice as often in people with Alzheimer's disease than in those without it. Alzheimer's, for which there is no cure, is the leading cause of elderly dementia.
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Congress OKs $2B for 'Clunkers' Refill ((send by free-web-host.me user))

The Senate reached a deal on saving the dwindling "cash for clunkers" program late Wednesday, agreeing to vote on a plan that would add $2 billion to the popular rebate program and give car shoppers until Labor Day to trade in their gas-guzzlers for a new ride.
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Triple Asteroid System Triples Observers' Interest ((send by free-web-host.me user))

(PhysOrg.com) -- Radar imaging at NASA's Goldstone Solar System Radar on June 12 and 14, 2009, revealed that near-Earth asteroid 1994 CC is a triple system. Asteroid 1994 CC encountered Earth within 2.52 million kilometers (1.56 million miles) on June 10.
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No need to tighten your belt -- credit crunch will worsen obesity epidemic ((send by free-web-host.me user))

Levels of debt have been associated with an increased risk of being fat. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Public Health blame the trend on the high price of healthy food, and a tendency for people worried by debt to comfort eat.