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Massachusetts positioned for steep global warming gas reductions
By Beth Daley, Globe StaffAs national legislation to reduce global warming emissions has stalled in Congress, Massachusetts is on target to reduce its own emissions...

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Alex Beam: Space program is a stellar waste of money, so end it

While discussing his spending priorities, President Obama used an image we can all understand: the shrinking family budget. We have less money to spend, he explained, at home and on Capitol Hill. So good on him for ditching the manned (shouldn’t that be “personned’’?) space program. It is the unneeded and extravagant lawn service of the federal government.

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Smart power grid promises efficiency, consumer options (By Gargi Chakrabarty, Boston Globe)

On financial decisions, older isn’t always wiser

Contrary to the popular notion that young people are reckless, while older people avoid risks, new research shows that in an investment task that involves balancing risk to make the most money, older people make more mistakes than their younger counterparts. (By Carolyn Y. Johnson, Boston Globe)

Leaks imperil nuclear industry

The nuclear industry, once an environmental pariah, is recasting itself as green as it attempts to extend the life of many power plants and build new ones. But a leak of radioactive water at Vermont Yankee, along with similar incidents at more than 20 other US nuclear plants in recent years, has kindled doubts about the reliability, durability, and maintenance of the nation’s aging nuclear installations. (By Beth Daley, Boston Globe)
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Researchers find clues to evolution by studying genes of living people

Researchers at Harvard University have developed a powerful method for identifying genes that have been favored by evolution and have spread rapidly among the population because of natural selection, the process by which organisms with beneficial traits survive in greater numbers and pass on their genes to more offspring than others. (By Carolyn Y. Johnson , Boston Globe)

Sailing into antiquity

The archeological digs at Egypt’s Wadi Gawasis have yielded neither mummies nor grand monuments. But Boston University archeologist Kathryn Bard and her colleagues are uncovering the oldest remnants of seagoing ships and other relics linked to exotic trade with a mysterious Red Sea realm called Punt. (By Colin Nickerson, Boston Globe)
Scientist recalls an Indiana Jones moment