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We count on the ocean to act as a “carbon sink,” sucking much of the carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. Without this, global warming would be progressing much more quickly. But now scientists say that the amount of carbon dioxide being absorbed by the world’s oceans has diminished.

BBC News reports that “scientists believe global warming might get worse if the oceans soak up less of the greenhouse gas,” and quotes environmentalist Roger Harrabin as saying, “The researchers don’t know if the change is due to climate change or to natural variations. But they say it is a tremendous surprise and very worrying because there were grounds for believing that in time the ocean might become ‘saturated’ with our emissions?unable to soak up any more.”
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There are bad habits that WE ALL need to break but (surprise!) women have a harder time breaking them than men do! It might help to get MAD, since researchers have discovered that anger actually helps people make better choices.
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We’ve reported on meteors have crashed through the roofs of houses and even almost hit people. Recently, in Delaware, a hunk of hot space metal crashed through the roof of an S.U.V.!

In the Delaware News Journal, Alan J. McCombs writes about an object that, despite being small (16 inches), “sliced like butter” through the roof of an S.U.V. parked on a neighborhood street.

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We now know that genes make us fat, which came as a surprise to many of us. Most of us have always assumed we inherited our height, and now researchers have identified the gene that makes us tall (or short). And why in the world do some of us have straight hair, while other people’s hair is curly?

In LiveScience.com, Charles Q. Choi writes that scientists have discovered that curly hair gets less tangled than straight hair. French biophysicist Jean-Baptiste Masson asked hairdressers count tangles the tangles in the hair of over 200 people for a week. 123 of these people had straight hair and 89 of them had curls. It turns out that straight hair gets tangled almost twice as much as curls.
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