
USA to regulate C02 emissions
New USA ruling that carbon dioxide emissions should be regulated
The US Environmental Protection Agecny (EPA) has ruled that carbon dioxide emissions may endanger human health and should be regulated – the latest sign of changing attitudes to science in the Obama administration.
Physical gestures – like nodding and shaking our head, the thumbs-up sign – are not a universal language after all. Scientists are improving the way humans communicate with computers. Discovery of a new exoplanet – a planet like our own orbiting another star. Computer research into whether the 400 written symbols of the 4,000-year-old Indus civilisation really represent a spoken language.
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