Jun. 23rd, 2008

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Method developed to get fingerprints off damaged, degraded, and "wiped" metal surfaces, such as shell casings and bomb fragments.

Basically, skin oils corrode metals - brass especially. The corrosion isn't noticeable to human eyes, but we're not limited to human senses.
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A few years ago, scientists were predicting that Arctic waters would be ice-free in summers by about 2080.

Then computer models started projecting earlier dates, around 2030 to 2050.

Then came the 2007 summer that saw Arctic sea ice shrink to the smallest extent ever recorded, down to 4.2 million sq km from 7.8 million sq km in 1980.

By the end of last year, one research group was forecasting ice-free summers by 2013.

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