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Natural Gas From Shale Bursts Onto the Scene by KERR, RICHARD A.

“…New technologies have sparked a rush of drilling in the United States, but environmental concerns and economic unknowns could still keep shale gas from…”
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Radiation Will Make Astronauts' Trip to Mars Even Riskier by KERR, RICHARD A.

“…Future astronauts headed for the Red Planet will have more than an imagined martian jinx to worry about: deep space radiation. Most robotic missions to Mars…”
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Structure-mechanism-based engineering of chemical regulators targeting distinct pathological factors in Alzheimer’s disease by Beck, Michael W., Derrick, Jeffrey S., Kerr, Richard A., Oh, Shin Bi, Cho, Woo Jong, Lee, Shin Jung C., Ji, Yonghwan, Han, Jiyeon, Tehrani, Zahra Aliakbar, Suh, Nayoung, Kim, Sujeong, Larsen, Scott D., Kim, Kwang S., Lee, Joo-Yong, Ruotolo, Brandon T., Lim, Mi Hee

“…The absence of effective therapeutics against Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a result of the limited understanding of its multifaceted aetiology. Because of the…”
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Geophysical Exploration Linking Deep Earth and Backyard Geology by KERR, RICHARD A.

“…Big Science came to solid-Earth studies when the $400 million EarthScope program offered a sharper view of the interior that could help geologists; it's…”
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A North Atlantic Climate Pacemaker for the Centuries by Kerr, Richard A.

“…Although El Niño and La Niña are the largest single sources of global interannual climate variability, climate shifts on longer time scales than El Niño's 2 to…”
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How an Alluring Geologic Enigma Won the Mars Rover Sweepstakes by KERR, RICHARD A.

“…To up the odds of finding signs of life on Mars, NASA has chosen mineralogically diverse but mysterious Gale crater as the target for its $2.5 billion…”
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Global Warming Is Changing the World by Kerr, Richard A.

“…An international climate assessment finds for the first time that humans are altering their world and the life in it by altering climate; looking ahead, global…”
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The Coming Copper Peak by KERR, RICHARD A.

“…Production of the vital metal will top out and decline within decades, according to a new model that may hold lessons for other resources. If electrons are the…”
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Global warming. Soot is warming the world even more than thought by Kerr, Richard A

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Gulf Oil Spill. A lot of oil on the loose, not so much to be found by Kerr, Richard A

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Predicting climate change. Vital details of global warming are eluding forecasters by Kerr, Richard A

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Climate change. What happened to global warming? Scientists say just wait a bit by Kerr, Richard A

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Vital Details of Global Warming Are Eluding Forecasters by KERR, RICHARD A.

“…Decision-makers need to know how to prepare for inevitable climate change, but climate researchers are still struggling to sharpen their fuzzy picture of what…”
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Soot Is Warming the World Even More Than Thought by KERR, RICHARD A.

“…A new study finds that soot is warming the climate about twice as fast as scientists had estimated. The roughly 8 million tons of soot produced each year by…”
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Planetary exploration. Radiation will make astronauts' trip to Mars even riskier by Kerr, Richard A

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Adaptation to climate change. Time to adapt to a warming world, but where's the science? by Kerr, Richard A

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Global change. Forecasting regional climate change flunks its first test by Kerr, Richard A

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Forecasting Regional Climate Change Flunks Its First Test by KERR, RICHARD A.

“…Researchers asked: If a regional model does a better job simulating climatology, will it also do a better job forecasting climate change? The answer is no. The…”
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Do We Have the Energy For the Next Transition? by KERR, RICHARD A.

“…Past energy transitions to inherently attractive fossil fuels took half a century; moving the world to cleaner fuels could be harder and slower. The history of…”
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Solid-Earth science. Geophysical exploration linking deep Earth and backyard geology by Kerr, Richard A

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