There was a really cool article called Magic Forest: Poplars Purifying the Planet in the January 2009 issue of Discover magazine that discussed an experimental method for extracting chlorinated solvents used in atomic experiments from contaminated groundwater. The extraordinary part of the article is that the scientists involved in the experiment are using trees to [...]
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Cleaning up chlorine-based toxins with nature
February 21st, 2009
HIV started around 1900
October 1st, 2008
This article says that HIV may have started around 1900, which is much earlier than what was apparently previously suspected as a 1930s start date. That surprised me because I still thought that they assumed a 1970s start time. http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20081001/hl_hsn/hivoutbreakbegandecadesearlierthanthought