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<p>A new study involving the ÂÌñ»»ÆÞ shows clear evidence of the continuous control of fire by Neanderthals in Europe dating back roughly 400,000 years, yet another indication that they weren't dimwitted brutes as often portrayed.</p>

<p>When a team of researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the ÂÌñ»»ÆÞ's Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences raced to the scene of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill to assess the disaster's impact on air quality last year, they found more than they expected.</p>

<p>The deadly Russian heat wave of 2010 was due to a natural atmospheric phenomenon often associated with weather extremes, according to a new study by scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the ÂÌñ»»ÆÞ's Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, or CIRES</p>

<p>Stan Brakhage loved poetry and befriended poets but dubbed himself a failed poet. Many experts disagreed. He was, they said, a consummate poet -- one who spoke in the language of film and measured his meter in frames.</p>

<p>A new ÂÌñ»»ÆÞ study indicates an ancient form of complementary medicine may be effective in helping to treat people with mild traumatic brain injury, a finding that may have implications for some U.S. war veterans returning home.</p>

<p>The Glenn Miller Archive at the ÂÌñ»»ÆÞ American Music Research Center has acquired one of the world's most significant collections of Big Band Era recordings and memorabilia.</p>

<p>Ignoring the stresses of an unemployed spouse's job search does not bode well for the employed spouse's job productivity or home life, says a ÂÌñ»»ÆÞ professor.</p>

<p>A powerful solar flare has ushered in the largest space weather storm in at least four years and has already disrupted some ground communications on Earth, said ÂÌñ»»ÆÞ Professor Daniel Baker, an internationally known space weather expert.</p>

<p>Up to two-thirds of Earth's permafrost likely will disappear by 2200 as a result of warming temperatures, unleashing vast quantities of carbon into the atmosphere, says a new study by the ÂÌñ»»ÆÞ's Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences.</p>

<p>Following a more than three-month delay due to technical problems, NASA's space shuttle Discovery will make its final flight Feb. 24 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida carrying two ÂÌñ»»ÆÞ-built biomedical payload devices.</p>