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  Video Game for Future Biologists

  By Darragh Worland | Thu Oct 15, 2009 11:04 PM ET

  kids about science can't be all bad.Environmental News Networkhas a story about a video game under development at the Universidad Santo Tomas in Chile, designed to teach high school students about molecular biology, including the structure and function of cells. In the game, a nanorobo Read More

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  Chile Acts to Protect Refugees

  By John Casey | Fri Oct 9, 2009 2:26 PM ET

  refugees as people "fearing persecution in their country because of ethnic or social affiliation, religion, nationality or political position." Chile's new law, once passed, would, according to Steiml, "be incorporated into the 1951 United Nations Refugee Convention and its 1967 protocol Read More

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  CGI Live Blog: Bill Clinton, President Obama Kickoff CGI 2009

  By Erin Green | Mon Sep 21, 2009 6:24 PM ET

  apology to the aboriginal people of Australia, you should watch it. Very powerful. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XtUJTbQaN0 4:38 Erin:  The Chilean president says in the 80s Chile had a horrible financial crises, partly due to lack of regulation. 4:41 Erin:  There is a lot of polic Read More

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  Earth 2?

  By Lisa Jo Rudy | Fri Sep 18, 2009 9:00 AM ET

  velocity planet searcher (HARPS) -- which is a spectrograph attached to the European Southern Observatory's telescope at the La Silla observatory in Chile." (NewsDaily) Exoplanetary exploration is an infant science, but it's growing fast. So far, about 330 exoplanets have been discovered outsid Read More

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  Whoa Nelly, eh?

  By David Jenison | Thu Sep 3, 2009 2:00 PM ET

  a Spanish album (as previously reported here). Fans around the world responded by helping "Manos Al Aire" reached No. 1 in Italy, Colombia, Chile, Germany and Central America in addition to the aforementioned U.S. Latin chart. The song will appear on the Grammy winner's ne Read More

  More like this in: Germany, Italy, Grammy, Colombia, Central America, Josh Groban, Nelly Furtado
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  Cold, Dry, Remote Location Is Perfect Telescope Site

  By David Bois | Tue Sep 1, 2009 12:34 PM ET

  significantly better than elsewhere on the Antarctic plateau and far superior to the best existing observatories on high mountain tops in Hawaii and Chile." Photo courtesy of National Science Foundation, via Wikimedia Common Read More

  More like this in: Australia, Hawaii, Physorg.com, Hubble Space Telescope, Science, Space, Environment, Innovation & Discovery, Physical Sciences
• Heroes and Street Dogs

  By Jimmy Langman | Fri Jul 24, 2009 11:30 AM ET

  street where I live in southern Chile, I have seen three sets of puppies dumped by the side of the road near my house over the past two years. Some Chilean towns and neighborhoods intentionally set poison traps for street dogs to exterminate them.Schulz’s film project, called "The Lost Dogs, Read More

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  Geo-Protesting Takes on Dams

  By Jimmy Langman | Mon Jul 20, 2009 9:00 AM ET

  region are taking advantage of an unlikely tool to raise awareness, Google Earth. Now, when you take flight through Google Earth to southern Chilean Patagonia expect to see widespread protests.Marcos Dollfus, a geography student at Chile’s Concepcion University, recently geo-localize Read More

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  The Idiot's Guide to the Financial Crisis

  By Ben Corbett | Fri Jul 17, 2009 9:12 AM ET

  model. First, they opened up the economy to foreign investment, and with major infusions of new capital, banks began giving easy credit to Chile's all-new consumer class, as a generation of entrepreneurs was born. By lifting import tariffs, cheap Asian products soon flooded th Read More

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  Chile's Next March of the Penguins

  By Jimmy Langman | Mon Jul 6, 2009 12:07 PM ET

  according to how many students attend class.In June 2006, coordinating their protests through email, blogs and cell phones, hundreds of thousands of Chilean students boycotted class and physically occupied more than 300 schools around the country in protest. The largest student protest in th Read More

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