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Mountain View, CA: NASA scientists have discovered that large amounts of water exists on the south pole of the Moon. On October 9, NASA struck the moon with a rocket, hoping to analyze the resulting dust plume. While scientists were not positive the plume was large enough to successfully interpret, new data implies at least 100 kg of ice was deposited in the area struck the by rocket. Researchers now hope to discover how water first came to the poles of the moons.

Bristol, UK: Researchers at the University of Bristol have discovered that the ice caps of Greenland are melting at a rate faster than previously thought. The increased rate of melting has been occurring since 1996, but increased snowfall has mitigated these effects. In the time period of 2006-2008, an average of .75 mm of sea level rise has occurred per year due to the melting. Since 2000, a total of 5 mm of rise has occurred, and a the ice caps of Greenland could cause 7 meters of sea fall rise, if they were to melt completely.

Buenos Aires, Argentina: Scientists have built a storage device whose storage capacity is based on electric noise. Normally, electronic noise, in the form of stray electrons and heat, negatively affects electronic performance. However, this new storage device only works in the presence of noise. Researchers hope that their research can be applied to CPU transistors to boost their performance.

Toyama City, Japan: Neuroscience at the University of Toyama have discovered that short-term memory depends on the ability of previously-made neural connections to be destroyed. This was a surprise, as scientists had previously believed the growth of new neurons to be more important than the deletion of earlier connections. Scientists believe that their research implies that the inability to make new memories comes from too many un-erased old memories.

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