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The article reports on the discovery of the clumped isotope thermometry, a valuable tool for paleoenvironmental studies by a group of researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, California. The new tool was discovered by measuring the abundance of molecules which contain oxygen-isotope and the uncommon carbon-isotope. According to published papers, the results of early test of this clumped thermometer on corals and fish earbones were promising which provides a new record of ocean temperature during Paleozoic era.

The article provides information on the recent developments across the world related to science and technology. Months of confusion ended last week when the U.S. Department of the Treasury issued licenses that permit the U.S. publishers to accept and print scholarly papers with authors from Cuba, Iran and Sudan. A convoy carrying US$4.6 million worth of laboratory equipment and $1 million worth of academic books is bound for higher-education institutions in Iraq. Impulse Devices, a company in Grass Valley, California is launching an experimental power reactor based on "bubble fusion," despite reservations within the scientific community over whether the effect exists. Zsuzsanna Jakab, secretary of state at Hungary's ministry of health, was last week nominated as the inaugural director of the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control.