Saturday, December 6, 2008

10 Years Of The International Space Station

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Astronaut Piers J. Sellers moves along a truss on the International Space Station, while space shuttle Discovery is docked in July 2006. Pho...

Particle Collider To Restart In Summer Of 2009

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At Cern, the Large Hadron Collider could recreate conditions that last prevailed when the universe was less than a trillionth of a second ol...

Extraordinary IImmune Cells May Hold The Key To Managing HIV

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From Science Daily: ScienceDaily (Dec. 5, 2008) — People who manage to control HIV on their own are providing scientists with valuable infor...
Friday, December 5, 2008

Polar Dinosaurs Endured Cold Dark Winters

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The skull of a polar dinosaur, Saurolophus osborni, displayed on Dec. 3, 2008, by Phil Bell (left) and Eric Snively (right) of the Universit...
Thursday, December 4, 2008

Fringe Pushes Probability To The Limit As Characters Walk Through Walls

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(Photograph by Craig Blankenhorn/FOX) From Popular Mechanics: Fringe's 10th episode, "Safe," opens with a team of burglars wh...

One Man's 3-Year Experiment In Eating Organic Food - All The Time

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(Photo: Stuart Bradford) Form International Herald Tribune: Fruits, vegetables and animals can be 100 percent organic. What about people? In...

The First Aid: Iceman May Have Dressed His Own Wounds

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The 5,000-year-old Tyrolean iceman may have used bog moss as a prehistoric wound dressing, according to a new analysis of his body's rem...

Blast From The Past: Astronomers Resurrect 16th-Century Supernova

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Multi-band image of the remnant of Tycho's Supernova, composed from images taken with the 3.5 m telescope of Calar Alto and the camera O...

Happiness: Contagious As The Flu

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From Live Science: In a good mood? Your neighbor, her friends and even her friends' friends should thank you – you're likely infecti...

Lost City Of 'Cloud People' Found In Peru

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Buildings carved into the Pachallama peak mountainside in Peru, by Chachapoya From the Telegraph: Archaeologists have discovered a lost city...

Nasa Delays Its Next Mars Mission

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From the BBC: The US space agency (Nasa) has delayed the launch of its Mars Science Laboratory rover mission. MSL was scheduled to fly next ...
Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Scientists Find Key To Keeping Killer T Cells In Prime Shape For Fighting Infection, Cancer

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From Physorg.: Like tuning a violin to produce strong, elegant notes, researchers at The Wistar Institute have found multiple receptors on t...

Harvard Team Unlocks Clues to Genes that Control Longevity

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From The Daily Galaxy: Harvard Medical School Researchers have used a single compound to increase the lifespan of obese mice, and found that...
Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Check Out Tonight's Sky After Sunset; It May Be Like The One The Wise Men Saw

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(The Associated Press) From Greenville Online: If you haven't seen the southwestern sky just after sunset, and even if you have, feast y...
Monday, December 1, 2008

Strange Experiments Create Body-Swapping Experiences

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Experimental set-up to induce illusory ownership of an artificial body (left panel). The participant could see the mannequin's body from...

2,700-Year-Old Marijuana Found In Chinese Tomb

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From The Toronto Star: Stash seems to have been intended for buried shaman to use in the afterlife OTTAWA – Researchers say they have locate...
Thursday, November 27, 2008

Has Universal Ageing Mechanism Been Found?

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The ageing-related protein Sir1 was first found in yeast, and has now been found to serve a similar role in mice. This fluorescent micrograp...

Atlantic Hurricane Season Blows Away Records

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This September 2008 NASA GOES satellite image shows Hurricane Ike seen at 1225 GMT. The Atlantic hurricane season in 2008 is coming to a clo...
Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Some Cancers Disappear Untreated, Study Finds

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From The International Herald Tribune: Cancer researchers have known for years that it was possible in rare cases for some cancers to go awa...

Europe's 10bn-Euro Space Vision

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Ministers took the view that hi-tech investments would help the economy From The BBC: Member states of the European space agency (Esa) have ...