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Three Researchers Win Nobel Prize For Bioluminescent Cells
The Nobel Prize for chemistry is shared this year by three
US-based scientists, one of them...
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Samba for Obama echoes fundraising rhythm
San Francisco - The wine was flowing, the band was blaring, and on the dance floor a Brazilian lady...
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The Bigfoot Hunters Lost Their Credit?
They who called themselves "Bigfoot hunters"
claimed they had found the dead body of the...
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Authorities Investigate the Latest Attacks on California Researchers
The police and federal authorities are investigating two
bombings that targeted two scientists at...
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Girls Are Just As Good As Boys At Math, Study Says
Is there a real difference between the intellectual abilities
of girls and boys at Math? For many...
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Michael Savage Continues Autism Discussion, Maintaining His Point of View
When you have the opportunity to inform people on certain
subjects, the worst thing to do is to...
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F.B.I. Arrests Hundreds in Child Prostitution Raids
The F.B.I. led a five day operation meant to discover child
prostitution networks and managed to...
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California: UC’s Sports Training Center on Hold
It appears that the UC-Berkeley's student athlete high
performance center will be built, after...
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MySpace Suicide Case in Federal Court
A Missouri woman indicted in a MySpace hoax which led to a 13-year-old girl's suicide is scheduled...
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American Wine Pioneer Died At Age 94
The man responsable for popularizing the concept of quality American wine died Friday at the age of...
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Coyote Dragged 2-Year-Old Girl From Yard
A coyote
grabbed a 2-year-old girl by the head and dragged her from the yard of her home
in...
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Hispanics are US’ Largest, Fastest-Growing Minority
According to a survey carried out by Census Bureau, the nation's largest and fastest-growing...
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No Sign of the Killer Shark in San Diego Area
The search for the presumed white shark that killed a swimmer who was training in the ocean for the...
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Swimmer Killed by Shark in Ocean off California
A swimmer who was training in the ocean off San Diego County was killed by a shark on Friday.The...
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Minor Quakes Jog Reno, Nevada Causing No Injuries
A series of minor earthquakes hit Reno
city, Nevada in northern California on Thursday afternoon...
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Students Protest against Education Cuts
Around 2,000 upset students demonstrated around the State
Capitol Monday morning in Sacramento,...
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Two Expensive Cholesterol Drugs May Be Ineffective
U.S. spent $1.5 billion in 2006 on Vytorin, a cholesterol
drug that actually does not work better...
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UC Hired New President Mark Yudof for $828,000 a Year
University of Texas chancellor, Mark G. Yudof, was appointed as University of California’s new...
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Deputy’s Car Hits Group of Cyclists, 2 Dead, 1 Seriously Injured
A deputy sheriff on patrol in Cupertino, California,
Sunday crossed the double-yellow line on...
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Virginia Tech Student Dead, 1 Hospitalized in Campus Crash
A Virginia Tech student was killed and another severely injured
Saturday night when a motorist...
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Berkeley V. The Marines: Out With The ‘Unwelcome Intruders’
What is the latest one-on-one
combat on the U.S. agenda this week? Berkeley v. the Marines of...
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Photos of Californian Teen Swimmers Found on Gay Porn Sites
Numerous photos of teen water polo players from several South Californian high schools were posted...
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Sarkozy and Bush Wish Harmonious Political Relations
President Nicolas Sarkozy left France
on Monday for a short visit in United
States, which will...
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People
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Michael Crichton, Author of Jurassic Park, Dies of Cancer at 66
Michael Crichton, aged 66, died in Los Angeles on Tuesday. According to the release issued by his...
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Former First Lady Hospitalized After Suffering Fall Fractures
Following a fall at her home last week, former first lady
Nancy Reagan was admitted to a local...
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Travis Barker and DJ AM Severely Injured, While Other Four Dead In Plane Crash
Former Blink 182 drummer Travis Barker and celebrity DJ Adam
Michael Goldstein, also known as DJ...
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Beverly Hills 90210 Returns with Shannen Doherty and New Adventures
Famous TV show “Beverly Hills, 90210” is
coming back to its older fans. And the surprise is that...
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Dr. Adams Abruptly Interrupts "Larry King Live"
The Beverly Hills plastic surgeon that operated on rapper Kanye West’s mother one day before...
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Grieving Kanye West Cancels Gig for Victoria's Secret
Rapper Kanye West, who is in mourning after the sudden death of his mother Donda West, has...
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Donda West's Doctor Had A Troubled Medical Past
Plastic surgeon Jan Adams, who operated on musician Kanye West’s mother one day before she...
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News Legend, Hal Fishman Left An Irreplaceable Anchor Position
The 75 year news legend, Hal Fishman passed away on Tuesday,
3 a.m., in less than a week after...
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Journalist David Halbertsam Died in Car Crash at 73
American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, who gained widespread fame through his early...
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Technology
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Online Time Helps Teens Develop Social and Technical Skills
While adults don’t seem to appreciate the time teens spend
online, a recent study by the MacArthur...
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CNN’s Hologram Technology under the Spotlight
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Lead Companies Take A Stand Against Censorship & Privacy Violation
Lead tech and communications companies, human rights
organizations, investors and academics united...
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The Elderly Should Be Encouraged to Surf the Web
A study which is due to appear in the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry shows that surfing...
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The Value of 243,112,609 - 1 in Cash
Mathematics is regarded as a pure science, working with pure
concepts, concepts that outside...
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Copyright LawsuitI Against Veoh Dismissed
A lawsuit, similar to the ones filed by copyright holders
against YouTube, MySpace, and others,...
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Medpedia, The Online Collaborative Project On Health
Almost everyone who uses the Internet surely knows about
Wikipedia, the largest online...
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HP Discovers Fourth Passive Circuit Element: the Memristor
HP has made a breakthrough discovery which added a fourth passive component type after resistors,...
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Microsoft, Intel Team Up For Parallel Computing Research Support
Microsoft and Intel teamed up to
create two Universal Parallel Computing Research Centers (UPCRC)...
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Microsoft to Open Research Center near MIT
Microsoft Corporation announced the opening of a sixth research lab in Cambridge, Mass. The new...
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Bionic Contact Lens – Everything Is Possible
Engineers at the University of Washington transformed a fairy-tale concept into real thing when...
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After Gates, Chief of Microsoft’s Office Business to Retire
The latest shake-up inside Microsoft involve Jeff Raikes,
the head of the company’s $16 billion...
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A New Discovery May Change The Future Of Tech
The IBM researchers published in the Thursday
edition of the journal Optics Express a significant...
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They Wanted to Illegally Change Grades and Face 20 Years in Prison
Two men from California have wanted to illegally change
their grades, but now they face up to 20...
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Google and IBM Team Up For Cloud Computing For Universities
Following a December 2006 meeting at Google’s Mountain View
headquarters, Eric Schmidt and IBM’s...
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Sony to Present Cell Computing Board at SIGGRAPH 2007
The raw power of the Cell CPU, developed by IBM, Sony and Toshiba for PS3, will apparently debut...
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Health
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Girl, 14, Miraculously Survives Nearly 4 Months without Heart
As incredible as it may sound, an American
teenage girl has survived for nearly four months...
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Ginkgo Biloba Does Not Prevent Alzheimer’s, Study Shows
Millions of people take the herbal
supplement, hoping that it will cut their risk of developing...
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Assisted Reproductive Technology May Raise Risk For Birth Defects
Babies conceived with assisted reproductive technology (ART)
may be two to four times more likely...
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California Economy Loses $28 Billion Annually because of Air Pollution
California's
economy loses about $28 billion annually in health-related counts because of
the...
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Avapro Blood Pressure Drug Ineffective To Heart-Failure Patients
In a clinical trial, the blood pressure medicine Avapro didn’t perform better than other medicines...
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Rain and Autism Linked: Counties with More Rainfall Have Higher Autism Rates
The results of a new study confirm the
findings of a controversial 2006 paper entitled “Does...
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Heavy Rainfall Might Explain High Rates Of Autism In Some Areas
Children living in regions with higher levels of annual
rainfall may be more predisposed to...
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Grapes Could Benefit the Heart
Grapes and other foods made from grapes, including red wine,
have long been thought beneficial to...
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Early HIV Treatment Shows 70% Improvement in Survival
HIV patients who began treatment earlier than is currently recommended lived longer compared to...
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STD E-Cards – Watch Out Who You’re Having Sex With!
E-cards are usually used to spread the joy, so to speak, but
a project called inSPOT...
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Alcohol Intake May Speed Up the Process of Brain Shrinkage
A new study published in the Archives of Neurology finds drinking alcohol is associated with lower...
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Heart Patients Don’t Get the Recommended Tests before Angioplasty
Less than half of all Americans who undergo
non-emergency artery-opening procedures for heart...
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Vitamin B Supplements Show No Benefit in Alzheimer’s Study
A new study by researchers at the University of California,
San Diego, found
no difference in the...
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Excess Drinking Linked To Brain Shrinkage
It appears that heavy drinkers have smaller
brains than non-drinkers, a new study published in the...
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Smoking Results in Lower Quality of Life As Well
Smoking not only shortens life but it also lowers quality of
life, according to a Finnish study...
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E. Coli Contaminated Lettuce Came From California
Authorities claim that lettuce suspected in recent E. coli
outbreak that sickened 36 people in...
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Stomach Virus Infects More Students at USC
The number of University
of Southern California
students sickened by a contagious...
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Safer Prenatal Test To Detect Down Syndrome
Researchers found a safer method to diagnose Down’s syndrome and several other genetic disorders, a...
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About 130 Students Sickened By Serious Stomach Virus At USC
The number of students experiencing vomiting, stomach cramps
and diarrhea at University
of...
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Stomach Virus Hits USC: At Least 75 Students Fall Ill
At least 78 students at the University of Southern California have been treated for a contagious...
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The Most Amazing Study Ever Announced by NIH
U.S. health officials announced on Friday that the largest study of U.S. children ever performed...
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Obesity And The Brain - “Switch” In Brain Triggers the “Vicious Cycle” of Overeating
Overeating triggers a metabolic response in
the hypothalamus region of the brain which prompts...
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Distinguished Biochemist Robert Tjian Elected as President of Howard Hughes Institute
Robert Tjian, a distinguished UC Berkley biochemist
and gene researcher, has been named president...
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Study: Heart Patients Are More Exposed To Depression
The American Heart Association released on Monday a series of guidelines concerning heart patients...
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Clot-Busting Stroke Drug To Help Patients
If you are a stroke sufferer you can take advantage of a clot-busting drug even if you take it...
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Many Failed Clinical Trials Remain Unpublished
More than half of the clinical data
supporting the medications approved by the U.S. Food and Drug...
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Too Much Salt Contributes to Resistant Hypertension
Researchers
at the University of Alabama have recently informed that too much salt contributes
to...
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Salt Intake Leads To Lower Blood Pressure
According to a report released by the University of Alabama, a high amount of salt can play a role...
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Gastric Bypass Surgery: Not so Good for Everyone
Diabetics who undergo gastric bypass
surgery could be at disadvantage compared to other patients,...
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The Efficacy Of Gastric Bypass Surgery In Diabetics Questioned
Contrary to other studies, a new study
found that people with diabetes did not lose as much weight...
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