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Astronauts installing new camera on Hubble
Washington - US astronauts on Thursday were conducting the first spacewalk to upgrade and repair...
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Shuttle Atlantis to launch on Hubble telescope repair mission
Washington - Seven astronauts boarded the space shuttle Atlantis on Monday ahead of their planned...
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Shuttle Atlantis on last mission to repair Hubble telescope
Washington - For nearly 20 years the Hubble Space Telescope has kept its orbiting eye trained on...
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Marathon mission to keep Hubble's eye on universe
Washington - For nearly 20 years the Hubble Space Telescope has kept its orbiting eye trained on...
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South Korean scientists create glowing cloned dogs
Seoul - Scientists in South Korea have become the first to clone dogs with...
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We're Half Way to a Dangerous Climate Change
With the issue of global warming and climate change in prime focus over the past years, some...
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NASA Might Launch Space Shuttle Earlier
The U.S. Space agency said it plans to launch the space shuttle Atlantis on May 11, one day earlier...
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Researchers Decode Cow Genome
Good news for the cattle industry. A team of scientists managed to complete a research study which...
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Coral Reef-Based Study Suggests Rapid Sea Level Rise Possible
A recent study focusing on climate change brings evidence that the sea level will most likely rise...
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Dubai scientists clone healthy, female camel, says newspaper
Dubai - Scientists in Dubai have created the world's first cloned camel, a local newspaper...
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UN expert: No perfect way to predict imminent quake
Geneva - There is no sure-fire way to predict an impending earthquake, David Alexander, a United...
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Arctic Sea is ‘on Thin Ice’, Survey Shows
The latest findings from scientists that have been monitoring the Arctic region show that the ice...
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Update: Antarctic Bridge that Was Holding Wilkins Ice Shelf Ruptures
The rupture of the ice bridge that was holding Antarctica’s Wilkins Ice Shelf in place will...
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Antarctic Bridge that Was Holding Wilkins Ice Shelf Ruptures
An ice bridge that was holding an ice shelf (that has been disintegrating since the 1960s) in place...
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Huge Antarctic Ice Shelf May Break Away
A huge ice shelf is close to breaking away from part of the Antarctic Peninsula, according to...
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New batteries could run on a virus
New York - Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a prototype...
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Arctic summer ice may vanish in 30 years, study finds ahead of summit
Washington - Ice in the summertime could be a thing of the past in the Arctic in as soon as...
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Scientists say monster iceberg about to break loose
Berlin - The Wilkins Ice Shelf, a monster iceberg more than 100 kilometres across, is about...
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Scientific Breakthrough: Robot Scientist That Can Conduct Research
A new breakthrough in science has been achieved by both robots and scientists this time. Soon we...
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Debris of Detected 'Unique' Asteroid that Exploded Collected from Desert
An asteroid that has been tracked by an international alliance of astronomers...
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Mount Redoubt Calm, but Will Soon Erupt Again
Although everything seems to be tranquil now at volcano Redoubt after six explosive eruptions on...
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Scientists: Sea levels could rise 1 metre as Antarctic ice melts
Wellington - A large amount of permanent Antarctic ice could melt in the next 100...
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Evidence of salt water found on Mars, scientists say
Washinton - A group of scientists who worked on the Phoenix Mars lander last year say they...
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Russia's launches European gravity probe
Moscow - Russia successfully sent into orbit Tuesday one of the European Space Agency's (ESA)...
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Russia delays launch of European gravity-mapping satellite
Moscow - Just seconds before blast off, Russia delayed the launch Monday of one of Europe's most...
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Global Warming, Greenhouse Gas Levels Not Necessarily Connected
The International Conference on Climate Change attended by climate change skeptics reached the...
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Superman's foundation welcomes Obama's stem cell move
Los Angeles - The foundation started by former Superman star Christopher Reeve has applauded...
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Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change Kicks Off Today
More than 2,000 climate scientists and researchers will gather today in Copenhagen, Denmark, to...
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Kepler Launch a Success
The launch of NASA’s Kepler telescope was a success. The telescope was launched on the back...
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Kepler Seizes Launch Opportunity, Heads For The Stars!
The Kepler mission successfully launched from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida...
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U.S.
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MIA, Efron, Obamas on Time's most-influential list
Los Angeles - Global hip-hop star MIA and young Hollywood heartthrob Zac Efron have joined US...
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US seeks restrictions on tourism to Arctic-Antarctic region
Washington - The United States will push for more restrictions on tourism to the North and South...
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Nancy Reagan praises Obama reversal on stem cell research
Washington - Former first lady Nancy Reagan welcomed President Barack Obama's decision Monday to...
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Will the US Protect the American Pika?
The American pika is a little cold-loving relative of the rabbit which might be in danger of...
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Mount Redoubt On The Verge Of Eruption?
Geologists are on the alert, as Mount Redoubt in Alaska, a volcano 100 miles southwest of...
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Controversial Changes on Texas Schools’ Curriculum
It seems that the recent adjustments that lawmakers in Texas had done regarding the science...
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Western Forests Are Dying At An Increasing Rate, Study Says
A recent study shows that trees on old growth forests across the West are dying at a small, but...
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FDA Requires More Study Of Heart Risk For Diabetes Drugs
More than a year after GlaxoSmithKline PLC’s Avandia was linked to higher risk of heart...
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Gene Mutation Said To Combat Obesity
The presence of a gene mutation in the human body appears to lower levels of “bad” cholesterol and...
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FDA Intends To Modify Consumer Advice On Fish
Since March 2004, the federal government has urged women of childbearing years, pregnant women,...
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US will join only "global" climate deal, Kerry says
Poznan, Poland - The United States will stay out of any deal to curb emissions of global-warming...
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NASA staff bring "Americana" to Russia's space base
Star City, Russia - Viewed from one side, they look like thinly-spread but typical US suburban...
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Locy Cleared of All Charges
A federal appeals court threw out a contempt order requiring fines of up to $5,000 a day against a...
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NASA: Endeavour And STS-126 Crew Prepare For Launch
Endeavour's crew members ate their traditional launch-day meal in Kennedy's Operations and Checkout...
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FDA And Scientist Argue Over BPA Risk, Consumers Left In Confusion
Health officials are currently trying to establish whether bisphenol A (BPA) is a threat or a...
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"Stars' War": Celebs raise big money for Obama
New York - Left up to Hollywood, Barack Obama would be a clear shoe-in for the White House on...
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US expert: Al-Qaeda has nuclear ambitions, not capabilities
Rome - Al-Qaeda has become the world's "first terrorist nuclear power without demonstrating...
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NASA Launches Spacecraft to Explore the Solar System’s Edges
On Sunday, the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA) launched its Interstellar...
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Palin Opposes the Listing of Beluga Whales as Endangered
Given that
the beluga whale population in Alaska’s largest city Anchorage decreased by...
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World
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WHO says no evidence virus was a lab creation
Geneva - There is no evidence to support a theory that the new influenza A(H1N1) virus was created...
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Scandinavian royal heirs to study climate change in Greenland
Copenhagen - Danish Crown Prince Frederik, Norway's Crown Prince Haakon, and Swedish Crown Princess...
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Vietnam golfers deny golf courses waste space
Hanoi - Vietnamese golf promoters Thursday rejected claims made at a recent...
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China seeks restraint, Japan a resolution on North Korea
Beijing/Tokyo - China called Monday for restraint after North Korea's rocket...
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Experts: Cyber spies continue to operate
Toronto - The international cyber spy network which has invaded some 1,295 computers in 103...
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Australian forest fire death toll falls to 173
Sydney - Police on Monday lowered the death toll from last month's forest...
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Russia maps out Arctic military force
Moscow - Russia plans to create a military force directed at defending its interests in the...
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French bishop sparks new row on condoms and AIDS
Paris - The bishop of the French city of Orleans, Monsignor Andre Fort, rekindled a row...
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Climate Change Is Irreversible, Scientists Say
A recent research points out that the current effects of global warming are virtually irreversible,...
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Antarctica Is Getting Dangerously Warm!
The troubling situation in Antarctica keeps getting worse. There are clear signs that the...
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Tintin, The Ageless Boy Reporter, Turns 80
Paris - He began life 80 years ago at the age of 15, and when his career ended nearly 50 years...
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British Archaeologists Discover 2,000-Year-Old Brain
The British archaeologists discovered an ancient skull containing an amazing surprise. The...
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Bird flu outbreak in India's Assam state, 40,000 poultry culled
New Delhi - Authorities in India's north-eastern Assam state culled 40,000 poultry of some 60,000...
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World AIDS Day - A Reminder That HIV Has Not Gone Away
Just days before the World AIDS Day on December 1st, the World Health Organization released a study...
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Mediterranean Tuna Stocks Are Lower Than Ever
Marrakesh/Madrid - Environmental organizations issued a warning today about the low stocks of...
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Only 83 Orcas Left?
Killer whales – or orcas – have been declared an endangered species since 2005, although they were...
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India Begins Its Way To The Moon With Chandrayaan-1
India on Wednesday launched its first mission to the moon with a "perfect" lift-off of...
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World's rarest species of palm on verge of extinction in Bangladesh
Dhaka - The full-blooming rachis shoots skyward from the top of the rarest species of wild palm in...
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US Forces Find Footing in Afghanistan's "Human Terrain"
Khost, Afghanistan - The young Texan woman talking to the Afghan tribesman wears a US military...
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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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The 2008 Nobel For Physics Shared By Three Reseachers
The Nobel committee offered the 2008 Nobel Prize for Physics
to two Japanese scientists and a...
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One Quarter Of Wild Mammals Threatened By Extinction
An evaluation made by 1300 scientists from around the world that took 5 years to complete was made...
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Three European Scientists Won The 2008 Nobel Prize For Medicine
One German and two French scientists won
the 2008 Nobel prize in medicine for their work in...
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Scientists to test bone as search continues at Fossett wreck site
San Francisco - About 70 searchers combed the area around the crash site of adventurer Steve...
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Carbon Emissions Are Growing Faster, Aggravate Global Warming
The Global Carbon Project found worldwide emissions of carbon dioxide from fuel burning and cement...
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Update:Kyle Evolves From Tropical Storm To Full-Fledged Hurricane
The Atlantic hurricane season welcomes its 11th
“guest”, tropical storm Kyle. Although not...
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New museum reveals wonders of science, secrets of planet
San Francisco - Science museums are often a collection of stodgy exhibits and isolated experiments...
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Scientists: Polar Ice Caps Continue Melting At Alarming Rate
This summer, the Arctic Ocean’s sea has shrunk almost as much as 2007 record-shattering low,...
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Scientists Will Play God In A Tunnel Near Geneva
A never before seen experiment is to be made this Wednesday. Scientist are preparing themselves to...
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Huge sheet of Canadian ice shelf breaks off, scientists say
New York - A 50-square-kilometre chunk of the Canadian Arctic ice shelf has broken off and is...
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Specials
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Need a dog toilet, a knotless balloon? Meet the inventors
Geneva - What to do if you live next door to a veterinarian whose clients' dogs always leave behind...
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Queen Nefertiti bust has two faces, study shows
Berlin - German researchers have discovered that the bust of an Egyptian pharaonic queen hailed as...
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Experts recreating Egyptian female pharaoh's own perfume
Hamburg, Germany - The latest thing in scents next year could be the oldest perfume in the world,...
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Pyramids to go dark for "Earth Hour"
Cairo - The Pyramids and the Sphinx, normally bathed in the golden glow of high-powered...
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Kepler On Its Way To Finding Analog Earths In The Milky Way
Scientists have always been intrigued by other star-planet systems outside of our own solar system,...
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BPA-Containing Baby Bottles No Longer on the US Market
Bisphenol A or BPA widely used in plastics has long been a subject of controversy among...
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Barbie turns 50, looking better than many 20-year-olds
Even after living for five decades as an international jet-setter, Barbie still looks like a...
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WHO: HIV Prevalence among the Elderly Very High
While public health campaigns remain largely focused on the young, the number of older people...
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Chang'e-I Ends Its Lunar Mission With Planned Crash
With a controlled crash-landing on the surface of the moon, China's first lunar probe, the...
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Footprints Left by Human Ancestors Found
Scientists have recently discovered footprints in northern Kenya proving that human ancestors...
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Ancient Footprints Show that Ancestors Walked Upright
Thursday, scientists announced that footprints resembling the ones left in wet sand by people had...
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New Species of Fish Discovered: "Psychedelica"
A new species of fish has been discovered: the "psychedelic"...
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Healthy Men Should Take Finasteride to Prevent Prostate Cancer
Healthy men who want to prevent prostate cancer should begin taking finasteride, a drug used to...
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Study: Polar Oceans Populated by a Large Number of Species
Monday, a marine census revealed that there were 7,500 documented species in the Antarctic...
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Kisses Relieve Stress
If you don’t have anybody to kiss you on Valentine’s Day, you’d better go out...
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Space Collision Deemed as Catastrophic
Friday, space experts revealed that the crash of two satellites had given rise to what had...
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What Killed the Neanderthals?
Scientists will never give up on trying to discover as many things as possible about the species of...
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Willem J. Kolff, ‘Father Of The Artificial Organ’ Dies
Dr. Willem J. Kolff, the man behind the first artificial kidney and several other devices that...
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Bayer Agrees to Pay $20 Million to Correct Misleading Information about Its Contraceptive
Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals has announced the decision to introduce a new advertising...
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Charles Darwin's 200th Anniversary
February 12 marks the 200th birthday of evolutionary biologist Charles Darwin and scientists and...
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Scientists Unearth Pre-Historic Snake
Scientists have unearthed the world’s largest snake, which stretched 42 to 45 feet...
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NASA, Google Collaborate In Google Earth 5.0’s 3D Tour Of Mars
Google launched this week the already famous ocean exploration feature in its latest version of...
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Mass. Man Donates $100 M for AIDS Institute
On Wednesday, the Massachusetts General Hospital was donated $100 million to create an...
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Fossils Hunters: Giant Snake that Could Eat a Cow
The scientific community is stunned by the recent discovery of the...
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Stem Cell Therapy Shows Promise In MS Trial
People suffering from multiple sclerosis have given hope once again thanks to a clinical...
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200 Years of Darwin’s Theory of Evolution, But Controversy the Same
In more than a week from now, Charles Darwin’s book “On the Origin of Species”...
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Mount Redoubt Is Getting Ready To Blow
According to the statement released earlier today by the Alaska Volcano Observatory, Mount Redoubt,...
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UConn Scietists Create 2 New Stem Cell Lines
Scientists at the University of Connecticut say they have developed two kinds of human embryonic...
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JPL Reports Unusual Behavior Of Spirit Rover Over The Weekend
The NASA team in charge of the Mars Spirit Rover has reported some unexpected activities...
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Antarctica Is Not As Cold As Believed
The general belief that the eastern Antarctic area is getting colder despite the worldwide trend of...
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Technology
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IBM's next frontier for computing: TV game shows
San Francisco - Technology giant IBM on Monday announced its next frontier in the unending quest to...
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MIT Researchers Develop Virus Batteries
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology managed to turn the concept of a battery...
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Honda Unveils Robot that Can ‘Read’ Your Mind
Imagine a world of robots doing everything people can do, from ordinary things like cleaning the...
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MIT Scientists Develop Battery that Charges in Seconds
Michigan Institute of Technology (MIT) scientists have made a new kind of lithium batteries that...
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Darwin’s 200th Birthday Celebrated by Rodgers Library
The Rodgers Library for Science and Engineering will host a celebration on February 12 in the honor...
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New Supercomputer Prepared For The National Nuclear Security Administration
Over the next few years, the supercomputer segment will include a brand new machine, able to...
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Visionary Scientists and Tech Leaders Launch Singularity University
NASA, Google, and entrepreneurs Ray Kurzweil and Peter Diamandis announced the launch of a new...
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Take A Dive Into The Deep Blue With Google Earth 5.0
Google Earth has evolved into its 5th version this week, bringing new exciting features to the...
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High Costs For a Cleaner Air
The California Air Resources Board had a meeting with four automakers in order to see whether the...
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Mobile Phone Use While Driving Might Be Completely Banned
A security group in the United States stated on Sunday that it would start a nationwide...
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NASA’s Mars Rovers Celebrate 5 Years of Martian Activity
NASA’s Mars rovers are celebrating five years of activity on the Red Planet. It has been five...
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A New Milgram-Type Experiment Is Being Prepared
Forty years after psychologist Stanley Milgram of the Yale University...
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Major Earthquake Expected To Hit Sumatra within Decades
The Indonesian island of Sumatra has been the scene of
devastating earthquakes in recent years,...
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Magazine Content – The Latest Addition To Google Search
Google Search has evolved in the past decade into the most
popular search engine on the Internet,...
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Intel Announces Some Top Researches
Intel offered reporters a glimpse of its research into products such as chip-size sensors that...
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NASA Announces New Schedule For Its Mars Rover: 2011
The space agency has announced that NASA's Mars Science
Laboratory will launch two years later...
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NASA Successfully Tests Internet DTN Protocol In Deep Space
NASA has taken the next step toward establishing an
interplanetary Internet connection, after...
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Large Hadron Collider Will Be Asleep Until Middle of Next Year
The electrical failure that forced the shutdown of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in September and...
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Phoenix Lander Seems to Have Stopped Any Activity
Today, Phoenix engineers told the bad news to the media: the Lander is no longer communicating with...
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Big Step Forward For Cancer Research: Scientists Map Cancer Patient’s Genome
Scientists for the first time have been able to look at the entire set of genes from a cancer...
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Joe Doerr: Bill Joy Would Be a Great CTO in Obama Administration
During the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, billionaire John
Doerr suggested in an interview...
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Update: Hubble Scores A Perfect 10
The 18 year old telescope is up and running again after it
encountered some problems that kept...
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Update: Even Terrorists Can Tweet, Army Says
The extent of a social networking site is far beyond our wildest imagination, and apparently, not...
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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope Fix Leads to Other Errors
NASA engineers have managed to power up the Hubble Space Telescope’s backup computer, but new...
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Hubble Telescope Will Be Repaired From Earth
Hubble space telescope's redundant Side B Control Unit/Science Data Formatter began to be rebooted...
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NASA Ready to Boot-up Hubble Backup
The Hubble Space Telescope fortuitously failed
at the best possible time two weeks ago, right...
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CERN Makes Room For LHC Data
The Large Hadron Collider - commonly known as the LHC - is possibly the biggest and most...
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Hubble Is In Trouble
The famous space telescope Hubble is facing difficulties:
one of its key instruments, programmed...
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The Sun Is Cooling Down
Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientists have announced that the
Sun’s winds are losing their...
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Large Hadron Collider Shuts Down Till Spring Of 2009
After an electrical fault last Friday caused a serious
‘quench’ of one of the electrical links...
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Health
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WHO: 1,490 cases of new flu, 30 deaths, as scientists meet
Geneva - The World Health Organization held Tuesday an online conference of scientists from various...
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What is swine flu?
Stockholm - The current outbreak of swine flu which has caused alarm around the world is a...
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New Method to Create Stem Cells Revealed
US researchers on Thursday reported that they found a safer way to create embryonic stem cells...
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Swine Flu Spread Worries CDC Officials
Swine flu has turned into an epidemic in Mexico City where it has killed as many as 60 people and...
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Smiling In Early Childhood May Predict Rate of Divorce Later in Life
Smiling is good for the spirit, everybody knows that. What we don’t know is the fact that,...
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New Technique to Detect Cancer May Soon Be Available
New research in the online issue of the journal Nature Medicine suggests that a new technique to...
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Women Fertility May One Day Be Restored through Stem Cell Treatment
Reporting in the journal Nature Cell Biology, Chinese scientists suggest that women may one day be...
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Supervised Exercise Benefits Heart Failure Patients
Supervised exercise appears to be both safe and healthy for people with heart failure, according to...
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Scientists Show How Scratching Relieves an Itch
Have you ever wondered why is it that scratching makes you feel better? Maybe you don’t...
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Researchers blame genetics for sudden cardiac arrest in athletes
Hamburg, Germany - A team of German scientists say they have found a genetic cause for mysterious...
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Four People Hospitalized after Being Attacked by Killer Bees
Four people in La Mesa were hospitalized Wednesday after being stung by a swarm of Africanized...
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Study Blames 10 Genes for Sudden Cardiac Death
Scientists at Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine together with an...
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3-year-old in Vietnam dies of bird flu
Hanoi - A 3-year-old Vietnamese boy has died of avian influenza after four...
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Boy in Vietnam tests positive for bird flu
Hanoi - A Vietnamese boy has tested positive for the avian influenza virus, the...
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Study Finds Possible Way of Curing Peanut Allergy
Scientists have very good news for people suffering from peanut allergies. A recent research showed...
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Obama lifts stem-cell funding ban in latest shift on ethics
Washington - US President Barack Obama on Monday reversed an eight-year long government block on...
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A Happy Marriage Keeps The Doctor Away
Scientists found that being in a strained relationship not only affected the mental health of women...
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Scientists: New, Effective Way to Protect Women against AIDS
Newsflash: researchers found a way that might work to protects women from AIDS.
A recent...
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Scientists Develop HIV Strain that Infects Monkeys
Scientists succeeded in creating a strain of the human AIDS virus that can infect and multiply in...
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Baldness Drug May Help Healthy Men Prevent Prostate Cancer
The American Society of Clinical Oncology and American Urological Association on Tuesday...
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Scientists Make Astonishing Breakthrough in the Flight against Flu
Researchers at the Burnham Institute for Medical Research, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in...
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Obama Will Lift the Ban On Embryonic Stem Cell Research
U.S. President Barack Obama will soon issue an executive order lifting an eight-year ban embryonic...
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Scientists - One Step Closer to Discovering a Cure for the Common Cold
Researchers from the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore and the University of...
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Swimmers Exposed to Drug-resistant Staph Bacteria
People who swim at crowded public beaches are exposed to antibiotic resistant staph bacteria...
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Sequencing of Virus DNA May Help Scientists Find a Cure for Common Cold
Scientists are hoping to find a cure for the common cold and a new discovery brings them closer to...
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Migraines Could Be Linked To Belly Fat
According to a recent research, belly fat might could be linked to more than just heart diseases...
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Autism-Vaccine Debate Not Over Yet
Vaccines do not cause autism, a special court ruled Thursday in three cases...
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Is It Possible to Completely Cure the Common Cold?
Researchers announced on Thursday that they had decrypted the genomes of the 99 strains belonging...
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Doctors Closing in on Cure for Cold
Thursday, researchers announced that they were getting closer to finding a cure for the...
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New Discovery in Stem Cell Research Field: Skin Cells Reprogrammed into Heart Cells
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison announced they were able to reprogram skin...
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