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Belly Fat Tied to Increased Risk for Restless Legs Syndrome
Excess fat around the waistline has long been blamed for increasing the risk of heart disease,...
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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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Chemical in Broccoli Fights H. Pylori Infection
Besides lowering the risk of cancer and coronary heart disease due to high levels of vitamin C and...
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WHO calls for disaster-resistant hospitals, health facilities
Manila - The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday urged Asian countries to...
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Rocket Fuel Found in Infant Formula
Fifteen brands of powdered infant formula were found to contain trace amounts of perchlorate, a...
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FDA Includes More Weight-Loss Products on Its Risk List
The Food and Drug Administration expanded its list of tainted weight loss products that consumers...
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Spinal Cord Stimulation May Improve Quality of Life in Parkinson’s Patients
A new study released Thursday by US researchers suggests that, when electrically stimulated the...
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Cephalon’s Narcolepsy Drug Provigil Could Be Addictive
Cephalon’s narcolepsy drug Provigil, highly used as a so-called “smart drug” by...
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House, Senate Ban BPA Use in Food, Drink Containers
House and Senate lawmakers passed a bill yesterday to introduce a federal ban on bisphenol A (BPA)...
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Group: Baby Care Products Contain Cancer-Causing Chemicals
A health advocacy group found out that more than half the baby shampoo, lotion and other infant...
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Top Companies Stop Selling BPA-Containing Baby Bottles
Recent studies showing that a substance also used in producing baby bottles is dangerous to the...
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Six Manufacturers Announce Decision to Stop Selling Baby Bottles Containing Bisphenol A
Baby bottles containing bisphenol A, a controversial chemical widely used in plastics but...
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The Teething Medicine in Nigeria Kills 84 Children
Health officials announced on Friday that at least 84 children from Nigeria have been killed by a...
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Teething Pain Medicine Kills 84 Kids in Nigeria
The number of children who died from a contaminated baby medicine sold in Nigeria has increased...
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Gates Optimistic About Malaria Vaccine and Eradication Of The Disease
Malaria is considered by many a thing of the past, or perhaps a disease restricted to the poor...
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China Arrests Two People Over Fake Diabetes Drug Deaths
The safety of food and drugs appears to be a real problem from Chinese authorities. No further...
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Scientists Announce Breakthrough in Flu Vaccine Development
A team of researchers working under Japan’s Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry has...
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Studies Show Caffeine, Insulin Lower Dementia Risk, May Help Improve Memory
According to two new studies, caffeine and insulin were the found to be effective in reducing the...
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Bisphenol A Stays in the Body Much Longer than Thought
The highly debated subject of the plastic chemical bisphenol A (BPA) is not over yet. A new study...
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Does HFCS Contain Mercury?
Two new US studies have shown a disturbing fact. Almost half of tested samples of commercial...
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Bisphenol A Remains In Our Body Long After Intake
There has been a long debate on whether bisphenol A, an organic compound used in many food and...
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Genes Determine How Popular One Can Actually Become
According to a new study by researchers in the U.S., your popularity and social skills may weigh...
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Two Sentenced over Tainted Milk Scandal
Two men were sentenced by a Chinese court on Thursday to long jail terms in the tainted-milk...
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Deep Brain Stimulation Useful For Parkinson’s Patients
Deep brain stimulation improves both physical function and quality of life in...
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A New Disadvantage For Smokers: Third-Hand Smoke
A recent study has revealed a disturbing fact: fewer than half of smokers know that poisons...
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Fosamax And Similar Drugs May Lead To Jawbone Death?
Drugs have a series of side effects that are sometimes missed in trials. The effects usually...
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A new Release From The Botox-Making Company
The release of a new chemical for eyelashes created by Allergan could represent the end for mascara...
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Weight Loss Products May Cause Health Problems
The FDA announced that people should avoid consuming weight loss products, as they may contain...
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Experimental Drug Protects Mice from Emphysema
Mice exposed to cigarette smoke on daily basis avoided lung damage thanks to an experimental...
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FDA Issues Warning for 28 Weight Loss Products
The Food and Drug Administration is warning against 28 products marketed for weight loss that you...
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Broccoli Might Reduce Your Stomach Cancer Risk
The summer is that time of the year when you can get advantage of everything that nature has to...
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Infant Formula Contaminated with Fuel Rocket
When it comes to food, everybody appears to be in danger, from infants to the very old. Nothing is...
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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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New Treatment for Parkinson’s Disease Proves Successful in Mice
A study published in the 20 March issue of the journal Science concluded that by electrically...
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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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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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Nigeria Tainted Syrup Responsible for 84 Deaths
Nigerian officials have announced earlier this week that 84 children have died and 27 have...
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The Swarming Instinct In Locusts Has An Explanation
A recent study presented in the journal Science reached the conclusion that the increases of...
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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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Mercury Found in High-Fructose Corn Syrup
Many foods and drinks rich in high-fructose corn syrup were found to contain mercury, according...
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Will Methane Prove There's Life On Mars?
Planetary scientists have just announced that they have found three regions on Mars that have...
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California Experts Puzzled by Mysterious Pelican Deaths
An estimated 270 dead or ailing California brown pelicans have been found in recent weeks from...
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Deep Brain Stimulation: A Remedy For Parkinson’s Patients?
Deep brain stimulation improves both physical function and quality of life in...
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Chinese Men Go on Tainted Milk Trial
Six men have become subject to a trial in China, in which they are accused of having both made...
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FDA: Weight Loss Products Are Hazardous to Our Health
The holiday season is almost here and I guess you are anxious to taste everything that...
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Study: Gene Mutation May Prevent Cardiovascular Disease
A small group of people carry a genetic mutation which helps protect their heart against the...
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Hubble Finds Prebiotic Elements On “Hot Jupiter” Exoplanet
Every new discovery in space adds another piece to the
puzzle scientists have been trying so hard...
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NASA: The Mars Rover Launch Postponed To 2011
NASA delayed the Mars Science Laboratory mission until 2011, due to technical challenges and the...
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FDA Allows Melamine In Infant Formula
Although the FDA recently said that melamine in any amount might threaten the health of infant...
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Chemical In Our Stomach Might Help Us Fight Obesity
As more and more people suffer from obesity and,
consequently, obesity-related diseases,...
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Court Releases Documents In Hatfill Anthrax Case
A federal court released yesterday almost 100 documents that
it used to mistakenly connect...
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The FDA Opens Office In Beijing
The FDA opened its first foreign office in Beijing, after a flux of contaminated products reached...
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Coffin containing dead German billionaire stolen in Austria
Vienna - A coffin containing the remains of German-born billionaire Friedrich Karl Flick was...
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“Red Wine” Drug Fights Against Obesity Regardless of Diet
Are scientists one step closer to finding the secret weapon in the fight against obesity and...
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Panel Slashes FDA over Bisphenol Safety
A panel of environmental health, toxicology and statistics
experts from three major universities,...
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Update: Report Seriously Questions FDA Ruling On BPA Safety
An expert panel asked by the Food and Drug Administration to
review its way of handling of the...
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India Aims for the Moon with Chandrayaan-1
New Delhi - India's first-ever moon mission, due for launch Wednesday, was expected to return a...
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Obesity Is in Your Genes and...Brain!
Eating too much to simply satisfy your pleasure for food?
Then you’re probably one of those people...
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Canada Puts Bisphenol A On Hazardous Substances List
The federal government has decided to add the synthetic sex hormone bisphenol A on Canada’s list of...
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Obese People Experience Less Pleasure From Eating
When you see a person weighing more than usual, the first
thought that crosses your mind is that...
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Business
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NZ Fonterra Group stays in China despite milk scandal
Beijing - New Zealand's Fonterra Co-operative Group will buy up shares from a...
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Another Wal Mart Hit By Unknown Chemical
A strange occurrence took place in the Wal Mart situated on Appleton Avenue in Germantown, which...
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US stocks slump over bleak corporate outlook
A 17.4-billion-dollar deal between Kuwait's state-run Petrochemical Industries Co and Dow Chemical...
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Japan's Mitsubishi Rayon to Acquire Britain's Lucite International
Tokyo - Japanese chemical company Mitsubishi Rayon Co decided on Tuesday to buy Britain's Lucite...
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Dow Chemical reports third-quarter profits, but sees recession
Midland - Dow Chemical Thursday reported profits for the third quarter, but it said rising costs of...
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Bill Gates Has A New Company
Three well-known tech and venture capital writers, Todd
Bishop, Eric Engleman and John Cook,...
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Sergey Brin, Google’s Cofounder, Writes On Blog About Parkinson’s Risk
In a post on its newly opened blog, Too, Sergey Brin, one of the two
co-founders of Google, has...
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FDA OK’s Bisphenol - Chemical Used in Baby Bottles
The concerned parents, consumer groups and politicians can
leave their worries aside as the...
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Retail Giant Wal-Mart Ditches BPA-Containing Baby Bottles
Retail giant Wal-Mart announced Wednesday that it was immediately halting sales of baby bottles,...
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Fujifilm Makes $1.44 Billion Offer to Purchase Toyama Chemical
Fujifilm Holdings Corp. made public on Wednesday its offer of about ¥155 billion ($1.44 billion) to...
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Rubber Cartel Pays EU a Combined Fine of 243m Euros
This Wednesday, European regulators fined a cartel that had shared the market and settled the...
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Technology
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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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Jet P.I. Optimistic of Jetpacks as Future of Personal Flight
In a stunt that was in part done to promote an energy drink,
Jet Pack International’s Eric Scott...
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Jet Pack Companies Announce Even Greater Performances
Eric Scott of Jet Pack International flew across Colorado’s Royal George using a standard hydrogen...
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Greenpeace Happy With Apple Progress But Wants More
Along with the rest of the world, Greenpeace was keeping an
eye on Apple on Thursday for the...
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Sergey Brin, Google’s Co-Founder, Writes About Parkinson’s Risk
In a post on its newly opened blog, Too, Sergey Brin, one of the two
co-founders of Google, has...
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Ever Wanted a Cray Supercomputer? Now for $25K You Can Have One
Back in April, Cray and Intel Corp. formed a partnership to “collaborate to develop future...
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HP And Sony Team Up For Next-Generation DAT 320 Format
HP and Sony Corp. are working on the future of DAT drives as they
announcing an agreement to...
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Honda Unveils Fuel Cell Car
The increasingly high prices that drivers must pay for gas, as well as the competition that has...
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There Is More Than One Mighty Mouse
Man & Machine, a peripheral computer company, has issued a lawsuit against Apple Inc. and CBS...
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Another YouTube Rival Comes To Life: PluggedIn
Another rival prepares to challenge YouTube by bringing high-quality
online videos to users...
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GAO: Sensitive Defense Items for Sale On eBay and Craigslist
The Government Accountability
Office (GAO) confirmed in a report released on Thursday that...
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IBM Held Responsible For Dumping Toxic Wastes
Over 90 current and former New
York residents filed on Thursday a lawsuit against IBM, claiming...
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Intel Lays the Foundation of Fab 68 in Dalian, China
Intel, the world’s largest chip manufacturer, has broken ground yesterday on its first 300mm wafer...
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IBM Opens New Doors to Quantum Computing
IBM is once again in the avant-garde of technological breakthroughs: its engineers have recently...
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Laser Printers Can Be A Risk For Your Health
The laser printer from your office or home could be in fact “a
silent killer”. A new study...
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Music
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Warner Music Retreats Videos From YouTube
While a resolution is yet to be reached between Warner Music Group (WMG) and Google-owned YouTube,...
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Lil Wayne Tops U.S. Charts
Coldplay's two-week reign in the Billboard chart ended this week when rapper Lil Wayne's "Tha...
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Prince Plays Coachella, Covers Radiohead
Pop star Prince thrilled 60,000 U.S. festival fans with his magnificent performance at California's...
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Prince – Last Minute Addition to Coachella
Coachella Festival’s organizers announced that Prince would
headline the ninth edition of...
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Bon Jovi Rocks Prudential Center Arena
Legendary rock band Bon Jovi announced plans for a world tour supporting new album “Lost...
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Beyonce, Timberlake Among American Music Awards Favorites
Besides Justin Timberlake and Beyonce, "American Idol" finalist Chris Daughtry’s rock...
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Amazon Launches DRM-Free Music Store
Currently in the public beta phase, Amazon's "MP3 Store" wants to be the biggest...
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Amy Winehouse, Arctic Monkeys Vie for Mercury Prize
The contenders for this year’s Mercury Music Prizes have been announced and among them are...
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Linkin Park Sets New Record For 2007
Linkin Park's latest, Minutes to Midnight, hit the No. 1
spot this week with 623,000 copies sold,...
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Science
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Nefertiti's "hidden face" proves Berlin bust is not Hitler's fake
Hamburg - Using 21st Century medical computer technology, German researchers have unveiled the...
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Did Ancient North Americans Drink Chocolate?
Even if researchers thought cacao beans were brought from Mexico in the 15th century, it would...
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Serotonin Changes Locusts’ Behavior
A new research pointed out that serotonin plays an important role in the way locust swarm...
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Study: Serotonin Stimulates Swarming Behavior in Locusts
It is for good reason that locust swarm outbreaks are considered not only disastrous for the...
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Report Details the Surfacing of Plumes of Methane on Mars
On Thursday, a team of researchers issued a report saying that the plumes of methane that...
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Third-Hand Smoke: Dangerous For Health
A recent study has revealed a disturbing fact: fewer than half of smokers know that poisons...
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Carbonate Deposits on Mars Indicate Life-Sustaining Water
Scientific instruments aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have detected minerals which...
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Study Says Sugar Can Be Addictive
Researchers at Princeton University have come to a strange conclusion: sugar can be addictive....
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Astronomers Find Carbon Dioxide In Another Planet's Atmosphere
Carbon dioxide has been detected in the atmosphere of
a planet 63 light-years away by astronomers...
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Carbon Dioxide Found On Distant Planet
Scientists from NASA have discovered trails of carbon
dioxide on HD x189733b, a planet which is 63...
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Hubble Observations Find Prebiotic Elements on “Hot Jupiter”
Every new discovery in space adds another piece to the
puzzle scientists have been trying so hard...
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Are Meteorite Strikes The Reason Life Appeared on Earth?
Yoshihiro Furukawa at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan unveiled an amazing discovery. He claims...
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NASA To Seize The Mars Rover Launch Window In 2011
NASA delayed the Mars Science Laboratory mission until 2011, due to technical challenges and the...
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Harvard Scientists Unravel The Secret Of Aging
As we get older, our health becomes our worst enemy. What’s
the secret of living a longer healthy...
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India's moon impact probe lands on lunar surface
New Delhi - A moon impact probe launched from India's first lunar spacecraft successfully landed on...
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Heavy Rainfall Might Explain High Rates Of Autism
Children living in regions with higher levels of annual
rainfall may be more predisposed to...
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Update: Chandrayaan-1 Begins Its Space Journey To The Moon
The Indian Space Research Organization announced the
successful launch of its first unmanned lunar...
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India’s Chandrayaan-1 Begins Its Space Journey To The Moon
The Indian Space Research Organization announced the
successful launch of its first unmanned lunar...
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Study: Obese People Experience Less Pleasure From Eating
When you see a person weighing more than usual, the first
thought that crosses your mind is that...
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EWG: Bottled Water Filled With Cancer-Linked Contaminants
When we buy bottled water, we genuinely believe that it is
safe to drink, but things are not like...
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Three Chemists 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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2008 Nobel Prize In Chemistry, Also With Three Winners
The Nobel Prize is a foundation that celebrates discoveries and excellence in a number of fields,...
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MESSENGER Zooms In On Mercury Surface On Second Flyby
The team of scientists at the John University Applied
Physics Laboratory (APL) started monitoring...
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Update: Mars Phoenix Lander Detects Snowfall On Mars
The Phoenix Lander deployed by NASA to Mars, which has been
taking ice and soil samples for more...
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Geologists Discover Oldest Reminiscent Rocks Of Earth’s Crust
Geologists could be looking at the oldest rocks on Earth in
northern Quebec, along the eastern...
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Premiere: The Mars Phoenix Lander Sends Image of Dust Particle
NASA announced its Mars Phoenix Lander had sent home the first ever image showing a sample of...
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Chili Peppers’ Anti-Fungus Defensive Mechanism: They Get Hotter!
The secret behind the spiciness in some chili peppers and
the lack of it in others resides in a...
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NASA’s Phoenix Lander Carries On With Martian Soil Analysis
The past week has been very intense for NASA scientists, as
they have been working on...
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New Method Makes Fingerprints Reveal More Than Before
Until now, fingerprints were only able to allow forensic experts to discover the identity of a...
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Update: NASA Says No To Martians, Maybe To Life
There have been a lot of assumptions lately about what the
latest chemical discovery on Mars means...
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World
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FBI to assist in hunt for killers of Hungarian Roma
Budapest - Hungary's national chief of police said on Monday that the US Federal Bureau of...
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Britain sees increased threat of "dirty bomb" attack
London - The British government Tuesday warned of the increased threat of a nuclear or chemical...
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Australian oil spill bigger than first thought
Sydney - Oil from a damaged ship has washed up on 60 kilometres of beaches on...
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Deadly tide of birds fuels fears of bird flu cover-up
Hong Kong - For more than a week now a deadly tide has been washing out of...
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Linz Shakes Off Industrial Image To Unveil Cultural Side
Linz, Austria - The Austrian city of Linz is easily overlooked on the route between picture-perfect...
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Blocked Shipments Add To Russia-Ukraine Dispute
Kiev - Ukraine has blocked transit shipment of Russian natural gas to Europe, escalating an...
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Somali pirates reduce Saudi tanker ransom demand, move ship
Mogadishu - Somali pirates have reduced their ransom demand for a hijacked Saudi supertanker to 15...
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Thailand Burns 8 Tons of Melamine-Tainted Products
Bangkok - Thailand's Food and Drug Administration on Monday burned 8 tons of food products tainted...
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Melamine Found in Chinese Eggs, Authorities Make First Arrest
Beijing - Authorities made a fist arrest in the evolving scandal over melamine-contaminated eggs, a...
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Yushchenko Calls for a Defence of Ukraine's Currency
Kiev - President Viktor Yushchenko on Wednesday called for a tougher defence of the Ukrainian...
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Canada Puts BPA On Hazardous Substances List
The federal government has decided to add the synthetic sex hormone bisphenol A on Canada’s list of...
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2,500 Evacuated Following Chemical Leak at Pennsylvania Plant
About 2,500 residents of four Butler County communities in western Pennsylvania were evacuated from...
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NATO finds compromise on fight against Afghan drugs
Budapest - NATO defence ministers agreed Friday to target drugs traffickers and opium laboratories...
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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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Twelve Percent of Milk Products Tainted, Tests Show
Beijing - Chinese authorities found an industrial chemical contaminating 12 per cent of dairy...
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Indonesia finds 12 food products containing melamine
Jakarta - Indonesia's
Food and Drug Monitoring Agency has confirmed melamine had been detected in...
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WHO: China's Milk Scandal Worsened by Ignorance, Secrecy
The World Health Organization said Friday the scandal over
milk products contaminated with the...
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Chinese Milk Products Banned in South Korea
South Korea
on Thursday banned the import of Chinese milk and milk powder products, blamed
for...
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China Struggles to Control Toxic Milk Crisis
Chinese authorities withdrew more than 7,000 metric tons of dairy products from the market in an...
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53,000 Babies Sickened by Powdered Milk
Chinese doctors examined some 53,000 infants and hospitalized nearly 13,000 for problems related to...
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Hong Kong: Hundreds of Parents Want Their Kids Checked for Kidney Stones
Hundreds of parents swamped a Hong Kong hospital Monday to have their children checked after a...
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China's melamine scandal spreads to fresh milk
Beijing - Chinese health inspectors have found the chemical melamine in fresh and long-life milk...
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New Zealand: Chinese Dairy Company Is Victim of Criminal Action
The Chinese company responsible for the death of three
babies and for sickening more than 6,000...
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New Zealand Company Recalls Contaminated Milk in China
New Zealand dairy co-operative Fonterra recalled a batch of prenatal milk sold in China under its...
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Number of Babies in China Ill from Contaminated Milk Rises to 1,253
As many as 1,253 babies had become ill with contaminated baby formula milk produced by the Chinese...
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Arrests Made in China as Second Baby Dies in Contaminated Formula Milk Case
Chinese authorities arrested two brothers in the
contaminated baby formula milk case, which killed...
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Hurricane Ike Threatens Texas’ Gulf Coast
Hurricane Ike threatens millions of people with strong wind, rain and a massive wave of water up to...
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Channel Tunnel between Britain and France Shut Down by Fire
The traffic on the Channel Tunnel link between Britain and France was shut down on Thursday due
to...
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2 St. Louis Hospitals in Quarantine after Chemical Alert
Eight to ten people were admitted on Saturday in several St. Louis hospitals, after being exposed...
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Al-Qaeda Confirms Death of Top Weapons Specialist in Pakistan
Terrorist group al-Qaeda confirmed the fact that its chemical/biological weapons specialist Abu...
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