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Court Finds That Vaccines Don’t Cause Autism
A special court ruling that there is no connection between autism and some specific childhood...
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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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Does HFCS Contain Mercury?
Two new US studies have shown a disturbing fact. Almost half of tested samples of commercial...
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Researchers Find Mercury in High-Fructose Corn Syrup
Some food and drinks that contain high-fructose corn syrup may have detectable levels of...
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Traces of Mercury Found in Highly Popular Food Products
Researchers in the US found that much of the high fructose corn syrup that is increasingly...
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GAO: FDA Has To Change Its System For Approving Devices
A report released this week by the Government Accountability Office reveals that some of...
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Sleep! Your Heart Will Thank You
A new study reveals that people who don't get much sleep are more likely to develop calcium...
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FDA Warns about Canadian Alewives Fish
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning about the
sale or consumption of certain...
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Spikes in Blood Pressure May Affect Cognitive Functioning in the Elderly
A study appearing in Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences suggests that sudden surges in...
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FDA Is Trying to Reconsider Advice on Fish Consumption
The Food and Drug Administration has been reviewing the information according to witch pregnant...
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FDA Seeks to Change Consumer Advice on Fish
Since March 2004, the federal government has urged women of childbearing years, pregnant women,...
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EPA Sets New Standard On Lead Emissions
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
announced yesterday the decision to change the federal...
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GAO Warn of Unsafe E-Waste Exports
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently published
a report (PDF),
according to which...
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Health Officials Call Off Chelation Therapy Study For Autism
The National Institute of Mental Health
(NIHM) has called off plans for a study examining a...
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Scientists Claim Measles Vaccines Are Safe, No Autism Link
Scientists with the Mailman School of Public Health Center for Infection and Immunity at Columbia...
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Scientists Fail To Find MMR Vaccine - Autism Link
Scientists with the Mailman School of Public Health Center for Infection and Immunity at Columbia...
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Update: Antioch Woman Infected With The West Nile Virus
An Antioch woman, aged 56, was infected with the West Nile virus, the Contra Costa Mosquito &...
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Ayurveda Medicines May Pose Great Risks To Consumers
Traditional herbal medicines used by Americans may contain high levels of toxins, a new study in...
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Five California Gene Testing Firms Defy State Orders
Five California gene testing firms are apparently defying state orders to halt operations pending...
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FDA Issues Warning on Mercury Fillings
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a warning on its website which informs about the...
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Mercury Dental Fillings Might Harm Pregnant Women
The FDA has announced that it will investigate whether
mercury dental fillings are harmful to...
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Court Hears More Claims Linking Thimesoral in Vaccines to Autism
The
parents of two 10-year-old boys who believe that a mercury-based preservative,
thimesoral,...
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California: Stem-Cell Research Granted $271 Million
The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine awarded
12 academic and non-profit institutions...
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West Nile Virus Risk Increases As Mosquito Season Started Early
As the warm season sets in, the
risk for the West Nile virus to manifest becomes higher as...
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Mississippi Confirms First West Nile Virus Case for 2008
The state Health Department
confirmed Monday, in a press release, Mississippi’s first human...
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Sutter Health Nurses Strike Over
After a 10-day strike, almost 4000 nurses returned to work
yesterday at the Sutter Health...
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Vaccine Contributed to Girl's Autism Symptoms
Federal health officials have concluded that childhood vaccines contributed to symptoms of the...
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Sen. McCain Revives Vaccine-Autism Myth
Senator John McCain, while campaigning in Texas, recently said that "It’s indisputable that...
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High Blood Pressure Mostly Affects American Women
A new analysis showed that rates of uncontrolled
hypertension appear to be reaching a...
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Olivier Dip Recalled over Botulism Concerns
Commissioner of Agriculture Tommy Irvin is warning Georgians
not to eat a recalled dip due to the...
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World
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Ukraine Capital Short On Gas, Kievites Battle The Cold
Kiev - City managers in the Ukrainian capital Kiev on Tuesday began energy conservation measures...
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Death Toll above 230 in Pakistan Earthquake
Islamabad - The official death toll from the devastating earthquake that hit south-western Pakistan...
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Politkovskaya murder trial opens in Moscow
Moscow - A Russian military court opened the trial Wednesday of three men charged with the murder...
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Blaze Near Yosemite Doesn’t Affect Tourists
Monday, a blaze burning about 12 miles of Yosemite Valley
has damaged 12 homes and forced...
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Angry State Workers Protest Against Governor’s Cut Plan
Hundreds of state workers in California held a rally on the
west steps of the Capitol Thursday, to...
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California: High School Dropout Rates Are High
State educators were shocked that one in four kids quit
school last year. California
made its...
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California: Thunderstorms Cause Mudslides and Floods
While firefighters are still battling with big and small
fires in California,
the state is also...
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Barack Obama’s Speech at the La Raza Convention
Sunday, Barack Obama spoke to about 2,000 members of the
National Council of La Raza, a Latino...
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Ryan Ramos, the Missing Boy from California, Was Found
The boy from Southern California, who was kidnapped by his
father after the man shot his estranged...
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Tropical Storm Bertha Likely to Become Hurricane
As Tropical Storm Bertha is getting closer to warmer waters,
the conditions would most likely turn...
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Sacramento Couple Must Pay $746 Fine For Not Watering The Lawn
What happens when you care about the environment? Apparently
you get a fine. And a big one too....
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Delta Boating Accident: 4 Presumed Dead, One Arrested
A 14-foot boat with 10 passengers capsized in the middle of
the night. Six of the passengers...
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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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SUV Crashes into Crowd, One dead, Others Injured
What’s the best way to spend a Sunday afternoon? Go to
church and get run over by an SUV. That’s...
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Man Who Killed Child Shot to Death by Officer
An incredibly disturbing scene happened Saturday night in Stanislaus County when a man beat a...
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Girl Attacks Mother with Hammer
The world has some serious issues, as its residents continue
to prove as days go by that they keep...
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Fatal Shooting on Highway 101: One Man Dead
Saturday night, a man was shot on U.S. Highway 101 near
Corte Madera.
Police began the...
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San Jose High School Student Stabs Colleague
I think we all remember that adolescence wasn’t the greatest
time of our life. We all thought that...
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American Airlines: June 15 Brings a $15 Charge for Baggage
American Airlines has some bad news for its clients.
Because of the oil prices that are getting...
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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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Two Administrators Fired in Sex Case
Two senior administrators at the Los Angeles school district
were removed from their positions for...
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Pets On Lap Forbidden While Driving
Californians who get caught driving with pets on their lap
may be fined $35 by police....
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Study Supporting Californian Delta Pumping Rejected
A federal judge on Wednesday rejected a study backing
increased water exports from Northern...
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Leanne the Tiger Gives Birth to Triplets
Leanne, the endangered Sumatran tiger that gave birth last
week at the San Francisco Zoo, was...
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Buckley Jr., American Conservatism Founder Dies At 82
William F. Buckley Jr., founder of the modern conservative
movement, the novelist, columnist and...
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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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EPA Did It Again! Federal Court Rejects ‘Clean Air Mercury Rule’
The Bush administration took a
nasty rejection from a federal court on Friday on their attempt to...
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Highway 101 Partially Reopens after 15-Hour Closure
Traffic started running again Wednesday morning on three northbound lanes of the busy Highway 101...
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Parents of Lauderhill Toddler Do Not Want Boy, 12, Prosecuted
The parents of the Lauderhill
toddler who was beaten to death have asked the Broward State...
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12-Year Old Boy Charged for Beating Toddler to Death
A 12-year-old boy from Lauderhill,
Florida has been charged with
first-degree murder in the...
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Business
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Newspaper giant McClatchy to eliminate 1,600 jobs
San Francisco - US newspaper giant McClatchy said Monday that it plans to eliminate 1,600...
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Ford Launches Its Self-Parking Technology
Ford Motor Co. has just announced on Tuesday that it has developed a self-parking technology,...
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Wal-Mart Begins Selling iPhones This Month
Later this
December, Wal-Mart stores are scheduled to begin selling Apple...
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AMD Presents Its Business Strategy
Advanced Micro Systems presented yesterday its new
processors, which are designed to cover every...
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Yahoo to Announce at least 1,000 Job Cuts
San Francisco - Yahoo Inc was to announce at least 1,000 job cuts, possibly as early as Tuesday...
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Ford Makes Driving A Little Bit Safer For Teens
Earlier this week, Ford Motor Co. presented its new system
developed to help parents gain a little...
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HP Profit Jumps, Boosted by Notebooks And Printers
The hardware maker Hewlett-Packard reported on Monday fourth
quarter net profits of $2.16 billion...
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Specials
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U.S. Court Denies Autism Case
Thursday, a United States special court denied a case that had been brought forth by three...
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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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Ford Is Focusing On Connectivity
Ford announced on Thursday the innovations their cars will get, and it was no surprise that the...
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Facebook Does Not Approve Of Breast-Feeding On Its Pages
Facebook’s decision to ban its users’ photos presenting them breast-feeding managed to...
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Look at the Sky in 2009
As the New Year presses near, Jupiter gets ready to wane into the sunset, leaving it to Venus to...
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Look Up to the Sky
As the new year approaches, above the southwestern horizon Venus is now dominating the sky at...
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Actor Jeremy Piven Leaves Stage Due to Mercury Poisoning
Jeremy Piven has suddenly left the cast of the hit Broadway revival of David Mamet's play...
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FDA Planning to Change Consumer Advice on Fish Consumption for Pregnant Women, Kids
Recently, the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration has been planning to review the recommendations...
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FDA Encourages Fish Consumption in Pregnant Women, Kids
Federal regulators seek to change guidelines on fish consumption for pregnant women and young...
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Jupiter, Venus, The Moon To Light Up The Sky Monday Night
Start
praying for a clear sky on Monday night, since Jupiter and Venus have begun
December in...
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December Sky Shows, Starring Jupiter and Venus
This holiday season brings you stellar entertainment of the sort you have never seen before, from...
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DWTS’ Julianne Hough Was Taken To The Hospital After The Show
Tuesday
night, just after the live broadcast of the “Dancing With The Stars” show ended,
Julianne...
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Japan Slaughters Thousands of Dolphins, Ignores Protests
Tokyo - At Taiji, a quaint whaling town 700 kilometres south of Tokyo, waves lap against steep...
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Ford MyKey: Parental Control System For Cars
Carmaker Ford developed an innovative technology that adds
parental controls to cars, meant to...
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Ford To Launch Chip Key That Controls Teen Drivers
Parents, stop worrying that your kid will give your car too much gas when you lend it to him. Ford...
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Girl’s Hand Re-Attached after Being Severed in Jump Rope Accident
A 6-year-old girl, whose hand was severed when it was caught in a ring of jump rope that had caught...
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Surgeons Reattach Girl’s Hand After Having Been Sliced Off
A couple of weeks ago, a strange and unusual jump-accident involving a six-year-old girl happened....
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High Blood Pressure Conference: Learn To Deal With Your Blood Pressure
The American Heart Association’s Conference of the Council
for High Blood Pressure Research held...
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Controversial Autism Study Canceled over “Unethical” Reasons
The National Institute of Mental Health decided to give up
on its study of a therapy called...
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Apple’s New iPods, Talk Of The iTown
After many rumors and speculation, Apple’s “Let’s rock”
event launched
on Tuesday, as Apple CEO...
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Ayurvedic Medicines Sold Online Contain High Levels of Toxic Metals
Ayurvedic medicines are frequently
contaminated with lead, mercury and arsenic, a new study found....
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Lake Tahoe’s Waters Remain Blue and Clear Despite Last Year’s Blazes
In spite of the fact that Lake Tahoe
continues to be warm, its famous clarity was little affected...
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Portrait of an Unknown Woman Found Under a Van Gogh Painting
Art historians have been using x-rays to probe artworks
hidden underneath other paintings for many...
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NASA Dreams Of Establishing Permanent Base On The Moon
We are just two decades apart from the moment humans will set
foot on the Moon once more,...
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“Generation Kill:” Also Iraq- Related, But More Realistic
"Generation Kill," the HBO seven-part miniseries produced
by David Simon and Ed Burns,...
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Messenger Photos Show Mercury Shrinking
The NASA scientists
revealed, on Sunday, after analyzing a set of photos taken by the
Messenger...
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Oprah’s Inspirational Speech at Stanford University
Stanford
University’s graduates will
remember June 15, 2008 for the rest of their lives as their...
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Number of US States Struck by Salmonella Infections Reaches 16
Tomatoes-borne Salmonella bacteria appear to infect more people each day spreading all over the...
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FDA to Investigate Possible Risks of Mercury Dental Fillings
Following a lawsuit filed by a number of consumer advocacy groups looking to eliminate the use of...
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Las Lomas Residents Exposed To Mercury-Tainted Water
The Monterey County Sherriff’s
Office advised residents in Las Lomas to stop drinking water due to...
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Technology
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Saboteurs Cut Internet Arteries in California
Police are searching for delinquents who cut the fiber-optic cables killing landlines, cell phones...
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Ford Presents Lincoln C Concept In Detroit
Ford unveiled the Lincoln C concept Monday, in Detroit. Their latest baby, the car presents a large...
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Environmental-Friendly Devices, in Trend at CES 2009
More than in any other years, this edition of the International Consumer and Electronics show...
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Ford Introduces Enhanced SYNC 3.0 Car System
Automakers may not have the best perspectives at the moment, considering the economic...
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Sky-Watchers’ Top Events for 2009
Next year brings quite a few interesting celestial events that no sky watcher can miss....
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Macworld Will Be Apple-less
Apple has just announced that it’s leaving Macworld behind. The January edition of the...
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Wal-Mart, the New Most Convenient Place to get an iPhone
Wal-Mart employers released a rumor Monday, according to which the retailer will sell the iPhone in...
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A Second Spacewalk For ISS Expansion
Astronauts living the International Space Station went back outside in order to perform more repair...
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Apple unveils new MacBooks
San Francisco - Apple unveiled a new line of Macbook laptop computers Tuesday, bringing prices down...
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Ford Installs Parental Control on Upcoming Cars
Ford Motor Co. has come up with a method to permit parents
to set restrictions on their teens. The...
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Freedom, A Twitter Away For UC Berkeley Student Arrested In Egypt
As surreal as it may sound,
Twitter can get you out of jail! The catch…send the right message to...
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MacBook Pro Gets Latest Intel Core 2 Duo, More Memory
MacBook Pro line of notebooks was updated today with the latest
Intel Core 2 Duo processors and...
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Science
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Messenger Reports Back From Mercury
The space probe sent out to explore the planet Mercury has managed to take images of 80% of the...
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NASA Probe Reveals Traces Of Intense Volcanism From Mercury’s Past
Less than one month after MESSENGER conducted its second
flyby past our Solar System’s innermost...
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MESSENGER On Second Flyby Past Mercury: Say Cheese!
The innermost planet of our Solar System, Mercury, received
the visit of NASA’s MESSENGER...
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NASA's MESSENGER Starts Photo-Mapping Mercury’s Surface
On its second flyby of Mercury this year, and the fifth in
space exploration history, NASA’s probe...
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Messenger craft flies within 200 kilometres of Mercury
Washington - NASA's Messenger spacecraft came within just 200 kilometres of Mercury early Monday,...
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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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Messenger From Mercury
MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging,
shortly Messenger, is a NASA probe...
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A Close Look On Mercury
NASA’s probe, the “Messenger”, will fly past planet Mercury for the second time since it was...
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NASA Prepares For MESSENGER’s 2nd Mercury Flyby On Oct. 6
NASA’s MESSENGER probe will be taking a second flyby past
Mercury for the second time this year,...
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NASA Reopens Spacesuit Competition after Complaint
NASA has decided to reopen the bidding for the $184 million contract aimed at developing and...
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NASA Dreams Of Establishing Permanent Research Base On The Moon
We are just two decades apart from the moment humans will set
foot on the Moon once more,...
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Makemake Officially Introduced As The Third Plutoid In Our Solar System
The International Astronomical Union revealed the newest
member of the family of dwarf planets in...
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Mercury – Earth-Like On The Inside, Moon-Like On The Outside
The January flyby of MESSENGER spacecraft by Mercury’s
surface revealed enough aspects in the past...
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Messenger's Photos Of Mercury Point Out New Facts
The scientists at NASA analysed a set of photos taken by the Messenger probe in January, and...
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Mercury Revealed: Smallest Planet Is Shrinking Further
NASA revealed images sent by its MESSENGER probe in January, when it snapped up some 1,200 photos...
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Mercury’s Cooling Core Causes The Planet To Shrink
The innermost planet of the solar system, Mercury, revealed
its mysteries 33 years after the first...
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Pleiad of Astronomical Events Take Over The Summer Skies
As July approaches fast, astronomy enthusiasts should
prepare for a highly anticipated series of...
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Astral Show For All Astronomy Enthusiasts
Astronomers announced a very exciting series of events over
the next few weeks. The celestial...
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New Planets, Super-Earths, Discovered Outside Our Solar System
Astronomers recently discovered three rocky planets that are
also referred to as...
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Pluto and Eris Are In A League Of Their Own
After a first decision by the International Astronomical
Union to demote the planet Pluto to...
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John Glenn Attends NASA – Discovery Documentary Launch
History met history earlier this
week, when John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth and the...
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Fifty Years Of American Space Exploration
Fifty years have passed since
the United States answered Soviet Union’s challenge and launched...
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Scientists Amazed By New Images Sent By NASA’s Messenger
Thanks to the news images sent back to Earth by NASA's Messenger
spacecraft the scientists are...
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High-Altitude Telescope Will Begin Operation Shortly
The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), which is a joint project of NASA and...
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Update: MESSENGER Races Past Mercury
MESSENGER, the MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging spacecraft launched by...
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MESSENGER Probe Nears Mercury for Today's Flyby
MESSENGER, the MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging spacecraft launched by...
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MESSENGER Probe Prepares for Mercury Flyby
MESSENGER, the MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging spacecraft launched by...
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Calaveras Fault Quake Reminds of "Next Big One"
The magnitude 5.6 earthquake that struck the Calaveras fault near Alum Rock Tuesday night at 8:04...
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Dawn Starts Its Eight Years Journey To Asteroid Belt
Dawn spacecraft has left today Earth and begun its eight
years journey to the dwarf planet Ceres...
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NASA Ready To Launch DAWN
NASA officials have said that launch and flight team are in
final preparations for the September...
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