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9/14/2012 2:48:58 PM
Antarctica's Ross Sea is often described as the most isolated and pristine ocean on Earth, a place where seals and penguins still rule the waves and humans are about as far away as they could be. But even there it has proven difficult, and maybe impossible, for nations to agree on how strongly to protect the environment.
9/14/2012 4:21:19 AM
The baby of NASA's space shuttle fleet is about to leave home — for good.
9/14/2012 12:44:38 AM
A team of scientists has identified a new species of monkey in central Africa that had been known to the locals simply as lesula, a medium-sized, slender animal that looks similar to an owl-faced monkey that was already known to scientists.
9/14/2012 4:58:05 AM
The nation bid farewell Thursday to Neil Armstrong, the first man to take a giant leap on to the moon.
9/13/2012 7:09:58 AM
The Mars rover Curiosity is preparing to roll again after it completes its health checkups this week, project managers said Wednesday.
9/14/2012 7:00:46 AM
Menopause is a rare phenomenon in the animal world. Besides humans, killer whales are among the few species whose females lose their ability to reproduce well before the end of their natural life span. But to what advantage?
9/14/2012 5:14:59 AM
A new computer program can identify doodles of objects almost as well as humans.
9/14/2012 5:07:26 AM
Researchers have identified five of the genes that shape a person's face, work that could help scientists better understand facial abnormalities like cleft palate and someday might even help forensic investigators determine what a criminal suspect looks like from crime-scene DNA.
9/14/2012 7:07:54 AM
Late astronaut Neil Armstrong's historic 1969 moonwalk put dreams of spaceflight in the heads of countless kids around the world — including one Canadian nine-year-old who would grow up to become his nation's first International Space Station commander.
9/14/2012 6:34:29 AM
A secret U.S. spy satellite launched into space atop a 19-story rocket Thursday (Sept. 13), ending a six-week delay for the latest clandestine space mission by the National Reconnaissance Office.
9/14/2012 9:11:11 AM
REUTERS - Smokers may get fewer hours of sleep and have less restful slumber than non-smokers, according to a German study that looked at more than two thousand people. Researchers whose work appeared in the journal Addiction Biology found that of nearly 1,100 smokers surveyed, 17 percent got fewer than six hours of sleep each night and 28 percent reported "disturbed" sleep quality. That compared with rates of seven percent and 19 percent respectively among more than 1,200 non-smokers who were also surveyed, said lead researcher Stefan Cohrs, of Charite Berlin medical school in Germany. ...
9/14/2012 6:07:38 AM
GENEVA (Reuters) - Scientists at CERN have smashed together various particles for the first time, moving closer to learning what was in the super-hot plasma wonderland that formed right after the primeval Big Bang, the European physics research centre said on Thursday. The announcement followed another boost for physicists at CERN near Geneva with the effective endorsement by independent experts in a key journal of their claimed discovery of a new particle, the Higgs Boson. ...
9/14/2012 12:44:38 AM
A team of scientists has identified a new species of monkey in central Africa that had been known to the locals simply as lesula, a medium-sized, slender animal that looks similar to an owl-faced monkey that was already known to scientists.
9/12/2012 4:52:23 PM
CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australian scientists have developed a genetic test to predict autism spectrum disorder in children, which could provide a long-sought way for early detection and intervention, according to a study published on Wednesday. About one in 150 children has autism, with symptoms ranging from social awkwardness and narrow interests to severe communication and intellectual disabilities, said researchers led by the University of Melbourne. The researchers used U.S. ...
9/12/2012 4:17:41 AM
Singer Sheryl Crow has said she believes her benign brain tumor was caused by frequent cellphone use, but the science to date does not support her theory.
9/12/2012 1:31:51 AM
Scientists would love to be able to rewind the universe and watch what happened from the start. Since that's not possible, researchers must create their own mini-universes inside computers and unleash the laws of physics on them, to study their evolution.
9/11/2012 4:42:10 AM
With government funding for science and spaceflight waning these days, a new start-up hopes to fill the gap by providing private funding for spaceflight, space research and education. Only five days remain in an online campaign to raise seed money for the company, called Uwingu ("sky" in Swahili).
9/11/2012 3:14:39 AM
LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have found nature's way of creating color that never fades, a technique they say could replace pigments used in industry with natural plant extracts in products from food coloring to security features in banknotes. Layers of cellulose that reflect specific wavelengths of light - 'structural color' found in peacock feathers, scarab beetles and butterflies - make a particularly intense blue in the Pollia condensata plant, scientists say. Samples of the fruit in plant collections dating back to the 19th century had not lost any shine or intensity, they found. ...
9/10/2012 11:02:24 PM
(Reuters) - Biotechnology company Biogen Idec sold its royalty rights on the lupus treatment Benlysta to Canadian investment firm DRI Capital Inc in exchange for a multiple of the royalty amount it was due to receive over three years. Human Genome Sciences and its acquirer GlaxoSmithKline Plc , which own Benlysta, will now pay royalty payments directly to DRI Capital, according to the deal. GlaxoSmithKline pays Biogen royalty for a patent that covers the use of an antibody as a treatment for auto-immune diseases. ...
9/10/2012 10:12:41 PM
Seven scientists have won prestigious medical awards for development of liver transplantation, discoveries about the inner workings of cells, and leadership in biomedical science.
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