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- HIV "cure" won't save sick millions
- Why HIV "cure" won't save sick millions
- Why we love to hate the spider
- Obama's win was an historic day for forecasters too
- US elections: Historic day for forecasters
- Octopus Family Tree Traced Using New Molecular Evidence
- Treating Heart Failure With A Gas
- New Laser Method Reproduces Art Masterworks To Protein Patterns
- Past Gains In Reducing Risk Of Heart Disease Have Flattened, Women Especially Affecte
- Rare Hebrew Seal From First Temple Period Discovered In Archaeological Excavations In
- Growing waistline poses weighty risk to health
- Top US court rules for Navy in whale-sonar case
- Sun Shows Signs Of Life: Long-Awaited Solar Cycle 24 Starting To Take Off
- Molecule That Stops SARS Invented
- Rheumatoid Arthritis Breakthrough
- Over 50% Of People With High Blood Pressure Unaware They Have Condition
- Nano-scale Electromechanical Sensors In Handheld Devices
- How warfare shaped human evolution
- Humans may have prevented super ice age
- Speed daters go for crowd-pleasing looks
- Shuttle set to bring second toilet to space station
- DNA strands become fibre optic cables
- New Path Found To Antibiotics In Dirt
- Stem Cells From Monkey Teeth Can Stimulate Growth And Generation Of Brain Cells
- Commercial Poultry Lack Genetic Diversity, Are Vulnerable To Avian Flu And Other Thre
- New Method Provides Panoramic View Of Protein-RNA Interactions In Living Cells
- Nature’s Own Chemical Plant
- 'Multilingual' birds learn foreign alarm calls
- TV-sized probe to strike Moon's surface
- Thar she blows: Snot offers clues to whale health
- Why fertile women hate a pretty face
- Mars rover's power dips to all-time low
- Zero-gravity day trips to fund space research
- Gene hunt finds cancer culprits
- Brain sees fine line between speech and song
- Fine line between speech and song revealed
- NASA bids farewell to Phoenix lander
- Annual Plants Converted Into Perennials
- Alzheimer’s-associated Plaques Found In Symptom-free Older Adults
- Southern Wall Of Jerusalem That Dates To Time Of Hasmonean Dynasty Discovered On Moun
- Refractive Surgical Practices In HIV-Positive Persons
- Scientific Community Called Upon To Resolve Debate On ‘Net Energy’ Once And For All
- Astonishing Life In Ocean's Depths: Major Progress Made Towards Historic Census Of Ma
- Quintet Of Proteins Forms New, Early-warning Blood Test Before Heart Attack Strikes
- Modeling Ice Cream Production In The Search For Innovation
- Impact Of Insulin Pump Under Study
- How 'Molecular Machines' Kick Start Gene Activation Revealed
- Earliest known shaman reveals tool of the trade
- Heart-powered pacemaker taps beats for energy
- Heart powered pacemaker taps beats for energy
- Primate welfare law could rule out some research
- New species from out of the blue
- New Small-scale Generator Produces Alternating Current By Stretching Zinc Oxide Wires
- Researchers Discover New Risk Factor For Cardiovascular Disease, And A Way To Control
- Nanoparticles Research Aids Drug Development
- Half-broken Gene Is Enough To Cause Cancer
- MP3 Headphones Interfere With Implantable Defibrillators, Pacemakers, Study Suggests
- Robot helicopter takes flight navigation to a new low
- Pimped up T-cells seek out and destroy HIV
- The odd drink in pregnancy won't harm baby
- Physicists Create BlackMax To Search For Extra Dimensions In The Universe
- Genetic Study Provides New Insights Into Molecular Basis Of Language Development
- Red-eyed Treefrog Embryos Actively Avoid Asphyxiation Inside Their Eggs
- Smaller Mosquitoes Are More Likely To Be Infected With Viruses Causing Human Diseases
- Paper Mill Waste May Be Just Right For Reclaiming Mineland
- Chinese and Nigerian men join elite genome club
- The online doctor will see you now
- Space tourists to get limited protection
- Conservationists may be overestimating wildlife habitat
- In search of the missing Stone Age tribes
- Sea Snakes Seek Out Freshwater To Slake Thirst
- What’s Your Child’s Genetic Destiny For Disease?
- Tale Of Two Snails Reveals Secrets About The Biochemistry Of Evolution
- Gout And Parkinson's: Studies Examine Treatment For Gout And The Condition's Protecti
- Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow: Tracking Hair Loss And Growth Mathematically
- Can legislation stop the wells running dry?
- Does rainfall vary with sunspot activity?
- Baby stars and cosmic votes: The week in space
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- Why a speeding shark is like a golf ball
- Plucky Mars rovers on the move again
- Morphing mirror could clear the skies for astronomers
- Robots Show That Brain Activity Is Linked To Time As Well As Space
- Melanin Production Discovered In Fat Tissue May Protect Some Individuals Against Chro
- Unraveling Lion's Natural History Using Host And Virus Population Genomics
- Dietary Sport Supplement Shows Strong Effects In The Elderly
- Sunlight Has More Powerful Influence On Ocean Circulation And Climate Than North Amer
- Virus accomplice helps drugs fight cancer
- China tells rich nations to pay up on climate change
- Northern Lights captured in 3D for the first time
- Northern Lights recreated in 3D for the first time
- Cellphone app will get air guitarists wailing
- Social Interactions Can Alter Gene Expression In Brain, And Vice Versa
- Achilles' Heel Of Pancreatic Cancer Discovered
- Gold Nanostars Hold Promise In Medical Diagnoses And Tests For Environmental Contamin
- Kidney Transplantation Can Improve Mental Performance, Study Finds
- Computers Effective In Verifying Mathematical Proofs
- Space shuttle is key issue for Obama, agency says
- Plastic not so fantastic for lab experiments
- Energy Agency warns of 6°C rise in temperatures
- Putting a price on the 'eco-crunch'
- Gig-goers guide to the art of queue jumping
- Gallery: The submarine pioneer who shaped spaceflight
- Earthworm Activity Can Alter Forests' Carbon-carrying Capabilities
- New Target In Brain For Treating Schizophrenia Identified
- Tennis: Referees More Likely To Make Mistakes When Calling Balls 'Out'
- New Regulatory Mechanism Discovered For Cell Identity And Behavior In Forming Organs
- Computer Model Improves Ultrasound Image
- Dark matter may be shining a light
- GM cotton in the clear over farmer suicides
- Why hair bleach is a murderer's best friend
- Ants have a simple solution to traffic congestion
- Rocks Could Be Harnessed To Sponge Vast Amounts Of Carbon Dioxide From Air
- How Tuberculosis Might Be Thwarting Immune System: Proteomics Study Yields Clues
- 2008 Sees Fifth Largest Ozone Hole
- Parasites That Live Inside Cells Use Loophole To Thwart Immune System
- Molecule Stops DNA Replication In Its Tracks
- Dying Mars lander to enter 'Groundhog Day' state
- Obama on science, in his own words
- Where will new Fermi telescope find dark matter?
- Climate change sends lemming numbers plunging
- Rock guitarists' amp becomes a trap for atoms
- Is mirror neuron activity just a mirage?
- Invention: Self-diagnosing aircraft
- Could Life Have Started In Lump Of Ice? Very Cold Ice Films In Laboratory Reveal Myst
- Moms' Smoking Linked To Increased Risk Of Birth Defects
- Clue Discovered In Spread Of 'Superbugs'
- Anti-VEGF Drugs For Retinal Diseases Could Have Serious Side Effects, Scientists Caut
- Ecologists Say Metabolism Accounts For Why Natural Selection Favors Only Some Species
- New Spaceship Force Field Makes Mars Trip Possible
- Drug Mimics Low-cal Diet To Ward Off Weight Gain, Boost Running Endurance
- New Device Controls, Measures Dynamics Of Chemicals In Live Tissue
- Chronic Headaches? 'Medication Overuse Headaches' Surprisingly Common
- Light Weight Hydrogen 'Tank' Could Fuel Hydrogen Economy
- Comment: When not to write about autism
- Hairy subs could feel their way through turbulence
- Chicken genome plucked bare by inbreeding
- Solar Power Game-changer: 'Near Perfect' Absorption Of Sunlight, From All Angles
- Precipitation Levels May Be Associated With Autism
- Roads Bring Death And Fear To Forest Elephants
- Dramatic Fall In Malaria In Gambia Raises Possibility Of Elimination In Parts Of Afri
- Biologists Spy On The Secret Inner Life Of A Cell
- New ad technology could turn piracy into profits
- Video games don't train your brain
- Taurid meteors may produce dazzling 'fireballs'
- Fungal diesel could revolutionise fuel production
- The feminine touch carries more germs
- Cloning 'resurrects' long-dead mice
- Has new physics been found at the ageing Tevatron?
- Odorprints Like Fingerprints? Personal Odors Remain Distinguishable Regardless Of Die
- Crucial Hormonal Pathway To Bone Building Uncovered
- Parasites And Global Change: Past Patterns, Future Projections
- Patience During Stalled Labor Can Avoid Many C-sections, Study Shows
- Antioxidants Can Reduce The Toxic Effects Of Lead, Study Suggests
- Honeycomb to mend a broken heart
- Credit Card-swipe Device To Test For Hundreds Of Diseases
- Brain Stimulation Improves Dexterity
- Study Rules Out Inbreeding As Cause Of Amphibian Deformities
- Can Your Doctor Correctly Read A Critical Heart Test? Improving Accuracy Of Electroca
- 'Superenzymes' Could Streamline Biofuels Refining
- Silver-screen audio trick could smooth jerky video
- Biologists Discover Motor Protein That Rewinds DNA
- Transplantation: 'Molecular Miscegenation' Blurs The Boundary Between Self And Non-se
- Researcher Grows Roots On Upper Part Of Plant
- Severe Gestational Hypertension May Protect Sons Against Testicular Cancer
- Ultrasound Shown To Exert Remote Control Of Brain Circuits
- Why sex gets cocks crowing
- Habitable worlds may hide in gas giants' wake
- The yo-yo world of diet drugs
- Gallery: 2008 New Scientist Eureka Prize
- Babies are OK after light drinking in pregnancy
- Dark matter may shine with invisible 'dark light'
- Sea Urchin Yields Key Secret Of Biomineralization
- Scientists Identify Machinery That Helps Make Memories
- Inland Ants Often Prefer Salt Over Sugar, Implying Salt May Be A Limitation On Their
- Grapes And Grape Extracts May Lower Cardiovascular Disease Risk, Review Article Sugge
- Quantum Computers? Internet Security Code Of The Future Cracked
- Hot nanotube sheets produce music on demand
- Silicon core gives optical fibres a molecular view
- Geologists blame drilling for Indonesian mud volcano
- Invention: Treatment for Fragile X
- Is cannabis being doped with Viagra?
- Hubble repair mission postponed again
- How vampires evolved to live on blood alone
- 'Living Fossil' Tree Contains Genetic Imprints Of Rain Forests Under Climate Change
- High-fat Diet Could Promote Development Of Alzheimer's Disease
- Grapes May Aid A Bunch Of Heart Risk Factors, Animal Study Finds
- Cancer Requires Support From Immune System To Develop
- Mathematician Cracks Mystery Beatles Chord
- Ghostly gallery: Spooky images from space
- Male-killing bacteria provide a surprise benefit
- Humans to blame for polar warming
- Gallery: The best wildlife photography of 2008
- How to eavesdrop on alien chat
- Global-warming methane spiked in 2007
- Gallery: Gold bugs and living jewels
- Bluetongue outbreak comes from illegal vaccine
- Common Cold Symptoms Caused By Immune System -- Not The Cold Virus
- Allergies May Protect Against Certain Types Of Cancer
- World's Smallest Hand-held Instrument For Detecting Health And Safety Threats
- Cholesterol-lowering Drugs May Also Lower PSA, But Whether They Cut Cancer Risk Is St
- Predicting Boom And Bust Ecologies
- Mysterious dark patches dot Mercury's surface
- Climate Change Seeps Into The Sea
- Global Warming Is Killing Frogs And Salamanders In Yellowstone Park, Researchers Say
- Statins Associated With Lower Risk Of Death From Pneumonia
- Toward Non-invasive Disease Diagnosis With Wellness Cards
- Exercise-induced Fatigue In Muscular Dystrophies Explained
- An iron will runs in the family
- Men have a sharper eye for a love cheat
- Toxic bug has meat-eaters in its sights
- 'Menopausal' men could get sexual boost from HRT
- Singing duets helps sperm whales to bond
- Disastrous 'eco crunch' threatens planet
- When does human life begin?
- Mummy, that robot is making faces at me
- 'Hate circuit' discovered in brain
- Dinosaur Smelling Skills Open New Angle On Bird Evolution
- Pregnant Women Consuming Flaxseed Oil Have High Risk Of Premature Birth
- Flexible, Affordable Light Source Can Printed
- Scientists Identify Single MicroRNA That Controls How Heart Chambers Form
- The Great Cosmic Challenge
- Chimps compile Nixon-style 'enemies list'
- Brain scans show the difference between love and hate
- Soybeans No Longer 'A Musical Fruit?'
- Exploring Use Of Fat Cells As Heart Attack Therapy
- Revolutionary Operation Performed Live For Heart Rhythm Congress
- BRAF Mutations In Colorectal Cancer Cause Resistance To Anti-EGFR Therapy, Study Find
- Nanoscale Coating Protects Products And The Economy
- Two-faced approach creates solar cells to dye for
- Dinosaur 'mummies' were just thick-skinned
- Problems mount for NASA's Ares rocket
- Hubble re-opens an eye
- Tracking system is dam good news for salmon
- How We See Objects In Depth: Brain's Code For 3-D Structure
- Fight Obesity With New Antibody That Degrades Appetite Stimulant?
- NASA Tests Rover Concepts In Arizona
- Healing Process Found To Backfire In Lung Patients
- Models Help Assess Biofuels' Sustainability
- Spooky space pictures: a Halloween gallery
- Fetal genes record mum's starvation
- Biblical 'Solomon's mines' confirmed by dating
- Nearest planetary system boasts two asteroid belts
- Proto-humans mastered fire 790,000 years ago
- Orange Peel Can Help Clean Up Dirty Water
- Eating Whole Grains Lowers Heart Failure Risk, According To New Study
- Bumblebees Learn The Sweet Smell Of Foraging Success
- Newly Discovered Mechanism Can Explain Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome
- How To 'Stamp' Nanodevices With Rubber Molds
- Seven of the greatest scientific hoaxes