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- Merck catches more flak over dangerous drug
- Mirror test shows magpies aren't so bird-brained
- Bloating galaxies confound astronomers
- Herbivores eat away at climate-change predictions
- Cassini spots source of geysers on Saturn moon
- First object seen from solar system's inner Oort cloud
- Invention: Flat-panel ion thrusters
- Ferocious California fires kill off aliens
- Ecotourists scare away endangered wildlife
- Synthetic Molecules Could Add Spice To Fight Against Cancer
- Leishmaniasis Parasites Evade Death By Exploiting Immune Response To Sand Fly Bites
- New Robot Scouts Best Locations For Components Of Undersea Lab
- Toxoplasmosis Found More Severe In Brazil Compared To Europe
- Extinction Most Likely For Rare Trees In Amazon Rainforest
- World's farmers turn to raw sewage for irrigation
- Computers tell their life stories to reduce waste
- Eleven new streams of stars found in Milky Way
- Computer model of bees probes the hive mind
- Fussy fish pick a partner from afar
- NASA backs troubled rocket design
- Milky Way keeps tight grip on its neighbour
- 'Virtual Archaeologist' Reconnects Fragments Of An Ancient Civilization
- By Amplifying Cell Death Signals, Scientists Make Precancerous Cells Self-destruct
- Surprising Details Of Evolution Of Protein Translation Revealed
- Helping Tumor Cells Not To Stick To The Wound During Surgical Removal
- Old Growth Giants Limited By Water-pulling Ability
- How to ensure animated clones get lost in the crowd
- Farms in Brazil and India must adapt or roast in heat
- Biggest 3D galaxy map to probe dark energy's history
- Bisexuality passed on by 'hyper-heterosexuals'
- Cassini Pinpoints Source Of Jets On Saturn's Moon Enceladus
- Stress, Anxiety Can Make Allergy Attacks Even More Miserable And Last Longer
- Slipping Through Cell Walls, Nanotubes Deliver High-potency Punch To Cancer Tumors In
- Burmese Pythons Will Find Little Suitable Habitat Outside South Florida, Study Sugges
- Hepatitis B Genotypes And Mutants May Influence Liver Cancer Risk
- Great Planet Debate ends in stalemate
- Go online to find your future spouse
- Big-brained Animals Evolve Faster
- Lessons From Yeast: A Possible Cure For Parkinson's Disease?
- Chemists Take Gold, Mass-produce Beijing Olympic Logo
- Model For Neurological Disorder 'Angelman Syndrome' Developed
- In The Long Run, Exertion Regulation Wins The Day For Marathon Runners
- Craving fatty food? Blame it on childhood illness
- Arsenic-eating bacteria rewrite evolutionary history
- Stone Age mass graves reveal green Sahara
- Moisturisers cause cancer in mice - but don't panic
- Virtual hand gets under the skin
- Solar Collector Could Change Asphalt Roads Into Renewable Energy Source
- White Blood Cell Uses DNA 'Catapult' To Fight Infection
- Bouncy Cell Phones And Car Bumpers May Be Workable With Springy Nanotubes
- Not All Hearing Aids Are Created Equal
- Successful Series Of Measurements In Arctic Sea Ice
- Smells Like Bees' Spirit: Response To Pheromone Changes According To Situation
- Childhood Dairy Intake May Improve Adolescent Bone Health
- Virtual Reality Goggles Create An Equal Opportunity Eye Test
- Overweight Hispanic Children At Significant Risk For Pre-diabetes, According To New S
- Green Roofs Differ In Building Cooling, Water Handling Capabilities
- Robotic observatory in Antarctica shuts down
- Cassini returns close-up images of moon's 'tiger stripes'
- 'Beer goggles' are real - it's official
- Quantum strangeness breaks the light barrier
- Rise of the rat-brained robots
- Singing owls reveal motives of the dawn chorus
- Search engines could be lubricated by quantum maths
- Spin flip trick points to fastest RAM yet
- Tiny Molecule Helps Control Blood-vessel Development
- Why Some Infected With HIV Remain Symptom Free Without Antiretroviral Drugs
- Veterinarians Adapt Human Tests For Monkeys
- Experimental Chemotherapy Regimen Shows Promise In Treating Advanced Lung Cancer
- 'Anti-noise' Silences Wind Turbines
- Virgin rainforest targeted for oil drilling
- Why real and imagined disgust have the same effect
- Childhood Brain Tumor Traced To Normal Stem Cells Gone Bad
- For The Birds Or For Me? Why Do Conservationists Really Help Wildlife?
- Alternate Pathway That Leads To Palate Development Identified
- Anything But Modest: The Mouse Continues To Contribute To Humankind
- Sexual abuse of male soldiers common in Liberian war
- Phoenix Mars lander bakes third soil sample
- Bugs lead drug-hunters to medicinal treasure
- US boasts of laser weapon's 'plausible deniability'
- 80% of British biofuels are unsustainable
- Biofuels of dubious provenance bring mixed blessings
- Rabies tragedy follows loss of India's vultures
- Senator questions FBI's anthrax evidence
- World's Thinnest Balloon Developed: Just One Atom Thick
- Proton Pump Inhibitors Increase Risk Of Bone Fractures, Study Finds
- Keeping The Crunch In The Crust
- Molecular Switch Helps Decide Cell Type In Early Embryo Development
- Aphids Are Sentinels Of Climate Change
- Springs to dampen NASA rocket's vibrations
- Humpback whales come off the danger list
- 'Adapter plug' to turn antibodies into HIV killers
- Elephant seals track changes to Antarctic seas
- Triumph displays may be hard-wired
- Colorful Star Birth Region Near Tarantula Nebula Unveiled On Hubble's 100,000th Orbit
- Better Bandage: Microscopic Scaffolding Offers 'Simple' Solution To Treating Skin Inj
- Are Pronghorns Smarter Than Classical European Royalty?
- Pre-cancerous Condition Linked To Chronic Acid Reflux Faces Several Hurdles
- Opalescent stellar nursery imaged by Hubble
- Saving species doesn't harm the world's poor
- Can memory save elephants from climate change?
- Basketball pros read pinkies to call shots
- Lethal parrot disease may be caused by horse virus
- Invention: Morphine-cannabis superpainkiller
- Did iron cyclones give Earth a wonky core?
- How to turn gas guzzlers into green machines
- Survival Of The Fittest: Even Cancer Cells Follow The Laws Of Evolution
- In Scientific First, Researchers Correct Decline In Organ Function Associated With Ol
- Ricin's Deadly Action Revealed By Glowing Probes
- First Step Towards Switching Off Breast Cancer And Leukaemia
- Promising Lithium Batteries For Electric Cars
- How recycling could keep your organs young
- Mutation Found In Dachshund Gene May Help Develop Therapies For Humans With Blindness
- Cancer-inhibiting Compound Found Under The Sea
- Capturing Deer Safely With Minimal Trauma Using New Apparatus
- Why Gene Therapy Caused Leukemia In Some 'Boy In The Bubble Syndrome' Patients
- Compressor-free Refrigerator May Loom In The Future
- Early Europeans quickly got a taste for milk
- Parasitic flies force bees into drudgery
- People With Heart Disease Still Have Trouble Controlling Blood Lipid Levels
- Satellites help explain Greenland ice loss mystery
- Climate maps offer wildlife hope of sanctuary
- How Whales And Other Marine Mammals React To Sonar
- Organic Food Has No More Nutritional Value Than Food Grown With Pesticides, Study Sho
- Spiders Who Eat Together, Stay Together -- And Form Enormous Colony Sizes
- Nanowires From DNA: Project Opens Up New Possibilities For Modified Chain Molecules
- Global Warming Forecasts Not Taking Into Account Nanoscale Atmospheric Aerosols
- Spooks enlisted in hunt for gravity waves
- Meta-materials Mimic Ice And Illuminate Why Water-ice Doesn't Fully Conform To Third
- Multi-tasking Molecule Holds Key To Allergic Reactions
- Back To The Future: Psychologists Examine Children's Mental Time Traveling Abilities
- Twenty Disease-specific Stem Cell Lines Created
- Beyond 3G: Ultra-fast Mobile Radio Networks Of The Future
- Cassini to search for source of Saturn moon's plumes
- World's smallest balloon inflated
- Humans cause climate change, US body accepts
- Yellowstone supervolcano is only lukewarm
- On the web, all traffic shall be equal
- South Africa may axe drug approval body
- Mystery killer disease may be spread by vampire bats
- Computers to help spot criminals' bad habits
- Solar System Is Pretty Special, According To New Computer Simulation
- New Implant Device Remotely Monitors Heart Failure Patients
- Hot Peppers Really Do Bring The Heat
- Hormone Level May Reflect Mortality Risk Among Dialysis Patients
- Fuel From Bacteria Is One Step Closer
- World's most powerful accelerator set to switch on
- Solar systems like ours may be rare
- Gyroscopic space robot avoids negative reactions
- Mind games reveal people who are 'blind' to trust
- Perfectly Proportioned Legs Keep Water Striders Striding
- Medicinal Marijuana Effective For Neuropathic Pain In HIV, Study Finds
- Drivers Of Tropical Deforestation Are Changing, Say Scientists
- Treatment Outcomes Highlight Dangers Of Extensively Drug-resistant Tuberculosis
- New Decision Model Seeks To Avert Flu Vaccine Mismatch Of 2007-2008 Season
- First Neanderthal genome completed
- 'Supernova impostor' begins to dim unexpectedly
- Gallery: Old bones reveal historical health problems
- Investigators 'confident' Ivins was anthrax attacker
- China's smogs have surprise climate benefit
- ALife Conference To Reveal Bio-inspired Spam Detection
- Olympic Games: Researchers Explore What Makes Better Athletes, The Physiology Of Perf
- 'Exercise Pill' Is No Replacement For Real Exercise, Expert Cautions
- Male Circumcision Efforts Lag In Africa Despite Evidence Of Dramatic Impact In Preven
- Keeping Migrant Workers' Children Healthy
- No interstellar dust yet found in Stardust samples
- Tutankhamun fetuses to get paternity test
- First 'virophage' could take the fight to viruses
- Artificial eyeball does away with distortion
- Falcon failure is another setback for solar sails
- Duck-billed Dinosaurs Outgrew Predators To Survive
- New Gene Therapy Kills Pancreatic Cancer Cells
- Wind Powered Vehicle, Ventomobile, Ready To Race In The Netherlands
- Growth Hormone Treatment For HIV Patients Improves Abdominal Fat, But Worsens Glucose
- Gold Nanoshells Help Visibly Heat And Destroy Cancer
- Technical hurdles may rule out Olympic gene cheats
- Phoenix soil results released after days of speculation
- Breakthrough In Quantum Mechanics: Superconducting Electronic Circuit Pumps Microwave
- Eating Fish May Prevent Memory Loss And Stroke In Old Age
- Fuel Cell Efficiency May Be Improved With Material With 'Colossal Ionic Conductivity'
- Process By Which All Blood Cells Originate Is Essentially The Same Throughout Mammal
- Overcoming Inhibitors Of Cell Death Improves Cancer Therapy Efficacy
- Green mystery blob may reveal black hole's last meal
- GPS cellphones to unleash gamers onto the streets
- 'Lost world' of gorillas discovered in the Congo
- Anthrax genes will point to perpetrator
- Half of world's primates face extinction
- Military Use Of Robots Increases
- Two Years Old: A Childhood Obesity Tipping Point? Research Suggests That Childhood Ob
- New Role Found For A 'Foxy Old Gene'
- Recurrence Of Group B Strep High In Subsequent Pregnancies, Say Obstetricians
- Tevatron Experiments Double-team Higgs Boson
- Australian Bird Research Could Rewrite 'Ring Theory' Of Speciation
- When Our Protective Armor Shows Weakness: Genetic Defect In Skin Cells Leads To Neuro
- Combating Secondary Infections In Clinics
- Endoscopic Circumferential Ablation Promising For Barrett's Esophagus With High-grade
- Project Aims To Improve Energy Efficiency Of Computing
- Vitamin C jabs may combat cancer
- Falcon 1 rocket fails to reach orbit
- Global HIV stats called into question by US study
- Bottle-brush robot goes where 'pigs' can't reach
- Screensaver reveals new test for synaesthesia
- Bacteria were the real killers in 1918 flu pandemic
- Invention: Exoskeleton for grannies
- Found: The hottest water on Earth
- Wi-Fi networks suffer 'autoimmune' attacks
- China Becomes A Physics Powerhouse
- Turned-off Cannabinoid Receptor Turns On Colorectal Tumor Growth
- Plant Parasite 'Wiretaps' Host
- Methadone Breaks Resistance In Untreatable Forms Of Leukemia
- Smart Contact Lenses Dispense Medication
- World's smallest snake discovered
- Back to basics for failed HIV vaccine
- How snakes got their fangs
- Alzheimer's Drug May Help Mild Memory Loss, Imaging Study Suggests
- Common Vaginal Infection May Increase Risk Of HIV Infection
- Timing Is Everything: How Vulnerable To Flooding Is New York City?
- Cutting The Brakes On The Immune System; Newly Discovered Gene Variant Implicated In
- Emerging Scientific Discipline Of Aeroecology
- Mangled stars could reveal ejected black holes
- Arctic ice continues to thin
- Newly Discovered Monkey Is Threatened With Extinction
- How Some Bacteria May Steal Iron From Their Human Hosts
- Traumatic Response To Bad Memories Can Be Minimized
- Simple Lab Test For Bone Disease Linked To Risk Of Death In Dialysis Patients
- Functional Nanoribbons Carved Using Super-heated, Nano-sized Particles Of Iron
- Software strips patients' names, keeps the gory details
- Creating a computer game is child's play
- Is our universe fine-tuned for life?
- Pneumatic robot arranges limbs for MRI 'sweet spot'
- Could China lead the green revolution?
- Pollen-coated bullet could make its mark on criminals
- Marijuana takes on colon cancer
- Kids' eyes need the great outdoors
- Ivory Poaching At Critical Levels: Elephants On Path To Extinction By 2020?
- Gene May Put Women With Migraine At Increased Risk Of Heart Disease And Stroke
- Aging Impairs The 'Replay' Of Memories During Sleep
- Mitochondrial DNA Copy Number Associated With Risk Of Kidney Cancer
- Climate Change Science Program Issues Report On Climate Models
- Total eclipse dazzles viewers in China
- Disgraced Korean cloning expert loses license
- IOC admits deal on Olympics censorship
- Drugs could turn couch potatoes into athletes
- Anthrax attack suspect dies in apparent suicide
- Exercise In A Pill: Researchers Identify Drugs That Enhance Exercise Endurance
- Discovery May Lead To Immunization Against Cardiovascular Disease
- Mars Express Acquires Sharpest Images Of Martian Moon Phobos
- Compounds From Soy Affect Brain And Reproductive Development
- Kiwi Fruit DNA Sequences Released
- Phoenix Mars lander 'tastes' first sample of water ice