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- Metabolic Syndrome Ups Colorectal Cancer Risk
- Impact Of Geology On The U.S. Civil War: War From The Ground Up
- Air Pollution May Increase Risk Of Appendicitis
- Is It A Planet? Exotic Object Orbiting Star Stirs Exoplanet Classification Rethink
- Gene That May Contribute To Improved Rice Yield Identified
- Early birds do best with changing climate
- Blood tests could eliminate Down's miscarriage risk
- Space rock found on collision course with Earth
- Hurricane-sized whirlpools spotted on the Sun
- Satellite galaxies cling onto their haloes
- Human Papilloma Virus And Cancer, HIV Discoveries Recognized In 2008 Nobel Prize In P
- Smoking And Solid Fuel Use In Homes In China Projected To Cause Millions Of Deaths
- Near Infrared Nanoparticles Shine A Bright Light On Cancer
- Major Study Of Preschoolers' Visual Acuity Finds Fault With A Standard Eye Test
- Field Of The Future: Ecological Experiment Simulates Conditions In 2100
- AIDS and cervical cancer discoveries scoop Nobel prize
- Invention: Aviation special
- World's mammals are in crisis, Red List reveals
- Why nature can't be reduced to mathematical laws
- New Graphene-based Material Clarifies Graphite Oxide Chemistry
- For Insulin Sensitive Overweight Patients, One Session Of Exercise Improves Metabolic
- Genetic Damage In Minibacteria In Aphids And Ants Repaired By Faulty Copying
- Disinfectants Can Make Bacteria Resistant To Treatment
- Earliest Animal Footprints Ever Found Show Animals Walking 30 Million Years Earlier T
- Crick was right about 'vision filter' in the brain
- Mini microscope captures live brain-cell action
- Maths helps bees read the waggle dance
- Multi-drug 'polypill' finally to tackle heart problems
- Pterodactyl-inspired Robot To Master Air, Ground And Sea
- Breast Cancer Cells Recycle To Escape Death By Hormonal Therapy
- Ultra-Endurance Competitors: Lessons From Sled Dogs In The Iditarod
- Learning To Shape Your Brain Activity
- Immune System For Electronics? Electronics That Can Diagnose And Heal Themselves Unde
- Meteorites From Inner Solar System Match Up To Earth's Platinum Standard
- Making Metabolism More Inefficient Can Reduce Obesity
- Scientists Design A Chip To Measure The Wind On Mars
- Parents Still Fear Autism Could Be Linked To Vaccines, Poll Shows
- Study On Properties Of Carbon Nanotubes, Water Could Have Wide-ranging Implications
- Everglades restoration bogged down by poor planning
- Web content contributors seek attention not altruism
- What happened to the Kuiper Belt's smallest objects?
- Artificial Cells: Models Of Eel Cells Suggest Electrifying Possibilities
- Direct Recording Shows Brain Signal Persists Even In Dreamless Sleep
- Why Does Lederhosen Conquer The Oktoberfest In Munich?
- Second Lumpectomy For Breast Cancer Reduces Survival Rates
- Small Fly Has Receptor For Painful Heat
- Economic turmoil could scupper EU climate plans
- Antarctic bases offer lessons for space
- Could brain scans ever be safe evidence?
- Nerds rejoice: Braininess boosts likelihood of sex
- Transplanted frozen liver raises hopes of organ 'bank'
- Laser cracks 'unbreakable' quantum communications
- Future cars could sport carbon-sponge gas tanks
- High-tech sponge could take hydrogen cars further
- Musicians Use Both Sides Of Their Brains More Frequently Than Average People
- Brain Pathway Responsible For Obesity Found: Too Many Calories Send Brain Off Kilter
- Remembrance Of Tussles Past: Paper Wasps Show Surprisingly Strong Memory For Previous
- Childhood Wheezing With Rhinovirus Can Increase Asthma Odds 10-fold
- Physicists Find That Size Matters When Initiating An Object's Movement Through Grains
- Dark matter makes galaxy's stars live long and prosper
- 'Coca-Cola douches' scoop Ig Nobel prize
- Chernobyl Fallout? Plutonium Found In Swedish Soil
- Compact Fluorescent Lighting: Are We Trading Energy Conservation For Toxic Mercury Em
- Changes In Sex Steroids Associated With Menopause
- Acupressure Calms Children Before Surgery
- Genes Influence Effectiveness Of Weight-loss Drug
- Giant tuna kindergarten identified in Atlantic
- Tax credits promise brighter outlook for solar energy
- Google announces plan to wean US off coal and oil
- Scorpion venom hunts down brain cancer
- Were pterosaurs too big to fly?
- A taste for scorpion venom could be cancer's undoing
- Robotic yellow submarine is 'Mars Rover of the sea'
- Daughters thrive on mother's pride
- Vitamin C Supplements May Reduce Benefit From Wide Range Of Anti-cancer Drugs
- First Detection Of Magnetic Field In Distant Galaxy Surprises Astronomers
- Colon Cancer: Researchers Take Important Steps Forward In Understanding Cause
- Keeping Computing Compatible
- Cells Coordinate Gene Activity With FM Bursts, Scientists Find
- Lunar endurance mission to act as 'boot camp' for Mars
- Spacecraft to image unseen side of Mercury
- 'Hub' Of Fear Memory Formation Identified In Brain Cells
- During Exercise, Human Brain Shifts Into High Gear On 'Alternative Energy'
- New Way To Make Malaria Medicine Also First Step In Finding New Antibiotics
- Occupational Therapy Gets People With Osteoarthritis Moving
- Commercial Aquatic Plants Offer Cost-effective Method For Treating Wastewater
- Precocious galaxy's magnetic field is bizarrely strong
- Precocious galaxy's magnetic field dwarfs Milky Way's
- Love is blind for fish in murky waters
- African cities triggered the AIDS epidemic
- Supernovae, spacewalks and snow: The week in space
- Paper transistors make for disposable electronics
- Global Warming Will Have Significant Economic Impacts On Florida Coasts, Reports Stat
- First Model For Retina Receptors Created
- Hot Laptops: Engineers Aim To Solve 'Burning' Computer Problem
- Why A Mother's High-fat Diet Contributes To Obesity In Her Children
- Nano Breech: When Particles Are So Small That They Seep Right Through Skin
- Farmland birds still chirpy despite wind turbines
- Martian fossils may be hiding inside white rocks
- Special Probe Aids In Looking For Water On Mars
- Endoscopy May Not Be Necessary In Asymptomatic Children After Caustic Ingestion
- The 'Magnificent Seven' Of European Astroparticle Physics Unveiled To The World
- Potentially Toxic Substance Found In Chicago Air
- Microbes 'Run The World': Metagenomics Increasingly Used To Characterize Them
- Bad boys can blame behaviour on their hormones
- Big babies at higher risk of breast cancer
- Arthritis supplements no better than placebo
- Do we all have some synaesthetic ability?
- Invention special: Green technology
- Global Warming Fix? Carbon Dioxide Captured Directly From Air With Simple Machine
- MS Patients Have Higher Spinal Fluid Levels Of Suspicious Immune Molecule
- Stalagmites May Predict Next Big One Along The New Madrid Seismic Zone
- Free-Living Protozoa Found In Meat-Cutting Plants
- Air Quality Regulations Miss Key Pollutants
- Virgin Galactic craft to help monitor climate
- Hubble failure delays repair mission to 2009
- Phoenix finds evidence of past liquid water on Mars
- Phoenix finds evidence of past water on Mars
- Marine 'dead zones' leave crabs gasping
- Hubble repair mission may be delayed to 2009
- Private rocket achieves orbit on fourth try
- Tweezers Trap Nanotubes By Color
- New Predictive Tool Can Help Determine Treatment Of Breast Cancer Patients
- Helping Dogs With Cancer May Benefit People
- Popular COPD Treatment Increases Risk For Cardiac Events, Cardiac Death
- Out Of Iraq Emerges Hope For Those With Severest Of Head Injuries
- Europe should spend now to avoid climate catastrophes
- Invisibility cloaks could take sting out of tsunamis
- In the language of love, money talks
- Heroic ants pay the ultimate price to safeguard nest
- A wolf's dark pelt is a gift from the dogs
- Voice-Commanded Robot Wheelchair Finds Its Own Way
- Vascular Marker Of Ovarian Cancer Identified
- Is The Salad Bar Safe? Produce Concerns Linger After Summer Scares
- Existing Anti-obesity Drugs May Be Effective Against Flu, Hepatitis And HIV
- Dark Energy: Is It Merely An Illusion?
- Enzyme blocks bug-induced secondary illnesses
- The smell of death sends mites to sleep
- Compound Could Help Detect Chemical, Biological Weapons At Long Distances
- Novel Mechanism To Reduce Nervous System Inflammation Identified
- Brain Imaging Study Provides New Insight Into Why People Pay Too Much In Auctions
- Inhibiting Cholesterol-associated Protein Reduces High-risk Blockages In Arteries
- Seabird Ammonia Emissions Contribute To Atmospheric Acidity
- Space 'taxis' could cut the cost of spaceflight
- Mars iron is ideal for building future bases
- Learning From Mistakes Only Works After Age 12, Study Suggests
- Lung Cancer: Radiation, Immunotherapy Gives Greater Effectiveness, Study Suggests
- Bees Can Mediate Escape Of Genetically Engineered Material Over Several Kilometers
- New Tool Helps Physicians Tailor Hormone Therapy For High-risk Prostate Cancer Patien
- Size And Fitness Levels Of NHL Players Have Improved, Study Shows
- New More Efficient Ways To Use Biomass
- Peptide Ghrelin May Be Involved In Both Alcohol Dependence And Overeating
- Australian Frog Species Chooses Not To Put Eggs In One Basket
- Animals Farmed For Meat Are The No. 1 Source Of Food Poisoning Bug, Study Shows
- Want Better Mileage? Simple Device Which Uses Electrical Field Could Boost Gas Effici
- Horny goat weed could be better than Viagra
- 'Cod delusion' leaves damaged stocks on the brink
- Apathy leaves damaged cod stocks on the brink
- 'Cod delusion' leaves devastated stocks on the brink
- Giant impact explains Mars's wonky magnetic field
- Pigs Bred With Cystic Fibrosis Provide Model To Mimic Human Disease
- Broken Arm? Women Recover Muscle Strength More Slowly Than Men, After Cast Is Removed
- 100-year-old Engineering Problem Solved: Insights On Fluid Flow Could Impact Fuel Eff
- Low Sperm Count May Be Associated With Prenatal Testosterone Excess
- Detecting Human Activities Through Barriers: Doppler Radar Signals Become Animation
- Polygamy left its mark on the human genome
- Gallery: Stunning visualizations of science
- New Laboratory Technique Improves Success In 'Highly Sensitized' Kidney Transplants
- Hawaiian Scientists Take Their Test Tubes Surfing
- American Kids Most Medicated
- Plants In Forest Emit Aspirin Chemical To Deal With Stress; Discovery May Help Agricu
- Growing Up Too Fast May Mean Dying Young In Honey Bees
- Stem cells created without cancer-causing viruses
- China's third crewed mission blasts off
- Galaxy flow hints at huge masses over cosmic horizon
- Neil Armstrong makes rare speech as NASA turns 50
- Hollywood cut secret deals to promote smoking
- US looks to its coasts to boost oil supply
- Planned cluster bomb hunts targets down
- New European Record Efficiency For Solar Cells Achieved: 39.7%
- New Instrument Can Quickly Examine Multiple Proteins In A Single Cancer Sample
- Severe Climate Change Costs Forecast For Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Tennessee, Nor
- Global Solar Wind Plasma Output At 50-Year Low, Ulysses Spacecraft Reveals
- Obesity Surgery Performed Through Vagina, U.S. First
- Mars Polar Cap Mystery Solved: Why Southern Ice Cap Is 'Misplaced'
- Compounds That Prevent Nerve Damage Discovered
- European Research Effort Tackles Dangerous Mould
- What Is The Best Strategy For Treating Helicobacter Pylori?
- Lack Of Large-scale Experiments Slows Progress Of Environmental Restoration
- Antidepressants may harm male fertility
- Invention: Bat-style footstep detector
- Climate change: how Obama and McCain compare
- Metal-fungus hybrids make for more powerful catalysts
- Large Hadron Collider out of action until spring
- Hidden Infections Crucial To Understanding, Controlling Disease Outbreaks
- Strong Association Found Between Prevalence Of Low White Blood Count And Women Of Afr
- Honeybee Venom Toxin Used To Develop New Tool For Studying Hypertension
- Source Of Multipotent Stem Cells With Broad Regenerative Potential identified
- Cosmic 'Dark Flow' Detected Across Billions Of Light Years
- China prepares to launch first spacewalk mission
- Water, water everywhere, and now it's safe to drink
- Acidifying oceans are brewing up an underwater din
- Mars rover to head toward massive crater
- 'Chemical equator' protects Antarctica's clean air
- Comet Dust Reveals Unexpected Mixing Of Solar System
- Benefit Of Combination Therapy For Alzheimer's Disease Confirmed
- Looking Vs. Seeing
- Geriatric Patients Receive Significant Benefit From Cochlear Implantation
- Disposable ‘lab-on-a-chip’ May Save Costs And Lives
- Turbulent weather ahead for southern US
- Top landing sites chosen in hunt for Mars life
- Shifty eye movements behind famous optical illusion
- 'Sketch your own' lab-on-a-chip could save lives
- Formula Discovered For Longer Plant Life
- Exercise Effective In Helping Pregnant Women Kick The Habit
- Saturn's Rings May Be More Massive, Older, Than Previously Thought
- Cheap cervical cancer test is boost for poor countries
- Zero-gravity may make astronauts dangerous drivers
- Chimps never forget a bum
- Wasps have a good memory for a face
- Neanderthals feasted on seals and dolphins
- Political Attitudes Are Predicted By Physiological Traits, Research Finds
- Protein Identified That Plays Role In Blood Flow
- Solution To Global Fisheries Collapse? 'Catch Shares' Could Rescue Failing Fisheries,
- Different Stem Cell Types Defined By Exclusive Combinations Of Genes Working Together
- Site Used By Sodium To Control Sensitivity Of Certain Potassium Ion Channels
- Planet's strange orbit points to planetary billiards
- Invention: Infrared lie detector
- Gas leak shuts LHC for two months
- Watch out for the other bird flu
- Graphical search engine will cheer sports fans
- Sweet smells lead to sweet dreams
- Powerful X-ray captures molecular shape-shifting
- Pulsating Stars Enable New Precise Determination Of Rotation Of The Milky Way
- Receptor Activation Protects Retina From Diabetes Destruction
- Global Warming's Ecosystem Double Whammy
- New Model Predicts Long-term Survival Of Critically Ill Patients
- Introducing The Next Generation Of Chemical Reactors
- Female circumcision common in Egypt despite ban
- North American fish swimming towards extinction
- Why ecotourists should head to high-rise resorts
- Interstellar Space Molecules That Help Form Basic Life Structures Identified
- Longevity, Cancer And Diet Connected: New Research In Worms Could Apply To Humans
- Easier-to-hit 'Targets' Could Help Older People Make The Most Of Computers
- Stem Cells May Solve Mystery Of Early Pregnancy Breast Cancer Protection
- Putting Pictures Into Words
- 'LHC day' was highest profile physics event in history
- Clearer skies have brought more rain
- Cosmic explosion is most distant ever seen
- Why ecotourists should head to high-rise resorts