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...Apollo mission archives now digitized and online
Johnson Space Center and Arizona State University's Space Exploration Resources are scanning and cre
...The downside of diversity
A Harvard professor's research suggests that diversity can 'bring out the turtle is all of us' and t
...Volunteers sought for 520-day Mars flight simulation
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...Sound and salt (video link)
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...Modern Students Devour Old Math
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...Historian James R. Fleming urges caution about a quick technological fix to global warming
In the Spring issue of The Wilson Quarterly, historian James R. Fleming urges caution
...Private rocket rides into space
Elon Musk's Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) has lofted it's Falcon-1 rocket on t
...Draw your simulation
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...Satelite radio the green way
The European Space Agency has developed a system which would allow television satelites to be reused
...Diabetes breakthrough?
Scientists at a Toronto hospital say they have proof the body's nervous system helps trigger diabete
...Lost knowledge regained: hessian crucibles explained
Researchers reveal that Hessian crucible makers made use of an advanced material only properly ident
...Hints of Star Trek: Power Gels
Scientists say Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) gels may one day be used to power miniature robots or other
...It's true - you can't always believe what you see
The brain pathways for eye movement and perception operate independently, the researchers say.
Early sketch of Stonehenge found
The earliest known sketch of Stonehenge found in a 15th century manuscript
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...Blood molecules used to create complex that can separate hydrogen and oxygen
Scientists have combined two molecules that occur naturally in blood to engineer a molecular complex
...Pocket Labs
University of Waterloo researchers create miniature electronics capable of detecting environmental t
...Smart Homes In South Korea
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...Canadian Invention - Eliminating the Need for Household Chemicals?
System uses ozone-treated water to kill bacteria and sanitize fruits and vegetables
New Mexican Telescope
Mexican President Vicente Fox has inaugurated a giant telescope that could help scientists uncover c
...Surprise: Humans Have Greater Differences in DNA Than Previously Thought
Scientists say that surprisingly many large chunks of human DNA differ among individuals and ethnic
...Cancer and Stem Cells
Mounting evidence suggests that cancer's real culprits -- the roots of perhaps every tumour -- are a
...Modern technology busts Victorian plaigirists
A novel use for Google book search? In a strange twist of fate, literary scholars may be able to use
...marker-assisted selection - alternative to GM food?
New technologies may make gene splicing and transgenic crops obsolete. The new agricultural technolo
...Ancient African Texts Document Fantastic Written History
150,000 brittle manuscripts, with more yet to be discovered, show a golden age in Timbuktu; scripts
...Canadian academics fear US Patriot Act
The Patriot Act, which allows U.S. authorities to sweep through databases, has prompted Canadian pos
...Bacteria that live on uranium?
Researchers have found bacteria that live in rocks 2.8 kilometers below Earth's surface and rely on
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- [NEWS] EVOLUTION: Where Have All Thoreau's Flowers Gone?
- [NEWS] GENOMICS: Billion-Dollar Cancer Mapping Project Steps Forward
- [NEWS] MARINE BIOLOGY: Panel to Take Closer Look at Scientific Whaling
- [NEWS] APPLIED PHYSICS: Tiny Transistor Gets a Good Sorting Out
- [NEWS FOCUS] ARCHAEOLOGY: Preserving Iraq's Battered Heritage
- [NEWS FOCUS] ARCHAEOLOGY: On Iraq's Front Lines
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- [NEWS FOCUS] PARTICLE PHYSICS: Competing Teams Plot Two Different Paths to a New Particle Smasher
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