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A new matchstick-sized contraceptive that doctors insert in a woman's upper arm for as long as three years won U.S. clearance, six years after an earlier birth-control implant came off the market. Once a doctor inserts the Implanon device unde
Men and boys with autism have fewer neurons in the amygdala, a part of the brain involved in emotion and memory. Looked at the brains of nine autistic men and boys, aged 10 to 44, and compared them to 10 brains of males who did not have autism. Th
Nuance Communications says the latest version of its speech-recognition software can achieve--with some speakers--99% accuracy out of the box, without a "training" session to familiarize the software with how a particular person talks. It w
The triangular delta-wing shape found on many modern fighter jets was used by a small reptile to glide between trees 225 million years ago, a new study suggests. Sharovipteryx mirabilis is known from only a single fossil. It was about 8 inches lon
Now 21st-century technology is confirming his statement, as mining companies, spurred by high commodity prices, prepare to extract metal ore from rich deposits more than a kilometre under water.
[Bush finally finds veto pen?!] The U.S. Senate strongly backed bipartisan legislation to expand federally funded embryonic stem cell research, but President Bush has vowed to veto the measure as morally indefensible. The vote was 63-37, four shor
The Government will attempt to identify children at risk of failure, violent behaviour or criminality at birth, and take the necessary corrective actions to steer them onto a law-abiding and successful path. [Gattaca anyone?]
Once upon a time, a 2-ton wombat lumbered across the Australian Outback. Around the same time, mammoths and saber-toothed tigers had the California coastline all to themselves. Millions of years before any of these animals existed, Tyrannosaurus r
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Special prosecutors investigating allegations that police tortured nearly 150 black suspects in the 1970s and '80s said they found evidence of abuse, but any crimes are now too old to prosecute.
Hassan Nasrallah will address the people of Tel Aviv and warn them to evacuate the city within one hour.
[Links to several similar stories on article right.] de Boer was startled to learn that he was one of hundreds of East Texas ranchers entitled to up to $40,000 in disaster compensation from the federal government, even though the nearest debris lande
At a moment when his conservative coalition is already under strain over domestic policy, President Bush is facing a new and swiftly building backlash on the right over his handling of foreign affairs.[ Smells like neocons to me.]
Israel's widening counterattacks against Lebanon threaten not only the country's fragile economic rebirth, but an entire region's tenuous stability.
A proposal to establish an office to assist victims of sexual assault in the military has been rejected by the Department of Defense. A number of groups concerned with the problem of sexual assault in the US Armed Forces, along with Rep. Louise Slaug
A dairy factory, a lighthouse, civilian buses and a medical truck are just a few of the more puzzling targets hit in Israel's week-old pounding of Lebanon. But Lebanese are wondering what is left to hit in raids that have caused damage of billio
A single dose of radiation approaching what will be faced by long-term space travelers to the Moon or Mars causes as much as a 39 percent spongy bone loss in mice, a new study shows. The loss of connectivity in spongy bone ranged as high as 64 pe
The proteins called CapG and Gelsolin regulate cell movement. Unusually high concentrations are found in cancerous tissue and could be involved in the spread of the disease to other areas of the body. "These proteins may play a fundamental ro
Investor confidence in Germany slumped to its lowest level in 14 months this month, a new poll has shown, with the party mood in the eurozone's biggest economy soured by a nasty-tasting cocktail of the strong euro, high oil prices and imminent ta
The Internal Revenue Service has been warning churches and nonprofit organizations that improper campaigning in the upcoming political season could endanger their tax-exempt status. In notices to more than 15,000 tax-exempt organizations, numerous
The House rejected a proposed constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, a setback that conservatives hope to turn to their advantage in the fall elections. "Be assured that this issue is not over," said House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-I
A doctor and two nurses who worked through the chaos that followed Hurricane Katrina were arrested on suspicion of murder and accused of giving deadly drug injections to four desperately ill patients trapped in the flooded-out hospital.
An offshore sports-betting operation targeted by U.S. prosecutors shut down its Web site Tuesday night, a day after a federal judge ordered the company to stop letting Americans place wagers. The company's founder, Gary Stephen Kaplan, the bigges
The two men standing on either side of the spiraling war between Israel and Hizbollah have never met, will likely never meet and could not be more different ideologically. The decisions of Israeli Prime Minister Olmert and Hizbollah leader Nasrallah
Iran's Hizbollah, which claims links to the Lebanese group of the same name, said it stood ready to attack Israeli and U.S. interests worldwide. "We have 2,000 volunteers who have registered since last year," said Iranian Hizbollah
President Bush personally blocked a Justice Department investigation of the anti-terror eavesdropping program that intercepts Americans' international calls and e-mails, administration officials said. Bush refused to grant security clearances
A suicide bomber pulled his van into a busy market, lured labourers with job offers and blew himself up, killing scores in one of the worst attacks in Iraq since the new government was installed in April. The blast in the Shi'ite city of Kufa
Israeli warplanes battered Lebanon, killing 29 people, and more Hizbollah rockets hit the Israeli city of Haifa, with no sign that diplomacy would halt the week-old conflict any time soon. The Israeli army said its offensive to crush Hizbollah cou
Breaking with diplomatic formalities, Bush hailed Blair, his closest European ally, with the words "Yo, Blair". His solution to the Middle East crisis was that Syria should press Hizbollah to "stop doing this shit". The British
Islamists who are hostile to Israel and the US - and to their Arab allies who have criticized Hizbullah - are shoring up support, increasing the chances they will seize power if the elections President Bush has urged for the region take place. Ira
