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Modern methods can answer a multitude of questions but sometimes traditional techniques are superior. Recent studies from the James Bay region of northern Canada and the Torres Strait islands off Australia show just how valuable local knowledge can b

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And in the final reversal, December has been far more active than the rest of the year. Five regions on the sun were active at once on the 22nd, as seen above.

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Twenty-five years ago, Norwegians were also losing their lives to this bacteria. But Norway's public health system fought back with an aggressive program that made it the most infection-free country in the world. A key part of that program was cutti

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It is estimated that 40 percent of the nation’s total grid energy losses are from aging conventional transformers and that the use of superconducting transformers could reduce energy losses on the grid by one-third – equivalent to eliminating about 1

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The state Supreme Court said nothing in state law prevents patients from seeking physician-assisted suicide, making Montana the third state that will allow the procedure. Patients and doctors had been waiting for the state's high court to step in aft

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AP

Aker University Hospital is a dingy place to heal. The floors are streaked and scratched. A light layer of dust coats the blood pressure monitors. A faint stench of urine and bleach wafts from a pile of soiled bedsheets dropped in a corner. Look clos

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LiveScience

He was cleaning the glass tank of his pet, a Chilean Rose tarantula. While focused on cleaning a stubborn stain, he sensed movement in the terrarium and so turned his head. That's when the tarantula flicked a "mist of hairs" that hit him in the eyes

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Europe's Goce satellite is returning remarkable new data on the way the pull of gravity varies across the Earth. Scientists say its first maps clearly show details not seen in previous space and ground measurements.

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Assoicated Press

MOSCOW – Russia is considering sending a spacecraft to a large asteroid to knock it off its path and prevent its collision with Earth — a collision NASA considers highly unlikely — the head of the country's space agency said Wednesday

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This is legitimate science, and there's a great deal of public interest in it," said Alan Stern, a former assistant administrator at NASA who, in 2007, decided that proposals for extraterrestrial search programs should not be banned from the agency

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Now, MIT researchers have developed tiny gold particles that can home in on tumors, and then, by absorbing energy from near-infrared light and emitting it as heat, destroy tumors with minimal side effects.

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AP

Last month there were 1,500 sea lions on San Francisco's fabled Pier 39, a record number that delighted tourists and baffled experts. Why so many? Why were they sticking around? Now, all the sea lions are gone, leaving the experts guessing where they

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NY Times

The technique depends on natural agents called zinc fingers, may revive the lagging fortunes of gene therapy because it overcomes the inability to insert genes at a chosen site. Treatments for bubble-boy disease, hemophilia and sickle-cell anemia

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Five fans per wing are installed above the wing with the exhaust nozzle near the trailing edge. The fully superconducting motor outside diameter at 7.24 inches is an excellent match with the hub diameter of the fan exit, and the light weight of th

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Treehugger

3D printing to order is a regular subject on TreeHugger; we love the idea of making things when you need them, where you need them. And soon you will be able to order up body parts, at a sort of Ponoko for pancreas. Now people sit on waiting lists, h

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What we need to do is to link the distribution directly to cell phone subscribers. Have the subscriber designate a health care provider (witch doctors included) to whom medicines can dispatched. The subscriber then takes responsibility for his famil

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Reuters

Combining artificial sweeteners with the real thing boosts the stomach's secretion of a hormone that makes people feel full and helps control blood sugar. There's some evidence that artificial sweeteners may trigger secretion of glucagon-like peptide

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December 17th - 18th, 2009, Mojave, CA, USA and Yecheon-gun, ROK: The Yecheon Astro Space Center announced today that it has selected XCOR Aerospace as its preferred supplier of suborbital space launch services. Operating under a wet lease model, XC

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In fact, it's so good at turning plant matter into fuel that researchers say their discovery calls into question the whole theory of how crude oil was made by nature in the first place.

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When physicist Vitaly Efimov heard his theory had finally been proven, he ran up to the young scientist who had verified it and gave him a high five. Efimov had predicted a quantum-mechanical version of Borromean rings, a symbol that first showed