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Accepted Notion of Mars as Lifeless Is Challenged
04 09 2010 Some scientists suggest carbon-based molecules may have been destroyed before the Viking landers could find them.

H.I.V. Prevention Gel Hits Snag: Money
04 09 2010 Donors have not yet committed enough money for even one of the two studies needed to confirm a promising South African trial of a vaginal microbicide and get the product into women’s hands.

Nobel Winners Sign Letter Backing Obama Space Plan
03 09 2010 The letter expresses support for the president’s proposed strategy for NASA and criticizes cuts contained in a NASA authorization bill now before the House.

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Global network of specialist correspondents providing comprehensive coverage of science and technology news.

Edible crystals could store hydrogen fuel
03 09 2010 Molecular cages for storing hydrogen fuel have been made from cheap, natural ingredients – and they taste like crackers

Eternal black holes are the ultimate cosmic safes
03 09 2010 Normally, black holes evaporate over time, a process that probably releases information about their contents – but there may be a way to create black holes that stand the test of time

Pakistan's flood weather eased Atlantic hurricanes
03 09 2010 The stalled weather pattern behind floods in Pakistan and a heatwave in Russia may have delayed the start of the Atlantic hurricane season

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Up-to-the-minute news, breaking news, video, audio and feature stories. BBC News provides trusted World and UK news as well as local and regional perspectives.

Wolves fail to halt aspen decline
03 09 2010 The re-introduction of wolves to a US National Park has not helped re-establish quaking aspens, as many researchers had hoped.

Plans for solar 'close encounter'
03 09 2010 Nasa is aiming to get closer to the Sun than ever before, with plans to plunge a car-sized unmanned spacecraft into the star's outer atmosphere.

Technique to trace persistent CFCs
03 09 2010 Ultrafine measurements of atmospheric gases could help scientists track down the last sources of CFCs thought to be slowing the recovery of the ozone layer.

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Reuters / Science news

God did not create the universe, says Hawking
02 09 2010 LONDON (Reuters) - God did not create the universe and the "Big Bang" was an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics, the eminent British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking argues in a new book.

Wheat genome work just at initial stage: scientists
31 08 2010 BEIJING (Reuters) - Efforts to sequence the wheat genome are only at an initial stage of what will be a long-term project requiring more government support, leading Chinese and international scientists said on Tuesday.

U.N. climate panel urged to reform, stick to science
30 08 2010 UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. climate panel should only make predictions when it has solid scientific evidence and avoid straying into policy advocacy, a group of national science academies said in a report on Monday.

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Latest news on science, technology and the developing world

'Exciting' new odour sensors found in malaria mosquitoes
03 09 2010 Scientists have identified new scent receptors in mosquitoes that could help develop more agents to lure, repel and kill the insects.

Pakistan flood data wasted, say critics
03 09 2010 Scientists have amassed and processed plenty of data on the Pakistan floods, but there are bottlenecks to its use downstream, say scientists.

Could self-vaccinating cattle cut disease?
02 09 2010 Scientists in Malaysia are testing a live vaccine that spreads among cattle, protecting against a devastating disease.

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Warm water can trigger deformities in farmed fish
03 09 2010 EU-funded scientists have discovered that temperatures greater than 16°C can cause skeletal deformities in young salmon. The finding is part of the FINE FISH ('Reduction of malformations in farmed fish species') project, which received EUR 3.02 million under the SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) cross cutting activity of the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6). Results of the study were recently published in BMC (BioMed Central) Physiology.

Protein in Huntington's linked to neurogenesis
03 09 2010 EU-funded scientists have discovered that a mutated protein inherent in Huntington's disease (HD) performs an unforeseen role in neurogenesis. The finding could lead to a better understanding of HD, an inherited neurodegenerative disorder that is characterised by severe psychiatric, cognitive and motor defects, and neuronal death in the brain. The work was supported by CEPODRO ('Cell polarization in Drosophila'), a project that received EUR 1.159 million under the European Research Council’s Starting Grant scheme. Findings from the study are published in the journal Neuron.

Future phones just got smarter
03 09 2010 The next generation of mobile phones will be able to do more than ever before — both safely and efficiently. An EU-funded team has created a software platform that enables the use of multi-core technology on mobile embedded computing devices by way of virtualisation techniques. The dual multi-core and virtualisation solution developed by the EMUCO ('Embedded multi-core processing for mobile communication systems') team allows for both higher processing capacity and low power consumption, with the added value of security and flexibility. The project received almost EUR 3 million in support under the 'Information and communication technologies' (ICT) Theme of the EU's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7).

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Social Networks Influence Health Behaviors
04 09 2010 Social networks may be good...or bad...for your health. It all depends on the behaviors your network is spreading. HT @k8ethics #bioethics

Childs Ordeal Shows Risks of Psychosis Drugs for Young
04 09 2010 Too Young, Too Many, Too Much--Are Psychiatric Drugs Costing Children Their Childhood?

First tests for stem cell therapy are near
02 09 2010 Optimism and angst surrounds stem cell trials as trials are stopped and started and funding is slashed.

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Technology Review exists to promote the understanding of emerging technologies and their impact.

Video App Offers Guidance While You Shoot
03 09 2010 NudgeCam encourages good footage by tracking faces and assessing sound quality. If you've ever accidentally shot a video sideways, or cropped the top of someone's head out of a frame, you might be glad to know about a new cell-phone app that automatically provides shooting advice to videographers.

How Websites Make You Spill Your Secrets
03 09 2010 People divulge more sensitive information on sites that look less safe. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have found that the appearance of website has a big effect on how honestly people answer personal questions put to them by the site. But paradoxically, it turns out we're more likely to spill our secrets on websites that appear less reputable. The way a website phrases questions also affects our willingness to disclose revealing information, the researchers found.

Transplanting Gut Microbes to Treat Disease
02 09 2010 Scientists examine new ways to manipulate the microorganisms within us. Earlier this summer, scientists reported the success of an unusual medical transplant; a woman with a life-threatening Clostridium difficile infection was treated, and apparently cured, with an injection of some of her healthy husband's gut bacteria. Researchers are now exploring the effects of this type of transplant in greater detail. They hope to eventually treat a wide range of ailments--from bowel diseases to obesity, diabetes to depression--by manipulating the bacteria that live in the human gut.

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Indonesia, US team up for biodiversity research centre
02 09 2010 A centre for Indonesian biodiversity has been set up with funding from the US, as part of a science partnership between the two nations.

Maximising Africa's bioenergy potential
01 09 2010 African bioenergy projects must focus on new technologies and receive stronger political support, says biofuel expert Emile van Zyl.

Pakistan's science minister attacks funding cuts
31 08 2010 Pakistan's science budget has been cut by more than a third compared with last year, with several ministries that fund science affected.

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American Scientist / Magazine


An illustrated bimonthly magazine about science and technology

Killer Whale Evolution Leads to Two Orca Species
03 09 2010 Orcas, commonly known as killer whales, are still evolving, and quickly. Researchers have discovered that two distinct types of orca, a large and a pygmy form, are rapidly diverging, evolving away from each other... from BBC News Online

Alzheimer's Trade-Off for Mentally Active Seniors
03 09 2010 Mental exercise lets seniors outrun Alzheimer's disease--for a while. Then the race takes a tragic turn for the sharp-minded, a new study finds, as declines in memory and other thinking skills kick into high gear... from Science News

Has Stephen Hawking Ended the God Debate?
03 09 2010 God did not create the universe, Stephen Hawking revealed yesterday. In the flurry of publicity preceding his new book, The Grand Design, to be published next week, he does some serious dissing of the Almighty, declaring him/her/it irrelevant. The point is, he says, that our universe followed inevitably from the laws of nature. But, we might ask, where did they come from? from the Telegraph (UK)

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