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New York (AP) - This was the year the Earth struck back.
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Nasa: NASA-funded astrobiology research has changed the fundamental knowledge about what comprises all known life on Earth. Researchers conducting tests in the harsh environment of Mono Lake in California have discovered the first known microorganism on Earth able to thrive and reproduce using the toxic chemical arsenic. The microorganism substitutes arsenic for phosphorus in its cell components. "The ...
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Los Angeles Times: Reporting from Baltimore — Soldiers haunted by scenes of war and victims scarred by violence may wish they could wipe the memories from their minds. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University say that may someday be possible. A commercial drug remains far off — and its use would be subject to many ethical and practical questions. ...
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Australian Islamist Monitor: Massive inbreeding within the Muslim culture during the last 1.400 years may have done catastrophic damage to their gene pool. The consequences of intermarriage between first cousins often have serious impact on the offspring’s intelligence, sanity, health and on their surroundings The most famous example of inbreeding is in ancient Egypt, where several Pharaonic ...
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GENEVA (AP) - Scientists may have been able to capture elusive atoms of antimatter, but don't expect that to lead to interstellar rocket engines or powerful bombs anytime soon - if ever. Even as they announced the important advance in studying antimatter, they emphasized that science-fiction uses of the stuff - like propelling the starship ...
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PULLMAN, Wash. (AP) - Invoking the spirit of "Star Trek" in a scholarly article entitled "To Boldly Go," two scientists contend human travel to Mars could happen much more quickly and cheaply if the missions are made one-way. They argue that it would be little different from early settlers to North America, who left Europe ...
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The Guardian: The UK government is poised to start measuring people's psychological and environmental wellbeing, bidding to be among the first countries to officially monitor happiness. Despite "nervousness" in Downing Street at the prospect of testing the national mood amid deep cuts and last week's riot in Westminster, the Office of National Statistics will shortly be asked ...
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NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) – Energy drinks are hugely popular, but each one could be giving you more caffeine than a cup of coffee, a study said. In addition, that caffeine could combine with other ingredients in potentially risky ways, with the use of energy drinks with alcohol a particular concern. "What we know is that a ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Women with high-stress jobs face about 88 percent more risk of a heart attack than if they had low workplace stress, Harvard University researchers said. The scientists defined the stressful positions as those with demanding tasks and little authority or creativity. Those jobs also were associated with a 40 percent greater ...
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The Upshot: Scientists say they have created a mini Big Bang using the world's largest atom smasher, resulting in a temperature "a millions times hotter" than the sun's center, the BBC reports. In an underground tunnel near Geneva, the European Organization for Nuclear Research smashed together particles inside the $10 billion accelerator known as the Large Hadron ...
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LONDON (AP) – Alcohol is more dangerous than illegal drugs like heroin and crack cocaine, according to a new study. British experts evaluated substances including alcohol, cocaine, heroin, ecstasy, crystal meth and marijuana, ranking them based on how destructive they are to the individual who takes them and to society as a whole. Researchers analyzed how addictive ...
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Fox News: A NASA official may have made a 35-million-mile slip of the tongue. The director of NASA's Ames Research Center in California casually let slip mention of the 100-Year Starship recently, a new program funded by the super-secret government agency, DARPA. In a talk at San Francisco's Long Conversation conference, Simon “Pete” Worden said DARPA has ...
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NBC San Diego: Researchers have determined that genetics could matter when it comes to some adults' political leanings.
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BBC The event was marked with a flypast of an aircraft carrying SpaceShip Two. The vehicle has been designed to take fee-paying tourists on trips to the edge of space and back. British billionaire Sir Richard Branson - whose Virgin group has backed the venture - said the first passenger trip should take place within 18 months. Continue reading ...
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WashingtonExaminer Imagine that the price of food in America was prone to volatile price increases of 50 percent or more in a given year. Now imagine that while people struggled to afford food, government bureaucrats went around setting limits on how much food some American farmers can grow, while radical anti-obesity crusaders sued other farmers across ...
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USAToday Couples often ask me how frequently they should be having sex, and, until recently, I’ve always responded that there’s no one right answer. After all, a couple’s sex life is affected by so many different factors: age, lifestyle, each partner’s health and natural libido and, of course, the quality of their overall relationship to ...
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WSJ There is a lot more water on the moon than previously believed, according to an analysis of NASA data being published Friday, a finding that may bolster the case for a manned base on the lunar surface. The discovery grew out of an audacious experiment last year, when the National Aeronautics and Space Administration slammed a ...
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