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By Arshad Mohammed and Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States will study a new route for the Keystone XL Canada-to-Texas oil pipeline, U.S. officials said on Thursday, delaying any final approval beyond the 2012 election and sparing President Barack Obama a politically risky decision for now. [More]
Read More »Sickle-Cell Anemia Mystery Is Solved
By Meredith Wadman of Nature magazine It has been a medical mystery for 67 years, ever since the British geneticist Anthony Allison established that carriers of one mutated copy of the gene that causes sickle-cell anaemia are protected from malaria. [More]
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Facial Scare? Robots Get Human Faces
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Read More »Discredited Vaccine-Autism Researcher Defended by Whistleblower Group
It is one of the most serious allegations that could be made about a doctor: manipulating patients' histories to make money. So it is no wonder that the charges, levied by editors of the British Medical Journal (BMJ) in January against medical researcher Andrew Wakefield, are still getting close scrutiny. Now an American whistleblower advocacy group has joined the fray over Wakefield, who in 1998 hypothesized a link, now scientifically disproven, between the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine (MMR) and autism
Read More »Calories Depend on Food Preparation
Food is the body’s fuel. Now a study finds that the amount of energy in that fuel can depend not just on its calorie content--but on how it’s prepared. And the research, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , could explain an ancient leap in human evolution
Read More »Major Storm Lashes Alaska’s Coast, Water Surges
By Yereth Rosen ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Nov 9 (Reuters) - A storm forecast to be [More]
Read More »Computerized Pathologist Grades Breast Tumors and Predicts Outcomes
By Heidi Ledford of Nature magazine A computer program has been trained to grade breast cancer, predicting which tumours are associated with worse outcomes and, therefore, deserve more aggressive treatment.
Read More »Your Birdsong Stays on My Mind
“Officers, life doesn’t have to be ugly. See, look at the birds out there. Listen to their call: ‘Oo-wee! Oo-wee! Oo-wee! Oo-wee!” — Beverly Sutphin, Serial Mom Alas, as fans of John Waters’ masterpiece know, Beverly’s love of her feathered friends didn’t extend to homo sapiens
Read More »SpaceX ‘Dragon’ Capsule Aims to Go to Mars
By Eric Hand of Nature magazine Dragon, the privately built space capsule intended to haul cargo and astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS), is auditioning for another high-profile role.
Read More »Neural Networking: Your Brain’s Internal Connections Operate Like a Country Club
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Read More »Life’s Journey: 5 Tiny Organisms Hitch a Ride on Mission to a Martian Moon [Slide Show]
A round-trip journey to Mars would probably kill a crew of astronauts, unless they had some futuristic defense against radiation from the sun and from galactic cosmic rays. Would microbes be hardy enough to survive? We may soon find out
Read More »Cops Enlist Data-Tracking Software in the Fight against Child Predators
Evidence of child abuse, including child pornography, is often readily available via the Web thanks to peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing sites. BitTorrent software poses a particular problem for stopping the trade of these illicit images because it breaks the files into pieces and sends them from one computer to the next via different paths without passing through any centralized servers. This has for the most part rendered cops and security experts powerless to trace the origins of the files and catch the predators.
Read More »Floods Close in on Central Bangkok
By Ploy Ten Kate and Alan Raybould BANGKOK (Reuters) - Floodwater encircled two industrial estates in the east of Bangkok on Monday and closed in on the center of the capital, disrupting bus services, although mass transit train systems were still running and commercial districts remained dry. [More]
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