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Read More »The Flu Sheds Light on Holes in Immune System Knowledge
MALTA--Coming down with the flu--and slowly recovering from it--might seem straight forward enough. [More]
Read More »Large Carbon Sequestration Project Ramps Up at Corn Ethanol Facility
A leading agriculture company is about to put the United States on the map with the world's biggest carbon sequestration projects.
Read More »SpongeBob SquarePants zaps kids’ attention span? What study says
Seventy percent of kids who drew passed problem-solving tests, compared with 35 percent who watched educational show, 15 percent who watched "SpongeBob" cartoon
Read More »Germany Learns from E. Coli Outbreak
By Marian Turner of Nature magazine Germany aims to shorten the time it takes for information on infectious-disease outbreaks to reach federal authorities from up to 18 days to just three, after this year's outbreak of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli killed 53 people. [More]
Read More »Breast-feeding boy goes bovine
When his mother left home to find work, 20-month-old Tha Sophat turned to local cow
Read More »Satellite Set to Make Big Splash or Thud
Look out below! A defunct satellite the size of a school bus is falling back to Earth. NASA's Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite, or UARS , is expected to reenter the atmosphere at the end of September.
Read More »GolfChannel: Picking the FedEx Cup winner
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Read More »Smoking orangutan forced to kick the habit
Ape seized from Malaysian zoo put into quarantine; Officials withhold cigarettes because "smoking is not normal behavior for orangutans"
Read More »Listeria outbreak blamed on cantaloupe
Recent outbreak in three states said to have sickened 12 and killed two
Read More »Peace of Mind: Near-Death Experiences Now Found to Have Scientific Explanations
Near-death experiences are often thought of as mystical phenomena, but research is now revealing scientific explanations for virtually all of their common features. The details of what happens in near-death experiences are now known widely--a sense of being dead, a feeling that one's "soul" has left the body, a voyage toward a bright light, and a departure to another reality where love and bliss are all-encompassing
Read More »Insurer taps IBM’s Watson for diagnostic consult
Supercomputer best known for winning on "Jeopardy!" to be put to work helping insurance company diagnose problems, authorize treatments
Read More »More ground turkey recalled over salmonella fears (COMPLETE DETAILS)
Second recall in recent weeks involves 185,000 pounds of meat produced by Minnesota-based Cargill Inc.
Read More »"Spartacus: Blood and Sand" star dies from non-Hodgkin lymphoma
Actor, 39, died in Sydney, Australia, Sunday, September 11 - 18 months after being diagnosed with disease
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