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When space shuttle Atlantis rolls to a stop at the end of its current mission, the only remaining U.S. spacecraft capable of taking astronauts to orbit will be powered down for good. NASA's fleet of space shuttles, developed in the 1970s and first launched in 1981, have provided the nation with 30 years of almost uninterrupted access to space.

By Heidi Ledford of Nature magazine Early next year, a drug for cystic fibrosis is expected to come before the US Food and Drug Administration for approval. [More]

By Gwyneth Dickey Zakaib of Nature magazine Like the computer chips made by Intel, the company that Moore co-founded, the Ion Personal Genome Machine (PGM) exploits semiconductor technology, with its ability to deliver ever-increasing speed and lower costs--a trend predicted by 'Moore's law' some 50 years ago. [More]

By Hereward Holland MANYANI, Kenya (Reuters) - Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki set fire to five tonnes of contraband ivory on Wednesday, a symbol of his and Africa's renewed commitment to fight poaching.

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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Fukushima task force has confronted the commissioners with a central quandary of their mission: When are nuclear plants safe enough? The six-person Near-Term Task Force that dived into the implications of Japan's nuclear disaster concluded in its July 12 report that "continued operation and continued licensing activities do not pose an imminent risk to public health and safety." [More]

By Katy Migiro NAIROBI (Reuters) - The United Nations declared famine in two regions of southern Somalia Wednesday and said it could quickly spread unless donors took action.

Kaspersky Labs isn't as well known in the U.S. as Norton or Symantec, but the company is a major international provider of anti-virus tools

Every week, I will post a quick Q&A with one of our new bloggers on the network, so you can get to know them better. [More]

While the bloggers are so prolific (you have to remember they had to wait several months until the launch, having blog posts all written and ready to go in advance) I feel I need to do these summaries almost daily. [More]

Medieval armor certainly looks heavy. And now researchers have demonstrated how the protection might have unwittingly put its wearers at a heavy disadvantage on the battlefield. An armored combatant in the 1400s had between about 60-to-110-pounds of steel on his head and body

NASA has picked the final landing site for its next Red Planet rover after years of debate and will unveil its choice on Friday (July 22) -- nearly 35 years to the day after the space agency's storied Viking 1 probe touched down on Mars, agency officials said.

A recently described swarm of fossil insects unearthed from a 100 million-year-old South American formation are a Frankensteinian riot of mismatched parts: lengthy praying mantis-like front legs; long, slim wings like a dragonfly; and wing-vein patterns to match those of modern-day mayflies. So unusual is their form that scientists are cataloguing the creatures into a completely new taxonomic order.