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20.09.2013 15:40
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) -
Scientists have been debating for more than
a year whether NASA's 36-year-old Voyager
1 spacecraft has left the solar system and
become the first human-made object to
reach interstellar space.
By a fluke measurement, they now know
definitively it has.
"We made...
20.09.2013 14:45
The government has announced that the
herbal stimulant, khat, is to be banned
and treated as a class C drug like
anabolic steroids and ketamine.
Khat is a plant which is chewed and used
in the UK's Somali, Yemeni and Ethiopian
communities.
The move comes after the government's
official drugs...
20.09.2013 13:54
A health board has been criticised for
insisting seriously obese people to go on
a weight reduction programme before
undertaking non-urgent surgery.
The National Obesity Forum said the
policy is expensive and could yield few
benefits.
Smokers will also need to complete a
course on...
20.09.2013 13:48
This is SCIENCE FRIDAY. I'm Ira
Flatow. Up now, one more step
toward the holy grail in stem cell
research: growing transplantable
human organs in the laboratory.
Reporting in the journal Nature,
researchers say they have created, in
the lab, the first steps toward a
functional human liver, and...
20.09.2013 13:42
The Champaign-Urbana Public Health
District wants you to be on the lookout
for pomegranate seeds that have been
linked to an infectious disease.
The Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention confirmed at least 127 people
across eight states have become sick from
Hepatitis A after eating certain...
20.09.2013 13:18
A British man has been killed by a
wild elephant while on safari in
southern India, according to police
there.
The tourist, who has not been named,
was killed by an elephant he had been
trying to photograph while on a jungle
tour in the state of Tamil Nadu, officers
told the BBC.
The Foreign...
13.09.2013 18:24
NEW YORK (AP) -- Twitter has
redefined the way we communicate, get
news and share tidbits of our lives. It
has even been credited with starting a
revolution or two. The company, based
in San Francisco, announced Thursday
that it intends to sell stock to the public
for the first time. Naturally, it...
13.09.2013 18:01
Pick up comparably sized bones of a
bird and a mammal, and the latter
will weigh a lot more than the
former. Both actually have hollow
bones, but although the major bones
of the tetrapods (the amphibians,
reptiles, birds and mammals) have a
hollow core, in birds the walls of the
bone are very thin...
13.09.2013 17:58
When I raise my index finger on
entering my local bar in the
Netherlands, by some mysterious
process a bottle of La Chouffe is
brought to the table. This is a trivial
example of mind-reading. That last
sentence might read like an
oxymoron, but mind-reading is
commonplace; and like many things
we...
13.09.2013 17:55
A team of British and Swedish
scientists just published a new study
indicating that changing climate --
not humans -- played a major role in
the extinction of the woolly
mammoth, Mammuthus primigenius.
Additionally, the team's analysis of
ancient DNA revealed that Eurasia
was colonised by woolly...
