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 San Antonio TX (SPX) Jul 06, 2009 
Scientists from Texas are batty over a new discovery which could lead to the single most important medical breakthrough in human history - significantly longer lifespans. The discovery, featured on the cover of the July 2009 print issue of The FASEB Journal, shows that proper protein folding over time in long-lived bats explains why they live significantly longer than other mammals of ... read more 
Hong Kong (AFP) June 29, 2009For most of the past 25 years, Hong Kong-based, British-born doctor Judith Mackay has been the tobacco control movement in Asia. She has pushed for tougher laws and higher tobacco taxes, lobbied for bans on advertising, and advised and cajoled governments in Hong Kong, Laos, China, Vietnam and most other Asian countries. She drafted Mongolia's first post-Soviet anti-smoking law in her ... more
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Prisoners used to shovel snow-bound US capital
Heavy rain, snow disrupts transport in Spain Washington slaps fee on plastic shopping bags Vietnam says parched Red River at record low Philippine volcano darkens New Year for 50,000 villagers Shocked residents survey Australia wildfire wreckage Honduras declares state of emergency amid drought Residents flee terrifying Australian wildfires Sarkozy scrambles to salvage carbon tax Thrill-seeking tourists flock to Philippine volcano 
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London (AFP) June 28, 2009A second Briton has died after contracting swine flu, the Scottish government said Sunday. The 73-year-old man died in hospital in Paisley, central Scotland, late Saturday and had "serious underlying health problems", having been in intensive care for two weeks. Scotland's Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon said: "Although it is concerning that the patient had swine flu, we are aware that ... more  
Shanghai (AFP) June 28, 2009A brawl at a toy factory in China ended with two dead and 60 in hospital after a dispute flared between Han Chinese and Uighur workers from the Muslim Xinjiang region, media reported on Sunday. More than 400 police were called to break up the fight involving hundreds of people at the factory in Shaoguan, in the southern province of Guangdong, early Friday, the official Xinhua news agency ... more
London (AFP) June 25, 2009Britain could see tens of thousands of swine flu cases every week within months and the strategy to cope with outbreaks is being changed, the chief medical officer said Thursday. Liam Donaldson said the virus was likely to thrive in the colder months. "We still think we are heading for a larger surge of cases in the autumn and winter," he told journalists, adding there could be "tens of ... more  
Paris, France (ESA) Jun 22, 2009On 14 July, a crew of six will leave their Mars mission simulator and see the Sun once again. The crew, which includes a French pilot and a German engineer selected by the European Space Agency, will have completed 105 days of confinement and numerous scientific experiment runs inside the isolation facility at the Russian Institute for Biomedical Problems (IBMP) in Moscow. Their simulated ... more |
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EDGX secures multi million euro seed funding to advance satellite AI computingBerlin, Germany (SPX) Aug 13, 2025 Belgian space technology company EDGX has raised euro 2.3 million in seed financing to accelerate the rollout of its Sterna edge AI computer for satellites. The firm also confirmed a euro 1. ... more  
Automated collision avoidance system moves closer to space deploymentParis, France (SPX) Aug 13, 2025 Earth orbit is growing more congested, with over 11,000 active satellites and more on the way, plus more than 1.2 million debris fragments larger than 1 cm. This rising population makes collision ri ... more 
NASA partners with US companies to assess orbit boost for Swift ObservatoryLos Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 13, 2025 NASA is working with two American firms to study the feasibility of raising the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory's orbit, potentially extending its mission life and demonstrating new spacecraft servic ... more
  
NASA seeks student entries for Human Exploration Rover ChallengeWashington DC (UPI) Aug 15, 2025 NASA is accepting contest entries from student teams to design, build and test rovers on the moon and Mars. ... more 
NASA taps Momentus for space robotics demonstration studyLos Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 15, 2025 NASA has awarded Momentus Inc. (NASDAQ: MNTS) a contract to investigate launching critical robotics technologies into orbit, marking a key step toward future autonomous operations in space. The U.S. ... more 
Meet IDEA: An AI assistant to help geoscientists explore Earth and beyondManoa HI (SPX) Aug 13, 2025 A new artificial intelligence tool developed by researchers at the University of Hawai'i (UH) at Manoa is making it easier for scientists to explore complex geoscience data-from tracking sea levels ... more
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Sydney (AFP) June 17, 2009Australia raised its swine flu alert level Wednesday as the number of cases nationwide climbed above 2,000, Health Minister Nicola Roxon said. Roxon said the alert level would move to the newly-created "protect" level, meaning only the most vulnerable would receive anti-viral treatments such as Tamiflu and those with mild symptoms must rely on over-the-counter medicines. ... more 
Chicago IL (SPX) Jun 17, 2009The interstellar stuff that became incorporated into the planets and life on Earth has younger cosmic roots than theories predict, according to the University of Chicago postdoctoral scholar Philipp Heck and his international team of colleagues. Heck and his colleagues examined 22 interstellar grains from the Murchison meteorite for their analysis. Dying sun-like stars flung the Murchison ... more  
San Jose CA (SPX) Jun 16, 2009Wi2Wi has announced the new enhanced W2SG0006, which is a complete systems solution based on the CSR/SiRF Technologies SiRFStar III LPx architecture designed specifically for embedded products such as personal navigation devices, mobile internet devices (MID), ultra-mobile (UMPC) and ruggedized PCs, automotive aftermarket GPS systems and other medical, industrial, and defense systems that ... more  
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jun 15, 2009Angelle Tanner, a post-doctoral scholar at JPL and Caltech, studies planets in distant solar systems, called extrasolar planets. The golden prize in this field is to find a planet similar to Earth - the only planet we know that harbors life. While more than 350 extrasolar planets have been detected, most are gas planets, with no solid surface. Many are located in orbits closer to their ... more |
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