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Genetic basis of cardiac, craniofacial birth defects identified

29/10/2012 | Scientific News
Researchers have made important advances in the rapidly-expanding field of “regenerative medicine,” outlining for the first time connections in genetic regulation that normally prevent birth defects in heart and facial muscles. This basic research will provide a road map to ultimately allow...

Common bond between school bullies and their targets: Alcohol abuse

29/10/2012 | Scientific News
A new study finds that both school bullies and their victims are likely to abuse alcohol after a bullying episode. Fuente : http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/h...

Boys are more likely than girls to abuse over-the-counter drugs

29/10/2012 | Scientific News
As crackdowns get tougher on alcohol, tobacco sales, and illicit drugs, there’s a growing trend among youth to turn to another source to get high: their parent’s medicine cabinet. New research suggests boys are more likely than girls to abuse over-the-counter drugs. Fuente :...

For many prostate cancer patients, web sites are too difficult to read

29/10/2012 | Scientific News
Ninety million American adults read below high school levels. But a study has found that only 4.8 percent of web sites describing prostate cancer were written below a high school reading level. The median reading level was 12th grade. Fuente : http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/e...

Mummy unwrapping brought Egyptology to the public

29/10/2012 | Scientific News
Public “unwrappings” of real mummified human remains performed by both showmen and scientists heightened the fascination, but also helped develop the growing science of Egyptology, says a historian. Fuente : http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/2...

SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule splashes down to Earth

28/10/2012 | Scientific News
(Reuters) - An unmanned Space Explorations Technologies cargo capsule left the International Space Station and splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on Sunday, wrapping up the first U.S. supply run to the orbital outpost since the space shuttles were retired last year.

New test to improve HIV diagnosis in poor countries

28/10/2012 | Scientific News
LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have come up with a test for the virus that causes AIDS that is ten times more sensitive and a fraction of the cost of existing methods, offering the promise of better diagnosis and treatment in the developing world.

Miners take "rail-veyors" and robots to automated future

28/10/2012 | Scientific News
SUDBURY, Ontario (Reuters) - In an office trailer parked outside a mine shaft in northern Ontario, operator Carolyn St-Jean leans back in her chair and monitors a machine loading nickel-rich ore into rail cars deep underground.

Poland stumbles on journey from low-cost to hi-tech

28/10/2012 | Scientific News
WARSAW, Oct 28 Reuters) - Polish scientist Miroslaw Grudzien built the infra-red detectors that NASA uses to explore Mars, but getting a business development loan nearly defeated him. ... Fuente : http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/scienceNews/~3...

U.S. looks to old Arctic ship logs for climate change clues

26/10/2012 | Scientific News
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A project to help track Arctic climate change using volunteers to transcribe U.S. ship logs online was launched on Wednesday by the National Archives and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Birds of a feather? Now include "ostrich" dinosaurs

26/10/2012 | Scientific News
(Reuters) - The ostrich-like dinosaurs that roamed the Earth millions of years ago were adorned with feathers, used to attract a mate or protect offspring rather than for flight, according to the findings of Canadian scientists released on Thursday.

Glitch halts South Korea's third attempt at rocket launch

26/10/2012 | Scientific News
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea called off the launch of a space rocket on Friday after a glitch in the Russian-built booster halted preparations five hours before the scheduled lift-off.

Three new crew arrive at space station with fish

26/10/2012 | Scientific News
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - A pair of rookie Russian cosmonauts and a veteran U.S. astronaut arrived at the International Space Station on Thursday, boosting the crew back to full strength and bringing along 32 Japanese medaka fish.

U.S. zaps four out of five targets in missile defense test

25/10/2012 | Scientific News
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon on Thursday said it hit four out of five targets in its biggest, most complicated missile defense flight test to date.

Oops: Harvard affiliate apologizes for promotion of "weak" study

25/10/2012 | Scientific News
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A Harvard-affiliated hospital is backing away from its decision earlier this week to promote a paper linking the artificial sweetener aspartame and cancer, now saying the evidence was "weak."

U.S. military hypersonic aircraft trial set for 2013

25/10/2012 | Scientific News
(Reuters) - The last of four unmanned experimental U.S. military aircraft designed to fly at six times the speed of sound is expected to be tested next year, the program manager said on Wednesday, months after its predecessor broke up during a trial.

Algae biofuel not sustainable now-U.S. research council

25/10/2012 | Scientific News
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Biofuels made from algae, promoted by President Barack Obama as a possible way to help wean Americans off foreign oil, cannot be made now on a large scale without using unsustainable amounts of energy, water and fertilizer, the U.S. National Research Council reported on...

GM tests magnesium sheet metal to make cars lighter

24/10/2012 | Scientific News
DETROIT (Reuters) - Engineers and scientists at General Motors Co believe they are making major strides toward lighter vehicles by developing a way to expand the use of magnesium in auto parts.

Russian-American trio head for space station

23/10/2012 | Scientific News
KOROLYOV, Russia (Reuters) - A Soyuz spacecraft carrying two Russians and an American blasted off on Tuesday for the International Space Station (ISS), where the men are to spend five months in orbit.

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