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	UK scientists win funding for new kind of anticoagulant drug LONDON (Reuters) - British scientists have won early financial backing for a new kind of anticoagulant drug they believe may prevent dangerous blood clots without causing bleeding - a previously unachievable goal. Index Ventures, working with GlaxoSmithKline and Johnson & Johnson via an early-stage biotech fund, said on Monday it was investing $11 million in XO1, a new company set up to develop the experimental medicine. ... Read More » Solar plane lands at Washington on journey across U.S. (Reuters) - An airplane entirely powered by the sun landed in Washington on Sunday after a flight from St. Louis, the next-to-last leg of a journey across the United States intended to boost support for clean energy technologies. The Solar Impulse landed at Dulles International Airport outside Washington at 12:15 a.m. EDT, organizers said in a statement. It will remain in the U.S. capital until it takes off for New York in early July for the last leg of its historic trip. ... Read More » Sibling Bullying Is Under-Recognized, Study Finds Across the U.S., parents, educators, doctors and other experts have rallied to protect children from bullies. However, bullying by brothers and sisters is often chalked up to normal sibling behavior. Now a new study finds that sibling aggression, like peer aggression, causes mental distress, which can lead to anger, depression and anxiety in the child who is being targeted. Read More » Normal or Not? When Temper Tantrums Become a Disorder Angry kids who throw excessive, explosive tantrums now have their own disorder: disruptive mood dysregulation disorder. Read More » 4 Government Conspiracies That Make PRISM Look Pedestrian As far as government schemes come, the NSA's super-surveillance PRISM program sounds like something straight out of dystopian science fiction. Read More » Past Mega-Quakes Left Mark on Canadian Coast Thanks to decades of geologic detective work, scientists know that on Jan. 26, 1700, at 9 p.m., a massive earthquake and tsunami hit the Pacific Northwest. Read More » Canadian Astronomers Battle Funding Cuts and Perceptions MONTREAL, Quebec — Flashing a picture of the star HR 8799 and its four alien planets on a big screen, astronomer Andrew Cumming smiled. "This is the most amazing picture in exoplanet science!" he exclaimed. Read More » Smarter Than C3P0: Future Robots Will Work in Teams, Scientist Says In the next few decades, teams of roving robots will take to the seas, the air and other hard-to-reach spots, communicating with one another and working to solve scientific problems, according to a Canadian scientist. Read More » Smarter Than C-3PO: Future Robots Will Work in Teams, Scientist Says In the next few decades, teams of roving robots will take to the seas, the air and other hard-to-reach spots, communicating with one another and working to solve scientific problems, according to a Canadian scientist. Read More » NASA Unveils New Astronaut Class for Deep-Space Exploration NASA has picked eight Americans, a mix of scientists and military pilots, to begin training for future space missions that may one day launch them all the way to Mars. The new class includes four men and four women who will join the 47 active astronauts at the agency's astronaut corps at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. Read More » Heroism: The Bright Side of Psychopathy? Heroes and psychopaths may have something in common, according to new research that links psychopathic personality traits to selfless behavior. Read More » Are You Protected Against Whooping Cough? Most Adults Don't Know Rates of whooping cough in the United States are at their highest level in decades, yet most adults don't know whether they are adequately protected against the disease, results from a new poll suggest. Read More » Protected Against Whooping Cough? Most Adults Don't Know Rates of whooping cough in the United States are at their highest level in decades, yet most adults don't know whether they are adequately protected against the disease, results from a new poll suggest. Read More » Ancient Chinese Murals Saved From Tomb Robbers A colorful, well-preserved "mural tomb," where a military commander and his wife were likely buried nearly 1,500 years ago, has been uncovered in China. Read More »
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	Body-Double: Lifelike Android Demoed at Futuristic Conference NEW YORK — An extremely humanlike robot made a public appearance today (June 15) here at the Global Futures 2045 International Congress, a futuristic conference focused on the technological singularity. Read More » Obese Black-Hole Galaxies Could Reveal Quasar Secrets Gluttonous black holes in the center of some galaxies could be precursors to the brightest objects in the known universe. Read More » Scientists moving 15-ton magnet from NY to Chicago New York to Chicago, in five weeks? Scientists on Long Island are preparing to move a 50-foot-wide electromagnet 3,200 miles over land and sea to its new home at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National ... Read More » Scientists moving 15-ton magnet from NY to Chicago UPTON, N.Y. (AP) — New York to Chicago, in five weeks? Read More »
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	Why the Supercomputing Arms Race Benefits Everyone (Op-Ed) Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights Read More » Ailing NASA Telescope Spots 503 New Alien Planet Candidates NASA's Kepler spacecraft has spotted 503 new potential alien worlds, some of which may be capable of supporting life as we know it. Read More » Atomic Weights Tweaked for 5 Elements Standard atomic weights, those numbers emblazoned under the elements on the periodic table, were once thought of as unchanging constants of nature. Read More » Darwin's Frogs Are in Steep Decline Some of nature's most fascinating fathers may be at risk of extinction. Read More » Vibrating Navigators Shake Up Devices The day's not too far off that a smartphone, instead of providing on-screen driving directions, could guide someone to her destination with a little nudge. Literally. Read More » Tiny Submersible Could Search for Life in Europa's Ocean One of the first visitors to Jupiter's icy moon of Europa could be a tiny submarine barely larger than two soda cans. The small craft might help strike the right balance between cost and capability for a robotic mission to look for alien life in the ocean beneath Europa's icy crust. Read More » James Cameron Gives Record-Breaking Sub to Science WOODS HOLE, Mass. —When James Cameron was about 12, he saw the Alvin submersible on the cover of National Geographic and was absolutely captivated by the vehicle's ability to transport ordinary humans to the seafloor. Alvin helped inspire Cameron to pursue a life of exploration and, several decades later, to build his own sub — the Deepsea Challenger — and pilot it by himself to the deepest part of the world's oceans. Read More » Dad Deserves More Credit ... Good and Bad (Op-Ed) Society for Personality and Social Psychology Center for the Study of Interpersonal Acceptance and Rejection at the University of Connecticut Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights Read More » The One Type of Online Ads Consumers Actually Like While shoppers appreciate the personal touch they get from some online retailers, the majority aren't willing to share too much personal information to get it, new research shows. Read More » Moonlighting Entrepreneurs Take the Night Shift A growing number of workers aren't letting their current jobs get in the way of their entrepreneurial aspirations. New research has found that workers with part- or full-time jobs are turning to e-commerce as a way to launch their entrepreneurial careers. Read More » 50 Years Ago, 1st Woman to Fly in Space Wore World's 1st Mission Patch Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, who 50 years ago this Sunday (June 16) launched aboard the Soviet Union's Vostok 6 mission, set a world record by becoming the first woman in space. But her gender wasn't the only contribution that Tereshkova made to the cultural history of space exploration — she was also the first person to wear a mission emblem on her spacesuit, although it was hidden from view. Read More » Another 1930s Dust Bowl Drought Possible This Century (Op-Ed) Marlene Cimons Climate Nexus Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights Read More » Atomic Clocks to Become Even More Accurate The ultimate accessory in exact timekeeping — the atomic clock — is set to become even more precise, after ultrashort laser pulses were successfully transmitted across open air to help synchronize the "ticking" of new optical atomic clocks. Read More » Lego Figures: No More Mr. Nice Toy Lego, maker of the plastic toy pieces and figures that spawned a global empire, isn't playing nice anymore. Read More » 6 Ways Dads Win at Parenting From paper towel commercials to PTA meetings, let's face it: Moms are assumed to be the default parents. Read More » Snowflake the Albino Gorilla Was Inbred, Study Finds A famous albino gorilla that lived for 40 years at the Barcelona Zoo got its white coloring by way of inbreeding, new research shows. Read More »
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