Saturday, July 27, 2013

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En Garde! Gang of Feral Cats Attack Woman, Dog in France

One more reason to love dogs: A gang of feral cats in France attacked a woman and her poodle, forcing both victims to seek medical attention for their injuries.

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Anti-Shark Wetsuits Inspired by Nature

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Incredible Technology: How Supercomputers Solve Giant Problems

Editor's Note: In this weekly series, LiveScience explores how technology drives scientific exploration and discovery. - See more at: http://www.livescience.com/37671-how-to-do-brain-surgery.html#sthash.NIJ821It.dpuf


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Summer Streakers: The Summer Meteor Showers of 2013

Get ready to start looking up this summer.


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LEGO Brick Space Shuttle Enterprise Lands at NYC Museum

The New York City home of space shuttle Enterprise has a new model of the prototype orbiter made completely out of LEGO toy bricks.


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Friday, July 26, 2013

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Can the International Space Station Survive Until 2020?

The International Space Station is undergoing an engineering analysis and risk assessment to gauge its ability to keep operating until 2020 and beyond.


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Weird Weather: Dry Seasons Start Earlier, Are Wetter

Call it weird, call it extreme, maybe even call it the new normal. Wild weather in the United States in the past decade has amassed a long list of toppled records and financial disasters.


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Cruise to Set Sail to Investigate Ocean Acidification

The waters off the Pacific Northwest are becoming more acidic, making life more difficult for the animals that live there, especially oysters and the approximately 3,200 people employed in the shellfish industry.


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NASA Telescope Snaps 1st Photos of Mystery Region on the Sun

NASA's newest solar observatory has taken its first photos of the lowest layers of the solar atmosphere, a mysterious and little-understood region of the sun.


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NYC Performs Final Subway Airflow Test

NEW YORK CITY — On a street in Manhattan's Lower East Side, an unremarkable gray box protrudes from a telephone pole. Inside the box lies a state-of-the-art airflow-sampling device, one part of an experiment to track how a gas disperses through the city's streets and subway system.


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Russian Supply Ship Hauls Trash, Treadmill from Space Station

An unmanned Russian cargo ship filled with trash and an astronaut treadmill cast off from the International Space Station Thursday (July 25) to make way for a fresh delivery set to launch to the orbiting lab this weekend.


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Comet ISON Blazes with Distant Galaxies in Stunning Hubble Photo

A spectacular new photo gives a deep-space view of Comet ISON, which could put on a dazzling show when it zooms through the inner solar system in late November.


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Mysterious Hum Driving People Around the World Crazy

It creeps in slowly in the dark of night, and once inside, it almost never goes away.

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Why MERS is Not the New SARS

The new virus that causes Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) has been compared to that of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) — the viruses belong to the same family, and are particularly deadly to infected people — however, the two conditions have some important differences, a new study says.

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1 in 4 of Surgery Errors Due to Technology Problems

Technology or equipment issues cause one in four operating room errors, and device checks before surgery could prevent some of them, a new study finds.

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Chew on This: Fewer Teeth Linked with Worse Memory

If you want to maintain a sharp memory, you may want to brush up: People who have fewer natural teeth remaining perform more poorly on memory tests, a new study suggests.

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Dinosaur-Killing Comet Didn't Wipe Out Freshwater Species

The cosmic impact that ended the age of dinosaurs killed many living creatures on land and in the sea, but scientists have found, puzzlingly, that life in freshwater largely escaped this fate.


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3D-Printed Rocket Parts Excel in NASA Tests

Key rocket parts built using 3D-printing technology have passed another round of NASA firing tests, inspiring further confidence among space agency officials in this emerging manufacturing technique.


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Pesticides Contaminating Critters in California's National Parks

Pesticides from California's valley farms are collecting in the tissues of a singing treefrog that lives in pristine national parks, including Yosemite and Giant Sequoia, a new study finds.


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The Hardest Working Cities In America

Everything is bigger in Texas, including its work ethic. According to research conducted by Movoto Real Estate, five of the 10 hardest-working cities in the country are located in the Lone Star State. Seattle snagged the No. 1 spot, while New York — a city known for its high-powered workaholics — just missed the cut for top 10.

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NASA Flooded with Asteroid Exploration Ideas

SAN JOSE, Calif. — A NASA call for novel ideas on how to tackle its ambitious mission to capture an asteroid and park it near the moon has paid off in spades, with the agency receiving hundreds of proposals from potential partners.


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Giant Electromagnet Ends Its Month-Long Move

After more than a month of traveling over land and sea, a huge doughnut-shaped electromagnet has crossed the finish line of its 3,200-mile (5,000 kilometers) haul from New York to Illinois.


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Thursday, July 25, 2013

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Royal Baby Name Is Classic and Boring

The London bookmakers were spot on: The royal baby will be called George Alexander Louis.


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Global Price Tag for Arctic Thawing: $60 Trillion

The beautiful, stark scenery of the Arctic may be priceless, but the warming of the region could come at a great cost to the world.


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The Color of the Ocean: New South American Satellite Joins Earth Observation Effort

Remote sensing of ocean color is a currently well-established science that provides information about water composition and the depth of light penetration based on the ocean color, as seen from space. Ocean color satellites are part of an Earth observing system and, due to the importance of this system in understanding the state of the ocean and its evolution, the international scientific community has agreed to joint efforts to keep a constant constellation of ocean color satellites orbiting our planet. ...


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Artist Wants to Launch Meteorite Back Into Space

An artist working with a 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite wants to send it back to space.


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Mars Rover Curiosity Spied from Space

A new photo by a sharp-eyed NASA Mars orbiter shows the agency's Curiosity rover wrapping up work near its landing site on the Red Planet before beginning the long trek to a huge and mysterious mountain.


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Sex After a Heart Attack: Women Want Information

Many women who've had heart attacks want more information about how to safely resume sex afterward, a new study suggests.


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Martian Meteorites May Be Younger Than Thought, Studies Suggest

The riddle of the age of meteorites from Mars might now be solved, with researchers finding these rocks from the Red Planet might not be billions of years old as some studies have suggested.


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NASA Video: Watch US Heat Up by 2100

The United States will be a much hotter place at the end of the 21st century, according to a new climate change visualization released by NASA this week.


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Not Impressed: Peahens Ignore Most of Peacocks' Flashy Displays

A male hoping to attract a female's attention typically needs something to help him stand out from the crowd, and the inhabitants of the animal kingdom are no exception, with peacocks representing particularly showy lovers.


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New Space Capsule Lands With Two of Three Parachutes in NASA Flight Test

NASA's Orion capsule, planned to be the space agency's next manned spaceship, safely landed during a flight test today (July 24) using just two of its three parachutes.


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Mercury Joins Mars and Jupiter in Night Sky Meetup This Week

Most stargazers have never seen the planet Mercury because it never strays very far from the sun. This week is one of the rare opportunities to catch the tiny planet just before sunrise —and with two other planets nearby.


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Scientists warn of overwhelming costs of mental illness

By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - Health systems could be "overwhelmed" by the costs of coping with mental illnesses such as dementia, depression and addiction if nothing is done now to boost investment in research, leading neuroscientists said on Thursday. Publishing a study that put the estimated costs of brain disorders in Britain alone at more than 112 billion pounds ($172 billion) a year, they said mental illness research needed to attract the same funding levels as illnesses such as cancer and heart diseases to be able to reduce the burden. ...

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Scientists warn of overwhelming costs of mental illness

By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - Health systems could be "overwhelmed" by the costs of coping with mental illnesses such as dementia, depression and addiction if nothing is done now to boost investment in research, leading neuroscientists said on Thursday. Publishing a study that put the estimated costs of brain disorders in Britain alone at more than 112 billion pounds a year, they said mental illness research needed to attract the same funding levels as illnesses such as cancer and heart diseases to be able to reduce the burden. ...


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Coldhearted Psychopaths Feel Empathy Too

Psychopaths may be capable of empathizing with others in some situations, a new study has found.


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Sjögren's Syndrome May Be Sparked by 'Killer' Immune Cells

A rare condition called Sjögren's syndrome, which causes severely dry mouth and dry eyes, may stem from the improper function of immune cells called natural killer cells, a new study suggests.

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Pancreatic Cancer: Bacteria May Play a Role

Bacterial infections may play a role in triggering pancreatic cancer, according to recent research.

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SpaceFest Celebrations Start in New York

The second-annual SpaceFest kicks off in New York today (July 25) at the floating home of NASA's space shuttle prototype Enterprise.


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Depression Doubles Missed Work Days

Full-time employees in the United States with depression miss nearly twice as many work days each year than their counterparts who have never been depressed, a new analysis from Gallup shows.


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Commercial Spaceflight Conference Launches in California Thursday

SAN FRANCISCO - Legions of scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs are gathering in Silicon Valley this week to discuss the rise and impact of the commercial space industry.


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His Other Spaceship Was a Shuttle: Former Astronaut Helms Boeing Space Capsule

HOUSTON — Two years after climbing out of the last ship to launch him into orbit, Chris Ferguson was back in a spacecraft on Monday (July 22).


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Facebook Hashtags Not Catching on With Consumers

While using hashtags in Facebook posts might be a fun tactic for brands trying to engage consumers, it doesn't appear to be paying off, a new study finds. Research from social media analytics firm  Simply Measured revealed that while 20 percent of  Facebook posts among top brands now include hashtags (which give users a way to group messages of similar content), there is no evidence that hashtags are influencing engagement.

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Viking Jewelry Unearthed in Denmark

Several pieces of Viking jewelry, some of which contain gold, have been uncovered at a farm site in Denmark that dates as far back as 1,300 years.


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Spanish Fort Built by Gold Hunters Discovered

Before there was Jamestown and even before there was Roanoke, there was Spain's Fort San Juan, in the Appalachian foothills of North Carolina.


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Baby Births: Risky Shortcuts, Bad Behavior Often Not Addressed

Most doctors, midwives and nurses who help deliver babies have observed their colleagues taking shortcuts or engaging in behavior that could compromise patient safety, but few speak up about the issue, a new study says.

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The Secret Science of the Hubble Space Telescope's Amazing Images

With the Hubble Space Telescope's successor, the James Webb Space Telescope, on schedule to reach outer space in 2018, taking Hubble's place as NASA's premier eye in the sky, it seems appropriate to look back on what may become Hubble's most enduring legacy: its stunning images. Besides the huge amount of data Hubble has collected since its launch in 1990, the telescope will likely be remembered most for its gorgeous color shots of nebulas, galaxies and the early universe, iconic images that seemed tailor made for magazine covers and bedroom walls.


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Private Astronaut Taxi Development Entering Final Phase

WASHINGTON — NASA on July 19 released a draft solicitation for the fourth and final development phase of its Commercial Crew Program, which is still expected to result in a crewed space launch to the International Space Station from U.S. soil by late 2017, according to the document.


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Bad Sleep? Blame the Moon

The moon could be to blame for a bad night's sleep, researchers now say.


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Walrus Bones Found In Old London Burial Ground

During a recent excavation beneath the streets of London, archaeologists found a total of 1,500 human bodies, many buried hastily in a wave of epidemics that struck the quickly expanding city more than 150 years ago. 


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More Teen Girls Need HPV Shot, CDC Says

Despite growing evidence that the human papillomavirus vaccine is effective at preventing not only HPV infections but also the cancers they can bring down the line, just one-third of teen girls complete the vaccination series, a new study finds.

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Women's Cancer Risk Increases with Height

Postmenopausal women who are taller may be at greater risk for developing cancer, new research reveals.


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False Memories Implanted in Mice

Tinkering with the brains of mice, scientists have given the rodents memories of events that never occurred.


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Crazy-Dense Neutron Stars Reveal Their Secrets

Scientists have uncovered a new key to understanding the strange workings of neutron stars — objects so dense they pack the mass of multiple suns into a space smaller than a city.


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How Electrons Are Supercharged in Earth's Radiation Belt

Super swift electrons around Earth have been blamed for the premature deaths of satellites, and now scientists think they know how these particles gained their speed.


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