Archive: 09/17/2009
Taiwan lab develops panda robot
The world's first panda robot is taking shape at a cutting-edge lab in Taiwan where an ambitious group of scientists hope to add new dimensions to the island's reputation as a high-tech power.
Sep 17, 2009 |
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Website offers emails from beyond the grave
The fear of dying suddenly, without the chance to mend wrongs or say goodbye, has prompted an Australian entrepreneur to start a website where people can contact loved ones from beyond the grave.
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Teenage birth rates higher in more religious states
Rates of births to teenage mothers are strongly predicted by conservative religious beliefs, even after controlling for differences in income and rates of abortion. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access journal ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 17, 2009 |
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Cars running on ethanol can pollute too: Brazil study
Cars running on sugarcane ethanol can produce as many harmful pollutants as those using ordinary petrol (gasoline), according a study published by Brazil's environment ministry.
Sep 17, 2009 |
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Planck first light yields promising results (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Planck, ESA's mission to study the early Universe, started surveying the sky regularly from its vantage point at L2 on 13 August. The instruments of ESA's 'time machine' were fine-tuned for ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 17, 2009 |
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Study: 8 million Americans consider suicide
(AP) -- More than 8 million Americans seriously consider suicide each year, according to a new government study.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 17, 2009 |
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Google to reincarnate digital books as paperbacks
(AP) -- Google Inc. is giving 2 million books in its digital library a chance to be reincarnated as paperbacks.
Sep 17, 2009 |
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China picks first female astronaut candidates
(AP) -- China's military-backed space program has selected 45 astronaut candidates, including its first women hopefuls, for a training program less than a year after the country completed its first spacewalk.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 17, 2009 |
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Rockets vie in simulated lunar landing contest
(AP) -- A privately built rocket vying for NASA prize money lifted off in the Mojave Desert and flew half of a simulated lunar lander mission Wednesday before an engine problem forced its developers to call ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 17, 2009 |
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Researchers seek clues to high blood pressure's origins, impacts
How high blood pressure develops and the effects it has on the body are the focus of a two-part study underway at Penn State and Johns Hopkins University that will look at hypertension in the human body and in the laboratory.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Sep 17, 2009 |
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Yes-associated protein: Early diagnosis of gastric carcinoma
Yes-associated protein (YAP) is a type of cellular adaptor protein and transcriptional co-activator. In recent years, some investigators have found YAP to be overexpressed and highly activated in hepatic cancers and mammary ...
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