Chinese officials are blaming fraudulent project approval procedures and slow construction of pollution control facilities for increased pollution.

Space & Earth - Environment

Aug 21, 2006 1 / 5 (3) 0

South Korean scientists say they plan to begin marketing an advanced robot that can be programmed by personal computers.

Electronics - Consumer & Gadgets

Aug 21, 2006 2.6 / 5 (18) 0

The skeletal remains found in a cave on the island of Flores, Indonesia, reported in 2004, do not represent a new species as then claimed but are some of the ancestors of modern human pygmies who live on the ...

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Aug 21, 2006 4 / 5 (29) 0

By combining a compound produced by the plant St. John’s wort with polymeric nanoparticles, researchers at the University of Geneva in Switzerland have developed a promising method for treating ovarian tumors using light. ...

Nanotechnology - Bio & Medicine

Aug 21, 2006 3.9 / 5 (12) 0

Why are some males faithful, stay-at-home partners while others sleep around, with no strings attached? In mountain brushtail possums, it turns out to depend on how disturbed their home is.

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Cigarette smoke can turn normal breast cells cancerous by blocking their ability to repair themselves, eventually triggering tumor development, University of Florida scientists report.

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Aug 21, 2006 4.2 / 5 (32) 0

Samsung Electronics has developed the first 70-inch LCD panel for use in the consumer TV market. Currently, the largest LCD TV screen size is 65 inches. The company will unveil its 70-inch LCD HDTV at the ...

Electronics - Hardware

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The watchdog for Britain's National Health Service won't allow doctors to prescribe two new drugs for the treatment of advanced colorectal cancer.

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Aug 21, 2006 4.3 / 5 (3) 0

A 29-year-old farmer is believed to be Britain's first fatal case of rabbit flu.

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Aug 21, 2006 3 / 5 (4) 0

Italian scientists say an endangered species of marine turtle -- loggerhead turtles -- are appearing along Italy's southern shores in increasing numbers.

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Aug 21, 2006 3.8 / 5 (4) 0

In the new study, Scripps research team tested a variety of compounds that inhibited a class of enzymes known as histone deacetylases in a cell line derived from blood cells from a Fredreich's ataxia sufferer. One of these ...

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Aug 21, 2006 4.4 / 5 (10) 0

New research from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has identified a molecular process in cells that is crucial to the development of two common leukemias. The findings help explain how fundamental cell processes ...

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Aug 21, 2006 4.5 / 5 (4) 0

An international team of research scientists has reported greater knowledge of how gas hydrate deposits form in nature, subsequent to a scientific ocean-drilling expedition off Canada's western coast.

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Aug 21, 2006 4.4 / 5 (22) 0

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a screening method to examine how newly made nanoparticles interact with human cells following exposure for various times and doses.

Nanotechnology - Bio & Medicine

Aug 21, 2006 4.1 / 5 (12) 0

A climatic time machine has been built at the University of Western Sydney's Hawkesbury Campus to mimic a world facing new environmental conditions.

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Aug 21, 2006 3.7 / 5 (6) 0