| December 17, 2012 | -
Scientists learned that the presence of elephants can make smaller animals feel safe; found the largest tear ever detected in Earth's magnetic field; and reported that the boundary between Earth's atmosphere and space was lowering, which would mean that the sky is falling.
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New Scientist
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Salon
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Science Daily
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| November 13, 2009 | -
Scientists found water on the moon.
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New York Times
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| October 30, 2009 | -
Scientists at the Guangdong Entomological Institute discovered that the female short-nosed fruit-bat routinely provides her partner with oral sex during intercourse, making the bat the only adult animal besides humans to engage in such behavior. “We were also surprised at how often it occurred... It was difficult to provide some hypotheses for the function of the fellatio behavior,” said short-nosed-fruit-bat researcher Libiao Zhang. “We held many meetings to discuss the functions.”
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Live Science
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| October 29, 2009 | -
Scientists found that bad driving is genetic.
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CNN
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| October 5, 2009 | -
Scientists announced that they had developed a vaccine that prevents cocaine users from getting high.
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NY Times
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| October 1, 2009 | -
Scientists announced the discovery of a 4.4-million-year-old hominid primate skeleton that is 1 million years older than the Australopithecus afarensis known as Lucy. The bipedal creature, named Ardi, had more useful big toes than we have.
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WP
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NYT
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Science
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Science
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National Geographic Blogs
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National Geographic
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| September 7, 2009 | -
Scientists at Stanford University determined that stem cells could be made from fat cells removed during liposuction.
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CNN
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| August 14, 2009 | -
Scientists said that East Asians misinterpret some emotions in Westerners because they typically focus on just the eyes instead of whole faces, which may explain why East Asian emoticons tend to have expressive eyes.
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BBC
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| August 2, 2009 | -
Scientists in Georgia found that eating too much fructose makes a rat forgetful, and scientists in St. Louis were driving fruit flies crazy.
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Science Daily
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Science Daily
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| July 13, 2009 | -
Researchers found that amphibians enjoy mating by the light of a full moon.
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BBC
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| July 1, 2009 | -
Scientists said that a single super-colony of billions of Argentine ants had conquered Europe, the United States, and Japan, forming the largest insect colony ever.
| Source:
BBC
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| June 30, 2009 | - Up to one thousand species in the United Kingdom were imperiled by the spread of the ravenous harlequin ladybug. Scientists suggested that the harlequin, an invasive species originally introduced to Europe from Asia to kill other pests, could be controlled by infecting the population with sexually transmitted mites.
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The Harlequin Ladybird Survey
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BBC
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| June 23, 2009 | -
Scientists at Stanford University succeeded in “infecting” mice with a virus that made them highly sensitive to light.
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Walll Street Journal
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| June 15, 2009 | -
California
scientists studying guppies found that evolution can take place in as little as eight years.
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Science Daily
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| June 15, 2009 | - Scientists conducting research in Africa announced the discovery of a penis-shaped mushroom that they christened Phallus drewesii, after herpetologist Robert Drewes. “I'm utterly delighted,” said Drewes of the new species of stinkhorn fungus, which is two inches long. “The funny thing is that it is the second-smallest known mushroom in this genus and it grows sideways, almost limp.”
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Scientific American
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| June 1, 2009 | - American scientists promised to develop robot
farmers.
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New Scientist
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| May 17, 2009 | -
Scientists in France reported that early humans ate Neanderthals.
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Live Science
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| May 9, 2009 | -
Scientists in North Carolina announced a tiny medieval “rack,” or robotic bioreactor, that can stretch slivers of foreskin to twice their original size and may some day be used for skin grafts.
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The New Scientist
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| March 16, 2009 | -
Scientists in Japan released a five-foot-two, 95 pound fashion-model robot.
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Breitbart
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| February 3, 2009 | -
Scientists found that babies born in late summer or early autumn grow to be taller and stronger than their peers, that women with prominent chins are more likely to cheat, and that woman are better than men at faking interest in the opposite sex.
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BBC
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Telegraph
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NBC
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| January 7, 2009 | -
Scientists discovered the “magnetosphere,” a layer of ions and electrons surrounding the earth described by one physicist as a “warm plasma cloak.”
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National Geographic
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| January 4, 2009 | -
Otolaryngologists warned golfers that they could go deaf from using a new generation of thin-faced titanium drivers, which create a loud boom on impact with the ball.
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TelegraphUK
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| December 27, 2008 | -
Scientists found that chimpanzees use the same region of the brain as humans to recognize familiar faces.
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Science Daily
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| December 8, 2008 | -
Scientists found that smaller spiders make better lovers and that dogs get jealous.
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Science Daily
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New Scientist
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| December 6, 2008 | -
Scientists at Berkeley found that as compared to rich-child brains, the brains of poor children are often more like those of stroke victims, with less response in the prefrontal cortex. “This is a wake-up call,” said a neuroscientist.
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Science Daily
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| November 25, 2008 | -
Researchers learned that ants that perform specific tasks are no more efficient than regular ants. “It turns out,” said scientist Anna Dornhaus, “that the ones that are specialized on a particular job are not particularly good at doing that job.”
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Science Daily
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| November 4, 2008 | -
Scientists in Japan produced clones of dead mice, a feat they say brings them closer to resurrecting extinct species.
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CNN
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| October 1, 2008 | -
Scientists found that hydrogen sulfide, which is produced in the colon and causes the rotten-egg stink in flatulence, helps keep blood pressure low in mice.
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Live Science
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| September 23, 2008 | - Scientists hunted for crops that could withstand climate change.
| Source:
BBC
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| September 22, 2008 | - Geologists found that Iran is sinking.
| Source:
National Geographic
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| September 18, 2008 | -
Researchers found that 55 percent of U.S. citizens believe they have been helped by a guardian angel. “Americans,” said one scholar of religion, “live in an enchanted world.”
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TIME
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| September 10, 2008 | - The Large Hadron Collider commenced operations, firing a beam of protons through a 17-mile-long tunnel that runs under the Franco-Swiss border. “I thought, 'Oh, wow,'” said an engineer. “'It actually worked!'”
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National Geographic News
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| September 9, 2008 | - Scientists at the Norwegian Polar Institute were surprised to find the partial remains of a polar bear in the stomach of a Greenland shark. “There is,” said a researcher, “far easier prey to be found.”
| Source:
The Scotsman
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| August 28, 2008 | -
Australian
scientists determined that sponges have the genes necessary to express nerves.
| Source:
LiveScience
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| August 27, 2008 | -
Scientists studying the Permian-Triassic Mass Extinction, which annihilated much of life on Earth 251 million years ago, attributed the die-off to floods of reeking Siberian lava, which released carbon dioxide and created a greenhouse effect, thereby starving oceans of oxygen and poisoning the atmosphere. “In the late Permian,” said geoscientist Lee Kump, “Earth itself was the villain. But today we've stepped in as the villain.”
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McClatchyDC.com
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| August 22, 2008 | -
Microbiologists found a virus named Sputnik that can infect larger viruses.
| Source:
National Geographic News
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| August 19, 2008 | -
Scientists found that dogs can develop a sense of right and wrong, that elephants can do basic math, and that Australian Aboriginal children can count even if their local language has no words for numbers.
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Stuff.co.nz
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New Scientist
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Science Daily
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| August 11, 2008 | -
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, developed a material for use in invisibility cloaks.
| Source:
BBC
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| August 9, 2008 | -
Australian
scientist George Wilson called on people to eat kangaroo instead of beef to reduce global warming.
| Source:
BBC
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| July 20, 2008 | -
Research showed that men lust for women whether or not they find them attractive.
| Source:
Telegraph
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| July 10, 2008 | -
Scientists discovered a new form of mad cow disease in the United States.
| Source:
BBC
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| July 9, 2008 | - Danish scientists found that infants born from once-frozen embryos had a higher birth weight and fewer twin siblings, and were less likely to suffer from abnormalities. “Only the very top quality embryos,” explained Dr. Anja Pinborg, “survive the freezing and thawing process.”
| Source:
Telegraph UK
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| July 4, 2008 | -
British
studies warned that eating junk food during pregnancy might cause lasting damage to the child, and that eating too much tofu could lead to dementia.
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BBCnews.com
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BBCnews.com
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| July 3, 2008 | -
Researchers at Texas A&M's Fruit and Vegetable Improvement Center found that watermelons have a “Viagra-like effect,” but a researcher in Oklahama pointed out that this benefit may be offset by the melon's diuretic properties.
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Associated Press
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| June 27, 2008 | -
Scientists found that humans laugh because they are surprised by new patterns, that they grow happier as they grow older, and that their sense of adventure is located within the ventral striatum; they also found that they can easily remember happiness and sadness, but, with the exception of some groups of Asian Americans, often have trouble recalling mixed emotions. People also sleep poorly when they eat at night, and tend to overeat as they contemplate their own deaths.
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Science Daily
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Science Daily
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Science Daily
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Science Daily
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Science Daily
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Science Daily
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| June 3, 2008 | -
Scientists located the part of the brain responsible for understanding sarcasm.
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New York Times
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| May 3, 2008 | -
Scientists reported that echolocating bats cry out loud to detect their prey, emitting sounds louder than those at a rock concert.
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Plosone
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Science Daily
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| May 2, 2008 | -
Scientists found that spiders “talk” to potential mates using a type of light not visible to the human eye.
| Source:
BBC
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| April 13, 2008 | - European scientists used lasers to stimulate electrical activity in thunderclouds.
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Scientific Blogging
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| March 20, 2008 | -
Researchers found that a diet that includes lots of folate will keep sperm healthy.
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BBC News
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| March 14, 2008 | -
Scientists concluded that destroying information by throwing it into a black hole was not effective, because the information could leak from the hole at 1,000 bits per second, the same speed as a dial-up Internet connection.
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Scientific American
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| February 22, 2008 | -
Scientists revealed that the sun will vaporize the earth if we cannot figure out how to change our orbit within 7.6 billion years.
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Scientific Blogging
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| February 19, 2008 | -
Researchers were at a loss to explain why suicide rates recently rose sharply for Americans aged 45-54, and it was revealed that the man who killed five Northern Illinois University students and himself had stopped taking Prozac shortly before his death because it “made him feel like a zombie and lazy.”
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NY Times
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NY Times
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| February 6, 2008 | -
NASA celebrated its 50th anniversary by beaming the Beatles hit “Across the Universe” into deep space, directing the song toward Polaris, 431 light-years away. Scientists meeting at Arizona State University were concerned that the broadcast could provoke an attack by mean-spirited aliens. “Before sending out even symbolic messages,” said a researcher, “we need an open discussion about the potential risks.”
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Washington Post
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Telegraph
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| January 31, 2008 | -
British scientists announced that it would soon be possible to convert female bone marrow into viable sperm cells, hastening the obsolescence of men.
| Source:
Death of the father: British scientists discover how to turn women's bone marrow into sperm
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| January 20, 2008 | -
Scientists funded by mobile-phone companies found that if the phones are used before bedtime their radiation can reduce sleep and cause headaches and confusion; the Mobile Manufacturers Forum insisted that the “results were inconclusive.”
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The Independent
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| January 20, 2008 | -
Scientists in Chicago found that lonely people are more likely to assign human qualities to their pets and to believe in God.
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Science Daily
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| January 19, 2008 | -
Hungarian
scientists created a computer program that, based on its analysis of 6,000 barks from 14 Hungarian sheepdogs, can exceed human capability in accurately classifying sheepdog barks.
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Science Daily
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| January 11, 2008 | -
Scientists from the American Astronomical Society attended their annual meeting and agreed that the universe is bizarre and violent. “This is the glory of the universe,” said the association's president. “What is odd and what is normal is changing.”
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Associated Press
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| December 12, 2007 | -
Scientists
cloned fluorescent cats, developed an antidote for zombieism in cockroaches, and revealed that evolutionary changes in the lower backs and hip joints of females prevent pregnant women from toppling over. “When you think about it,” said Harvard anthropologist Katherine Whitcome, “women make it look so very damn easy.”
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New Scientist
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Yahoo News
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CNN
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| December 8, 2007 | - Scientists discovered a mysterious black fungus growing on the cave paintings of Lascaux. Some thought it might be the effect of global warming, noting that soil temperatures around the caves have risen two degrees centigrade since 1982.
| Source:
NYT
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| October 5, 2007 | -
Canadian
researchers found that lonely, bullied, or ostracized children have sex earlier than happier children.
| Source:
Canada.com
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| September 12, 2007 | -
Scientists predicted that ebola would also kill the last remaining western lowland gorillas.
| Source:
BBC
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| August 24, 2007 | -
Researchers found that cornrows can cause permanent bald patches.
| Source:
BBC
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| August 24, 2007 | -
Scientists found a very big hole in the universe.
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Yahoo News
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| August 23, 2007 | -
Studies in the U.S. showed that one in four adults read no books last year, that white youths are happier than the youths of other races, and that senior citizens are enjoying an active and varied sex life that includes masturbation, vaginal intercourse, and oral sex.
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Yahoo News
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Yahoo News
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Washington Post
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| August 22, 2007 | -
Scientists in England determined that Tyrannosaurus rex would have been able to outrun a professional soccer player.
| Source:
BBC
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| August 20, 2007 | -
Scientists in Louisiana determined that some obese people may be infected with a fat virus.
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MSNBC.com
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| August 18, 2007 | -
Scientists analyzing the urine of the lonely found higher levels of epinephrine, a “fight or flight” chemical that contributes to physiological decay over time.
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biosingularity.wordpress.com
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| August 16, 2007 | -
German
physicists claimed to have broken the speed of light.
| Source:
TelegraphUK
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| August 8, 2007 | -
Scottish
physicists reversed the Casimir force to make objects levitate.
| Source:
TelegraphUK
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| August 6, 2007 | - Scientists found that a female mouse with a disabled nasal organ will begin to exhibit masculine behavior: mounting other mice, engaging in pelvic thrusting, and abandoning her young.
| Source:
Sydney Morning Herald
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| July 31, 2007 | -
Researchers at the University of Texas identified 237 reasons that people have sex, including “he smelled nice.”
| Source:
ABC News
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| July 30, 2007 | -
Australian
scientists said that rats can learn the risks of consuming marijuana.
| Source:
The Age
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| July 30, 2007 | -
Marine biologists discovered an octopus with elephant ears.
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CBC News via SympaticoMSN
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| July 29, 2007 | - A team of scientists had bred schizophrenic mice.
| Source:
The Sunday Times via Times Online
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| July 25, 2007 | - Scientists said that obesity can spread like a virus among friends.
| Source:
New York Times
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| July 20, 2007 | - A French geologist stated that a newly discovered underground lake in Darfur, which was expected to help bring peace to the water-starved region, likely dried up at least 5,000 years ago.
| Source:
BBC News
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| July 4, 2007 | - A study claimed that men with high testosterone make irrational decisions.
| Source:
Newscientist.com
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| July 3, 2007 | -
Scientists cloned a sperm.
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BBCNews.com
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| July 2, 2007 | -
Scientists succeeded for the first time in making a baby using a lab-matured thawed egg.
| Source:
BBCnews.com
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| July 2, 2007 | - Scientists announced a potential drug that could erase bad memories.
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Livescience.com
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| June 20, 2007 | -
Scientists said that global warming, overfishing, and pollution are stressing out coral, causing an outbreak of lethal herpes in the world’s reefs. “The coral,” said microbiologist Forest Rowher, “is actually losing control of its microbial community.”
| Source:
Live Science
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| June 20, 2007 | -
Scientists called Europe's
winter of 2006 - 2007 the warmest in 700 years.
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Scientists called Europe's
winter of 2006 - 2007 the warmest in 700 years.
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New Scientist
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| June 13, 2007 | -
Mr. Wizard died.
| Source:
LA Times
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| June 11, 2007 | -
Scientists speculated that the woolly mammoth, which died off more than 10,000 years ago, as well as the saber-toothed cat, the mastodon, and the giant ground sloth, were exterminated by a comet that exploded over Canada with a force equivalent to more than a million nuclear weapons.
| Source:
Washington Post
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| June 7, 2007 | -
Scientists successfully produced talking construction paper, trained dogs to track polar bear feces, and made stem cells out of adult mice.
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BBC News
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New York Times
Source 3:
Medical News today via google news
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| May 30, 2007 | - It was revealed that young sparrows learn their songs by eavesdropping.
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UPI via ScienceDaily
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| May 29, 2007 | -
Scientists in Des Moines, Iowa, talked to apes, who responded by pointing to lexigrams.
| Source:
ABCNews
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| May 28, 2007 | -
Argentine
researchers used Viagra to treat jet lag in hamsters.
| Source:
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via Wichita Eagle
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| May 11, 2007 | -
Peruvian
scientists were concerned that an itinerant penguin from Chile “could suffer discrimination” among Peru's penguins.
| Source:
BBC
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| May 10, 2007 | - Researchers at Johns Hopkins University linked throat cancer to oral sex.
| Source:
BBC
|
| April 18, 2007 | - A Stanford study concluded that pollution from ethanol could be a worse health hazard than that from gasoline.
| Source:
San Francisco Gate
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| April 13, 2007 | -
Scientists announced the creation of nascent sperm cells from human bone marrow samples.
| Source:
BBC
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| April 5, 2007 | -
Researchers used infrared and atomic-emission spectroscopy, mass spectroscopy, electron microscopy, pollen analysis, and the leading “noses” in the perfume industry to determine that a rib bone unearthed at the site where Joan of Arc was burned at the stake actually belonged to an Egyptian mummy.
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New York Times and Xinhua
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| April 4, 2007 | -
British
scientists were “baffled” by the discovery of five-footed frogs.
| Source:
Breitbart.com
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| March 27, 2007 | -
Austrian
scientists claimed that men who sleep in the same bed as their partners may suffer reduced mental function.
| Source:
iol.co.za
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| February 23, 2007 | -
Scientists said “quasicrystalline” designs in medieval Iranian architecture indicated that Islamic scholars had made a mathematical breakthrough that Western scholars achieved only decades ago and concluded that ancient Iranian culture was very, very smart.
| Source:
Chicago Tribune
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| February 23, 2007 | -
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University confirmed that mothers suffering from heartburn are likely to give birth to hairy newborns, and scientists in Senegal watched chimpanzees fashion spears from sticks and use their weapons to stab sleeping bush babies.
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The Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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Washington Post
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| February 2, 2007 | - Biological anthropologists speculated that male chimps living in communal “free love” simian societies attempt to control the sexuality of their female partners by beating them.
| Source:
Science Now
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| January 26, 2007 | - A molecular scientist who owns a café announced that he had found a way to put caffeine in a donut.
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AP via NY Post
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| January 25, 2007 | -
Scientists in Jena, Germany, who had been using spaghetti and cucumbers as bait to make a sloth climb up and down a pole, gave up after three years.
| Source:
AP
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| January 17, 2007 | - Members of the Bulletin of the Atomic
Scientists moved the hands on their “doomsday clock” two minutes closer to midnight.
| Source:
BBCnews.com
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| January 15, 2007 | -
Scientists in London were working on a gum that suppresses appetite and fights obesity. “Obese people like chewing,” explained a researcher.
| Source:
BBCnews.com
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| January 2, 2007 | -
Scientists were performing experiments to turn gay
sheep straight.
| Source:
Daily Telegraph
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| December 7, 2006 | -
Scientists suspected that water was flowing on Mars.
| Source:
Washington Post
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| December 7, 2006 | - Astronomers watched a giant black hole eat an entire star.
| Source:
Washington Post
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| December 4, 2006 | -
Scientists discovered that the prehistoric Dunkleosteus terrelli, the “Darth Vader of fish,” had the strongest fish bite ever and could snack on sharks.
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BBC News
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Washington Post
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| December 4, 2006 | -
NASA head Michael Griffin compared space
explorers to Vikings. “Fifty years into it,” he explained, “the amount of progress that the Vikings had made would not have been that noticeable, and that's where we are in space flight today.”
| Source:
Washington Post
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| November 28, 2006 | -
Researchers at the Stealthy Insect Sensor Project at Los Alamos National Laboratory announced that they had developed explosive-sniffing bees.
| Source:
CNN
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| November 28, 2006 | -
Scientists said that a “primordial meteorite” may hold clues about the “raw organic molecules needed for life,” that humpback whales may be every bit as intelligent as humans, dolphins, and great apes, and that women speak three times as much as men.
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BBC
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The Age
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Daily Mail
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| November 21, 2006 | -
Chinese
scientists revealed that showing pornography to pandas has helped increase the captive panda population; Vassar scientists said that they had successfully mated robot
fish.
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AP via Australian
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Xinhua
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| November 20, 2006 | - American scientists announced the creation of a self-aware robot that can heal itself.
| Source:
Information Week
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| November 16, 2006 | - The Department of Health and Human Services refused to ensure that its reports on abstinence for young people were factually and scientifically accurate.
| Source:
TPM muckracker
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| November 15, 2006 | - A researcher in Germany claimed that the swords of Damascus, which were made from a type of steel known as wootz, have a microstructure of carbon nanotubes.
| Source:
Nature
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| November 2, 2006 | - Scientists claimed that at the current rate of consumption, global sea
food supplies will be obliterated by the year 2048.
| Source:
Washington Post
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| October 24, 2006 | - The Reproductive Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, revealed that men who use their cell phones too much could be making themselves infertile.
| Source:
The Independent
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| October 19, 2006 | -
Scientists identified more than 200 oceanic dead zones.
| Source:
local6.com
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| October 19, 2006 | -
South Korean
scientists announced the development of a new genetically altered strain of adenovirus capable of destroying cancer cells.
| Source:
AFP via Breitbart
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| October 16, 2006 | - In Panama, 22 people died from ingesting poisoned cough syrup that contained the industrial chemical diethylene glycol, rather than the safe solvent glycerin glycol.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| October 8, 2006 | - A Virginia
biology
teacher was suspended after compelling her students to pose with the bones of a century-old corpse in Pocahontas Cemetery.
| Source:
North Country Gazette
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| October 6, 2006 | - Swiss researchers in Syria discovered the remains of an extinct species of giant camel.
| Source:
iol.co.za
|
| October 6, 2006 | - A new group called Scientists and Engineers for America vowed to promote a pro-science
president in 2008.
| Source:
New Scientist
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| October 3, 2006 | - John Mather and George Smoot won the Nobel Prize in physics for their research into cosmic microwave background radiation.
| Source:
Bloomberg.com
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| September 28, 2006 | -
Muslim
scientists were called to jihad.
| Source:
AP via Yahoo! News
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| September 26, 2006 | - A dinosaur species was cleared of cannibalism.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| September 26, 2006 | - Brain images showed that hysteria is real.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| September 20, 2006 | -
Researchers in Massachusetts successfully gave a mouse a tan without exposing it to the sun; other scientists partially restored the sight of blind rats.
| Source:
BBC News
|
| September 13, 2006 | -
Scientists in India announced that they had discovered a new species of bird.
| Source:
The New York Times
|
| September 5, 2006 | -
English
scientists were conducting experiments to determine whether sea horses could be tempted into adultery.
| Source:
New York Post via Nerve.com
|
| August 14, 2006 | -
Astronomers were trying to decide whether Pluto was or was not a planet. “So far,” said an astronomer, “it looks like a stalemate.”
| Source:
CNN.com
|
| August 14, 2006 | - Marine biologists discovered a huge hypoxic “dead zone” off the Oregon coast. “We can't be sure what happened to all the fish,” said a researcher, “but it's clear they are gone.”
| Source:
Science Daily
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| August 2, 2006 | -
Japanese physicists were preparing to create a “baby universe,” with its own laws of physics, by cutting off a piece of our own.
| Source:
Sentido.tv
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| August 2, 2006 | - The London School of Economics determined that good-looking couples are 36 percent more likely than their ugly counterparts to have female
offspring.
| Source:
Washington Post
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| August 2, 2006 | - Geologists in Ohio were baffled by the earthquakes in suburban Cleveland.
| Source:
CNN
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| August 1, 2006 | -
Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control failed in their attempts to create a more virulent strain of bird flu.
| Source:
Washington Post
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| July 31, 2006 | - A study conducted at Texas A&M University found that cigarette smoking reduced the impact of alcohol on inebriated rats. “I hope people won't interpret that as a good thing,” said lead researcher Wei-Jung Chen.
| Source:
Seed Magazine
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| July 21, 2006 | - An American scientist claimed that parrots are as intelligent as five-year-old children.
| Source:
ABC (Australia)
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| July 21, 2006 | -
Research revealed that giant thermonuclear explosions detected in the constellation Ophiuchus were caused by a Red Giant star dumping gas onto a White Dwarf star.
| Source:
CNN.com
|
| July 20, 2006 | -
Scientists in Austria recommended that men sleep alone to better safeguard their brainpower.
| Source:
BBC
|
| July 19, 2006 | -
Scientists learned that Britain's wealthy neighborhoods may cause cancer in children.
| Source:
Washington Post and Cruises.about.com
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| July 19, 2006 | -
Scientists learned that Britain's river fish are undergoing sex changes.
| Source:
EITB24.com via Google News
|
| July 19, 2006 | - A study conducted at the University of Pennsylvania discovered a positive correlation between education and sunburn.
| Source:
Washington Post
|
| July 18, 2006 | -
Research revealed that Canadian high-rise hotels may be to blame for a 200 percent increase in mist levels at Niagara Falls.
| Source:
NY Times
|
| July 13, 2006 | -
Scientists in Pennsylvania found that menarche occurs earlier in girls who live in homes with half- and step-brothers, without fathers, or in urban areas, but occurs later in girls who live with sisters. Such an adaptation, the scientists proposed, might help limit inbreeding.
| Source:
Live Science
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| July 12, 2006 | - Scientists in Massachusetts implanted sensors in a paralyzed man's brain that allowed the man to check email.
| Source:
BBC News
|
| July 12, 2006 | - In Australia
scientists found that mothers are less revolted by the smell of their child's feces than they are by the feces of other children.
| Source:
Live Science
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| July 12, 2006 | -
Scientists in Bologna, Italy, disinterred the eighteenth-century castrato Farinelli in the hope of finding what made him such a powerful singer.
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BBC News
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| July 10, 2006 | -
Scientists in Maryland found that two thirds of people who consumed the hallucinogenic drug
psilocybin had extremely meaningful experiences.
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The Wall Street Journal
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| July 8, 2006 | -
British
scientists found that playing with dolls can help improve Alzheimer's patients' communication abilities.
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BBC News
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| July 7, 2006 | - New research confirmed that smoking and obesity increase the risk of erectile dysfunction.
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New York Times
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Reuters
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| July 5, 2006 | - Astronomers observed what they said might be a strange glowing blob of dark matter sucking in gas.
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New Scientist
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| June 29, 2006 | -
Engineers at the Tokyo Institute of Technology announced the creation of a machine that can record and reproduce smells. “We can tell a green apple from a red apple,” said TIT scientist Pambuk Somboon.
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Guardian
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| June 29, 2006 | - Another study found that money does not buy very much happiness.
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LiveScience.com
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| June 29, 2006 | -
and sScientists were trying to create tomatoes containing an HIV vaccine.
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New Scientist
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| June 21, 2006 | - “Nerve-friendly” cells helped partially paralyzed rats walk.
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Chicago Tribune via Google News
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| June 20, 2006 | -
Scientists announced that the Earth is surrounded by giant fizzy space bubbles; the bubbles swell to nearly 620 miles in diameter, explode, and are replaced by a cooling solar wind.
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CNN
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| June 16, 2006 | - Scientists found that African-American adults hear better than white adults.
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All Headline News
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| June 15, 2006 | -
Scientists found that the sea level in the Arctic Ocean was dropping, even as global sea levels rise.
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BBC News
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| June 14, 2006 | -
Archaeologists said that ancient Mexicans wore decorative dentures made from wolves' teeth.
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AP via MSNBC
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| June 13, 2006 | -
Italian
scientists said that they had developed a technique for isolating potent sperm.
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PhysOrg.com
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| June 6, 2006 | - It was reported that scientists have created a new type of synthetic snakebite antivenom.
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New Scientist
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| June 4, 2006 | -
British
scientists claimed that men drink heavily at sporting events in order to compensate for their masculine shortcomings.
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Economic & Social Research Council
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| June 3, 2006 | -
gGeologists identified the impact site of a giant meteor that is suspected of having wiped out most life on earth a quarter-billion years ago.
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BBC
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| June 1, 2006 | -
British
scientists powered a small fan by feeding chocolate to bacteria.
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New Scientist Tech
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| May 31, 2006 | - Archaeologists in Rome
dug up a 3,000-year-old female skeleton.
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The New York Times
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| May 31, 2006 | - A Japanese
acoustics expert recreated the voice of the Mona Lisa. “My true identity,” said the virtual Mona Lisa, “is shrouded in mystery.”
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Yahoo! News
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| May 31, 2006 | - Scientists announced that the North Pole was once an ice-free area with tropical temperatures. “Basically,” explained palaeoecologist Appy Sluijs, “it looks like the earth released a gigantic fart of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.”
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BBC
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| May 25, 2006 | - A team of researchers in southern Cameroon said that they had found wild chimpanzees carrying the SIVcpz virus, thought to be the precursor to HIV.
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BBC News
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| May 23, 2006 | -
Scientists in North Carolina said that they could grow new, functional rabbit
penises.
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Fox News
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| May 18, 2006 | -
Scientists in Germany said that apes can plan ahead.
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AP via Breitbart.com
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| May 16, 2006 | - A British-Ugandan team of scientists said that the glaciers of the Rwenzori Mountains in East Africa, which the Greek geographer Ptolemy called "the mountains of the moon," could melt within the next two decades.
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BBC News
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| May 15, 2006 | - A study found that only one in four United States teenagers knows the names of all four broadcast TV networks.
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Advertising Age
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| May 12, 2006 | - In South Korea
stem-cell researcher Hwang Woo-suk was indicted for fraud, embezzlement, and violation of bioethics laws.
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CNN.com
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| May 12, 2006 | -
Scientists announced that the recently discovered species of Tanzanian monkey which utters distinctive honk barks is different enough from a mangabey to merit inclusion in its own, new genus, Rungwecebus.
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The Chicago Tribune
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| May 12, 2006 | - and a British
inventor claimed to have created a car that gets 8,000 miles per gallon, improving on his previous record of 6,603 miles per gallon.
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AFP via Yahoo! News
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| May 11, 2006 | - In Canada
scientists confirmed that an odd-looking bear shot and killed in April was a "grolar" bear (half polar bear, half grizzly), thus exempting the hunter who shot the bear from paying a grizzly-killing fine.
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MSNBC
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| May 7, 2006 | -
Chinese
scientists said that the glaciers of the Tibetan plateau were evaporating. "The melting glaciers," said Dong Guangrong, "will ultimately trigger more droughts, expand desertification, and increase sand storms." One such storm recently dumped over 300,000 tons of dust in Beijing; technicians cleaned away some of the dust by firing seven rocket shells filled with silver iodide into the air to produce four-tenths of an inch of rainfall.
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The Independent
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China View
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| May 4, 2006 | -
Scientists in Korea revealed a new, attractive female robot that understands 400 words and can blink. "We are working," said one roboticist, "on upgrading the android with the aim of making it move its legs by the end of this year."
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The Korea Times
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| May 3, 2006 | - A study found that white middle-aged Britons were, on average, healthier than white middle-aged Americans.
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The Guardian
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| April 28, 2006 | -
Scientists in Illinois said that they had refined a process that transforms pig manure into crude oil, and suggested that up to 3.6 gallons of crude oil could be generated daily per pig.
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Belleville News Democrat
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| April 25, 2006 | -
Scientists in Florida were working to improve a "brain port" device that will allow soldiers to perceive things through their tongues.
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CNN.com
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| April 19, 2006 | -
Scientists reported that ichthyoallyeinotoxic fishes--such as mullet, goatfish, tangs, damsels, and rabbitfish--could produce LSD-like hallucinations in those who ate them.
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Practical Fishkeepingg
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| April 19, 2006 | -
Belgian
researchers found that men lose their decision-making skills when exposed to an attractive woman.
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BBC News
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| April 19, 2006 | - Researchers discovered that the buried lakes of Antarctica are connected to one another by secret rivers.
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BBC
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| April 13, 2006 | - Scientists in Britain
found that human fetuses cannot feel pain.
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BBC News
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| April 12, 2006 | -
Researchers in Africa discovered a catfish that stretches out of the water to eat land animals.
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Nature
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| April 9, 2006 | - Many scientists said that it was too late to stop climate change and that the earth was "past the point of no return." "We are looking for the devil," said a geochemist, "and we have found ourselves."
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The Stamford Advocate
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Jurnalo.com
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The Connecticut Post
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| April 7, 2006 | - A chiropractor in Ohio was in trouble for telling his patients that he could cure their ills by traveling back in time to when the injury occurred (a practice he calls "Bahlaqeem").
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MSNBC
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| April 7, 2006 | -
Paleontologists announced that they had discovered a 375-million-year-old fossil in Canada that they believe is the "missing link" between water-dwelling and land-dwelling animals.
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Practical fishkeeping
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| April 4, 2006 | - A physicist in Connecticut was looking for funding for time-travel experiments. His proposed machine, he said, "uses light in the form of circulating lasers to warp or loop time."
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PhysOrg.com
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| April 4, 2006 | -
Scientists in Brazil discovered a new species of tube-snouted ghost knifefish.
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Practical fishkeeping
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| April 2, 2006 | - A Swedish
study linked heavy cell-phone use to malignant brain tumors.
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The Jerusalem Post
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| April 2, 2006 | - Scientists successfully sent muon neutrinos from Illinois to Minnesota in order to prove that some neutrinos do transform, most likely to tau neutrinos.
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Chicago Sun-Times
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| March 29, 2006 | - A researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, found that confident, self-reliant children tend to grow up to be liberals, while whiny, annoying children tend to grow up to be conservatives.
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The Star
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| March 25, 2006 | -
Japanese researchers analyzing water trapped in minerals discovered that the microbes that generate methane existed about 3.49 billion years ago.
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Science News Online
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| March 24, 2006 | -
German
scientists announced that cells from mice testes can act like embryonic stem cells; a private company in California said that it had achieved similar results with cells from human testes, and that it had grown new brain, heart, and bone cells from the human testes cells.
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CBS News
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Reuters
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| March 23, 2006 | - An Arkansas
science teacher was ordered not to tell his students the actual age of stones.
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Arkansas Times
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| March 8, 2006 | - A Pentagon-funded medical consortium, researching techniques to regenerate body parts, was hoping to create a working finger within five years.
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The Charlotte Observer
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| March 7, 2006 | -
Japanese
scientists extracted sweet-smelling vanillin from cow dung.
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The New Zealand Herald
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| March 7, 2006 | - Scientists were investigating a family of mentally retarded Kurds in Turkey who walk on all fours. "However they arrived at this point," said a scientist, "we have adult human beings walking like ancestors several million years ago."
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Time-warp family who walk on all fours
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| March 6, 2006 | - A Dutch
study found that 50 percent of the products returned to stores for malfunctions actually work fine but are just too complicated to use.
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Reuters
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| March 5, 2006 | - A physicist at Mahatma Gandhi University in Kottayam, India, speculated that the "red rain" that fell in the Kerala district of western India in 2001 was filled with extraterrestrial, bacteria-like material from a passing comet.
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The Guardian
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| March 2, 2006 | - A British
astronomer named Gerry Gilmore predicted that ground-based telescopes would be useless within 40 years because of climate change and jet contrails. "You either give up your cheap trips to Majorca," he said, "or you give up astronomy."
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BBC News
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| March 1, 2006 | -
Scientists, some funded by the U.S. military, continued their research into controlling the brains of monkeys and sharks. "We believe," said a researcher at the University of Washington, Seattle, "we are the first to record neural activity from a monkey doing a somersault."
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New Scientist
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| February 27, 2006 | -
Paleontologists announced that they had discovered the 164-million-year-old fossil remains of a beaver-like animal that lived with dinosaurs.
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ABC
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| February 25, 2006 | -
Researchers in Chicago verified that a quantum computer does not have to perform any calculations in order to arrive at results.
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Science News
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| February 21, 2006 | - British scientists said that DNA found at crime scenes could be used to predict the surname of a criminal.
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BBC News
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| February 20, 2006 | -
Scientists found that new infectious diseases were emerging at a faster rate than they had in the past. "These are good times," said a scientist, "for pathogens to be invading the human population."
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BBC News
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| February 18, 2006 | - A study found that unattractive people commit more crimes.
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The Washington Post via the San Francisco Chronicle
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| February 16, 2006 | -
Scientists in Italy found that the effects of Ecstasy on rats were intensified when the rats were made to listen to loud music.
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BBC News
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| January 18, 2006 | -
Scientists in London found more evidence of a link between the parasite Toxoplasma gondii in cat feces and the development of schizophrenia in rats.
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Imperial College London
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| January 17, 2006 | -
Astronomers in West Virginia discovered a superbubble.
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SFGate.com
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| January 16, 2006 | - At Ohio State University a 47-year-old chimpanzee named Sarah (who knows the numbers from zero through six) attacked a student.
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The Guardian
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| December 23, 2005 | -
Scientists in Switzerland found that taking didgeridoo lessons cuts down on snoring.
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Reuters
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| December 22, 2005 | - A study found that good dancers are sexually attractive because they are more symmetrical.
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BBC News
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| December 20, 2005 | -
Prebiotic organic molecules--which are found in DNA--were discovered in constellation Ophiuchus, 375 light-years from earth.
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MSNBC
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| December 19, 2005 | -
British scientists discovered that little girls like to torture their Barbie dolls by scalping, decapitating, burning, breaking, and microwaving them. “Girls,” explained a researcher, “feel violence and hatred towards their Barbie.”
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Times Online
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| December 18, 2005 | -
Scientists decoded the mitochondrial DNA of the woolly mammoth and confirmed that the mammoth was more closely related to the Asian elephant than to the African elephant.
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BBC News
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| December 18, 2005 | - Researchers discovered that the lack of ice floes in the Arctic Ocean was causing polar bears to drown.
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Times Online
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| December 11, 2005 | - It was announced that the Dutch
sparrow that was shot and killed after it knocked down 23,000 dominoes will be preserved and displayed at Rotterdam's Natural History museum, perched atop a box of dominoes.
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BBC News
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| November 30, 2005 | -
Scientists in London were planning to insert nose cells into damaged human spines in the hope that the cells will stimulate the growth of nerve fibers.
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The Guardian
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| November 30, 2005 | - Surgeons in France performed a partial face transplant, taking the nose and lips of a brain-dead donor and grafting them onto the face of a woman who had been severely disfigured by a dog.
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BBC News
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| November 25, 2005 | -
Scientists at Rutgers University in New Jersey said that global warming had doubled the rate of sea-level rise over the last 150 years, and there was nothing that could be done to stop it.
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The Guardian
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| November 24, 2005 | - In South Korea
geneticist Hwang Woo-suk, who cloned an Afghan hound named Snuppy, resigned as chairman of the World Stem Cell Hub after it was discovered that he had used the eggs of women from his research team in experiments. “We needed a lot of ova for the research,” he explained, “but there were not enough ova around.”
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BBC News
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| November 21, 2005 | - The Kansas Board of Education had redefined “science” so that it is “no longer limited to the search for natural explanations of phenomena.”
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The Independent
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| November 21, 2005 | -
Scientists found the gene that regulates fear in mice and created mice that are not afraid.
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Newsday
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| November 18, 2005 | - The Vatican announced that Intelligent Design was not science and did not belong in science classrooms.
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KSAT.com
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| November 3, 2005 | -
Scientists confirmed that Sagittarius A, the object at the center of our galaxy, is indeed a black hole.
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CNN.com
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| October 22, 2005 | -
Scientists released a brown Norway rat on a deserted, rat-free island off of New Zealand in order to find out why rats are so hard to kill. Even though they fitted the rat with a radio collar, used traps and bait, and pursued the rat with sniffer dogs, the rat was not caught for four months. It was finally captured on a nearby island using a trap baited with penguin meat.
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CNN.com
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| October 14, 2005 | - A study by scientists at the University of Saskatchewan found that injecting rats with THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, stimulated the growth of new brain cells.
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CTV.ca
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| October 3, 2005 | -
Scientists agreed that an "era of super-hurricanes" had started in the 1990s in the Atlantic Ocean, but could not agree why.
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San Francisco Chronicle
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| August 29, 2005 | -
Scientists announced that they had created mice that could regrow amputated extremities.
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The Australian
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| August 22, 2005 | -
Scientists in Britain and the United States confirmed that chimpanzees have a culture.
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BBC News
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| August 6, 2005 | - Scientists found that the male human brain has to work harder to listen to women than to listen to men.
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AFP
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| August 4, 2005 | - The Pentagon was teaching scientists how to write screenplays.
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The New York Times
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| July 25, 2005 | -
German
archaeologists reconstructed a 28,000-year-old stone phallus nearly eight inches in length. There was evidence, they said, that the phallus had been used as a tool.
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BBC News
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| July 14, 2005 | - A study found that the blood of newborn babies contained an average of two hundred industrial chemicals and pollutants including pesticides, perfluorochemicals, and waste from burning garbage.
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Body Burden
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| July 8, 2005 | - A Massachusetts
parrot appeared to understand the concept of zero.
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MSNBC
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| July 3, 2005 | -
Scientists found that taking regular showers could cause brain damage.
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Daily Mail
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| July 1, 2005 | -
Scientists in India warned that the Himalayan glacier that feeds the Ganges River would probably melt before the end of this century.
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BBC News
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| June 13, 2005 | -
Israeli
scientists were raising a date palm from a 1,990-year-old seed found at Masada.
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IHT
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| June 8, 2005 | -
Scientists studying the Devils Hole pupfish, of which only 180 remain, accidentally killed eighty of them.
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Live Science
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| June 6, 2005 | -
Scientists in Los Angeles created a fusion reaction at around room temperature using a pyroelectric crystal.
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The Christian Science Monitor
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| June 6, 2005 | -
Scientists began work on a complete, molecule-level computer simulation of the human brain. The project will take at least ten years.
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New Scientist
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| June 5, 2005 | -
Scientists found that a single “switch gene” determined whether a fruit fly turned out gay or not.
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The Independent
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| June 3, 2005 | -
Scientists in California sequenced the genes of an extinct cave bear using material extracted from its teeth, and now plan to sequence the genes of Neanderthals. "I think it will work," said a scientist. "It is just a matter of time."
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BBC News
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| June 3, 2005 | - Researchers discovered a formula to determine the humor value of a sitcom: (((R * D + V) * F) + S)/A.
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The Guardian
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| May 23, 2005 | -
Scientists uncovered the part of the brain that allows people to perceive sarcasm.
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BBC News
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| May 11, 2005 | -
Scientists found that sexually well-endowed fish are slower swimmers, and thus more likely to be eaten (but girl fish find them attractive even so).
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MSNBC
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| May 8, 2005 | - A study showed that babies have favorite colors, and they like brown the least. “Brown might mean dirt,” said a researcher.
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BBC News
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| April 17, 2005 | -
Scientists used infrared technology to read lost works by Sophocles, Euripides, and Hesiod.
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The Independent
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| April 16, 2005 | -
Scientists discovered the remains of a previously unknown Tyrannosaurus Rex-like dinosaur, Appalachiosaurus montgomeriensis, that roamed through the American South 77 million years ago.
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New York Times
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| April 14, 2005 | - A scientist cataloged 395 different species of bacteria in the lower intestines of three healthy humans.
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EurekAlert!
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| April 12, 2005 | - Scientists at Yale University used lasers to control headless fruit flies.
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ABC Online
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| April 8, 2005 | -
Scientists drilled 4,644 feet into the earth's crust, nearly reaching the mantle.
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Kerala Next
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| April 1, 2005 | -
Scientists in Connecticut inseminated a whale.
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Live Science
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| March 30, 2005 | -
Scientists in California developed a scale that can measure the mass of a cluster of xenon atoms. It turns out that they weigh a few zeptograms.
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BBC News
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| March 30, 2005 | - After four years of hard work, 1,300 researchers in ninety-five countries concluded that humans are destroying the world.
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BBC
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| March 23, 2005 | - A study found that the stealing habits of rhesus monkeys are similar to those of humans.
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ABCNews.com
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| March 22, 2005 | - Several IMAX theaters in the American South decided not to show a film about volcanoes because it might offend Christians.
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Greenville Online
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| March 15, 2005 | -
Researchers found that keeping pigs cool helps them grow fatter.
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Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
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| March 4, 2005 | -
Scientists found that a man's boisterousness is a reflection of whether his index finger is short when compared to his ring finger.
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BBC News
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| March 3, 2005 | - A group of researchers at Stanford University were preparing to use stem cells from aborted fetuses to create a mouse that has human brain cells.
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News.telegraph
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| March 2, 2005 | - U.S. scientists were working on a device that shoots pain rays up to two kilometers.
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New Scientist
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| February 28, 2005 | -
Canadian
scientists announced that they could treat depression by electronically stimulating the brain.
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Scotsman.com
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| February 26, 2005 | -
NASA
scientists resurrected bacteria that had been frozen for 32,000 years.
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New York Timesimes
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| February 13, 2005 | - A study showed that lobsters probably don't feel pain when boiled.
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Capital News 9
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| February 9, 2005 | -
Scientists at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service told of being forced to cover up their findings regarding risks to endangered species. Forty-two percent said they feared retaliation if they told the truth.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
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| February 8, 2005 | - Secret documents showed that Cambridge University, among other institutions, has neglected and tortured monkeys in its laboratories. The monkeys screamed in fear and anger and tried to escape from their boxes.
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Guardian
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| February 3, 2005 | -
Scientists determined that sunlight helps fight cancer.
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The Australian
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| February 3, 2005 | -
Scientists learned that birds are not dumb.
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The International Herald Tribune
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| February 1, 2005 | -
Scientists determinedthat rats are responsible beer drinkers.
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University of Florida News
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| February 1, 2005 | -
Evolution was not being taught in many U.S. high schools.
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The New York Times
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| January 31, 2005 | -
Scientists determined that barbecue causes cancer.
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SFGate.com
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| January 31, 2005 | -
Scientists determined that overweight people have a stronger biological need to sit than others do.
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Rocklin And Roseville Today
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| January 28, 2005 | - Scientists synthesized a pheromone produced by young women that helps post-menopausal ladies attract men.
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The Globe and Mail
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| January 27, 2005 | - Scientists solved the mystery of the Venus Flytrap.
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The Boston Globe
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| January 21, 2005 | -
Scientists theorized that instead of an asteroid, global warming caused by volcanic activity precipitated the Great Dying, the most extensive mass extinction in the planet's history 250 million years ago.
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The Globe and Mail
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| January 17, 2005 | - Sir David King, the Chief Scientific Advisor to the United Kingdom, was under attack by American lobbyists for saying that global warming is a problem.
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The Independent
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| January 13, 2005 | - A federal judge ordered Cobb County, Georgia, schools to remove from biology textbooks all stickers that question the theory of evolution.
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The Guardian
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| December 9, 2004 | - Scientists confirmed that men prefer subordinate women to dominant ones.
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EurekAlert
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| December 6, 2004 | -
Researchers surmised that we are hardwired for instant gratification because hunter-gatherers were rewarded for grabbing food morsels rather than waiting for something better; blue jays given a choice of a small bit of food or waiting a short time for a larger quantity could not be trained to wait, even after a thousand repetitions.
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EurekAlert
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| November 28, 2004 | - Scientists announced the discovery of a species of hobbit-like humans on Flores, an island 370 miles east of Bali, that lived as recently as 13,000 years ago. The adult hobbits, who apparently hunted pygmy elephants and Komodo dragons for food, were about the size of a three-year-old modern human child.
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National Geographic, New York Times
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| November 21, 2004 | -
Scientists flooded the Grand Canyon.
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ABC News
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| November 1, 2004 | - A clinic in Cleveland was hoping to perform a face transplant using skin and the underlying fat from a donor.
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USA Today
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| October 29, 2004 | - New research found that it is better to be bullied for the first time as a young child than as an adolescent.
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New Scientist
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| October 19, 2004 | - Researchers at Yale University successfully grew human testicular tissue in mice; the goal of the research is to harvest sperm from the tissue so that pre-pubescent cancer victims can preserve their fertility.
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New Scientist
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| October 18, 2004 | - New calculations suggested that gravity may not be a constant after all.
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New Scientist
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| October 16, 2004 | - Scientists successfully cultivated square salt-loving bacteria called Walsby's square archaeon.
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Nature.com
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| October 15, 2004 | - A giant virus was discovered that is as big as a small bacterium and may be an entirely new form of life.
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Telegraph
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| October 7, 2004 | - Paleontologists in China discovered 130-million-year-old fossils of Dilong paradoxus, an ancestor of Tyrannosaurus rex, with impressions of feathers all over its body.
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New York Times
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| October 3, 2004 | - Scientists were investigating the appearance of hermaphrodite fish in Colorado's South Platte River; the fish were found near two wastewater discharge pipes.
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USA Today
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| September 23, 2004 | - New research concluded that low-birthweight babies are twice as likely to commit suicide.
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BBC
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| September 22, 2004 | -
Scientists were hoping to use rat brainwaves to find people buried by earthquakes.
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New Scientist
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| September 21, 2004 | - American researchers developed a device that uses spinach to generate electricity.
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New Scientist
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| September 4, 2004 | -
Archaeologists found that a chimp-like hominid called the "Millennium Ancestor" was walking upright 6 million years ago.
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Sydney Morning Herald
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| September 3, 2004 | - New research revealed that pollution affects the behavior of many animals such as egrets, gulls, snails, quail, rats, macaques, minnows, mosquito fish, falcons, and frogs. Endosulfan, for example, weakens newts' sense of smell, lead disrupts the balance of gulls, and goldfish become hyperactive when exposed to atrazine.
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New Scientist
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| September 3, 2004 | - The Food and Drug Administration was trying to decide whether it's ethical to give children
amphetamines as part of a study.
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Associated Press
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| August 27, 2004 | -
Swiss researchers found that people really do enjoy revenge.
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Reuters
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| August 20, 2004 | - Science labs were experiencing a monkey shortage.
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New Scientist
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| August 12, 2004 | - Arabs hate America more than ever, according to a new poll,
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Palestine Chronicle
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| August 12, 2004 | - A linguist at MIT found that women prefer men with names containing "front vowels" rather than "back vowels"; in an experiment performed using the Hot or Not website, men named Matt, Ed, and Mike were sexier than the same men when they were named Paul, Sean, or Roger.
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Telegraph
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| August 10, 2004 | - A British scientist warned that a gigantic section of La Palma island in the Canaries is poised to fall into the ocean, an event that would trigger "mega-tsunamis" 50 to 100 meters high that will crash into Africa's west coast, the Caribbean, and the eastern United States.
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Guardian
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| July 30, 2004 | - A team of scientists led by Stanley Prusiner, the neurologist who won a Nobel prize for his work on the prion hypothesis, succeeded in creating a synthetic prion that produced a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy in mice.
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New York Times
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| July 29, 2004 | - Scientists discovered that fatigue is all in the mind.
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New Scientist
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| July 23, 2004 | - A new study of the evidence suggested that Napoleon died from getting too many enemas.
| Source:
New Scientist
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| July 21, 2004 | - Scientists discovered that yawning is contagious among chimps.
| Source:
New Scientist
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| July 17, 2004 | - The Los Alamos National Laboratory suspended all classified research after it was discovered that two computer disks had been lost.
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Los Angeles Times
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| July 16, 2004 | - A study found that children who watch two hours of TV a night risk becoming fat smokers with high cholesterol.
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Associated Press
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| July 14, 2004 | -
Researchers in Montreal found that people who go blind as infants have better pitch than sighted people.
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Reuters
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| July 8, 2004 | - Researchers found that east Asians are not naturally nearsighted.
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New Scientist
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| July 8, 2004 | - A new study concluded that children of fat people are more likely to be fat.
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Forbes
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| July 4, 2004 | -
Scientists succeeded in reading the mind of a monkey.
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New Scientist
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| June 30, 2004 | -
Scientists found that the sneakiest primates have the biggest brains.
| Source:
New Scientist
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| June 27, 2004 | - A German
zoologist announced that bees are really quite lazy,
| Source:
Telegraph
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| June 24, 2004 | - New research suggested that needle biopsies might help spread breast cancer to the sentinel node.
| Source:
Reuters
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| June 22, 2004 | - Scientists discovered that rats who snort a special virus do not get as high on cocaine.
| Source:
New Scientist
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| June 20, 2004 | - British researchers found that sudden infant death syndrome is more likely to happen on weekends.
| Source:
BBC
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| June 14, 2004 | - New research found that people are often unable to remember traumatic events.
| Source:
New Scientist
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| June 11, 2004 | - Reproductive scientists in Chicago created a line of mutant human stem cells.
| Source:
New Scientist
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| June 11, 2004 | - Scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory found a new method of exciting light emission from nanocrystal quantum dots.
| Source:
Los Alamos National Laboratory
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| June 10, 2004 | - Chinese paleontologists found a perfect pterosaur in a fossil egg.
| Source:
Nature.com
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| June 8, 2004 | - Scientists found that people with higher social status live longer.
| Source:
New Scientist
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| June 1, 2004 | - An Israeli study found that 48 percent of doctors' neckties carry at least one infectious disease.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| May 31, 2004 | -
Kirin Brewery Co. announced that it had genetically
engineered a cow, which has not yet been born, that will be immune to mad cow disease.
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Reuters
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| May 28, 2004 | - Scientists discovered in a seven-year study that mice with the highest metabolic rates lived 35 percent longer, a finding that challenges the usual understanding of the relationship of metabolism and life span.
| Source:
Eureka Alert
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| May 27, 2004 | - A researcher at the University of Michigan found evidence that the large increase in asthma and allergies over the last twenty years has been caused by antibiotics.
| Source:
New Scientist
|
| May 24, 2004 | - Scientists discovered prions in the muscle of a sheep infected with scrapie; experts were very quick to say that this does not necessarily pose any danger to humans who eat lamb, even though scrapie prions are believed to have caused mad cow disease. A prion expert at the National Institutes of Health predicted that "within the next year, somebody will make a big splash by finding it in the muscles of cattle and the beef industry will go crazy."
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New York Times
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| May 23, 2004 | - American researchers found that giving aspirin and other pain relievers to infant rats adversely affects their libido later in life.
| Source:
New Scientist
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| May 21, 2004 | -
British intelligence agents in World War II at one point planned to train pigeons to carry bombs or biological weapons. "Pigeon research," said one memo, "will not stand still; if we do not experiment, other powers will."
| Source:
BBC
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| May 19, 2004 | - French ecologists discovered that the metal bands used to tag penguins hamper swimming and breeding and surviving.
| Source:
New Scientist
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| May 19, 2004 | - Researchers at the Mayo Clinic found new evidence for the existence of nanobacteria.
| Source:
New Scientist
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| May 18, 2004 | - NASA astrophysicists said that measurements of X rays from 26 galaxy clusters confirmed that dark energy, a kind of mysterious repulsive gravity, dominates the universe.
| Source:
New Scientist
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| May 14, 2004 | - Japanese scientists discovered that dandruff helps dolphins swim faster.
| Source:
Institute of Physics
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| May 5, 2004 | - A German ornithologist discovered that urban nightingales, forced to compete with noise pollution, can sing so loud they break the law. The loudest recorded was 95 decibels, which is as loud as a chainsaw.
| Source:
New Scientist
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| May 3, 2004 | - Experts said that the United States is losing its dominance in science and technology.
| Source:
New York Times
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| April 30, 2004 | - Researchers discovered a molecule, used by some cancer tumors, that prevents cells from dying.
| Source:
New Scientist
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| April 29, 2004 | - Scientists developed a type of computer made of DNA that they hope could someday diagnose and treat diseases from inside the particular human cells that require treatment.
| Source:
UPI
|
| April 26, 2004 | - It was discovered that pheromones that mimic those emitted by lactating bitches soothe misbehaving dogs by reminding them of their puppyhoods.
| Source:
New Scientist
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| April 16, 2004 | -
Researchers at Harvard University found that drinking alcohol can double a man's chances of getting gout.
| Source:
Associated Press
|
| April 15, 2004 | - Scientists using a new technique called microlensing found a planet in the constellation Sagittarius.
| Source:
New Scientist
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| April 14, 2004 | - Scientists concluded that young female chimps are smarter than young males.
| Source:
New Scientist
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| April 8, 2004 | -
British researchers discovered a previously unknown prion disease among sheep.
| Source:
New Scientist
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| April 5, 2004 | - A new study found that toddlers who watch too much television are more likely to have a hard time concentrating by age seven.
| Source:
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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| March 27, 2004 | - A new study found that buckyballs can cause brain damage in fish.
| Source:
American Chemical Society
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| March 25, 2004 | - British researchers found that strange murders have increased in recent decades and that, contrary to expectations, the murders are not being committed by crazy people; most strange homicides, it was discovered, are committed by young men on drugs.
| Source:
British Medical Journal
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| March 25, 2004 | -
Astrophysicists suggested that a highway of dark matter ripped from the dwarf galaxy Sagittarius, which is being consumed by the Milky Way, is streaming right through Earth.
| Source:
Science Daily
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| March 21, 2004 | - The atmospheric carbon dioxide level appeared to be rising faster than usual, scientists said.
| Source:
Associated Press
|
| March 18, 2004 | -
Ape
hunters in Africa have contracted simian foamy virus, a study found.
| Source:
MSNBC
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| March 17, 2004 | - Several officials at the Environmental Protection Agency revealed that the administration has refused to perform scientific studies to determine the effects of its new mercury emissions policy, a policy that was largely written by the industries responsible for most mercury pollution.
| Source:
Seattle Times
|
| March 13, 2004 | - Scientists were trying to develop artificial blood.
| Source:
New Scientist
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| March 10, 2004 | - It was reported that the Army has been buying surplus cadavers and blowing them up in land-mine experiments.
| Source:
Times-Picayune
|
| March 9, 2004 | -
UCLA apologized for selling off body parts of people who donated their bodies to science.
| Source:
MSNBC
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| March 2, 2004 | - A new study found that angry men are more likely to drop dead of stroke.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| March 1, 2004 | - Astronomers at the Chandra X-ray Observatory found evidence of a new class of black holes.
| Source:
NASA
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| February 28, 2004 | - Dr. Stanley Prusiner, the Nobel Prize-winning expert on prions, said that until all cattle are tested for mad cow disease, none should be considered safe, and he noted that improved feed practices will not prevent spontaneous cases.
| Source:
New York Times
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| February 27, 2004 | - Fishermen in the Galápagos Islands were holding about 30 scientists and a number of giant tortoises hostage.
| Source:
BBC
|
| February 27, 2004 | -
Researchers at the University of California successfully created a microrobot powered by living heart muscle.
| Source:
New Scientist
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| February 25, 2004 | - French researchers concluded that oral sex can lead to oral cancer.
| Source:
New Scientist
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| February 24, 2004 | - A study of the stock portfolios of U.S. senators found that first-time senators beat the market by 20 percent on average; the portfolios of all senators averaged 12 percent better than the market.
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New York Times
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| February 22, 2004 | - An internal Pentagon report warned that global climate change will soon lead to drought, famine, and widespread warfare as countries begin to fight over scarce water, food, and energy supplies. Climate change, the report argues, "should be elevated beyond a scientific debate to a U.S. national security concern."
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Observer
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| February 19, 2004 | - More than 60 prominent scientists, including 20 Nobel prize winners and 19 winners of the National Medal of Science, denounced the Bush Administration for its systematic distortion of scientific facts for political gain; John H. Marburger III, the administration's head of science and technology policy, dismissed the report and said that it was politically motivated.
| Source:
Chemical and Environmental News
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| February 18, 2004 | - Scientists found that people are more likely to tell lies when using the telephone.
| Source:
Cornell University
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| February 18, 2004 | - A black hole was observed eating a star.
| Source:
Space.com
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| February 17, 2004 | -
Italian scientists discovered a new form of mad cow disease that could be the cause of some cases of "sporadic" Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans.
| Source:
New York Times
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| February 17, 2004 | - Astronomers found a crystal the size of our moon in the heart of a dying white dwarf.
| Source:
New Scientist
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| February 14, 2004 | - An FDA advisory panel recommended widespread testing for mad cow disease, saying that absent such testing there is no way to assess the risk of transmission from meat, drugs, vaccines, cosmetics, or dietary supplements.
| Source:
New York Times
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| February 12, 2004 | -
South Korean scientists created 30 human clone embryos and harvested embryonic stem cells from one of them; the stem cells were then injected into mice, where they formed cartilage, muscle, bone, and other tissues.
| Source:
New Scientist
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| February 11, 2004 | - It was discovered that people are quite good at avoiding feelings of regret.
| Source:
American Psychological Society
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| February 9, 2004 | - Scientists created a new kind of mouse by moving mitochondrial DNA from one species into another.
| Source:
University of Rochester Medical Center
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| February 9, 2004 | -
Researchers at DeCODE Genetics in Iceland found a gene that doubles one's risk of heart attack.
| Source:
New York Post
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| February 7, 2004 | - It was revealed that two male chinstrap penguins in New York's Central Park zoo have been homosexual lovers for years. They once tried to hatch a rock, and when their keeper gave them a fertile egg to hatch "they did a great job" raising the chick. Scientists, it was noted, have observed homosexuality in more than 450 species.
| Source:
Guardian
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| February 6, 2004 | - The Bush Administration praised Pakistan after General Pervez Musharraf pardoned Abdul Qadeer Khan, the nuclear scientist who took the blame for selling nuclear technology to Iran, Libya, and North Korea; Khan claimed that no one in the government or in the military was aware of his activities.
| Source:
MSNBC
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| February 6, 2004 | - A new study found that men cause more pain than women.
| Source:
New Scientist
|
| February 6, 2004 | - A new study found that many organic food products sold in the UK contain genetically modified ingredients.
| Source:
Nature.com
|
| February 4, 2004 | - A former EPA microbiologist testified that the agency knowingly used bad data to reject a petition to prohibit the use of sewage sludge (known euphemistically as "biosolids") as fertilizer.
| Source:
CBS News
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| February 2, 2004 | - The National Research Council of the National Academies said that America's pollution laws are outdated
| Source:
Reuters
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| January 31, 2004 | - Former president Jimmy Carter denounced the proposed Georgia state science curriculum, which omits basic information about the theory of natural selection.
| Source:
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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| January 28, 2004 | - A new study found that male dolphins, whales, and seals have been turning into hermaphrodites because of pollution.
| Source:
BBC
|
| January 28, 2004 | -
Dutch
researchers found that some migraines are caused by brain disease.
| Source:
Reuters
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| January 28, 2004 | - Scientists discovered a new neurodegenerative disease that affects older men called fragile X-associated tremor/ataxia syndrome.
| Source:
Globe and Mail
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| January 26, 2004 | - President Pervez Musharraf admitted that some of Pakistan's top nuclear scientists had sold nuclear technology to other countries but denied that the government was involved; Musharraf was accused of scapegoating the scientists to appease the United States.
| Source:
Christian Science Monitor
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| January 24, 2004 | - New research suggested that astronauts sent to Mars might be paralyzed by the prolonged lack of gravity.
| Source:
Globe and Mail
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| January 23, 2004 | - The European Mars Express mission made the first direct measurement of ice on Mars.
| Source:
New Scientist
|
| January 23, 2004 | - Women who have used dark hair dye for at least 24 years have a greater chance of developing cancer, a study found.
| Source:
Reuters
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| January 20, 2004 | - A Japanese scientist created a belly-dancing robot.
| Source:
Nature.com
|
| January 16, 2004 | - Scientists found that the Ebola virus can spread from dead animals such as gorillas to human beings, and genetic analysis suggested that the five recent outbreaks of the disease were caused by five distinct strains of the virus, which is among the most contagious known, rather than one strain that had mutated. "If Ebola is popping up randomly," said one scientist, "then things are pretty hopeless."
| Source:
Nature.com
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| January 14, 2004 | -
President Bush ordered NASA to build a permanent base on the moon and and to make preparations to send men to Mars; NASA responded by abandoning future maintenance missions for the Hubble Space Telescope, thereby condemning the telescope to a premature death.
| Source:
Space.com
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| January 9, 2004 | - Scientists found that some people are capable of deliberately suppressing memories.
| Source:
New York Times
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| January 8, 2004 | - American researchers found that farm-raised salmon have ten times the PCB, dioxin, and pesticide contamination of wild salmon. Using EPA risk estimates, the scientists suggested that people eat no more than 110 grams, or about half a normal portion, of Maine salmon a month; Scottish salmon, among the most contaminated in the study, which analyzed fish from all over the world, should be limited to 55 grams a month.
| Source:
New Scientist
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| January 8, 2004 | -
Australian physicists concluded that the high notes sung by opera singers are often hard to understand.
| Source:
BBC
|
| January 7, 2004 | - A large new study found that up to half of all plant and animal species on land could face extinction by 2050 because of global warming.
| Source:
New Scientist
|
| January 7, 2004 | - A political scientist in New York City perfected the science of cutting cakes.
| Source:
Nature.com
|
| January 4, 2004 | - NASA's Spirit rover landed on Mars and began sending photographs back to Earth.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| January 3, 2004 | - The American spacecraft Stardust got very close to the Wild 2 comet and managed to photograph its nucleus and to capture some of its dust.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| January 2, 2004 | - A new study found that CAT scans might permanently damage young children's brains.
| Source:
Guardian
|
| December 25, 2003 | - Government and other beef industry officials claimed that there were "firewalls" in place to prevent infectious prions from reaching American hamburgers; Dr. Stanley Prusiner, the Nobel laureate who discovered prions, contradicted those claims and explained that he believes the disease is already widespread in the United States. "They treat the disease as if it were an infection that you can contain by quarantining animals on farms," he said. "It's as though my work of the last 20 years did not exist."
| Source:
New York Times
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| December 23, 2003 | - Scientists in Texas cloned a white-tailed deer.
| Source:
Reuters
|
| December 22, 2003 | -
Marriage makes women happier, a new study found, but men feel better while living in sin.
| Source:
New Scientist
|
| December 18, 2003 | - The Journal of Marriage and Family
reported that most American parents yell at their kids.
| Source:
Reuters
|
| December 16, 2003 | - A study found that teens would like to hear more about sex from their parents.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| December 16, 2003 | -
Scientists were planning to use giant pouched rats to sniff out tuberculosis.
| Source:
New Scientist
|
| December 12, 2003 | - It was reported that the earth's magnetic field has weakened by about 10 percent over the last 150 years; scientists said that large solar storms could cause "significant but not catastrophic" damage to the ozone layer as a result.
| Source:
Newsday, New York Times
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| December 11, 2003 | - Spanish and American scientists were searching the sky for signs of megacryometeors, huge chunks of ice, weighing up to 440 pounds, that form in the atmosphere and fall to Earth. The strange ice meteors have been linked to global warming.
| Source:
Chicago Sun-Times
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| December 11, 2003 | - A new theory was put forth that global warming began 8,000 years ago, when farmers began clearing forests for agriculture and grazing large herds of livestock, which increased carbon dioxide and methane levels; by AD 1700, according to the theory, human activity had increased the global temperature by 0.8 degrees Celsius, an increase roughly equal to that caused by industrial activity since then.
| Source:
Climatic Change, Nature.com, New Scientist
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| December 11, 2003 | - Stress, it was discovered, can make you live longer.
| Source:
Science Daily
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| December 10, 2003 | -
Canadian psychologists found that men are unable to think rationally when they see a beautiful woman.
| Source:
New Scientist
|
| December 10, 2003 | -
Physicists at Harvard University succeeded in "freezing" a beam of light.
| Source:
New Scientist
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| December 9, 2003 | - Scientists were studying the bombardier beetle, which can fire liquid at its enemies from its rear end at up to 300 squirts per second, in the hope of building a better airplane engine.
| Source:
New Scientist
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| December 3, 2003 | - Physicists speculated that tiny exploding black holes are raining down on the earth.
| Source:
New Scientist
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| December 1, 2003 | - Scientists figured out how to make trees grow faster.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| November 27, 2003 | -
Researchers in Australia were preparing to test a new ultra-convenient female contraceptive spray.
| Source:
New Scientist
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| November 21, 2003 | - The Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency began preliminary research into the development of a "hypersonic cruise vehicle" that in theory will be able to take off from a normal runway in the United States and within two hours strike
targets more than 10,000 miles away.
| Source:
New Scientist
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| November 20, 2003 | - Israeli researchers successfully used DNA to create a functional self-assembling electronic nano-device.
| Source:
New Scientist
|
| November 17, 2003 | - Researchers at MIT and Harvard found that cancer tumors follow a universal law of growth,
| Source:
New Scientist
|
| November 14, 2003 | - Spencer Abraham, the secretary of energy, suggested that synthetic microbes might someday remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| November 14, 2003 | - Biologists were trying to exterminate nonnative frogs that have invaded the Galápagos Islands.
| Source:
Associated Press
|
| November 13, 2003 | - American scientists at the Institute for Biological Energy Alternatives created an artificial bacteria-eating virus in 14 days using synthetic genes.
| Source:
Agence France-Presse
|
| November 12, 2003 | - Environmentalists and consumer groups sued the Department of Agriculture to prevent companies from planting experimental
crops that have been engineered to produce pharmaceuticals; they said that planting in open fields risks spreading the modifications to other crops.
| Source:
Reuters
|
| November 10, 2003 | - One in seven American
schoolchildren was found to be at risk of heart disease.
| Source:
New Scientist
|
| November 7, 2003 | - A new study found that beer does not cause beer bellies.
| Source:
Reuters
|
| November 7, 2003 | - It was reported that the human immune system produces ozone gas.
| Source:
Globe and Mail
|
| November 6, 2003 | - An American paleontologist found evidence that ancient hominids used toothpicks made of grass.
| Source:
New Scientist
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| November 5, 2003 | -
Chicken
researchers found that cockerels "allocate sperm differently according to the quality of copulation"; new mates tend to receive more sperm than familiar partners, and the cocks also increase their sperm deposits in the presence of other males. The study was conducted by putting a special harness on females to collect fresh ejaculate.
| Source:
New Scientist
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| November 5, 2003 | - Marine biologists traced a strange submarine farting sound to bubbles that were observed coming from a herring's anus; it was the first discovery of a fish making a sound (which has been labeled a "fast repetitive tick," or FRT) with its anus.
| Source:
New Scientist
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| November 4, 2003 | - A new study found that tiny golden "nano-bullets" could be used in the future to destroy cancer tumors.
| Source:
New Scientist
|
| November 3, 2003 | -
Researchers from the University of Chicago reported that male Guinea baboons fiddle with one another's genitals when they perform a complex greeting ritual; the fiddling follows face pulling and rump presentation. White-faced capuchin monkeys, in contrast, stick their fingers up one another's noses.
| Source:
Nature.com
|
| November 1, 2003 | - Astronomers speculated that Sagittarius A, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, is spinning.
| Source:
New Scientist
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| November 1, 2003 | - and Australian scientists said they know why animals that live fast die young.
| Source:
New Scientist Magazine
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| October 31, 2003 | - Population ecologists concluded that the famous boom and bust cycle in the lemming population is a result of predation.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| October 29, 2003 | - American scientists deliberately engineered a new extra-deadly form of mousepox; much the same thing has been done with cowpox and rabbitpox.
| Source:
New Scientist
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| October 28, 2003 | - The CIA celebrated the 40th anniversary of its Directorate of Science and Technology by exhibiting such devices as a mechanical dragonfly listening device and a 24-inch-long artificial catfish; the exhibit was not open to the public.
| Source:
Reuters
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| October 28, 2003 | - Neuroscientists determined that motherhood makes female rats
smarter, calmer, and more courageous.
| Source:
Reuters
|
| October 27, 2003 | - New research estimated that British people collectively stand in line for 1.3 billion hours a year.
| Source:
Ananova
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| October 22, 2003 | - Creatures that are capable of changing their sex, it was discovered, typically do so when they have reached 72 percent of their maximum body size.
| Source:
Reuters
|
| October 22, 2003 | -
German
chemists discovered the secret ingredient in the preservation of Egyptian mummies.
| Source:
Reuters
|
| October 17, 2003 | -
Researchers in Atlanta, Georgia, found that overweight men tend to produce sperm with fragmented DNA, which results in low fertility and more frequent miscarriages.
| Source:
New Scientist
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| October 14, 2003 | - American doctors revealed that they had made an infertile woman pregnant using nuclear transfer, a technique similar to cloning that involves taking genetic material from the mother's fertilized yet defective egg and putting it in a healthy egg from another woman that lacks a nucleus. The babies that were fashioned using the technique, which is banned almost everywhere but China, where the experiment was carried out, all died before birth.
| Source:
Nature.com
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| October 14, 2003 | - Coffee makes sperm swim faster, a Brazilian study found.
| Source:
New Scientist
|
| October 14, 2003 | - A genomic survey of human feces found it inhabited by 1,200 viruses, about half of which were previously unknown to science.
| Source:
Nature.com
|
| October 13, 2003 | - A monkey moved a robot with its mind.
| Source:
The Public Library of Science
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| October 10, 2003 | - Australian researchers found that the brain really does experience pain when your heart is breaking.
| Source:
Discovery Channel
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| October 9, 2003 | -
Physicists were arguing over whether the universe is shaped like a soccer ball.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| October 2, 2003 | - A new study found that large predators such as polar bears strongly dislike being caged in zoos.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| October 2, 2003 | - A team of Swedish scientists concluded that the world's remaining oil and gas supplies have been exaggerated by up to 80 percent and said that production levels will probably peak in 2010.
| Source:
CNN
|
| September 26, 2003 | - Scientists unveiled a rough draft of the poodle genome.
| Source:
Nature.com
|
| September 26, 2003 | - French researchers announced that the first cloned rats had been born.
| |
| September 25, 2003 | - Zoologists discovered that octopuses can get erections.
| Source:
Nature.com
|
| September 22, 2003 | -
Scientists announced that the 3,000-year-old Ward Hunt Ice Shelf has broken up; it formerly covered 150 square miles and was the largest ice shelf in the Arctic.
| Source:
Reuters
|
| September 22, 2003 | - Scientists were surprised to discover that low-calorie diets prolong the life of fruit flies no matter when the diet begins.
"The system," said one professor, "has no memory."
| Source:
New York Times
|
| September 22, 2003 | - A giant star was observed
eating three planets.
| Source:
New Scientist
|
| September 19, 2003 | - Paleontologists announced the discovery of the fossil remains of a prehistoric 1,500-pound rodent called Phoberomys pattersoni, or "Patterson's fearsome mouse."
| Source:
Associated Press
|
| September 18, 2003 | - and Danish scientists discovered that women who drink wine have an easier time getting pregnant.
| Source:
Agence France-Presse
|
| September 18, 2003 | - Scientists announced the discovery of the oldest known genitals, which belonged to the 400-million-year-old ancestor of the daddy longlegs; the fossil penis was two thirds the length of the creature's body.
| Source:
Reuters
|
| September 17, 2003 | - A new study found that magnets do not ease foot pain.
| Source:
Reuters
|
| September 17, 2003 | - Physicists in Romania created gaseous plasma blobs that grow, replicate themselves, and communicate, suggesting that life might emerge in a wider variety of conditions than scientists have thought possible.
| Source:
New Scientist
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| September 15, 2003 | - A fertility scientist named Panayiotis Zavos announced that he had created human-cow embryos that were theoretically viable but denied that he planned to allow such a hybrid to be implanted in a woman's womb.
"We are not trying to create monsters," he said.
| Source:
News.com.au
|
| September 15, 2003 | - The National Academy of Science, after studying thousands of papers on the subject, declared that too many pets are overweight.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| September 12, 2003 | - Physicists created the coolest object in the universe.
| Source:
New Scientist
|
| September 11, 2003 | - A leading British fertility expert called for more research on some in vitro techniques and accused doctors of experimenting on children.
| Source:
BBC
|
| September 9, 2003 | -
Italian babies, it was found, are the fattest in Europe.
| Source:
Reuters
|
| September 8, 2003 | - and an astronomer argued that Venus once had a climate similar to Earth's, prior to its transformation by the greenhouse effect.
| Source:
New Scientist
|
| August 29, 2003 | - A zebra-donkey hybrid was born in Japan.
| Source:
Sydney Morning Herald
|
| August 27, 2003 | -
Researchers discovered that dark chocolate is good for you.
| Source:
New Scientist
|
| August 26, 2003 | -
Archaeologists were surprised by evidence that Roman Britons wore socks with their sandals.
| Source:
Ananova
|
| August 23, 2003 | - The Indian government declared that 12 soft drinks made by Coca-Cola and PepsiCo were perfectly safe, contradicting a nongovernmental study by the Center for Science and Environment, which concluded that the soft drinks had unsafe levels of pesticides.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| August 19, 2003 | - Icelandic whalers harpooned their first whale in 14 years.
| Source:
Reuters
|
| August 17, 2003 | - Iceland resumed its "scientific" whaling program.
| Source:
BBC
|
| August 15, 2003 | - Scientists at the University of Massachusetts discovered a one-celled creature, which they called Strain 121, that can survive temperatures up to 121 degrees centigrade, the temperature used by medical sterilization equipment.
| Source:
Boston Globe
|
| August 15, 2003 | - Chinese scientists developed hybrid human-rabbit embryos.
| Source:
New Scientist
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| August 14, 2003 | - In Antarctica, researchers for the first time successfully photographed a whale passing gas.
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News.com.au
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| August 13, 2003 | - The Department of Defense was said to be developing new gamma-ray weapons that it says could "revolutionize all aspects of warfare."
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New Scientist
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| August 6, 2003 | - A horse gave birth to her own clone.
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Scientific American
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| August 5, 2003 | -
Astronomers said that a ten-year galactic dust storm will soon envelope the Earth.
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New Scientist
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| August 1, 2003 | - The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) quickly scuttled an idea to create a futures-trading market for terrorist attacks, after the plan was revealed by opponents in Congress. DARPA head John M. Poindexter announced his resignation, telling a friend that he planned to spend more time sailing.
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New York Times
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| July 31, 2003 | - It was reported that the Pentagon has awarded a $500,000 grant to researchers to develop genetically engineered trees that will change color in the event of a biological- or chemical-weapons attack.
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Associated Press
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| July 30, 2003 | - It was discovered that the spittlebug can jump more than 100 times its body length.
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New Scientist
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| July 30, 2003 | - New evidence suggested that men who wear tight neckties are at greater risk of eye disease and blindness.
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New Scientist
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| July 29, 2003 | -
Scientists in New York found that kind people are more likely to yawn when someone else does.
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Nature.com
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| July 29, 2003 | - China reportedly had developed an android "robo-nurse" to care for patients during future SARS outbreaks.
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Ananova
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| July 28, 2003 | - Australian and American researchers created a robot, located in Perth, Australia, that is controlled by a rat brain in Atlanta; they called their creation a "semi-living artist."
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BBC
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| July 25, 2003 | - Scientists discovered that the sky is rising.
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Nature.com
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| July 25, 2003 | - German scientists announced that vacation lowers your IQ.
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Ananova
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| July 21, 2003 | -
Scientists in Rome concluded that pizza prevents cancer.
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Reuters
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| July 18, 2003 | -
Dr.
David Kelly, a British Ministry of Defense scientist who was accused of being the source of news reports that the British government had doctored its intelligence on Iraq, was found dead two days after he was interrogated by a parliamentary committee.
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Guardian
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| July 17, 2003 | -
British
scientists built a better, baitless mousetrap that uses plastic mixed with a high concentration of chocolate essence.
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New Scientist
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| July 16, 2003 | - Vertebrae of a plesiosaur, a long-necked sea reptile that lived 150 million years ago, were found at Loch Ness, in Scotland.
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Daily Telegraph
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| July 16, 2003 | - Newly declassified documents revealed that during the Cold War British
scientists planned to bury ten nuclear land mines in Germany.
The plan, code-named Blue Peacock, was abandoned in 1958, after it was judged to be "politically flawed."
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New Scientist
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| July 16, 2003 | - Australian researchers found that masturbation prevents prostate cancer.
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New Scientist
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| July 15, 2003 | - A new study found that fast foods with high fat and sugar content "alter brain biochemistry with effects similar to those in powerful opiates such as morphine."
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Undernews
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| July 11, 2003 | - A giant flyborg, an artificially intelligent robot balloon, escaped from the Magna Science Adventure Centre in Britain.
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BBC
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| July 10, 2003 | - It was discovered that clown fish can change their sex as they move up in social status.
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New Scientist
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| July 10, 2003 | - A new study found that marriage significantly undermines the careers of scientists and criminals.
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Daily Telegraph
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| July 9, 2003 | - It was discovered that some women ovulate more than once a month.
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New Scientist
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| July 2, 2003 | - Scientists discovered a new subatomic particle called the pentaquark.
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New Scientist
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| July 1, 2003 | - Israeli scientists were developing a technique for harvesting eggs from aborted human fetuses, which, if used to create a pregnancy, would turn the donor fetus into an "unborn mother." "I am fully aware of the controversy about this," said Tal Biron-Shental, the lead researcher, "but probably, in some places, it will be ethically acceptable."
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New Scientist
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| July 1, 2003 | - Swedish scientists predicted that human womb transplants will be possible within three years.
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New Scientist
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| June 29, 2003 | -
Scientistsscientists successfully infected mice with AIDS.
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New Scientist
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| June 27, 2003 | - "[The overturning of a Texas law against sodomy] opens the door to bigamy, adult incest, polygamy, and prostitution," said the head of the Family
Research Council.
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New York Times
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| June 27, 2003 | - American forces recovered some prototype uranium-enrichment equipment from Iraq's old nuclear-weapons program that was buried in a scientist's garden twelve years ago.
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CNN
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| June 24, 2003 | -
Scientists found that some people are better able to tolerate pain than others.
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Science Daily
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| June 18, 2003 | -
Scientists created a genetically engineered grass that doesn't cause hay fever.
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New Scientist
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| June 18, 2003 | - Other genetic engineers came up with coffee plants that produce up to 70 percent less caffeine.
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New Scientist
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| June 15, 2003 | - A genetically modified
fish that glows in the dark went on sale in Taiwan.
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Observer
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| June 12, 2003 | - British scientists were developing "smart" airline seats that will detect potential terrorists by measuring airline passengers' anxiety levels.
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New Scientist
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| June 12, 2003 | - New genetic research on the AIDS virus suggested that its viral parent was produced by the mixing of two monkey viruses that infected chimpanzees about a million years ago.
The chimps probably caught the viruses from eating the flesh of monkeys; humans, many scientists believe, first contracted HIV from eating chimps.
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New Scientist
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| June 12, 2003 | - Scientists said they had discovered some 160,000-year-old human skulls in Ethiopia.
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Science Daily
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| June 10, 2003 | - An Australian company was planning to harvest tissue from aborted fetuses to be exported for experiments.
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Daily Telegraph
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| June 10, 2003 | -
NASA sent a spaceship to Mars.
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New Scientist
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| June 9, 2003 | -
Britain's honorary astronomer royal estimated the odds of an apocalypse to be 50 percent, up from 20 percent 100 years ago.
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Reuters
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| June 8, 2003 | - Evolutionary theorists suggested that early humans lost their hair in order to fight parasites.
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New Scientist
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| May 29, 2003 | - Scientists in Idaho cloned a mule.
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Associated Press
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| May 29, 2003 | - A new study found that handsome men have the fastest sperm.
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New Scientist
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| May 14, 2003 | - A proposal was published in Nature to send a grapefruit-sized probe to the center of the Earth using the world's largest nuclear bomb and 10 billion tons of molten iron.
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New Scientist
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| April 30, 2003 | -
Researchers in England discovered that wood mice construct signposts out of leaves and twigs to keep themselves from getting lost.
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New Scientist
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| April 30, 2003 | - Automobile pollution damages human sperm, Italian scientists found.
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New Scientist
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| April 30, 2003 | - Tissue engineers in Boston succeeded in growing penile tissue that contains nerve cells. "This is exciting and extends their work logically in several directions," said a reconstructive surgeon.
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New Scientist
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| April 30, 2003 | - Scientists discovered that fish can feel pain.
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| April 29, 2003 | -
NASA
researchers were planning to fire bunker-buster missiles at the moon, to look for ice.
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| April 29, 2003 | -
Researchers warned that the disease was mutating and becoming more virulent, and concluded that at least 10 percent of victims are dying, not the 4 percent they had previously estimated.
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| April 29, 2003 | -
After former congressman Newt Gingrich accused Colin Powell and his staff of a string of diplomatic failures, an assistant secretary of state responded, “He is an idiot and you can publish that.” Scientists concluded that humans “are truly not that far in genetic complexity from the common bread mold.” Primate expert Jane Goodall pant-hooted like a chimpanzee at a federal hearing to bring attention to the problem of deforestation.
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| April 29, 2003 | -
Researchers determined that Ukrainian worms were having more sex since the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
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| April 22, 2003 | -
A company in Philadelphia was busy experimenting with a thermal depolymerization process that converts turkeys, tires, plastic bottles, old computers, municipal garbage, cornstalks, medical waste, and anything else containing carbon into oil. “There is no reason why we can't turn sewage, including human excrement, into a glorious oil,” said a representative.
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| April 15, 2003 | -
Scientists published new genetic evidence that suggests cannibalism was widespread among prehistoric humans.
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| April 15, 2003 | -
Scientists announced that a quick dose of caffeinol, an experimental drug that mimics the effect of an Irish coffee, helps prevent brain damage in mice that suffer artificially stimulated strokes.
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| April 15, 2003 | -
A Canadian research center announced that it had sequenced the genome of the coronavirus that scientistsScientists hope causes SARS.
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| April 15, 2003 | -
Current cloning techniques will not work on primates, a team of scientists concluded, because the nuclear transfer procedure destroys crucial proteins.
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| April 8, 2003 | -
Researchers said that most of the world's remaining gorillas and chimpanzees were likely to be wiped out in the next thirty years.
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| April 1, 2003 | -
Women in the Mexican state of Colima lost the right to divorce their husbands for impotence, and German scientists reported that human sperm are attracted to pleasant odors.
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| March 25, 2003 | -
Scientists found that turmeric prevents alcohol-related liver disease in rats.
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| March 11, 2003 | -
Scientists in California reported that Mars has a molten core.
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| March 11, 2003 | -
Women with fake breasts are more likely to kill themselves, a new study found, and scientists announced that women with short thighs are at higher risk of diabetes.
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| March 4, 2003 | -
“I think it would be great.” A panel of experts assembled by the National Academy of Sciences denounced the president's proposed research plan on the dangers of global warming; the plan, the experts said, lacks “a guiding vision, executable goals, clear timetables and criteria for measuring progress, an assessment of whether existing programs are capable of meeting these goals, explicit prioritization, and a management plan.” Prime Minister Tony Blair announced that by 2050 Britain will reduce its emissions of greenhouse gases by 60 percent; Blair also criticized the United States for refusing to fight global warming.
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| February 19, 2003 | - A new study estimated that 19.5 percent of Americans suffered from some form of mental illness, contradicting previous estimates that put the figure at 30 to 50 percent.
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| February 18, 2003 | -
A consortium of more than 20 major scientific journals including Nature, Science, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science agreed to censor scientific articles that could possibly compromise national security.
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| February 11, 2003 | -
Scientists discovered that women are better at baby talk than men.
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| January 28, 2003 | -
Scientists in New Zealand revealed that they have genetically engineered cattle to produce higher levels of protein in their milk, which could speed cheese production.
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| January 28, 2003 | -
“This could be a very cool thing,” said one expert, “especially if you like pizza.” Researchers successfully persuaded a quail embryo to grow a duck's bill.
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| January 21, 2003 | -
Inspectors also searched the private homes of two Iraqi
scientists, one of whom was upset that his clothing and his wife's medical Xrays were examined. The inspectors later expressed surprise that the Bush Administration was making such a big deal out of the empty warheads, which have a range of 12 miles; Hans Blix, the head of the U.N. team, said the warheads were not important, and a French diplomat agreed: “I have only one thing to say — empty.”
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| January 21, 2003 | -
Thirty vials of plague were reported missing at Texas Tech University, but investigators later concluded that researchers had destroyed them without completing the proper paperwork.
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| January 21, 2003 | -
Scientists found that the shark population in the Atlantic Ocean is dropping.
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| January 14, 2003 | -
Pete Townsend of The Who admitted that he once used his credit card to access a child pornography site “purely to see what was there” but denied being a pedophile, and claimed he was doing research for his autobiography.
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| January 14, 2003 | -
Australian researchers revealed that an enzyme found in the saliva of vampire bats can help stroke victims.
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| January 7, 2003 | -
Scientists reported that orangutans possess culture because they apparently ape one another's behavior; for example, orangutans in one area make a characteristic sound when they are annoyed; others masturbate with sticks.
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| December 31, 2002 | -
The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency announced that it will solicit proposals for a device to identify people by means of smell; the scheme is based on a theory, so far unproven, that every person has a unique, genetically determined odor.
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| December 17, 2002 | -
Scientists said they could detect early signs of schizophrenia in brain scans.
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| December 10, 2002 | -
The danger is that we treat everyone and everything like a product.” Japanese researchers were decapitating infant rats and grafting their heads onto adult rats' thighs, where they were observed trying to nurse.
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| December 3, 2002 | -
Scientists said they had genetically engineered a strain of super-rice by giving it a gene taken from E. coli bacteria.
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| December 3, 2002 | -
A group of scientists was debating whether to make a mouse-human hybrid.
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| November 26, 2002 | -
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Pentagon agency that created the Internet, said it had no plans for further research into a scheme called eDNA, which would have reconfigured the Internet to require users to display a unique personal identifier based on biometric data.
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| November 19, 2002 | -
Congress approved a defense authorization bill that contains an item funding research in nuclear “bunker buster” artillery shells.
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| November 12, 2002 | -
It was reported that Admiral John M. Poindexter, who was convicted in the Iran-Contra affair in 1990 but later acquitted on a technicality, joined the Bush Administration earlier this year as head of the Office of Information Awareness at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
Poindexter is in charge of a new system called Total Information Awareness, which would permit the military to spy on the civilian population of the United States without search warrants by scanning personal information such as email, credit-card statements, banking and medical records, and travel documents for patterns that suggest criminal or terrorist activities.
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| November 12, 2002 | -
British researchers found that having a positive attitude does no good whatsoever in fighting cancer.
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| November 5, 2002 | -
Scientists found that male leopard frogs are being feminized by the herbicide atrazine, which is commonly used on corn and soybeans.
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| October 29, 2002 | -
Researchers in Japan found that monosodium glutamate, the flavor enhancer used in many processed foods, can cause blindness in rats.
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| October 29, 2002 | -
Dogs, scientists found, are better behaved when listening to Bach than when listening to Metallica.
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| October 22, 2002 | -
Scientists discovered the cause of teen angst.
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| October 15, 2002 | -
Two British and one American scientist were awarded the Nobel Prize for their work on cell death, the process by which healthy cells commit suicide.
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| October 8, 2002 | -
Researchers in New Jersey revealed that they have discovered a nasal spray that makes women want to have sex, and it was reported that Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has been working to “dispell the notion that she is humorless.”
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| October 1, 2002 | -
A scientist at Bell Labs was accused of scientific misconduct for allegedly faking the data in 17 papers published between 1998 and 2001 that were thought to have represented extraordinary breakthroughs in physics.
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| October 1, 2002 | -
Astrobiologists in El Paso said that they had found evidence of life on Venus, and Russian
scientists suggested that the bacteria deinococcus radiodurans, which is known for its resistance to radiation, evolved on Mars.
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| October 1, 2002 | -
Scientists in Boston grew pigs' teeth in the belly of a rat.
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| September 24, 2002 | -
British and Australian researchers found that suicide rates increase under right-wing governments.
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| September 24, 2002 | -
Researchers at Duke University discovered a gene that gives sheep large beautiful bottoms.
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| September 3, 2002 | -
A new tanning drug called Melanotan could be the next Viagra, researchers said, because it causes erections.
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| September 3, 2002 | -
Japanese researchers used computer implants to make the lame walk.
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| August 27, 2002 | -
Researchers speculated that increased exposure to radiation might do us some good.
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| August 20, 2002 | -
Brand names, researchers found, engage the emotional side of the brain more easily than other words do.
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| August 20, 2002 | -
Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania successfully grew pig, mice, and goat testicles on the backs of laboratory mice; one researcher said that the testes “produced as much sperm, gram for gram, as testes in the donor species.” Larry Rivers died.
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| August 13, 2002 | -
A Canadian researcher named Gurunathan Lakshman said that he had a plan to eliminate the stink from pig feces, which will make hog farming less objectionable to neighbors.
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| July 30, 2002 | -
Scientists announced that an enormous asteroid may hit earth on February 1, 2019, potentially destroying a continent and reducing the planet to Dark Age conditions; despite the collision's very low odds, dozens of people in England were moved to pay a Welsh businessman $1,500 each for shelter in subterranean caves.
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| July 30, 2002 | -
Researchers revealed that sperm work cooperatively, with hundreds linking together to form a “love train” to reach an egg more quickly.
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| July 30, 2002 | -
Scientists found that women are more emotional than men.
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| July 30, 2002 | -
Researchers in Switzerland reported that Swiss people have no serious complaints.
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| July 23, 2002 | -
Researchers announced that they had genetically engineered mice with giant brains that fold up to fit inside the skull, as human brains do.
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| July 16, 2002 | -
Scientists succeeded in constructing a live polio virus from scratch using ingredients that are publicly available.
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| July 16, 2002 | -
A large federal study of hormone-replacement therapy for postmenopausal women was halted after researchers found that the estrogen-progestin combination therapy increased the risk of breast cancer.
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| July 16, 2002 | -
French scientists found a 7-million-year-old human skull in Africa.
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| July 16, 2002 | -
Researchers at the University of Chicago concluded that “the benefits of divorce have been oversold.”
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| July 9, 2002 | -
Researchers found that a six-week retreat at the Muthaswamy temple in Velayuthampalayamudur, India, works just as well as drugs for people with severe psychiatric problems.
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| July 2, 2002 | -
Researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta were infecting monkeys with smallpox in hopes of creating a better vaccine for the virus.
The dean of the school of public health at Johns Hopkins University said that this was “an abhorrent experiment by government idiots.” Peter Jahrling, the project's lead scientist, reassured reporters: “We're not interested in killing monkeys capriciously.
Sometimes I sit bolt upright in the middle of the night,” he said.
“I do have a conscience.”
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| June 18, 2002 | -
Scientists estimated that air pollution costs Europe's farmers more than six billion Euros a year.
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| June 11, 2002 | -
Scientists who tested whale meat on sale in Japan found extremely high mercury levels; some samples had 5,000 times the government's safety limit.
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| June 4, 2002 | -
Researchers in Scotland have determined that women are better liars than men.
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| May 7, 2002 | -
Scientists implanted electrodes in the brains of rats and made them climb trees and perform other tricks by remote control.
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| April 30, 2002 | -
Two Japanese researchers announced that they had grown fully functional tadpole eyeballs in a test tube. “None of the eyes were rejected and none dropped out,” said one. “All the frogs can see.”
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| April 23, 2002 | -
Scientists reported that a supercolony of Argentine ants now dominates southern Europe.
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| April 23, 2002 | -
One scientist called the colony “the greatest cooperative unit ever discovered.” Two teenage members of the Movement of Young Socialists squirted French prime minister Lionel Jospin in the face with tomato ketchup.
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| April 23, 2002 | -
Researchers found that trace amounts of atrazine, a common herbicide that is found almost everywhere in the environment, causes frogs to develop multiple sex organs. “I'm not saying it's safe for humans,” said Dr. Tyrone B. Hayes. “I'm not saying it's unsafe for humans. All I'm saying is that it makes hermaphrodites of frogs.”
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| March 26, 2002 | -
NASA
researchers highly recommended afternoon power naps.
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| March 19, 2002 | -
An American researcher who believes she has found the final resting place of Jesus Christ campaigned to exhume the body, in Kashmir, for DNA tests and carbon dating.
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| March 5, 2002 | -
A new study of the anatomy of Tyrannosaurus rex found that the dinosaur could not have been very fast; the beast might have reached a top speed of 10 mph in short sprints, if it was able to run at all.
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| February 26, 2002 | -
A dental researcher at the University of Florida announced that he had created a genetically modified bacteria that will prevent tooth decay.
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| February 19, 2002 | - A new study suggested that Alzheimer's disease could be caused by eating too much meat.
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| February 19, 2002 | -
Researchers found that mice infected with HIV die faster if they use cocaine.
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| February 19, 2002 | -
Scientists at the Genetic Savings and Clone in College Station, Texas, announced that they had cloned a cat.
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| February 5, 2002 | -
The National Institutes of Health announced the opening of the Rat Resource and Research Center at the University of Missouri, a sort of vivisection boutique where researchers can shop for rare breeds and rats genetically engineered for specific needs.
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| January 29, 2002 | -
Testosterone might help prevent Alzheimer's disease, researchers said.
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| December 25, 2001 | -
Scientists discovered a new kind of squid.
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| December 18, 2001 | - A scientist observed wild orangutans partaking in homosexual behavior.
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| December 18, 2001 | - The Drug Enforcement Agency agreed for the first time in two decades to permit research on the medical effectiveness of marijuana; the agency also decided to ban any food products that contain trace amounts of THC, the active ingredient in pot, which is a problem for many natural-foods companies that use hempseed or hempseed oil in their products. “Pasta, tortilla chips, candy bars, nutritional bars, salad dressings, sauces, cheeses, ice cream, and beer” containing hemp have been banned, but not hats, shirts, lotion, paper, or rope, because they “do not cause THC to enter the human body.”
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| December 11, 2001 | - The Senate refused to consider a moratorium on human cloning.
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| December 11, 2001 | - American students are still mediocre, a new study found.
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| December 4, 2001 | - Prime Minister Sharon “declared war on terror.” A paper in the scientific journal Human Immunology found that Jews and Palestinians have no significant genetic differences; after receiving complaints, the journal's editor repudiated the paper and sent letters to libraries asking them to rip out the offending pages.
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| December 4, 2001 | - Raelians wish to clone full-grown humans into whom memories and such can be downloaded: “That is what interests us — it is to be able to live eternally through several bodies.” “The use of embryos to clone is wrong,” President Bush declared. “We should not as a society grow life to destroy life.” Objections by the United States prevented an international agreement that would have limited the advertising of tobacco products, which are estimated to kill 4 million people each year.
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| November 27, 2001 | -
Scientists at Oxford University said up to 1,500 British
sheep could have been infected with the disease.
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| November 27, 2001 | - A new study confirmed that abuse of stimulants used to treat attention-deficit disorder, such as Ritalin, was rampant among children and teens. “People don't realize what these drugs are,” one scientist said. “The similarities between them and cocaine are much greater than the differences.”
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| November 27, 2001 | -
Scientists found that mentally visualizing exercise can substantially increase one's strength.
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| November 27, 2001 | -
Scientists said that last month was the warmest October in history.
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| November 20, 2001 | - Prozac causes mice to become extremely aggressive, especially when they drink alcohol, researchers found, and brain scans can now reveal whether someone is lying.
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| November 13, 2001 | - Dr. Simon Stertzer, a cardiovascular surgeon who performed the first coronary angioplasty in the United States, bought the Palomino Club in Las Vegas.
Dr. Stertzer said he bought the strip club as an investment to fund his research: “Whatever will provide cash flow will do.”
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| November 13, 2001 | -
Researchers found that Germans are almost always in the mood for love.
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| October 30, 2001 | -
British women have the largest breasts in Europe, a study found, though they are not the fattest.
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| October 30, 2001 | -
Germany, for some reason, was not included in the study.
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| October 30, 2001 | - Italians who were deprived of their cell phones reported sexual dysfunction, researchers found, and most Britons sleep naked.
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| October 23, 2001 | -
Scientists warned that overuse of Cipro could soon render it useless as bacteria develop resistance.
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| October 23, 2001 | - In one study, humans who consumed the meat had the dangerous bacteria in their stool samples.
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| October 23, 2001 | - A new study found that AIDS is now the leading cause of death in South Africa.
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| October 16, 2001 | - Most Germans prefer quickies to slow, gentle lovemaking, a study found.
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| October 9, 2001 | -
British people are more depressed than other Europeans, researchers found.
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| October 9, 2001 | -
Scientists sequenced the genome of bubonic plague, which seems to have an “unusually fluid” genetic structure.
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| October 9, 2001 | - New research suggested that the Black death might have been an Ebola-like hemorrhagic virus.
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| October 2, 2001 | -
Scientists in Nashville, Tennessee, found that most women laugh using a voiced, songlike giggle whereas men are more likely to grunt or snort.
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| October 2, 2001 | -
British
scientists revealed that Viagra makes men breathe easier at high altitudes.
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| September 25, 2001 | -
Japanese
scientists were developing remote-controlled cockroaches guided by means of backpacks that send electronic signals into their brains.
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| September 25, 2001 | - The roaches could be outfitted with small cameras, the scientists said, and used in search and rescue operations.
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| September 11, 2001 | - It was revealed that the United States has been engaged in germ-warfare research that violates or comes close to violating the 1972 treaty outlawing biological weapons.
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| September 11, 2001 | -
Scientists were attempting to discover, using objective criteria, the funniest joke in Britain.
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| September 11, 2001 | -
Scientists found that horses are happier if they have mirrors in their stalls.
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| September 11, 2001 | - The Earth Liberation Front vandalized a cancer-research lab on Long Island, apparently because they were upset about biotechnology research.
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| September 11, 2001 | - A new study, financed by biotechnology companies, concluded that monarch butterfly caterpillars are not killed by the pollen of BT corn, a finding that contradicts studies that were not financed by biotechnology companies.
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| September 11, 2001 | -
Scientists found that some people prefer ugly mates.
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| September 11, 2001 | -
British
scientists found that a marijuana spray applied under the tongue helped people with chronic pain.
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| August 28, 2001 | - New research found that robots are better at trading commodities than humans are.
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| August 28, 2001 | - The federal government was investigating Johns Hopkins University for its experiment a few years ago in which healthy children were recruited to live in houses with varying degrees of lead contamination.
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| August 28, 2001 | -
President Bush declared that America would withdraw from the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty “at a time convenient to the United States.” Researchers estimated that 99 percent of the continental U.S. will never see a truly dark starry sky.
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| August 28, 2001 | -
Scientists found that people who eat a lot of snacks are more prone to macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness in the U.S. The FBI uncovered a six-year scam in which eight people rigged McDonald's contests, embezzling $13 million in cash and prizes.
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| August 28, 2001 | -
Japanese
scientists, using resin and a laser, sculpted a bull the size of a red blood cell.
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| August 28, 2001 | - A study found that Irish people feel healthier than all other Europeans.
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| August 21, 2001 | - It was discovered that Monsanto's Roundup Ready soybeans, the world's most widely grown genetically engineered crop, contain a weird strand of DNA that the company cannot explain — right next to the bacterial DNA that was inserted to protect the plant from the herbicide Roundup.
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| August 21, 2001 | -
Canadian
researchers found that different varieties of genetically modified crops such as rapeseed have spread over great distances and have interbred with one another, spawning superweeds that are almost impossible to kill since they are resistant to many herbicides.
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| August 21, 2001 | -
Scientists working for a Peruvian pharmaceuticals company found that eating maca, an Andean plant similar to a turnip, can increase a man's sex drive by 200 percent.
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| August 14, 2001 | -
President Bush announced that he would permit federal research on human stem cells, though the restrictions he imposed amounted to a ban.
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| August 14, 2001 | - A few days later, another team of scientists had a vision of what they said was the “cosmic renaissance,” the time when stars first began to shine.
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| August 7, 2001 | - Two hundred couples were selected by an Italian embryologist to take part in a human cloning project; the human clones will be made using a technique similar to that which produced Dolly the sheep.
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| August 7, 2001 | - The United States House of Representatives voted to ban human cloning for both reproduction and medical research; the measure also prohibits the sale of treatments derived from such procedures.
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| August 7, 2001 | - Some British and Indian
scientists claimed that they had positively identified alien bacteria entering Earth's upper atmosphere from space, which would tend, they said, to confirm the Panspermia theory of life's origin.
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| July 31, 2001 | -
Scientists reported that the human brain responds differently to faces of different races; African Americans were found to recognize all races rather easily, but whites generally had a hard time recognizing any but white faces.
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| July 31, 2001 | - The study helpfully pointed out that the country saves hundreds of millions of dollars in housing, health care, and pensions for former smokers who no longer require such services, because they're dead.
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| July 31, 2001 | - A British
study found that 80 percent of women fake orgasms during intercourse.
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| July 31, 2001 | -
Japanese
scientists invented a bionic suit to help nurses lift patients.
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| July 31, 2001 | - Pope John Paul II advised President Bush that the use of stem cells for research is an evil akin to infanticide; Bush reassured the pope that he would think long and hard about his own opinion: “My process has been, frankly, unusually deliberative for my administration.” A German court ruled a Hamburg citizen incapable of managing his affairs after he tipped a waiter $11,000 for a cup of coffee; the court impounded the tip.
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| July 31, 2001 | -
Researchers found that female cockroaches become much less choosy about their mates as they get older.
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| July 24, 2001 | - A study by computer scientists, mechanical engineers, and social scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the California Institute of Technology found that four million to six million votes cast last November were not counted.
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| July 24, 2001 | -
Scientists reported that introverted firefighters are more susceptible to injuries on the job.
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| July 24, 2001 | - A study found that media accounts of “social anxiety disorder” increased from 50 in 1997 and 1998 to more than a billion in 1999, following a public-relations campaign coordinated by SmithKline Beecham, the makers of the antidepressant Paxil.
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| July 24, 2001 | - According to new research, Abraham Lincoln was prone to sudden fits of rage, the result of mercury poisoning from the little blue pills he'd been prescribed for melancholia.
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| July 24, 2001 | -
Scientists revealed that, if the Arctic ice cap continues to shrink, the stretch of land between London and Stockholm will become almost uninhabitable.
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| July 24, 2001 | -
Scientists built an atomic clock that is accurate to within a second for two billion years, an improvement over the previously most accurate clock, which loses a second about every 20 million years.
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| July 24, 2001 | - A study found that husbands and wives keep big secrets from each other.
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| July 17, 2001 | - As President Bush continued to ponder the political expediencies of permitting or banning federal funding for embryonic stem cell research, science was marching on, aided and comforted by medical ethicists.
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| July 17, 2001 | - Conservative Republicans are three times more likely than liberal Democrats to have nightmares, a new study found.
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| July 17, 2001 | - Yohannes Haile-Selassie, a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, reported his discovery in his native Ethiopia of 5.2-million-year-old fossils belonging to a hominid, a subspecies of Ardipithecus ramidus; the fossils are the earliest known human ancestor.
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| July 3, 2001 | -
Researchers found that Italian mothers are the most anxious mothers in Europe.
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| July 3, 2001 | -
Scientists found that dairy cows produced more milk while listening to REM's “Everybody Hurts” or the Pastoral Symphony by Beethoven than when listening to “Back in the USSR” by the Beatles or Wonderstuff's “Size of a Cow.” Ireland announced that thousands of children in 1973 received a livestock vaccine (Tribovax) instead of a human one (Trivax) for diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis.
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| July 3, 2001 | -
NASA
launched an observatory to study the afterglow of the Big Bang.
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| June 26, 2001 | -
Researchers in Calcutta, India, found that squatting while defecating can increase the risk of stroke.
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| June 26, 2001 | - Tasmania refused to allow a British
scientist to take home samples of prehistoric excrement attributed to the extinct marsupial carnivore known as the Tasmanian tiger (Thylacinus cynocephalus).
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| June 26, 2001 | - A new study claimed that one fifth of all children who use the Internet are solicited for sex at one time or another.
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| June 19, 2001 | - Women are more caring than men, scientists discovered, and old women are smarter than old men.
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| June 19, 2001 | -
Researchers found that Scots are the most potent men in Europe.
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| June 19, 2001 | -
Scientists found that simply looking at pictures of young attractive women causes a significant increase in a man's ambition, self-esteem, estimation of his earning potential, career prospects, and dominance.
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| June 19, 2001 | - Tall people live longer, according to a new study, and they always have.
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| June 5, 2001 | - Two French scientists said they had detected 35 times the normal amount of arsenic in some of Napoleon's hair.
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| May 29, 2001 | - Two Danish
researchers found that the “placebo effect” was a myth, the result of wishful thinking and basic methodological errors.
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| May 29, 2001 | -
Scientists found signs of syphilis in the bones of a medieval girl from Essex, England; the find may prove that Christopher Columbus did not carry syphilis to Europe from the New World as was previously thought.
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| May 22, 2001 | -
Researchers found that oysters, when stressed, secrete the same hormones that humans do, hormones that inhibit their immune system, making them vulnerable to a germ called vibrio splendidus, which kills them.
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| May 22, 2001 | - The leader of the research team that cloned Dolly the sheep warned against the premature cloning of farm
animals for meat and milk production; cattle
clones have suffered from severe defects such as diabetes, immune-system deficiencies, giant tongues, intestinal blockages, and squashed faces.
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| May 22, 2001 | -
Researchers found that Oscar-winning movie stars live longer, and that flying frequently across several time zones can shrink your brain.
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| May 15, 2001 | -
Scientists at MIT's Whitehead Institute found evidence that Europeans are descended from about 50 people who left Africa 60,000 years ago and inbred among themselves for 30 generations.
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| May 15, 2001 | - A German
researcher found that tall men have more children than short men; they also have more wives, because they are more likely to get divorced and their second wives are likely to be younger.
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| May 15, 2001 | -
President George W. Bush said that free trade was “a moral imperative.” A psychiatrist at Columbia University announced a new study and claimed that “highly motivated” homosexuals can go straight.
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| May 8, 2001 | -
Scientists in New Jersey announced that they had produced the first genetically modified humans.
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| May 8, 2001 | -
Canada prepared to ban human cloning.
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| May 8, 2001 | -
Japanese
researchers found that eating sushi reduces a smoker's risk of developing lung cancer.
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| May 1, 2001 | -
Biologists persuaded embryonic stem cells from a mouse to generate insulin-producing organs; other scientists proved that therapeutic cloning, a procedure that also uses cells from an embryo, can produce tissue for any part of a mouse's body.
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| May 1, 2001 | - Celera Genomics announced that it would not publish its decoded mouse genome; the information will be available for a fee.
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| May 1, 2001 | -
Scientists found that whales and dolphins are unable to see the color blue.
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| April 24, 2001 | -
Scientists sequenced the genomes of two strains of drug-resistant staphylococcus bacteria; they discovered that the bacteria are capable of stealing genes from other organisms, which enables them very quickly to develop immunity to new drugs.
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| April 24, 2001 | - Other scientists discovered that feeding antibiotics to animals, already known to contribute to resistant strains of salmonella and other gut bacteria, has led to the development of resistant strains of soil- and water-borne bacteria beneath farms that use such feed.
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| April 24, 2001 | - Some experts were worried about tourists who pay to swim with sharks, which are lured by fish heads and such; others welcomed the chance to study
natural selection at work.
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| April 24, 2001 | -
Britain banned human cloning.
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| April 24, 2001 | - St. John's wort does not prevent depression, a study found.
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| April 24, 2001 | -
Researchers in Chicago made a functional cyborg using the brain of an immature lamprey eel.
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| April 17, 2001 | - The Big Bang was caused by a parallel universe, a team of physicists speculated.
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| April 17, 2001 | -
Researchers, writing in the journal Tissue Engineering, announced that human fat contains stem cells, which can be used to grow replacement tissue, perhaps even organs.
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| April 10, 2001 | - Astronomers discovered 11 new planets, one of which was in a “habitable zone” where temperatures conducive to life might be possible.
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| April 10, 2001 | -
Scientists found evidence of negative gravity, also known as dark energy and the “cosmological constant,” in a photograph of an exploding star.
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| April 10, 2001 | -
Researchers in Texas found that men who sniffed T-shirts in a laboratory were able to tell whether they had been worn by a woman who was fertile; the men described such shirts as smelling “pleasant” or “sexy.”
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| April 10, 2001 | - Finnish researchers found that babies whose mothers swallow capsules of certain benign bacteria while pregnant are less likely to develop eczema and asthma, which supports the theory that excessive cleanliness contributes to these conditions.
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| April 3, 2001 | -
Britain was burying hundreds of thousands of sheep and cattle that have been killed in an attempt to control the spread of foot-and-mouth disease; scientists were trying to figure out whether the disease can be transmitted via the smoke of burning animals.
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| April 3, 2001 | -
Researchers found that using ecstasy damages one's ability to remember things to be done in the future.
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| April 3, 2001 | - A new study has found that small men are less likely to get married than larger men; they also make less money.
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| March 27, 2001 | - A new member of the hominid family was christened “flat-faced man of Kenya.” Arkansas legislators were debating whether to ban the teaching of evolution and radio-carbon dating techniques; a proposed bill would require teachers to tell students to mark “false evidence” or “theory” in their books next to discussions of evolution.
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| March 27, 2001 | - Foot-and-mouth disease spread to the Netherlands and Ireland.
Britain was planning to destroy over 500,000 cows. American researchers suggested using napalm.
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| March 27, 2001 | -
Scientists warned that clones often have random genetic flaws that produce severe developmental problems, immune-system disorders, and other defects; some cloned mice, for example, become enormously obese when they reach a certain age.
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| March 27, 2001 | - A new study found that safer and more effective land mines will be available after 2006.
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| March 20, 2001 | - Apparently offended by President Bush's comments last week about dear leader Kim Jong Il, North Korea cancelled peace talks with South Korea and denounced the United States as a “nation of cannibals.” South Korean scientists discovered over 100 endangered species thriving in the Demilitarized Zone along the border with North Korea.
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| March 20, 2001 | -
Scientists confirmed that people are able to repress unwanted memories.
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| March 20, 2001 | - Two fertility
scientists based in the United States announced that they expected to grow the first human clone within two years.
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| March 20, 2001 | -
Scientists were testing the use of LSD and other hallucinogens to treat mental illness.
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| March 13, 2001 | - The Swiss government proposed legalizing the consumption of marijuana and hashish after a study showed that everyone was using the drugs anyway.
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| March 13, 2001 | - Male baboons prefer to mate with females with large swollen bottoms, researchers said.
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| March 13, 2001 | - A study found that injecting fetal cells directly into the brains of Parkinson's patients does not help them; in fact, it caused some patients to writhe and jerk spontaneously.
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| March 6, 2001 | - A team of scientists working on a Martian meteorite known as ALH 84002 said that they had discovered “conclusive evidence” of bacterial life on Mars 3.9 billion years ago, which would be the oldest evidence of life yet discovered.
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| March 6, 2001 | - Other scientists were skeptical and appealed to the possibility of terrestrial contamination of the meteorite, which was on Earth for 13,000 years before it was found in 1984.
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| February 27, 2001 | - A team of Japanese
researchers think that Earth will be as dry as Mars in about a billion years, because 1.12 billion tons of water leaks down into the earth's mantle each year.
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| February 27, 2001 | -
Scientists working for PPL Theraputics transformed cattle cells into stem cells, which were then persuaded to become human heart tissue.
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| February 27, 2001 | -
Researchers at Du Pont cloned a gene that will allow plants to produce plastic.
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| February 20, 2001 | -
Scientists announced that they had sequenced a mouse genome.
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| February 20, 2001 | - The Human Genome Project announced that there are only 27,000 to 40,000 human genes, not 100,000 as had been previously thought, 223 of which were acquired directly from bacteria.
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| February 20, 2001 | - An Austrian scientist found in a recent study that women typically begin encounters with strange men by emitting positive courtship signals such as head-tossing, hair-flipping, and fiddling with their clothes, though they are often unaware of doing so.
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| February 20, 2001 | -
Psychologists at the University of California revealed that Samson, the Biblical hero, suffered from antisocial personality disorder.
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| February 13, 2001 | - Human proteins were produced by a genetically modified rubber-tree plant; Hoong-Yeet Yang of the Rubber Research Institute of Malaysia, who said the technique involved the use of gene switches from viruses, had high hopes of producing valuable raw materials for pharmaceuticals.
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| February 6, 2001 | - People in Malaysia were tearing up forests looking for tongkat ali, a traditional medicine that, according to researchers, stimulates the libido of rats.
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| February 6, 2001 | -
Scientists spent five weeks watching helicopters fly over king penguins in the Antarctic to determine whether the birds topple over backward while watching aircraft. They do not.
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| February 6, 2001 | -
Researchers found evidence that dolphins can stun or kill their prey with sound.
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| January 30, 2001 | -
Australian
researchers, who were trying to use genetic engineering to sterilize mice, accidentally created a deadly, immune-system-destroying strain of the mousepox virus, a cousin of the human smallpox virus.
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| January 30, 2001 | - Two biotechnology companies announced that they had sequenced the rice genome.
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| January 30, 2001 | -
E. coli, whose genome was recently sequenced, has a habit, researchers said, of picking up new genes from bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria, which could explain its extraordinary virulence.
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| January 30, 2001 | -
Rats dream, researchers found.
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| January 23, 2001 | - Swiss researchers found traces of uranium 236, which comes from nuclear fuel and nuclear waste, in samples of American-made depleted uranium found in Kosovo, raising concerns that the weapons debris might contain contaminants that are even more dangerous, such as plutonium and americium.
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| January 23, 2001 | -
President Clinton ordered the Pentagon to review a study which found that residents of a small Puerto Rican island where the Navy conducts bombing tests have a high rate of a rare heart condition caused by loud noises.
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| January 16, 2001 | - The Union of Concerned Scientists estimated that 24.6 million pounds of antibiotics are given each year to healthy farm
animals such as cows, chickens, and pigs; the group warned that such practices encourage the evolution of drug-resistant bacteria.
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| January 16, 2001 | -
Scientists proudly announced the insertion of a jellyfish gene into a monkey; the gene was supposed to make a protein that glows in the dark, but it didn't, though a couple of stillborn monkeys from the same experiment did glow.
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| January 16, 2001 | -
Researchers found that the human love of music was instinctual, a mere animal reflex.
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| January 9, 2001 | -
Animal
researchers at Texas A&M University unveiled a bull calf named Bull 86 Squared, a clone of Bull 86, a naturally disease-resistant bull that died in 1997; they say the calf is 100 times more resistant to brucellosis, tuberculosis, and salmonellosis, all of which can be transmitted to humans through beef or milk.
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| January 9, 2001 | -
Researchers found that spinach, broccoli and other green vegetables that are good for you really do taste bad.
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| January 9, 2001 | -
Cosmologists determined that cold dark matter was too cold and hot dark matter was too hot, but that warm dark matter was just right for producing a computer simulation of a universe that looks like ours.
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| January 2, 2001 | - A new British
study found that women were more likely to mate with men who show off and take risks.
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| January 2, 2001 | - The Bigfoot Field Researchers
Organization found a large imprint of Bigfoot's buttocks in southern Washington.
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| 0, 2000 | -
Scientists found that death may make the pygmies short.
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| December 26, 2000 | -
Nature, the science magazine, reported that the Queen of England's accent has become noticeably more vulgar over the last four decades.
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| December 26, 2000 | -
Britain approved rules allowing researchers to clone human embryos; German officials called such practices “cannibalism.” Cheap Chinese
pigskin miniskirts were appearing in malls all over America.
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| December 26, 2000 | - After a Swedish study found that pregnant women who drink five cups of coffee a day double their chances of having a miscarriage, the president of the National Coffee Association claimed the study proved that women could safely drink four cups a day.
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| December 19, 2000 | - An international team of scientists announced that they had finished the first complete genetic sequence of a plant; Arabidopsis thaliana, or thale-cress, is related to cauliflowers and brussels sprouts and previously was a worthless weed.
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| December 19, 2000 | - A new study found that marijuana slows the swimming of sperm in a test tube.
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| December 19, 2000 | - The United States
Army was funding research aimed at allowing humans to hibernate.
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| December 19, 2000 | -
European
scientists warned that the region's fish and other seafood were contaminated with dangerous levels of dioxins and other toxins.
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| December 19, 2000 | - The Scottish scientists who made Dolly, the famous sheep clone, announced a plan to make genetically modified chickens that will lay eggs containing drugs.
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| December 19, 2000 | - After accidently disabling a single gene, a group of scientists doubled the life span of fruit flies.
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| December 12, 2000 | -
British
scientists succeeded in making marijuana soluble, which could enable a wide array of medical uses for the drug.
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| December 12, 2000 | -
Scientists were working to come up with a good lubricant for the microscopic nanomachines of tomorrow.
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| December 12, 2000 | - Strange microbes were discovered at an altitude of ten miles; some researchers speculated that they had been deposited by a passing comet; others scoffed at the idea.
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| December 5, 2000 | -
Japan outlawed human cloning.
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| November 28, 2000 | -
Researchers at Harvard Medical School claimed that 44.3 percent of cigarettes smoked in America are smoked by the mentally ill, who make up, they said, 28.3 percent of Americans.
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| November 14, 2000 | -
New Zealand
researchers claimed to have found a gene for schizophrenia.
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| November 14, 2000 | - Herpes virus 8, which causes Kaposi's sarcoma, a skin cancer that commonly afflicts AIDS
patients, may be spread by kissing, according to a new study.
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| November 14, 2000 | -
Physicists made a transistor out of a single buckyball molecule.
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| November 14, 2000 | - Two scientists traveled to South Georgia Island in the south Atlantic to find out whether it is true that penguins there fall over backwards while watching airplanes fly by.
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| November 7, 2000 | - South African museums were busy trying to return or at least to bury some 2,000 skeletons of black men and women whose bodies in many cases were stolen from their graves for study by scientists.
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| November 7, 2000 | -
Scientists warned again that chronic wasting disease, a type of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy infecting deer and elk in the American West, can probably be transmitted to humans, much like its cousin mad cow disease; up to half the deer in some areas are infected with the disease.
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| November 7, 2000 | -
Russian president Vladimir Putin agreed to open Soviet archives to researchers for data about the millions murdered by Joseph Stalin.
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| November 7, 2000 | - Rotenone, a common pesticide, produced all the symptoms of Parkinson's disease in laboratory rats, according to a new study, suggesting that such poisons may cause the disease in humans.
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| October 31, 2000 | - Scientists at the University of Chicago believe that zebra finches sing songs in their dreams, perhaps in order to memorize the melodies; their conclusion was based on a study of the songbirds' brainwaves.
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| October 24, 2000 | - According to the study, the vibration of the testicles against the bicycle seat and rough terrain were probably to blame.
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| October 24, 2000 | - A new study found that children whose mothers received opiates or barbiturates during childbirth were up to five times more likely to abuse drugs later on.
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| October 24, 2000 | - The Ebola virus was killing people in Uganda; scientists speculated that outbreaks of the virus might be linked to abnormal weather conditions, which could lead to Ebola forecasts.
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| October 17, 2000 | -
German researchers discovered that shy parents tend to breed shy children.
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| October 17, 2000 | - Scientists discovered that releasing iron into largely barren parts of the ocean triggered a phytoplankton bloom that might be useful in absorbing excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere; they dubbed the phenomenon the Geritol effect.
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| October 17, 2000 | - Duke University researchers found that exercise is at least as effective at fighting depression as Zoloft, a popular anti-depressant drug.
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| October 17, 2000 | - Harvard scientists succeeded in getting a group of people to have the same dream; twenty-seven subjects played Tetris, a computer game, for seven hours over three days; seventeen dreamed of Tetris, including amnesiacs who could not even remember playing the game.
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| October 17, 2000 | - The director of the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press announced that media pundits are less influential than researchers had thought: “There is increasing evidence the American public has an ability to ignore what the pundits say.” Two hundred million gallons of coal sludge escaped from the Martin County Coal Corporation's coal preparation plant in Inez, Kentucky; the blob of sludge was spreading through the area at a rate of ten miles a day, killing
fish and wildlife as it oozed through woods and streams.
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| October 10, 2000 | - A federal judge ordered that the Animal Welfare Act be extended to protect birds, mice, and rats used in research laboratories; vivisectionists expressed concern that the progress of science might be impeded.
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| October 10, 2000 | -
Canadian
researchers discovered that many common herbicides, fungicides, and insecticides used on fruit and vegetables encourage the growth of dangerous bacteria such as salmonella, E. coli, and shigella.
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| October 3, 2000 | -
Scientists at Monsanto were working on genetically modified lawn grasses that will come in bright new colors, require less water, and glow in the dark.
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| October 3, 2000 | - The world's oldest mummy, who was found in the Alps nine years ago, was thawed out for scientific tests.
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| October 3, 2000 | - The U.S. Office of Human Research Protections said that scientists who experiment on humans should be given instruction in ethics.
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| October 3, 2000 | -
Scientists claimed to have found a gene (called V1RL1) that might have something or other to do with pheromones, molecules secreted by humans and rodents, among other mammals, to stimulate sex and violence.
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| September 26, 2000 | -
Scientists extended the lifespan of yeast by subjecting it to a low caloric diet; they speculated that a pill might someday be available that would extend human life.
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| September 26, 2000 | - A study found that replanted forests absorb much less carbon dioxide than do natural forests, which complicates plans by countries such as the United States to meet the goals of a global warming treaty by planting trees, rather than by cutting back on carbon dioxide emissions.
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| September 19, 2000 | - Judge James A. Parker chastised the government for needlessly tormenting a sixty-year-old scientist and apologized to Lee on behalf of the entire judiciary.
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| September 19, 2000 | - A study by the American Veterinary Medical Association concluded that Rottweiler dogs now kill more people than do pit bulls.
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| September 19, 2000 | -
Scientists noticed that the Miss Waldron's red colobus monkey had been extinct for twenty years.
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| September 12, 2000 | - Archaeologists discovered proof that some ancient American Indians practiced cannibalism.
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| September 12, 2000 | -
Researchers at Eukarion, Inc. developed a drug that doubles the lifespan of nematode worms.
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| September 12, 2000 | - A Thai
researcher named Pikikhate Sooraksa unveiled “Roboguard,” a gunslinging remote-control robot guard.
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| September 5, 2000 | - Albert Einstein's theory that a massive spinning object will twist space-time around it received support from X-rays emanating from three neutron stars detected by the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer, a NASA
satellite.
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| September 5, 2000 | - It was revealed in a bail hearing that the data downloaded by Wen Ho Lee, the Los Alamos scientist who is being prosecuted for mishandling nuclear secrets, was classified only after it was discovered that Lee downloaded it; former Los Alamos counterintelligence officers testified that Lee was singled out by investigators because of his race.
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| September 5, 2000 | -
Scientists in Oxford, England, will begin testing an experimental AIDS vaccine on humans; another vaccine trial will begin in Thailand.
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| September 5, 2000 | -
Researchers sequenced the genome of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a ubiquitous bacterium that kills people with compromised immune systems.
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| September 5, 2000 | - The Pope condemned human cloning.
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| September 5, 2000 | - Computer scientists developed a robot that designs and builds other, simpler, robots, inspiring commentators to indulge in speculations about artificial intelligence and cybernetic evolution.
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| September 5, 2000 | - A new study found that postal workers are one third less likely to be murdered on the job than other workers.
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| August 29, 2000 | - Austrian scientists discovered bacteria living among the clouds.
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| August 29, 2000 | - The National Institutes of Health issued rules allowing researchers who receive federal funds to use human embryonic stem cells in their studies.
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| August 29, 2000 | - Los Alamos scientist Wen Ho Lee, who will be tried for mishandling nuclear secrets, made bail after FBI agents admitted making inaccurate statements in previous bail hearings.
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| August 29, 2000 | -
Scientists and farmers in China discovered that simply planting several varieties of rice together doubles the crop's yield and eliminates rice blast, a fungus that destroys millions of tons of rice each year.
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| August 29, 2000 | - A study in Iowa found that a variety of genetically modified corn that produces its own insecticide kills monarch butterfly caterpillars.
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| August 22, 2000 | - The Congressional Research Service reported that the U.S. was still the world's largest arms dealer, having sold $11.8 billion in weapons in 1999.
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| August 22, 2000 | - An FBI agent admitted that he had given false testimony in a bail hearing for Wen Ho Lee, the Los Alamos scientist who has been held without bail for nine months for mishandling nuclear secrets; civil rights groups argue that Lee was singled out for prosecution because of his Chinese ancestry.
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| August 22, 2000 | -
Scientists successfully transformed human bone marrow cells into nerve cells.
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| August 22, 2000 | -
Researchers discovered that the Nipah virus, which killed 100 people last year in Singapore, originally came from fruit bats; the virus, a cousin to Ebola and HIV, is also carried by pigs, a million of which were destroyed last year.
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| August 15, 2000 | - University of Kansas researchers found that sports fans are less likely to become depressed than people who have no interest in sports.
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| August 15, 2000 | - A new study found that people from different cultures see things differently.
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| August 15, 2000 | -
Researchers at Bell Labs and Oxford University fashioned tiny motors made of DNA.
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| August 8, 2000 | -
Voters in the Kansas Republican primary selected pro-evolution candidates for the state school board, ensuring thereby that the state's current science standards, which for the last three years have required the teaching of creationism in the schools, will be overturned.
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| August 8, 2000 | -
Scientists sequenced the genome of the cholera bacterium.
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| August 8, 2000 | - According to a new study, viruses may cause obesity.
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| August 8, 2000 | - DNA Sciences, a new dot com company in California, established a “gene trust” and invited people to volunteer DNA samples for scientific study; the company, which expects to make a profit, will not compensate DNA donors.
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| August 8, 2000 | -
Scientists learned that women who are abused at an early age are likely to suffer from stress later in life.
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| August 1, 2000 | - Atmospheric scientists discovered that some 4,000 tons of a new synthetic greenhouse gas have been released into the atmosphere; the gas, which takes 1,000 years to degrade, may be a by-product of weapons production.
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| August 1, 2000 | -
Japan will resume hunting for sperm and Bryde's whales, purportedly to study the diet and ecology of the rare species.
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| August 1, 2000 | - A British Health Department bulletin revealed that fourteen Britons have died of mad cow disease so far this year; scientists have said that 500,000 people could die of the disease by 2030.
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| August 1, 2000 | -
Scientists discovered that extreme pain suffered by infants, who once routinely underwent surgery without anesthesia, may have long-term neurological effects.
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