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How you can eat meat and not kill (21 November 12:30) |
| Technology will soon advance to the point where it will be possible to grow meat inside labs, without the need for the actual living things that wear it for some time before being killed for... |
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Panel Pap smear at 21 every 2 years (21 November 12:30) |
| New guidelines for cervical cancer screening say women should delay their first Pap test until age 21, and be screened less often than recommended in the past.
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New software to start PC in less than 7sec (21 November 12:13) |
| New Google Inc software will start up a computer as fast as a television can be turned on, the search company said as it showed off its Chrome operating system designed for PCs that do their... |
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Fossils reveal a world full of crocodiles (21 November 12:11) |
| A 20-foot-long crocodile with three sets of fangs - like wild boar tusks - roamed parts of northern Africa millions of years ago, researchers reported. |
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Now a spray to prevent premature ejaculation (21 November 12:10) |
| A spray that numbs the penis can help prevent premature ejaculation, doctors reported and drug maker Sciele Pharma Inc, a division of Japan's Shionogi, plans to file for US approval next yea... |
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Global threat Antibiotic-proof bacteria (20 November 12:01) |
| Experts at the 2nd annual European antibiotics awareness day held by the Stockholm-based European Centre for Diseases Prevention and Control (ECDC) said new, hyper-resistant bacteria were em... |
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A computer that thinks like brain (19 November 11:59) |
| Researchers from IBM Corp are reporting that they've simulated a cat's cerebral cortex, the thinking part of the brain, using a massive supercomputer. |
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Gene protects brain-eaters from mad cow-type disease (19 November 01:59) |
| Villagers in the highlands of Papua New Guinea who ritualistically ate human brains but did not die of a brain disease called kuru have a genetic mutation that protects them, researchers sai... |
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Now web surfers can explore Mars (19 November 12:03) |
| Nasa and Microsoft launched an interactive website that allows web surfers to become Mars explorers. |
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Heart disease a new-age killer Ask mummies (18 November 11:59) |
| You can't blame this one on McDonald's: Researchers have found signs of heart disease in 3,500-year-old mummies. |
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Whos a playboy 4th finger to tell (17 November 12:06) |
| A longer fourth finger in comparison to the second finger suggests the species tend to be highly competitive and promiscuous, says a new study.
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Century on drilling polar ice to dig out explorers Scotch (17 November 12:05) |
| Two crates of Scotch whisky belonging to polar explorer Ernest Shackleton are to be recovered after being buried for a century under the Antarctic ice, officials said on Sunday. |
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Worlds first universal quantum computer created (17 November 12:04) |
| Scientists in the United States have unveiled the world’s first universal programmable quantum computer, capable of processing two quantum bits or qubits which store more data than the sim... |
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A gene that can help you live to 100 identified (16 November 02:22) |
| Scientists have identified a gene which can help one live to 100 years, a breakthrough that they claim may pave the way for anti-ageing drugs. |
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Molecular collisions kept Earth warm (16 November 12:11) |
| Some 2.5 billion years ago, the sun was so faint that the oceans should've been ice. They weren't, and now a new study suggests the answer to the puzzle lies with greenhouse effect and an ex... |
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Nasa readies space shuttle Atlantis for Monday launch (16 November 10:53) |
| US space agency Nasa was readying the space shuttle Atlantis and its crew of seven astronauts for a Monday launch to deliver a load of spare parts to the International Space Station. |
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New tool lets you find friends blogs tweets easily (16 November 12:17) |
| Online search giant Google is testing a new social search function to make it easier for people find their friends’ blogs and twitter feeds. |
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Stem cell business booms in India (15 November 10:15) |
| Stem cell banking is now a flourishing business with more and more people wishing to store their baby's cord blood as a form of bio-insurance, even though it comes at a heavy price. |
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NASA finds water on the moon
(14 November 06:05) |
| "Yes indeed we found water and we did not find only a little bit but a significant amount," said Anthony Colaprete, project scientist and principal investigator for the 79-million-dollar LCR... |
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Two Earth-sized heavenly bodies with O2 in atmospheres found (14 November 01:13) |
| Planetary scientists have discovered two Earth-sized bodies with oxygen rich atmospheres -- however, they are not planets but are actually two unusual white dwarf stars.
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Canada doctor uses glue to aid open-heart recovery (13 November 02:46) |
| A new surgical technique using glue to repair breastbones intentionally broken during open-heart surgery speeds up recovery time and is "substantially less painful" for patients, a Universit... |
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Laser therapy helps neck pain Study (13 November 09:38) |
| A non-invasive, cold form of laser treatment can help people suffering from chronic neck pain, a condition that affects up to one person in four, a study published online by The Lancet said ... |
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Scientists inch closer to kids from 3 parents (13 November 12:05) |
| Scientists have inched closer to producing a controversial "three parent baby" after they successfully fertilized an egg with two biological mothers. |
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Catch em old For elderly PC with 6 keys (13 November 12:02) |
| Those excluded from the digital revolution, particularly the millions of elderly people, have a new hope with the launch of an easy-to-use computer to get them online. |
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Its a lot easier for volcanoes to erupt than we think Scientists (12 November 02:46) |
| Scientists, who conducted a study of bubbles trapped in pumice rock, have suggested that it's a lot easier for volcanoes to erupt than we think. |
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Gene that causes deafness in old age identified (12 November 02:43) |
| Scientists have identified a gene that causes loss of hearing in old age, opening ways for more research to develop a drug that can prevent people from going deaf. |
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Lab-made organ works in siring kid (11 November 12:23) |
| Researchers have engineered artificial penises in rabbits, using cells from the animals, who then used their new organs to father baby rabbits. |
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Setting sail into space propelled by sunshine (11 November 12:21) |
| About a year from now, if all goes well, a box about the size of a loaf of bread will pop out of a rocket some 500 miles above the Earth. |
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Overuse of antibiotics can make you drug resistant Experts (09 November 07:42) |
| Regular use of cough and cold medicines is not good for health as it makes a person immune against antibiotics, experts have warned. |
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Capturing sun rays in space to light up Japan (09 November 01:01) |
| It may sound like a sci-fi vision, but Japan’s space agency is dead serious: by 2030 it wants to collect solar power in space and zap it down to Earth, using laser beams or microwaves. |
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Mathematical formula to predict a hit film sequel (09 November 01:00) |
| In what could benefit filmmakers across the world, mathematicians claim to have come up with a formula to predict the fortunes of a movie sequel. |
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Far from a lab Turn cellphone into microscope (09 November 12:58) |
| Microscopes are invaluable tools to identify blood and other cells when screening for diseases like anemia, tuberculosis and malaria. But they are also bulky and expensive.
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Bird drops bread crumbs hits restart of giant collider
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| Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) found their plans to emulate the big bang postponed this week when a passing bird dropped a “bit of baguette” into the machine, causing it t... |
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Bright ideas that work (08 November 10:09) |
| From cutting-edge to downright simple, new hi-tech innovations aim to put the people first.
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Frontiers of the future Is there anybody out there (07 November 12:42) |
| Radical new advances in the science of observation and measurement have led humankind to pin down some basics about our universe. |
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Frontiers of the future Living in a materials world (07 November 12:39) |
| Normal conductors, like copper wires, lose about 30 per cent of energy in transmission. But the problem with known superconductors is that they function only at very low temperatures, in the... |
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Quantum computing Rise of machines (07 November 12:37) |
| Study of genetic codes creates a petabyte (1 followed by 15 zeroes) of data yearly while the world's biggest machine, the Large Hadron Collider, will be generating an exabyte (1 followed by ... |
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Frontiers of the future Nano tech mega profits (07 November 12:35) |
| A human hair is roughly 80,000 nanometers wide. It's hard to even think on such an infinitesimal scale, leave alone engineering at the level of atoms and molecules. |
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Frontiers of the future Making sense of the mind
(07 November 12:34) |
| The average human brain weighs just 1.4 kg. Into that small mass are packed 100 billion neurons (nerve cells). Each neuron , in turn, has about 5,000 synapses (links) to other neurons throug... |
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Frontiers of the future In-gene-ous modifications (07 November 12:27) |
| Each cell contains nearly two metres of DNA molecule threads (that's about 20 million km in all). Each DNA molecule has about three billion pairs of four types of molecules called bases. The... |
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Frontiers of the future (07 November 12:24) |
| TOI-Crest explores seven frontiers of the future, which broadly capture the sweep of the mind-bending change that's coming. |
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Profs on trains bring education to commuters (07 November 01:38) |
| Passengers on the 9am train in Israel put away their morning tabloids and iPods to listen to a talk from professor Hanoch Gutfreund on "Einstein’s love letters". |
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Nanoparticles in medical equipment can damage DNA (07 November 01:37) |
| Scientists reported on Thursday that nanoparticles used in medical applications can indirectly damage DNA inside cells by transmitting signals through a protective barrier of human tissue. |
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Tech isnt causing social isolation (07 November 01:35) |
| Contrary to popular belief, technology is not leading to social isolation and Americans who use the internet and mobile phones have larger and more diverse social networks, according to a ne... |
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Get to know your genetic makeup for just $1700 (07 November 01:34) |
| Want to know your entire DNA sequence? A California company has done it for as little as $1,700. |
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Newborns cry in their mother tongue (07 November 01:33) |
| From their very first days, newborns’ cries already bear the mark of the language their parents speak, reveals a new study. |
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X-rays voted top scientific invention (06 November 11:20) |
| X-ray machine, which had revolutionised the medical practice, has been voted as the best scientific invention, ahead of the Apollo 10 space capsule and Stephenson's Rocket. |
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Alien worlds spotted outside Milky Way (06 November 09:51) |
| A Canadian scientist has claimed to have found evidence of new stars and solar systems outside the Milky Way.
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Talking to a foreigner Specs to translate (06 November 12:04) |
| Most eyewear improves vision or cuts through solar glare, but a new gadget from Japan may soon sharpen linguistic skills and cut down language barriers instead, inventors said on Thursday. |
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Success in space elevator competition (05 November 11:49) |
| A robot powered by a ground-based laser beam climbed a long cable dangling from a helicopter on Wednesday. |
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