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Designing games with a purpose (31 January 01:36) |
| Video games are normally known as big time wasters. But Vikram Agarwal, a businessman in Bangalore, has found innovatively applied gaming concepts in business. |
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Roman silver coin dating to 211 BC found in Britain (30 January 04:40) |
| A rare silver coin dating back to 211 BC has been unearthed at the Leicestershire village of Hallaton in the UK and is considered to be the oldest piece of Roman currency. |
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Moon created by a nuclear explosion on Earth Scientists (30 January 04:38) |
| Contradicting the commonly-held theory that moon is a chunk of rock that broke away from Earth due to an explosion in space, a new study has claimed it was created as a result of a nuclear b... |
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Scientists get closer to imaging cell death (30 January 02:45) |
| Researchers at the University of Notre Dame and the Washington University School of Medicine have made a major advance in using a synthetic probe to target dead and dying cells in mammary an... |
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Look up see the biggest brightest moon tonight (30 January 02:15) |
| Don't forget to catch a glimpse of the moon this evening. According to scientists, the moon will be the closer to the earth Saturday than it will be for the rest of the year - appearing at i... |
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Extraterrestrial Life Is there anybody out there (30 January 12:18) |
| Some scientists want to take a proactive approach to finding extraterrestrial life ... |
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Brightest full moon of 2010 tomorrow (29 January 02:05) |
| The full moon tomorrow will be around 15% bigger and 30% brighter as compared to other full moons during the year.
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In a first neurons created directly from skin cells (29 January 03:49) |
| In a novel study, scientists from Stanford University have successfully transformed skin cells into nerve cells -an advancement that could pave way for new treatments for dementia.
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From waste to biofuel Bugs the way (29 January 03:47) |
| Researchers have genetically engineered one of the most common bacteria on the planet - E coli - to digest simple sugars from plant waste and turn it into valuable biofuel.
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Problem of plenty as devices draw more data (29 January 03:46) |
| Could Apple’s new iPad end up being too much of a good thing? Steven Jobs, Apple’s chief executive, played up the iPad’s ability to stream live baseball games and hit movies during his... |
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Shuttle Endeavour to launch Feb 7 (28 January 02:41) |
| The space shuttle Endeavour is scheduled to blast off Feb 7 in the shuttle programme's final night launch, as the US space agency prepares to retire the ageing fleet. |
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Magnesium can help boost brainpower (28 January 02:37) |
| An increase in brain magnesium improves learning and memory in young and old rats, a new study has found.
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Scientists convert skin cells into nerve cells (28 January 01:55) |
| In a novel study, scientists from Stanford University have successfully transformed skin cells into nerve cells - an advancement that could pave way for new treatments for dementia. |
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Alien life probable but not Hollywood-style (27 January 12:45) |
| The law of probabilities backs theories that we are not alone in the Universe, although an encounter with an advanced civilisation may shock our species, scientists at a conference in London... |
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Ozone holes mending but thats bad news (27 January 12:42) |
| That the hole in Earth's ozone layer is slowly mending is considered a big victory for environmental policy makers. But in a new report, scientists say there is a downside: its repair may co... |
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Da Vinci Code may hold the secret to perfect smile (26 January 12:13) |
| It's the mysterious mathematical formula which is at the heart of 'The Da Vinci Code'. Now, a British dentist has used the crypted sequence of numbers to create what he claims is "the perfec... |
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Soon a giant leap from stratosphere (26 January 12:09) |
| Some time this year, Felix Baumgartner intends to step out of a capsule lifted 120,000 feet by a balloon and leap back to Earth, becoming the first man to break the sound barrier without an ... |
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Networking site plans to pay musicians lost royalties (26 January 12:02) |
| Social networking site MySpace, which has enabled many artists to launch their careers, is now helping to pay them back millions of dollars in "lost" royalties for songs and performances. |
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Frankenstorm Mother of all squalls brewing in lab (25 January 11:57) |
| Think the recent wild weather that hammered California was bad? Experts are imagining far worse. |
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No surgery A 15-min cure for diabetes obesity (25 January 12:00) |
| In what could revolutionise healthcare for the rising diabetes population worldwide, scientists claimed to have developed a 15-minute non-surgical treatment that could lead to drastic weight... |
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Human speed limit cracked its 65kmph (25 January 12:00) |
| Such a feat would leave in the dust the world’s fastest runner, Usain Bolt, who has clocked about 44kmph in the 100-meter sprint. |
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Lasers to beam solar energy from space to earth (25 January 12:00) |
| Space engineers plan to put satellites into orbit that can collect large amounts of energy from the Sun and convert it into a infrared laser beam transmitted back to Earth as an alternative ... |
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Forget kids new shooter games for adults only (22 January 12:10) |
| Coming to a videogame console near you, an onslaught of new military-themed shooter games — and they’re not all for children as game publishers target a more mature audience. |
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Bones of 10th-century Princess Di found (22 January 12:09) |
| She was a beautiful English princess who married one of Europe’s most powerful monarchs and dazzled subjects with her charity and charm. |
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If your password is 123456 just make it HackMe (22 January 12:07) |
| Back at the dawn of the web, the most popular account password was “12345.” Today, it’s one digit longer but hardly safer: “123456.” |
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The size of brain matters say scientists (21 January 05:01) |
| When it comes to intelligence, size does matter, it seems, for a new study has revealed that people with bigger brains are actually better at learning than those who have smaller ones. |
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Visit to dentist just got less painful (20 January 11:52) |
| Plasma jets capable of obliterating tooth decay-causing bacteria could be an effective and less painful alternative to the dentist’s drill, according to a new study published in the Februa... |
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Key to in vitro success Rock the embryos (20 January 11:51) |
| Scientists from University of Michigan have built a device that imitates the motion that embryos experience in the body as they make their way down a mammal’s oviduct (a woman’s fallopia... |
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Carbon deficit on Earth tied to fire in Solar System (20 January 11:50) |
| In a discovery that may solve millions of year-old mystery behind Earth’s carbon-deficiency, a new research found that fire sweeping through the inner solar system had burned up much of th... |
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Now a smart iron that wont burn clothes (20 January 11:49) |
| Scorched garments could soon be history, all thanks to a super iron, called Auto Lift. |
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Mideast farmers seeded ancient Europe (20 January 11:47) |
| The conquerors who spread their seed across Europe in ancient times were prosperous farmers who imported their skills from the Middle East, researchers reported on Tuesday. |
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Running can help jog memory (20 January 12:15) |
| Running regularly not just helps one shed those extra weight, it also does wonders for the mind, claims a new study. |
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Deep-sea snail shell to inspire next-generation body armour (20 January 12:14) |
| The shell that protects snails living on deep-sea vents could inspire the next generation of body armour for humans, say scientists. |
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Handwriting new tool for catching a liar (20 January 12:12) |
| Scientists in Israel have discovered a new way to catch liars — by analysing their handwriting. Researchers at Haifa University said that physical properties of handwriting can tell whethe... |
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Tale of Newtons apple encounter goes online (18 January 11:55) |
| An 18th-century account of how a falling piece of fruit helped Isaac Newton develop the theory of gravity is being posted to the web, making scans of the fragile paper manuscript widely avai... |
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Bible written 4 centuries earlier than thought (18 January 11:52) |
| An Israeli researcher has deciphered the earliest known Hebrew biblical inscription which "proved" that the Bible had been written hundreds of year earlier than thought. |
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Mind bender Light can now be tied in knots (18 January 11:49) |
| A British team has achieved the remarkable feat in which the light was controlled using holograms especially designed with "knot theory" — a branch of abstract mathematics inspired by twis... |
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Robots can sense environs change gait (18 January 11:47) |
| The walking robot, depending on the situation, can flexibly and autonomously switch between different gaits. |
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Forget driving using cells while walking is risky too (18 January 01:12) |
| On the day of the collision last month, visibility was good. The sidewalk was not under repair. As she walked, Tiffany Briggs, 25, was talking to her grandmother on her cellphone, lost in co... |
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Learning with the Times (18 January 12:18) |
| Primarily, there are three elements in the earth's structure - an outer silicate solid crust, a highly viscous mantle, a liquid outer core that is less viscous than the mantle, and a solid i... |
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Fairness creams may contain mercury too (17 January 03:00) |
| Dermatologists in US said they were seeing women of Hispanic and African descent, among others, with severe side-effects from the misuse of skin-lightening creams, many with prescription-str... |
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Web flaw makes personal public (17 January 02:39) |
| A Georgia mother and her two daughters logged onto Facebook from mobile phones last weekend and wound up in a startling place: strangers' accounts with full access to troves of private infor... |
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Proof of life on Mars will come by year-end NASA expert (16 January 01:53) |
| Is there life on Mars? The most intriguing question for everyone on the Earth would be answered by American space scientists by the end of this year, a NASA expert has claimed. |
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Pork in a petridish Experts turn stem cells into meat (16 January 12:33) |
| Call it pork in a petri dish - a technique to turn pig stem cells into strips of meat that scientists say could one day offer a green alternative to raising livestock, help alleviate world h... |
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In a 1st astronomers snatch distant planets fingerprint (15 January 12:49) |
| Astronomers on Wednesday said they had made the first direct capture of a spectrum of light from a planet outside the Solar System, in what was a landmark in the search for extra-terrestrial... |
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Woman carries windpipe in arm before implant op
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| For more than 2 1/2 years, Linda De Croock lived with constant pain from a car accident that smashed her windpipe.
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Scientists develop new stroke therapy (14 January 11:56) |
| Raising hope of hundreds of thousands of people paralysed due to stroke, scientists claimed to have developed a drug that could restore up to 99% of lost movement in the patients.
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As in humans sleep solidifies birds memories (13 January 05:54) |
| Now researchers have found that sleep has similar effects upon learning in the starling bird species - a discovery that will open a window to how the brain learns and preserves information. |
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Shockwave device can cure erectile dysfunction
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| Scientists have developed a shockwave device to cure male impotence. Promising no side-effects, the treatment was originally used to break up kidney stones. It has now shown promise in trans... |
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Single atom controls bacteria movement Study (12 January 12:53) |
| In a discovery that can help explain how bacteria infect their hosts, American scientists have claimed that a single atom of calcium controls their movement. |
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