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Researchers Think Stonehenge Started As A Giant Graveyard
LONDON (AP) — British researchers have proposed a new theory for the origins of Stonehenge: It may have started as a giant burial ground for elite families around 3,000 B.C.New studies of cremated...
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Now Mice Can Be Cloned From Other Mice Indefinitely
Watch out, George Lucas, there's a new attack of the clones, and these ones are furry.Japanese researchers have created a potentially endless line of mice cloned from other cloned mice. They used the...
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Costly Project To Map The Human Brain Is Sketchy On Details
NEWS of what protagonists hope will be America's next big science project continues to dribble out. A leak to the New York Times, published on February 17th, let the cat out of the bag, with a report...
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Woman Dying Of Motor Neurone Uses Her Thumb To Write Book On Her IPhone
A mother of three dying of motor neurone disease has written an 89,000 word book on her iPhone, using the only part of her body below the neck that she can still move – her right thumb.For more than 20...
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Drugs Based On Red Wine Could Help People Live To 150
Drugs that could help people to live to 150, based on a compound found in red wine, are being developed by scientists.The drugs are synthetic versions of resveratrol, found in the skin and seeds of...
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New Study Says Eating A Juicy Steak Is Good For You, And Can Reduce Your Risk...
Fancy a juicy steak?It is good for you, reports the Daily Mail, because the saturated fat in a cut of beef is actually healthy for the heart. The claim is based on a study in the American Journal of...
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Mummies With Clogged Arteries Prove That It's Not Just Caused By Lifestyle
Scans of mummies from as long ago as 2,000 BC have revealed that ancient people also had clogged arteries, a condition blamed on modern vices like smoking, overeating and inactivity, a study said...
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Medical Scans Show Leonardo Da Vinci's Drawings Were Right All Along
Leonardo da Vinci's anatomical drawings were "startling" in their accuracy, new medical scans have shown, putting him hundreds of years ahead of his peers.He has long been praised as one of the finest...
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Regular Aspirin Use Has Been Linked To Lower Rates Of Skin Cancer
Aspirin is best known as a headache- and painkiller, but a new study suggests it can also guard against melanoma, a dangerous type of skin cancer.ABC News reported that the study from Stanford...
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Sequestration Will Crush Young Scientists
I’m a biostatistician. That means that I help scientists and doctors analyze their medical data to try to figure out new screening tools, new therapies, and new ways to improve patients’ health.I’m...
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Homeowners Probably Don't Know They Need Sinkhole Insurance
Think sinkholes like the one that opened up under a Florida home -- and swallowed a man into the Earth -- and the one that ate half of a Pennsylvania woman's driveway in her front yard are just freak...
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A Saudi Man Is The Latest Victim Of A New SARS-Like Virus
A SARS-like virus that has struck in Britain and the Middle East has claimed a new victim in Saudi Arabia, bringing the global toll from the mystery illness to nine, the World Health Organisation said...
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World's Largest Space Observatory Opens In Chile
In a super-arid desert at an altitude of 5,000 meters, with almost no humidity or vegetation, the world's largest ground-based astronomy project opens for business on Wednesday ready to probe the...
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Your Brain Scans Show Who You're Thinking About
Scientists scanning the human brain can now tell whom a person is thinking of, the first time researchers have been able to identify what people are imagining from imaging technologies.Work to...
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WE'VE FOUND THE GOD PARTICLE
GENEVA (AP) — The search is all but over for a subatomic particle that is a crucial building block of the universe.Physicists announced Thursday they believe they have discovered the subatomic particle...
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Your Brain Is Really Bad At Filtering Out Overheard Phone Calls
Overhearing a one-sided cellphone call is more distracting than eavesdropping on both sides of a conversation, a new study finds.There are now as many cellphone subscriptions as there are people on...
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Oh Great, Bed Bugs Have A Genetic Resistance To Pesticides
One of humankind's most intimate blood-sucking roommates, the bed bug, is notoriously resistant to the pesticides used against it. Now researchers have pinpointed the genes responsible for this...
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The Chocolate Chip Cookie Was Invented By Accident
It’s difficult to imagine that the chocolate chip cookie, one of the world’s most beloved sweet treats, was actually invented by accident.The invention of the chocolate chip cookie happened in 1930...
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Hundreds Of Dinosaur Egg Fossils Found In Spain
Researchers in northeastern Spain say they've uncovered hundreds of dinosaur egg fossils, including four kinds that had never been found before in the region. The eggs likely were left behind by...
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Beautiful Panorama Of A Giant Mountain On Mars
This image of Mount Sharp on Mars is a composite of images taken by NASA's Curiosity rover. The photo has been white-balanced so the sky looks much more blue than it really is (it would have a...
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