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New amphibian family found in Indian mud
February 22, 2012 10:27 AM
Researchers digging through mud in northeast India have discovered a new family of legless amphibians in a rare scientific breakthrough.
Scientists dispel myths about bilingual babies
By Kerry Sheridan | February 22, 2012 12:40 AM
Babies who are raised in homes where two or more languages are spoken may appear to talk later than those learning just one language.
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First test-tube hamburger ready this fall: researchers
By Deborah Jones | February 21, 2012 01:09 AM
The world’s first “test-tube” meat, a hamburger made from a cow’s stem cells, will be produced this fall.
Violent video game can help some adults improve impaired vision
By Kerry Sheridan | February 20, 2012 12:39 AM
Playing a video game that involves shooting enemies on a battlefield has helped some adults who were born with a rare eye disorder improve their vision later in life.
Glenn reunites with 50-year-old Mercury team
By Marcia Dunn | February 20, 2012 12:40 AM
John Glenn joined the proud, surviving veterans of NASA’s Project Mercury Saturday in celebrating the 50th anniversary of his historic orbital flight.
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Italian Nobel medicine winner Dulbecco dies at 97
By Nicole Winfield | February 20, 2012 09:13 PM
Renato Dulbecco, who shared the 1975 Nobel Prize in medicine for his seminal research on the interaction between tumors and cells, has died in California. He was 97.
 
Deadly bird flu studies to stay secret for now -WHO
By Stephanie Nebehay, Kate Kelland | February 17, 2012 08:11 PM
Two studies showing how scientists mutated the H5N1 bird flu virus into a form that could cause a deadly human pandemic will be published only after experts fully assess the risks.
 
Tasmanian devil genome mapping may help humans
By Maggie Lu-YueYang | February 17, 2012 10:06 AM
Scientists have mapped the genome of Australia's endangered Tasmanian devil for the first time.
Microchip successfully delivers bone-loss drug: study
February 16, 2012 09:14 PM
A microchip inserted under the skin has been shown for the first time to successfully deliver a bone-loss drug to a small sample of women.
 
Russia reaches lake under Antarctica
February 08, 2012 03:36 PM
Russia's Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute said in Wednesday's statement that its team reached Lake Vostok on Sunday after more than two decades of drilling.
 
Drug abusers’ brains may be wired for addiction, new scientific research suggests
By Kate Kelland | February 06, 2012 01:36 AM
Drug addicts and their non-addicted siblings share certain features in the brain, suggesting a susceptibility to addiction is inherited but is also a flaw that can be overcome, scientists have said...
Study ties kids’ weight to bossy mom at snack time
By Amy Norton | February 04, 2012 01:07 AM
Mothers who push their toddlers to eat more at snack time may end up with chubbier children by the age of 3, according to a U.S. study.
Design, not just threads, toughens spider web: study
February 03, 2012 01:31 AM
Scientists have unraveled the mystery of how spider webs can withstand multiple tears and even hurricane-force winds without collapsing.
Kepler telescope team finds 11 new solar systems
By Irene Klotz | January 27, 2012 01:31 AM
NASA's planet-hunting Kepler space telescope has found 11 new planetary systems.
 
Flights rerouted as massive solar storm slams Earth
January 25, 2012 11:48 AM
Solar radiation from a massive sun storm -- the largest in nearly a decade -- collided with the Earth's atmosphere, prompting an airline to reroute flights and skywatchers to seek out spectacular light displays.
 
Sun hurls strong geomagnetic storm toward Earth
January 24, 2012 04:43 PM
The strongest geomagnetic storm in more than six years was forecast to hit Earth's magnetic field on Tuesday.
 
Scientists report breakthrough in seaweed biofuel
January 20, 2012 03:52 PM
Energy experts believe that seaweed holds enormous potential as a biofuel alternative to coal and oil.
 
Meteorite from Mars fell in Morocco: scientists
By Jean-Louis Santini | January 19, 2012 10:25 AM
Rare and expensive fragments of a Mars meteorite fell from the sky over Morocco.
 
British scientists find lost Darwin fossils
By Cassandra Vinograd | January 18, 2012 01:07 AM
British scientists have found scores of fossils which the great evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin and his peers collected but that had been lost for more than 150 years.
 
Science’s ‘most beautiful theories’ debated
By Sharon Begley | January 16, 2012 01:13 AM
From Darwinian evolution to the idea that personality is largely shaped by chance, the favorite theories of the world’s most eminent thinkers are as eclectic as science itself.
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