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April 1, 2008 -- The discovery of a black hole just 15 miles across and 3.8 times the mass of our sun was announced by astronomers today at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society's High Energy Astrophysics Division in Los Angeles

Man-made molecules reverse liver cirrhosis in rats

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Cosmic rays are so dangerous and so poorly understood that people are unlikely to get to Mars or even back to the moon until better ways are found to protect astronauts, experts said on Monday. And NASA is not properly funding the right experiments to find out how, the National Research Council committee said. "One of the big issues is they have really cut funding for biology issues," retired space shuttle astronaut James van Hoften, who chaired the committee, said in a telephone interview.


TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's space agency began recruiting astronauts for the first time in nearly a decade on Tuesday amid growing interest in the space program spurred by a Japanese astronaut's journey on the U.S. space shuttle Endeavour.

OSLO (Reuters) - Norway will double production of bioenergy by 2020 by tapping its vast pine forests and seek to become an exporter of renewable energies to diversify from oil and gas, the government said on Tuesday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - They flirt, hold hands and guard their lovers jealously -- yet they don't even have bones. The love lives of octopuses are far more complex than anyone thought, a team at the University of California, Berkeley, reported on Monday.