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Cool: New Exoplanet Is Near Habitable Zone

Soyuz capsule brings back space station fliers

Health Buzz: Gays Kept Out of Clinical Trials

Safety board to study requiring condoms in porn

Fast Growing Primitive Black Holes Discovered

Chemists Influence Stem-Cell Development With Geometry

Transcrption factors may dictate differences between individuals

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New Treatment For Receding Gums: No Pain, Lots Of Gain

Eye of cosmic storm blazes with black hole

The key ingredient is a growth factor known as neuregulin1 (NRG1).

regenerative medicine not through stem cells!

The Los Angeles Times reports on an "unprecedented feat" in stem cell research that was announced today.

reminded me a lot of synthetic life, although it's really not the same thing...

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Astronomers See A New Class of Black Hole

George "Geohot" Hotz jailbreaks iPhone 3GS in two weeks

"Diamond Dust" Snow Falls Nightly on Mars

An unacceptable number of species are still being lost forever despite world leaders pledging action to reverse the trend, a report has warned.

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This Week in Science - 31 March, 2009
Posted: 01 Apr 2009 01:32 PM PDT
Hells Bells It’s Stem Cells, Video Games For Vision, Black Hole Stories, Justin’s Squishy Balls, Playing Asteroids, Tuberculosis NADs, Evolution Rants, Daddies and Birds, Carnivorous Dino Bird, and the Minion Mailbag

Robot Scientist makes first discoveries on its own

The robot, called Adam, is the first machine to have independently "discovered new scientific knowledge"

Human heart can grow new cells, study finds
‘Fundamental breakthrough’ will likely lead to new treatments

Honda creates a robot controlled by power of thought

Why isn't stuff like this saturating the media? I think it's interesting.

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*the word of the day is microbicide*

What is the chance that alien life exists? Nasa's latest mission - the Kepler Space Telescope due to launch on Friday night to survey the heavens for Earth-like planets - could soon give us an answer.

... searching for earth like exoplanets, and will be out for 3.5 years.

Stargazers spy elusive binary black hole system: Two monsters circling in distant quasar

and they're supermassive!

Revealed: The headset that will mimic all five senses and make the virtual world as convincing as real life

Hubble captures cosmic tug-of-war between three turbulent galaxies

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NASA is about to embark on a space endeavour which they hope will unlock some of the great mysteries of the universe.

In a quest for black holes at the centre of galaxies, dark matter and cosmic explosions, the GLAST (Gamma ray Large Area Space) Telescope was launched this morning.

The $730 million telescope captures gamma rays, which are the shortest wavelength on the electromagnetic spectrum and the highest energy form of light.

According to NASA, GLAST is the missing link in the array of telescopes orbiting the planet and following its launch from Cape Canaveral in Florida in the Unites States its mission is to explore the most violent events in the universe.

NASA's Astrophysics Division director Dr Jon Morse says the telescope will help shed light on some of the mysteries of the universe.