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NASA: Use of robots 'very successful' in Endeavour's mission

The spacewalking shuttle crew going that extra 125,000 miles to build a £1.45 billion research lab that's out of this world

Evolutionary rethink as scientists claim our most distant ancestors came from lakes and not the sea

Artificial brain could be reality in just 10 years, scientists claim

Members of the government panel reviewing NASA’s human spaceflight program said Tuesday that the life of the International Space Station should be extended past its planned demise in 2016.

Camp faithless: Britain's first atheist summer camp

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Anyone who studied a little genetics in high school has heard of adenine, thymine, guanine and cytosine - the A,T,G and C that make up the DNA code. But those are not the whole story. The rise of epigenetics in the past decade has drawn attention to a fifth nucleotide, 5-methylcytosine (5-mC), that sometimes replaces cytosine in the famous DNA double helix to regulate which genes are expressed. And now there's a sixth. In experiments to be published online Thursday by Science, researchers reveal an additional character in the mammalian DNA code, opening an entirely new front in epigenetic research.

New climate strategy: track the world's wealthiest

NEW YORK (AP) — Drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline PLC said Tuesday a study shows its human papillomavirus vaccine Cervarix was effective against the types of HPV that are most likely to cause cervical cancer, but also fought other strains of the disease.

Panasonic eyes $315 million in medical robot sales

the Michael Jackson Memorial was on TV today

Artificial brain cells could treat Parkinson's

Young children 'should be taught evolution so they don't mistake Fred Flintstone for scientific fact'

Forensic fingerprinting discovery was a happy accident, admits 'grandfather of DNA'

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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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Maggots no wonder cure for festering wounds

I saw this on tv... kind of hard to swallow. Interesting that the maggots eat each other as soon as all the dead/dying flesh is gone, and don't burrow into healthy tissue.

AT&T to sell iPhone without two-year commitment

Schools of robofish to sniff out pollution in the Thames

New 'muscle gel' that's tougher than steel could help scientists create super-strength robots

not the first time I've heard this debate...

Is Having Sex with a Robot Hooker Cheating? Revisited

-> why does everyone love to talk about robot sex workers, when I don't even really see any before my eyes??

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Next-gen Mars rover mission delayed until 2011

Shuttle's Piggy-Back Ride to Florida Could Happen Monday

cancer news

Is CyberKnife Ready for Prime Time in Prostate Cancer?

-> I'd rather have a robot operate on my body in the first place, after all they don't make mistakes.

expanding on that: why don't robots have all the shitty jobs that nopbody wants to work- like cleaning toilets or working at mcdonalds? They would save companies money from the inapplicable employee overhead...

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Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Oceans are acidifying 10 times faster than predicted, threatening heightened damage to coral reefs and shellfish, University of Chicago scientists said.

Arduous Space Mission in the Homestretch

U.S. Cancer Rate Declines for First Time, Report Finds Deaths From the Disease Continue to Drop

The 'empathetic' robot who can detect when a human is sad... and then cheer them up

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Robodoc: surgeon of the future in theaters now

Scientists in Japan say they have successfully cloned a mouse from a body that had been frozen for 16 years, theoretically opening the door to a range of possibilities from preserving endangered animals, to resurrecting extinct animals to cloning Ted Williams.

Astronauts to Vote From Space Station

Biofuels Debate: Point, Counterpoint

hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy

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11 May 08: Nasa's Phoenix Mars Lander is due to land on Mars on May 25th. It will be the first "soft" landing on the planet for more than 30 years. This animated film, made by Nasa, shows how Phoenix will work.