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Doggie 'doctors' diagnose their owners' ills - Creature Comforts- msnbc.com
Posted by Jeff from MSNBC
In the past few years, studies have shown that dogs can sniff out both early and late stage lung and breast cancers. The Pine Street Foundation, a non-profit cancer education and research organization, in San Anselmo, Calif., is even training dogs to recognize ovarian cancer.
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Technologist: Sniffing Bombs With Mobiles
Posted by Jeff from Newsweek
The project, known as Distributed Nuclear Detection by Ubiquitous Cell Phone, would help locate dirty bombs or nuclear weapons by "triangulating" the source of radiation when people carrying mobile phones pass by. (The greater the number of equipped cell phones, the greater the precision: phones closest to radioactive material will register stronger signals.) The Purdue project and others like it represent a "major shift" in combating radiation terrorism, says Rita Colwell, a former director of the National Science Foundation and now a professor at the University of Maryland.
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Rise of the rat-brained robots
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Slashdot: AFTER buttoning up a lab coat, snapping on surgical gloves and spraying them with alcohol, I am deemed sanitary enough to view a robot's control system up close. Without such precautions, any fungal spores on my skin could infect it. "We've had that happen. They just stop working and die off," says Mark Hammond, the system's creator. This is no ordinary robot control system - a plain old microchip connected to a circuit board. Instead, the controller nestles inside a small pot containing a pink broth of nutrients and antibiotics. Inside that pot, some 300,000 rat neurons have made - and continue to make - connections with each other.
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Stone arch collapses in Utah park
Posted by Jeff from MSNBC
Wall Arch fell sometime early last week, though no one has reported seeing it collapse, said Paul Henderson, the park's chief of interpretation. He said the arch, located along the popular Devils Garden Trail, was claimed by forces that will eventually destroy other arches in the park: gravity and erosion.
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Software To Improve AIDS Survival?
Posted by seegz from Slashdot
"There are more than 33 million people living with HIV worldwide. No cure or vaccine has been unveiled this week in Mexico during the International AIDS Conference. Still, European researchers have developed 'a predictive software system for HIV that could help extend the lives of victims of the killer disease.'
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Big day set for big-bang machine
Posted by Jeff from cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com
If the schedule holds, the collider on the French-Swiss border will make a splash at 9 a.m. local time (3 a.m. ET) Sept. 10, a week after a federal judge in Hawaii begins hearing a motion to dismiss a civil lawsuit claiming that the device could destroy the world. Over the past few months, scientists at CERN (and the federal government) have laid out their case that a globe-gobbling catastrophe could never happen. Nevertheless, the court proceedings could provide a sideshow for the main event. Or they could be finished up by that time.
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Cern lab set for beam milestone
Posted by seegz from BBC News
A vast physics experiment - the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) - reaches a key milestone this weekend ahead of an official start-up on 10 September.
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Should baby be risked for sister?
Posted by seegz from BBC News
Catherine is a little girl condemned by genetic disease to a gruelling regime of treatment.
She could be released from it by a sibling, but the sibling is not yet conceived.
Can one child's health ever be put at risk to save another's?
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Tuatara, aged 111, to be first-time dad - 06 Aug 2008 - NZ Herald: New Zealand National news
Posted by Newshogg from New Zealand Herald
Which only goes to prove, never say never...(and if you are unfamiliar with Tuatara, they are a type of lizard pretty much confined to New Zealand)
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World's Smallest Snake Discovered on Barbados
Posted by cjdurrek from Live Science
As slim as a spaghetti noodle and able to fit snugly on a U.S. quarter, a new species of snake has been found hiding out in a forest on Barbados. The reptilian runt is now the world's smallest snake.
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Couch Mouse to Mr. Mighty by Pills Alone
Posted by garrettmoon from New York Times
Researchers at the Salk Institute in San Diego reported that they had found two drugs that did wonders for the athletic endurance of couch potato mice. One drug, known as Aicar, increased the mice's endurance on a treadmill by 44 percent after just four weeks of treatment.
A second drug, GW1516, supercharged the mice to a 75 percent increase in endurance but had to be combined with exercise to have any effect.
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Liquid Lakes On Saturn's Moon Confirmed
Posted by Jeff from Slashdot
Scientists have been using the robotic spacecraft Cassini to explore what looked to be large lakes of hydrocarbons on the surface of Saturn's planet-sized moon Titan. But they couldn't be entirely sure that the features were actually liquid lakes, and not simply very smooth, solid material. Now, new findings seem to confirm that the observations really do show extensive seas of liquid ethane and other hydrocarbons. In fact, Titan seems to have an entire 'water' cycle of ethane evaporation, rain and rivers.
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