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Sydney -
Virology isn’t a subject for the weak-minded. The world’s most changeable forms of life keep coming up with new tricks, and this one, an actual arsenal of immune capability of viruses against immune responses, is a real eyeopener.
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Scientists have achieved a crude form of "brain link," or "mind meld" across continents. They have been able to send the thoughts of a rat in a lab in Brazil via the Internet to the brain of a rat in the United States.
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Last September most people did not know that a previously unseen ring of radiation encircled the planet for almost an entire month.
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The U.K. Royal Navy's HMS Enterprise discovered a canyon more than 800-foot-deep on the floor of the Red Sea, and an echo sounder produced 3D images of the feature.
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An organization founded by the world's first space tourist, the American millionaire Dennis Tito, is embarking on an ambitious project to launch the first manned mission to Mars in 2018. The organization says it is seeking a married crew for the mission.
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On Monday, Baile Zhang, an assistant professor of physics at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, debuted his "invisibility Cloak" at the TED2013 talks.
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A widely used antidepressant drug called TCP has, according to new research, the potential to treat sickle cell disease.
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U.S. scientists have developed a simple, fast and inexpensive new test for leprosy. The cost of the test means that it is targeted at the poorest countries in the world.
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Sydney -
It’s the Holy Grail for the Earth sciences. An ancient micro continent has been found. The Seychelles are believed to be the modern remains of this continent, submerged during the breakup into modern continental land masses.
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It was announced in a joint effort U.S. and European Space Agencies are planning to slam a spaceship into the asteroid Didymos.
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Underneath the sands of Mauritius, located in the Indian Ocean, lays a secret. Deep beneath the sands lays an ancient continent.
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A New Hampshire fisherman recently made an unusual catch when his trawler pulled up a bona fide mammoth tooth fossil. Scientists have reportedly confirmed its authenticity.
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Evidence assembled from stalactite and stalagmite formations in frozen caves in Siberia by a team of international scientists led by Oxford University gives some clues as to what might happen if global temperatures continue to rise.
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A theoretical solution using a coat of paint could prevent a future near-Earth asteroid attack, according to a student whose novel solution won a 2012 ‘Move an Asteroid’ technical paper competition.
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A gene called FOXP2 is regarded by many scientists as essential for speech in humans. New research has shown that the building blocks of the gene are more abundant in young girls than boys.
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Albuquerque -
Zombies may not be as scary was we thought, especially if they are microscopic and can be trained to do whatever task we like.
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Bristol -
Bees are amazing little creatures that busily help keep our world alive. If bees vanished the Earth would be in deep trouble.
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Mountain View -
NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope managed to capture the dimming of a star more than 215-light-years away, alerting scientists to the presence of a tiny planet passing between the star and Earth.
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The European Space Agency (ESA) reports that its Herschel space telescope has found striking similarities in the composition of the outer layers in one of the nearest stars to Earth, Alpha Centauri A and that of our own Sun.
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