Cancer to skyrocket in Asia

Cancer expected to skyrocket in Asia (AP)

AP - Asia is bracing for a dramatic surge in cancer rates over the next decade as people in the developing world live longer and adopt bad Western habits that greatly increase the risk of the disease.

Cannibal nature of Milky Way

Streams of Stars Reveal Cannibal Nature of Milky Way (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - HONOLULU-Newlydiscovered stellar streams that arc around our galaxy might be the remnants ofcannibalized star clusters and galaxies, scientists announced today.

Sharks use nose and body to smell

Sharks use nose and body to smell

Sharks are known to have a keen sense of smell, which in many species is critical for finding food. However, according to new research from Boston University marine biologists, sharks can not use just their noses to locate prey; they also need their skin – specifically a location called the lateral line.

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Limbless lizard in India

Zoologist: New limbless lizard in India (AP)

AP - An Indian zoologist says he found a new species of limbless lizard during a recent field study in a forested area in the country's east.

Two merging black holes

Black holes on the loose

Two merging black holes can generate gravitational waves so powerful that the merged hole shoots out of its host galaxy at a speed of up to 2,500 miles per second, according to a new simulation.

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Heavy infants have high risk of being obese later on

Heavy infants run high risk of being obese later on (Reuters)

Reuters - Babies who are born heavy and grow fast have a 150 percent chance of being overweight or obese by the time they are seven years old, a survey of more than 8,000 children in Hong Kong has shown.

28 new exoplanets discovered

28 New Exoplanets Discovered (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - HONOLULU-Astronomershave discovered 28 new planets outside of our solar system, increasing to 236the number of known exoplanets, revealing that planets can exist around a broadspectrum of stellar types-from tiny, dim stars to giants.

Superbugs emerge from urban poor

Study: Superbugs emerge among urban poor (AP)

AP - Drug-resistant staph infections have spread to the urban poor, rising almost seven-fold in recent years in some Chicago neighborhoods, a new study finds.

Cows in NZ produce low-fat milk

Cows in New Zealand produce low-fat milk (AP)

AP - New Zealand scientists are breeding a herd of cows that produce lower-fat milk after the chance discovery of a natural gene mutation in one animal.

The dumb gene

Turning off gene makes mice smarter (Reuters)

Reuters - Turning off a gene that has been associated with Alzheimer's disease made mice smarter in the lab, researchers said on Sunday in a finding that lends new insight on learning and may lead to new drugs for memory problems.

Umbilical cord cells could produce insulin

Umbilical cord cells could produce insulin: study (Reuters)

Reuters - Stem cells taken from the umbilical cords of newborns can be engineered to produce insulin and may someday be used to treat diabetes, U.S. and British researchers reported on Friday.

Stegosaur babies made tracks

Researcher: Stegosaur babies made tracks (AP)

AP - Researcher Matt Mossbrucker believes four small dinosaur tracks found within sight of the skyscrapers of downtown Denver were made by two stegosaur babies, a find he says would be "incredibly rare."

Encephalitis B outbreak in Southwest China

Nearly 100 in hospital in China with encephalitis B (Reuters)

Reuters - Nearly 100 people, apparently including many children, have been taken to hospital with encephalitis B in southwest China's Yunnan Province, Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday.

US rejects German climate position

U.S. rejects German climate position: G8 draft (Reuters)

Reuters - The United States has rejected Germany's bid to get the Group of Eight to agree to tough cuts in climate warming carbon emissions, according to a draft of the communique to be presented to the meeting.

Cut nicotine in cigarettes

Study: Cut nicotine in cigarettes (AP)

AP - The Food and Drug Administration should regulate tobacco and develop a plan to reduce nicotine levels in cigarettes, the Institute of Medicine urged Thursday.

Dinosaur swam, fossilized tracks show

Fossilized tracks evidence that dinosaurs swam (Reuters)

Reuters - Fossilized foot marks left by a big meat-eater on a lake bed in northern Spain 125 million years ago provide strong evidence that at least some dinosaurs were good swimmers, scientists said on Thursday.

Singapore aquarium puts chips in fish

Singapore aquarium puts chips in fish (Reuters)

Reuters - Singapore's aquarium has tagged some of its fishes using microchips to help visitors identify the different species on display.

Google backs biotech firm started by Brin's wife

Google backs biotech firm started by founder Sergey Brin's wife (AFP)

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AFP - Google is backing a fledgling biotech firm started by the bride of the world-renowned Internet search engine's co-founder Sergey Brin.

Newsvine - Study: Female Sharks Fertilize Own Eggs

Study: Female Sharks Fertilize Own Eggs

In this photo released by Cemex Philippines Foundation, a multinational cement company based in Mexico, a diver swims with a whale shark, locally known as "Butanding" in the waters of Donsol, Sorsogon province in southeastern Philippines, Monday, May 21, 2007. The foundation through an environmental group Conservation International has "adopted" the whale sharks as it launches Monday an "adopt-a-species" program aimed at protecting the Philippines' threatened species (AP Photo/Cemex Philippines Foundation, J.V. Noriega, HO)

Water on Mars?

A photo released by NASA ,shows a patch of bright-toned soil ...

(AP) - A photo released by NASA ,shows a patch of bright-toned soil found by the Mars Rover Spirit so rich in silica that scientists propose water must have been involved in concentrating it. The silica-rich patch, informally named 'Gertrude Weise' after a player in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, was exposed when Spirit drove over it during the 1,150th Martian day, or sol, of Spirit's Mars surface mission (March 29, 2007). One of Spirit's six wheels no longer rotates, so it leaves a deep track as it drags through soil. Most patches of disturbed, bright soil that Spirit had investigated previously are rich in sulfur, but this one has very little sulfur and is about 90 percent silica. (AP Photo/HO/NASA)

Nigerian state sues Pfizer

Nigerian state sues Pfizer over 'deformity' drug (AFP)

AFP - Nigeria's largest state has sued US drug firm Pfizer for allegedly using 200 children as "guinea pigs" for a drug test in 1996 that led to multiple deaths and deformities, officials said Sunday.

Stace Owens

Donors hope plastinated bodies educate (AP)

AP - Stace Owens has no intention of leaving this world when he dies. He plans to stick around for decades or longer, preserved in plastic and displayed in a museum or medical school.

Ancient fish

Indonesian fisherman nets ancient fish (Reuters)

Reuters - An Indonesian fisherman hascaught a coelacanth, an ancient fish once thought to havebecome extinct at the time of the dinosaurs, a fishery expertsaid on Monday.

BHP disappointed with Arnie's veto

BHP disappointed with Schwarzenegger's veto of gas terminal (AFP)

AFP - Australian mining giant BHP Billiton revealed disappointment Sunday at California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's decision to veto its bid for a natural gas terminal off the state's coastline.

Endangered stork egg hatches

Endangered stork egg hatches in wild (AP)

AP - An endangered white stork egg laid in the wild has hatched naturally in western Japan for the first time in more than 40 years, a local stork museum announced Sunday.

A waxing crescent moon...

A waxing crescent moon is seen in conjunction with the planet ...

(AP) - A waxing crescent moon is seen in conjunction with the planet Venus, less then one degree apart in the Western sky as seen from Tyler, Texas, Saturday night, May 19, 2007. (AP Photo/Dr. Scott M. Lieberman)

Merging Black Holes

Merging Black Holes Observed in New Detail (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - Scientists have pinpointed the precise locations of a pair of supermassive black holes at the centers of two colliding galaxies 300 million light-years away.

Arnie terminates BHP gas terminal off Malibu coast

Schwarzenegger terminates BHP gas terminal off Malibu coast (AFP)

AFP - California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on Friday vetoed a bid by Australian mining giant BHP Billiton to build a permanent natural gas terminal off the state's coastline.

Whale song

Scientists try to lure whales to ocean (AP)

AP - Biologists tried unsuccessfully Thursday to use recorded siren songs of humpback whales to lure an injured female and her wounded calf from a shipping channel and back toward the Pacific Ocean 90 miles away.

Hot ice may cover recently discovered planet

Hot "ice" may cover recently discovered planet (Reuters)

Reuters - An odd planet the size of Neptune, made mostly of hot, solid water, has been discovered orbiting a nearby star and offers evidence that other planets may be covered with oceans, European astronomers reported on Wednesday.

New species in Antarctic ocean

'Treasure trove' of new species deep in Antarctic ocean (AFP)

AFP - The lightless depths of the Antarctic's Southern Ocean harbor a unexpectedly diverse "treasure trove" of marine life, including more than 700 previously unknown species, according to a study released Wednesday.

Woman survives internal decapitation

Woman survives 'internal decapitation' (AP)

AP - Even her surgeon calls her a miracle. Shannon Malloy was critically injured Jan. 25 when a car crash slammed her into the dashboard. Her skull separated from her spine, although her skin, spinal cord and other internal organs remained intact.

Evidence of extensive snow melting in Antartica

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The image obtained from NASA shows what a team of NASA and university scientists say is clear evidence that extensive areas of snow melted in west Antarctica (left) in January 2005 in response to warm temperatures.(AFP/NASA)

Hubble Image an evidence to dark matter

This undated image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a ghostly ...

(Reuters) - This undated image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a ghostly ring of dark matter in a galaxy cluster designated Cl 0024+17. Astronomers call the ring one of the strongest pieces of evidence to date for the existence of dark matter, an unknown substance thought to pervade the universe. Astronomers suggest that the ring was produced from a collision between two gigantic clusters. REUTERS/NASA, ESA, M.J. Jee and H. Ford/Johns Hopkins University/Handout (UNITED STATES). EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS.

Free will among fruit flies?

Defending free will: A fruit fly makes choices (Reuters)

Reuters - A tiny fruit fly -- without any inputfrom the outside world -- will spontaneously change directions,researchers said on Monday in a finding that just may rescuethe notion that free will not only exists but is a basicfunction of the brain.

Monkey surgery

Orangutan undergoes cataract surgery (AP)

AP - An orangutan is expected to have improved vision after successfully undergoing cataract surgery Wednesday, the world's first ever such operation on a great ape, a wildlife official said.

Officials try to halt spread of beetle

Officials try to halt spread of beetle (AP)

AP - Agriculture officials are hoping to stop the eastward spread of the emerald ash borer beetle, an invasive, hard-to-control insect that has killed more than 20 million trees in the Midwest and Canada and is heading toward Virginia.

Atomic Bomb Detonation photos by Harold Edgerton

Atomic Bomb detonation by Harold Edgerton

Automatic Camera situated 7 miles from blast with 10 foot lens. Shutter speed equaled 1/100,000,000 of-a-second exposure.

Ancient tool parts found at Maine site

Ancient tool parts found at Maine site (AP)

AP - An archaeological survey made necessary by an airport construction project has uncovered parts of ancient tools that are thought to date back 9,000 to 11,000 years.

Anti-whaling activists target Iceland

Anti-whaling activists target Iceland (AFP)

AFP - Activists who sank two of Iceland's whaling ships 20 years ago announced plans Tuesday to disrupt the country's resumed whale hunt.

Solar power in Bangladesh

Solar power lights up lives in rural Bangladesh (Reuters)

Reuters - Grocer Abdur Rashid used to shut his shop in rural Bangladesh at dusk, missing the peak shopping hour because he did not have electricity.

Congress tackles animal research rules

Congress tackles animal research rules (AP)

AP - It's the nightmare of pet lovers everywhere: Their beloved Fido or Whiskers gets lost, is scooped up by animal thieves, then sold to be dissected in a university research lab.

Professors develop cancer protein

Okla. professors develop cancer protein (AP)

AP - Two professors at the University of Oklahoma say they've developed a protein that can stop the spread of certain cancer cells without damaging normal cells.

New animal roles in treatment for human ailments

Group: Livestock may help treat ailments (AP)

AP - Livestock whose genes have been manipulated could play a critical role in developing new medications and cheaper treatments for human ailments, scientists said Monday.

Not as brainy as expected

Ancestor of humans not so brainy (Reuters)

Reuters - A monkey-like animal seen as an ancestor of monkeys, apes and humans was not as brainy as expected, according to scientists who analyzed its nicely preserved 29-million-year-old skull.

Sex Education creates storm in India

Sex education creates storm in AIDS-stricken India (Reuters)

Reuters - Moves to bring sex out of the closet in largely conservative India have kicked up a morality debate between educators who say sex education will reduce HIV rates, and critics who fear it will corrupt young minds.

Koala twins may survive

Survival chances improve for rare koala twins (Reuters)

Reuters - The world's only koala twins, bornseven months ago and raised in a south China zoo, have passed acritical development stage and now have a good chance ofsurviving, a zoo official said on Monday.

Blue-throated hummingbird

Blue-throated hummingbird discovered (Reuters)

Reuters - A new blue-and-green- throatedhummingbird species has been discovered in a cloud forest inColombia, and already needs protection from human encroachment,the experts who found the bird said on Sunday.

Scientists monitor undersea volcano

Scientists monitor undersea volcano (AP)

AP - Researchers have installed a seismometer atop an active volcano called Kick 'em Jenny under the Caribbean Sea to warn of eruptions or earthquake activity, scientists said Saturday.

Warming world threatens migratory birds

Warming world threatens migratory birds (AP)

AP - Disoriented by erratic weather, birds are changing migration habits and routes to adjust to warmer winters, disappearing feeding grounds and shrinking wetlands, a migration expert says.

***Initially, they will be affected.  Then, the best of the best will be able to adjust and go on.  Evolution at its best.  Now, should the pace of warming goes dangerously faster than the pace of adjustment, species succumb to extinction. 

Woman's 70kg legs

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A woman is campaigning to raise awareness of a rare condition which has left her with 11 stone (70kg) legs.

Mandy Sellars, 32, from Lancashire, suffers from Proteus syndrome, a condition also thought to have affected the "Elephant Man", Joseph Merrick.  (BBC)

Bats and birds - different fliers

Bats and birds quite different fliers (Reuters)

Reuters - Bats and birds, the only two vertebrate fliers on Earth, use their wings very differently, according to scientists who observed small, nectar-feeding bats flying through fog in a wind tunnel.

Scotty ashes still being awaited

Ashes of 'Scotty,' others await recovery (AP)

AP - A rocket payload carrying ashes of astronaut Gordon Cooper and actor James Doohan — Scotty on "Star Trek" — should be recovered within a week from a remote New Mexico mountain range, the launch company said Friday.

Cargo spaceship blasts off to space

Russian cargo ship blasts off to space (AP)

AP - An unmanned Russian cargo ship carrying 2.5 tons of supplies, equipment and gifts blasted off Saturday en route to the international space station, officials said.

Gnats in Illinois

Gnats a pain for west-central Illinois (AP)

AP - Kyle Winkelmann has learned in the past two weeks that if he's going to get into the cab of his tractor, he had better do it in a hurry.

Ancient star nearly as old as the universe

Ancient Star Nearly as Old as the Universe (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - Long before our solar system formed and even before the Milky Way assumed its final spiral shape, a star slightly smaller than the Sun blazed into life in our galaxy, formed from the newly scattered remains of the first stars in the universe.

Calf has two noses

Wis. farmer finds new calf has two noses (AP)

AP - Mark Krombholz had to look twice at his new calf, Lucy — one time for each nose. "I didn't notice anything too different about her until I got her in the barn," Krombholz said, "and all of a sudden I went to feed her a bottle of milk, and I thought maybe she'd been kicked in the nose and there were two noses there."

Albino alligator

Knoxville Zoo displays albino alligator (AP)

AP - This white alligator has it made in the shade. Without an alligator's normal dark camouflaging color, the new inhabitant at the Knoxville Zoo would not live long while exposed to predators or the sun.

Hubble telescope will have successor in 2013

Hubble telescope's successor will peer at universe's birth (AFP)

AFP - Once unfurled in orbit in 2013, the world's biggest space telescope will have an eagle-eyed camera that scientists hope will lift the veil from the origins and mysteries of the universe.

FDA: More anemia drug studies

FDA panel wants more anemia drug studies (AP)

AP - Two months after federal regulators ordered additional warnings be added to the labels of blockbuster anemia drugs, government advisers said Thursday Amgen Inc. and Johnson & Johnson should be required to add more warnings and conduct additional safety studies.

Blame it on the Glaciers

Weird Gravity in Canada Blamed on Hefty Glaciers (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - A mysterious dip in gravity over Canada has been a weighty topic for some scientists. Now satellite data reveal a thick ice sheet that once cloaked the region partially resolves this so-called gravitational anomaly. Scientists have known that the Hudson Bay region features lower gravity than surrounding areas. While two theories have emerged to explain the strange phenomenon, conclusive evidence has been elusive. One theory involved a change in the area's overlying glacial weight as the Laurentide Ice Sheet melted. ...

Australian scientists developed means of directly targeting cancer cells

Australian scientists directly target cancer cells (Reuters)

Reuters - An Australian biotechnology firm said on Thursday it had developed a means of delivering anti-cancer drugs directly to cancer cells, which aims to avoid the debilitating toxicity associated with chemotherapy.

Oral sex may increase risk of throat cancer

Oral sex may increase risk of throat cancer: study (AFP)

AFP - A common virus, believed to be transmitted during oral sex, is the cause of a rare throat cancer in both men and women, US researchers said Wednesday.

Angioplasty best for silent heart attacks

Angioplasty best for "silent" heart attacks (Reuters)

Reuters - Following a heart attack, many patients continue to have low blood flow to the heart tissue, yet have no symptoms. Findings from a new study suggest that these "silent" heart attacks are best treated with angioplasty rather than with medications.

EEG may spot early Alzheimer

EEG Works at Spotting Early Alzheimer's (HealthDay)

HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, May 9 (HealthDay News) -- Electroencephalogram (EEG),an 80-year-old technology that measures brain activity, offers a highlyaccurate means of diagnosing early Alzheimer's disease, a team of U.S.researchers report.

Global gulf in cancer treatment

Experts warn of global gulf in cancer treatment (Reuters)

Reuters - The use of modern cancer drugs can vary by a factor of 10 between different developed countries, while millions in Africa lack access even to basic pain relief, experts said on Thursday.

***Big deal.  The poor countries don't worry about cancer.  They worry about food.

Hottest planet

Sizzling Planet Makes Some Stars Look Cool (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - The hottest planet ever discovered is charcoal black and makes even some stars seem cool. Scientists think the exoplanet absorbs nearly all the starlight that reaches its surface and then reradiates it back out into space as heat.

Genetic map on humans

Humble opossum's genetic map sheds light on humans (Reuters)

Reuters - Scientists have mapped the genetic composition of a marsupial mammal, the South American gray, short-tailed opossum, gaining insight into the role of "junk DNA" in human evolution and into immune systems.

Brown widow spider seen

Experts: Brown widow spider seen in La. (AP)

AP - Louisiana bug experts say the poisonous brown widow spider, a cousin to the well-known black widow, is increasingly being spotted in Louisiana.

Combination HRT linked to lower-risk breast cancers

Combination HRT linked to lower-risk breast cancers (Reuters)

Reuters - The types of breast tumors that occur after combination hormone replacement therapy in women going through menopause and in post-menopausal women tend to have a better prognosis than those that occur after estrogen-only replacement therapy, Swedish researchers report.

Scientists: Saturn winds are powered by storms

Scientists: Storms power winds on Saturn (AP)

AP - Scientists say they now believe rotating eddies are driving Saturn's jet stream winds, not the other way around.

US wildlife endangered by delays

Delaying tactics endanger U.S. wildlife: report (Reuters)

Reuters - The case of the Hawaiian Haha is no laughing matter to environmentalists, who say the rare plant went extinct while waiting for U.S. wildlife officials to put it on the Endangered Species list.

Encyclopedia of Life

Scientists work on Encyclopedia of Life (AP)

AP - In a whale-sized project, the world's scientists plan to compile everything they know about all of Earth's 1.8 million known species and put it all on one Web site, open to everyone.